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How to Make this Quilled Flower:

Step 1:
You Need: Four 6" strips of 1/8" paper(your choice of color)
Roll into loose circles with end glued. Pinch to form teardrop, make sure the glued end falls in the center of rounded part of teardrop.

Step 2:
You Need: One 5" length of 1/8" green paper.
Roll into tight circle for flower center. Glue four teardrops to tight circle.

Step 3:
You Need: One 4" length of 1/8" green paper.
Fold paper in half and roll each end into a loose scroll in the same direction, rolling about half-way to fold.

Step 4:
You Need: One 6" length of 1/8" green paper
Roll into loose circle with end glued. Pinch at seam and exactly opposite of seam to form leaf shape.
Glue greenery to flower and attatch flower to gift tag, card, scrapbook, or wherever desired.

FOLDED ROSES

I LOVE folded roses, they may take a couple of attempts to achieve good results, but once the knack kicks in, you will do them perfectly in no time!

The wider the strip of paper, the taller the rose will rise from the page, you control the spread ( width of rose) by how many times you wind the paper around the tool.  Wider paper is slightly easier when you first start, say 9mm or 1cm?

 Hold the SLOTTED TOOL in your natural writing hand and slip the paper strip into the slit along the side of it's shaft, keep near the tip of the tool.

NOTE! I changed hands here and placed the tool into my RIGHT hand to commence winding.

Commence winding by turning the handle a few times to create what will be the centre of the rose.

Fold down the free end of the strip at a 45deg angle to the handle ( as above) and continue to wind this now folded strip onto the tool, until the fold is gone and your free edge strip is facing out  straight out from the side again.  

Try to allow the fold (which forms the rose petals) to flare out at the TOP and yet hold the paper closer to the tool at what will be the rose bottom. ( this ensures the cup shape of the rose, the flaring out of the top of the petals and the close knit nature of the petal base)

REPEAT.   Wind one folded section around till paper is out straight from the tool unimpeded and then do another 45 deg fold DOWNWARD and wind that onto your tool as well.  See below how each fold creates a "rose petal" on the top half of the flower?

Continue these folds and winding until you are happy with the SIZE of the rose and then tear away the free edge of remaining paper strip.

Take your rose out of the grip of the tool slot and allow it to relax slightly and then arrange the rose with your fingertips or tweezers till you are happy.  Push the centre of the rose ( the tight rolled part) down and glue the bottom of the rose to seal all the layers together.

Finished rose ready to attach to project

  Basket of Tulips!

Basket of Tulips

Tulips: (make 2)- glue one end of a 6" length of narrow lavender

paper to one end of a 1" length of narrow purple paper.  Start rolling

form the lavender end and make a teardro shape (6).  Glue 2

teardrops side by side and add one to the top as pictured.

Leaves: (make 4) using spring green narrow paper, make a 3/4"

loop and wrap the paper around making the next loop slightly

larger than the last one and glue to a short length of spring

green paper for the stems, and glue these to the tulips.

Basket:  Roll nineteen 2" C scrolls.  Fill in the backet as shown.

The first and second roll should have 5, the third roll -4, 4th row

3, and fifth row 2.  Glue each together and place each row on

top of the other.  Rol four 1 1/2" lengths of narrow 1/16"

spring green paper into spirals and glue on top of the basket for

the grass.

Handle:  Roll a spiral using one 9" length of yellow narrow

1/16" paper and one 9" lenght of narrow 1/16" purple paper. 

Glue one end of the papers together before they are rolled.

Glue the other ends together  as you finish rolling so the two

papers will stay together.  Glue to basket.

Bow: make 2 loops out of short lengths of yellow and purple

paper stacked on top of one another and glue together to form

a bow shape, add a small square piece to the center.  Add lengths

of purple and yellow paper for the streamers and cut the ends

to mak a upside down V shape.  Glue the bow to the top of the

handle as pictured.

Assembly:  Glue the basket to a card and arrange tulips inside

as shown.

This card can be made easily after a short practice in making tight rolls and then loose roll shapes, teardrops, marquise and bunny ear shapes. Suitable for new quillers after practicing the basic shapes according to methods shown on my pages.

click to reveal pattern diagram to see correct placement of shapes. Save or print out.

* This pattern does not print out life size, it is meant only as a guide to the structuring of the project. The lengths of paper strip in each shape will be quoted and this will determine the right size finished shape ( ie teardrop) ... just ensure that all multiples of one shape are made the same size, comparing to the first one you make.

Requirements ( usual quilling tools, scissors, glue, seed beads for 2 flower centres, stickers for border if desired)

Paper strips 3mm wide : 

·         3 strips  (24 inch)- Deep green for the stem/scrolled ends and the bud. 

·         2 strips ( 24 inch) Deep Yellow/Apricot for bunny ear shapes and teardrop flower.

·         1 strip ( 24 inch) Pale yellow for tight roll red bunny ear flower centre

·         4 strips ( 24 inch) Deep red for main flower in marquise shapes and bunny ear flower with tight roll centre.

·         Method:

·         1. (Tight roll) Roll entire length of pale yellow strip around a PCA quilling tool ( needle or slotted) and glue the end to become the tight role for flower centre

·         2. Main Red Flower- Marquise shapes: Make 16 loose rolls from the red paper strips, each cut to a length of 6cm ( method described in loose roll shape page) and allow to relax slightly before gluing end of each one to make them all the same size.   Pinch the shape at each end to form the marquise shape in each case.

·         3. Bunny Ear shape red flower: With remainder of red paper strips, cut into 10 cm lengths, make 4 loose roll shapes ( same size) and pinch them into bunny ear shapes.

