The best gift is made with your own hands.
Quilling is a special scrolling technique of paper strips, which are drawn up in certain figures or compositions. Often quilling apply when creating festive cards. So, openwork snowless snowflakes and other holiday attributes are incredibly popular for the new year.
How to make a snowflake in a quilling technique
Materials:
- glue;
- Strips of colored paper (you can use billets from the store);
- scissors;
- threads;
- matches;
- Beads.
Creature:
- With the help of a sharp knife split the edge of the match. Helm the edge of the paper strip in the cleft match and start winding it on the match.
- Prepare 12 such billets.
- Form the snowflake, carefully squeezing the round blank, glue the items.
- On the perimeter of the snowflakes will spread beads. From the thread, prepare the loop and attach it to the snowflake.
- New Year's decoration is ready.
Tips beginner masters
If you need to make a tight roll, tightly wind the paper tape, and then secure the edge of the glue.
To create a so-called flippy, you need to wind the strip first at most, and then let go slightly.
Any billet can be given a form of half aombus or drops, only a slightly "surpassed" the part with the fingers.
10 most popular techniques in quilling technique
Shape "Eye". On both sides, simultaneously squeeze the round blank.
Form "Square". It will take the finished form of "eye", which is turned up vertically and compressed again on the sides.
Form "Rhombus". The billet "Square" you need to slightly "surprise".
Form "Triangle". Prepare the detail of the "drop", then take over the corner, and the bottom of the triangle is splashing.
The form "Strela". Twist the workpiece "Triangle", then press the middle of the short side inside.
Form "Crescent". It looks like a workpiece "Eye", however, has a curved shape, its corners are protected with a shift, and not opposite each other.
Open forms:
"Heart" . Stripe fold in the middle, two free halves bent into the inside.
"Horns". Stripe fold in the middle, and tighten the halves to the outside.
"Curl". Visually notice the middle of the strip, but do not fold. Ends tighten to the middle, only in different directions.
"Twig." Stripes bend about 1: 2 ratio. Ends tighten one way.