Silver and Blue Quilled Card

Blue 2mm strips were used to make the scrolls and  leaf fronds. The large fringed flower has a smaller punched flower glued to the centre. The cream flowers are made from 4 scrunched scalloped circles pinned together with a small brad. The remaining flowers were made from six 2mm wide loose leaves with a fringed flower in the centre. The quilling is mounted on white card and matted on a light blue linen backing card, also mounted onto a darker grey-blue linen base card.

More Hanging Christmas Cards

The bells on these cards are quilled. simply roll up a length of gold metallic paper tightly and glue the end down. when dry, gently push up the centre with the end of a pen and glue a pearl inside for a clapper. the small bells are made with one strip of 1/4 inch paper cut lengthwise down the page. The larger bells are one and a half strips glued together. The dividers between the papers on the left hand card are stickers, on the right I have used a scrap of metallic braid. Rolled fringed flowers finish the right hand card, together with some punched branches and some cold porcelain buds sprayed with gold paint.

 This card has small paper roses that I made, punched branches and some small wooden star buttons.

 This card has silver cold porcelain buds and a fringed flower with a half pearl centre.

 This card is decorated with a cluster of  tiny  jingle bells that I bought tied to some narrow silver cord. Dab some glue on the knot at the back of the jingle bell to prevent the knot from undoing.

 This is one of several blue cards. Again I have used silver jingle bells which I hung from a fringed flower.

Download the images used in these cards here 

 

Comb Quilling

More quilling. This design was experimental (mind you, aren’t most???). I made the large flower some weeks ago using Meg’s  comb quilling method, then made the scrolls and used up left over strips to fill in the gaps. The corner strips are gold adhesive sticker strips that you can buy in sheets. I’m still managing to get glue everywhere and can’t seem to get neat ends to my scrolls – hence the tightly wound two coloured circles over one end and the blue punched flower over the other. Useful ways to hide a multitude of sins!

More Quilled Chrysanthemums

Larger quilled chrysanthemums. These have layers of stamens between the layers of tear drop petals. It’s very fiddly but looks nice when finished, reminding me of Jacobean crewel embroidery designs.
Might explore this idea further!

Quilled Chrysanthemums

I saw these mini chrysanthemums made from curved quilled tear drops and decided to give it a go. I also wanted to try attaching single stem scrolls. I used slightly thicker paper – about 100gsm and cut the strips on the spaghetti cutter of my pasta machine, making the strips about 1.5-2mm wide. This width is perfect for making stems and single scrolls as it stands up well.