·         4. Deep yellow flower Teardrops and mini bunny ear shapes: Make 4 loose rolls from deep yellow strips precut into 8 cm lengths... then pinch at one end to make teardrop shapes.  Make 5 loose rolls from remaining deep yellow paper precut into 5 cm lengths and form them into small bunny ear shapes.

·         5. Stems in deep green: For mail stem cut a strip 40cm long and fold it over ( not in exact halves as you want the scrolled ends to finish one lower than the other) and loosely roll the ends over in the opposite directions to form the base for the main red flower head to rest on.

·         Repeat with smaller lengths as per pattern in same paper.

·         Construction Method:

·         1. To cardstock ( card front) adhere the pieces as per picture. The main red marquise flower has 16 shapes. make a layer of 8 shapes, in a circle, adhered directly to the card with a small amount of PVA glue on toothpick and then let dry a little.   top this with the second layer of 8 marquise pieces by placing over the GAPS between each petal and secure with more adhesive. Fill centre with small seed beads in a puddle of glue to make the flower centre.

·         2. Using pattern (black and white pic) as a guide to relative placement, adhere to the card about 2 cm South East of the main red flower, the 4 deep yellow teardrop shapes in a circle with ends pointing outward and fill the centre gap with a glued on round bead as flower centre. The gaps between the tops of the teardrop petals are then filled with the 3 small deep yellow bunny ear shapes( see pic)  The remaining 2 deep yellow bunny ear shapes can be attached as "drops" when stem placement is complete, near top of card.

·         3. Adhere tight roll (pale yellow) to card approx 2 cm South West of the main red marquise flower and around it arrange and adhere the 4 larger red bunny ear shapes as petals.

·         4. Stems:  Arrange the doubled up strips ( glue their inner surfaces together just leaving the scrolled ends free) as stems for the flowers as shown in pic. Adhere the scrolls and the edges of the stems to the card as shown with PVA glue, defining their final position on the card.

·         5. The Bud: Roll the remaining full length deep green strip into a tight roll.  Glue end down. Use a small end of a pen ( or similar) to gently push out the middle of the shape away from the centre of the roll. Do this evenly so that it forms a cone shape.  Line the centre with a little glue so it will retain it's shape.  Fill this with a 10 cm strip of fringed yellow paper that has been made into a tightroll and glued.   It will peep out of the top like a flowerbud.

·         The Bud section is optional if you have not covered the making of fringed flowers yet, but does finish the card off nicely.

·         6. Stickers enhance the edge of the card, top and bottom but are of course optional.

This project concentrates on fairly tightly Folded Roses as discussed in the folded rose section and I have done their leaves by fringing metallic green paper.  The lattice is a very simple paper weaving technique. 

Requirements: in addition to PCA Quilling tool ( slotted) PVA adhesive, toothpicks, scissors, pastels, aperture base card in pale pink pearl finish.

·         Paper strips: 30cm long strips of metallic paper ( colour on both sides) in desired rose colour(s) at a width of 6mm, 9mm 1.5 cm to vary the size of the finished roses.

·         Metallic  dark green paper cut ( with personal trimmer) to a width of 1.5cm  2 lengths of approx 30cm are sufficient.

·         3 24 inch long strips of 6mm wide paper in brown for the paperwoven lattice.

Method and Construction:

Paper weaving- measure the size of the aperture in your base card for width and length and cut the brown paper strips into enough pieces to cover that with the addition of a 1 cm overhang in each direction to adhere ends of strips to card.

·         Lay one strip across the shorter side ( ie card face up and paperstrip will be vertical nb this is a horizonal card) adhere one end, on the INSIDE of the card, across the aperture.   Measure 1 width spacing and adhere another strip in the same manner... repeat until you have what looks like a widely spaced fringe across the BACK of the open card aperture.  Check by closing the card that it will look like the lattice when closed ( the vertical strips of it at this stage)

·         Open out to the inside again and along the 90 deg vertical side of the aperture, adhere your first LONG sideways paper strip, weave this strip OVER and then UNDER, over and under the vertical strips. Then repeat with next strip making sure that you leave the same size space between each strip as you did when adhering the vertical strips.

·         Before adhering all the loose ends down, close card and adjust any alignment or spacing of strips, then glue down those ends and also glue the inside flap of the card closed too so that you now have a card that looks like a 2 fold card, not like the original trifold that it started as.

·         Using chalky soft pastel stick, colour the strips vertically for the vertical strips, horizontally for the horizontal strips in a woodgrain like pattern.  This is just to break up the plain brown paper strips and make it look more like outdoor wooden lattice work.

Roses:   You can vary the length of the strip AND the width to give yourself a slight variation in the size of the finished roses, otherwise they will all be the same.

Please go to our FOLDED ROSES LESSON to learn how to make folded roses ... basic instructions follow however.

Using your PCA Slotted Quilling tool, slip your rose coloured strip into the slot along the side of the tool and wind around just a few times to create the centre of the rose.  Then fold down the free edge of paper ( on left of tool if you are holding tool in right hand) in a 45deg angle DOWNWARDS ...roll the folded section around the tool until the free edge of the strip reappears at a 90 deg angle to the tool handle again.

Fold down the free end of the strip again as before and wind onto tool until the paper is again at a 90 deg angle to the handle . As you do this, try  to keep your right thumb held onto what will be the BOTTOM of the rose being created to allow it to be smaller there and flare  out at the top, as you would expect the petal edges to do.

Continue folding and winding until your rose looks to be the desired size.   Let go of the rose, slip it off the tool and allow it to relax a moment.  As this happens it will unfurl a little and you can then control HOW big and OPEN the rose looks.  If you then glue the end to the underside of the rose you will stop it "opening" any further.   So if you want the rose to look more OPEN... let it relax more before gluin...