There is more than one master class from which you can learn how to create a snowflake-quilling. For beginners, this is not at all difficult if you put the whole process on the shelves.
What is quilling?
The quilling technique originated in European countries more than five hundred years ago and involves the twisting of paper strips and their combination in various patterns and crafts.
To create crafts in the quilling technique (snowflakes, for example), a minimum of tools is required: an awl (can be replaced with a toothpick), tweezers, scissors and glue. The most important material is paper, which is cut into stripes. Most often, for crafts, strips of about three millimeters wide are used.
Simple snowflake
This craft is done very easily and does not require special skills.
Master class on how to make snowflake quilling technique:
- Take a sheet of plain paper and draw the same lines with a ruler and pencil.
- Cut the sheet into strips.
- Take an awl or a toothpick and attach the edge of a paper strip to its end.
- Screw the strip onto the tool.
- Glue the end of the strip to the resulting reel and carefully remove the roll from the awl.
- Make one more such coil, only now you need to squeeze it a little bit with your fingers on one side.
- Make five more such droplet coils.
- Take the first card and glue six “droplets” to it.
- Now roll up six coils and squeeze with your fingers on two opposite sides. You should get a figure resembling the shape of the eyes.
- Then glue the new parts between the petals of the snowflake.
- Take three strips, bend them in half and cut. As a result, you get six short stripes.
- Twist six coils from the new strips.
- Glue a new coil on each tip of the eye part.
- Now make six more coils from long strips, just a little larger in size than the first. To do this, do not pull the paper tightly.
- Glue the new coils on top of the droplet parts between the small rolls.
- Make six more large coils and bend their sides with your fingers so that you get a square.
- Glue their top to the large coils.
- Take a pencil and wrap a paper strip over it.
- Glue the end of the strip and remove the coil.
- Glue a new spool to one of the vertices of the snowflake and thread a ribbon or thread into the ring.
Such snowflakes using quilling technique will look beautiful on a Christmas tree, doors or windows. Even at the end of the New Year holidays, many still do not want to remove this beauty for a long time.
Snowflakes (quilling) - bonding schemes
Just from the details of one form you can make a lot of different snowflakes. To do this, cut a lot of strips of equal length and width, take an awl or a toothpick and wind the rolls. Make more than ten units of identical coils, and then glue them together to make snowflakes (quilling). Schemes can be any, for example, as in the picture above.
In all cases, the process of bonding the coils should begin from the middle of the craft. That is, glue the parts to each other so that they form a circle. Then continue to stick the other coils. In some types, the rolls should fit snugly against each other, in others the center should be hollow.
More complicated crafts
Making quilting delicate snowflakes using quilling technique requires more time and perseverance. But the result is worth it.
Instructions for creating openwork snowflakes:
- Prepare paper strips, tweezers, and glue (Figure 1).
- Fold the five strips in half (Figure 2).
- Lubricate one end of the strip with glue and glue it to the middle with tweezers (illustrations 3 and 4).
- Wrap the second half of the strip around the petal and glue its end (illustrations 5, 6 and 7).
- Saddle up four more similar petals, only each should be smaller than the previous one. In total, six petals of each species are needed (Figure 8).
- Take the smallest petal and grease its tip with glue (Figure 9).
- Glue the petal in the middle of the other (Figure 10).
- Collect all five petals in the same way (Figure 11).
- Collect all six petals (Figure 12).
- Squeeze the finished petal with your fingers, making it stretched out (Figure 13).
- Give a flattened shape to all six petals (Figure 14).
- Glue all the petals together (Figure 15).
- Cut six more strips and bend them in half (Figure 16).
- Cut six strips, bend them in half and cut the ends diagonally (Figure 17)
- Screw each end onto an awl or toothpick (Figure 18).
- Glue the coil at a distance of 3.5 centimeters from the middle (Figure 19).
- Press lightly on each vertex of the petal to make it fluff (Figure 20).
- Glue “stamens” between the petals (Figure 21).
- Insert strips with beveled edges inside the stamens and glue them (Figure 22).
- Take loose sparkles and sprinkle a snowflake on them (Figure 23).
The snowflake is ready!
Advice
- You can make snowflakes-candlesticks using the quilling technique. To do this, collect two crafts of different sizes - one smaller, the other larger. Then just stick one on the other. In the one that will be on top, the middle should be empty. A candle-pill will be inserted here.
- As a decor for snowflakes, you can use beads, rhinestones, sparkles and the like.
- To achieve an openwork look, expand your knowledge and make coils of various shapes.
The main forms of quilling
There are twelve forms of coils that quilling has. Snowflakes can be made using either one, or using everything.
- Open coil: the end of the strip does not stick.
- Closed coil: the end sticks.
- Dense reel: the strip is stretched throughout the work and the end is tightly glued.
- Large coil: use a pencil to create.
- Drop: one end is pressed with fingers.
- Eye: both ends pressed with fingers.
- Petal: the coil is compressed and bent on one side.
- Sheet: the coil is compressed on both sides and waves are made.
- Curls: the strip is folded in half, and then the ends are wound in the appropriate directions (inside, inside out, in different directions).
After you familiarize yourself with the main points, you can start more complex work in the quilling technique.