Quilled angel

I'm not a professional of quilling, I don't use any special tools or special paper. Just recycling and quilling by hands.(More about experimental quilling with kids here and here) That's why it would be hard for me to give any step by step instructions because all of my quilled works are result of experimenting.

Here is a guardian angel I made for my friend in winter time. A few weeks ago I made another one. Although I'm not very keen on repeating myself.  The second time I think I did a bit better, don't you think?

Also finally I made a quilled sheep. Had this plan for ages because seems to me quilling technique is just perfect for making these cute animals in a clover meadow. As usual: no instructions, no rules. Just would like to encourage everyone for experimenting!

Quilled aquarium

Lately it was quite busy in a kiddies club. We spend much more time playing games than  making crafts. But in a breaks between running and shouting we managed to make some nice postcards for parents and friends and to quill some colour paper.

I'm really proud to present brand new quilled aquarium by Amphees, Karina & Max with Sky's supervision :) 

Quilled zoo

Last two days we with my 5 year old friend Masha were really busy. It was too windy and rather cold to play outside so we decided to make a few new projects. After finishing mosaic we decided to try paper quilling. We were doing pretty good I think. Masha was making different sizes paper rolls and I was putting them together, trying to make all kind of animals we could think of. Finally we got the whole zoo!

We didn’t have any special tools. For quilling Masha used handle of a paint brush. We used different color paper – some of animals are made from colored carton, some from ordinary color paper. It’s a bit more difficult to glue the carton rolls – then it’s better to use ordinary glue than a glue stick. Heads of our animals we cut from paper and we used ready made eyes but you easily can draw them. As we are not professionals we didn’t really used any scheme to make bodies from rolls, we just improvised and here is the result: 

Save the paper - quill it

I try to save all the pieces of paper I can. So I piled up loads of fin strips of all the different kinds of colour paper when I was making kusudamas. I had a plan to try quilling and a few days ago one of kids reminded me about this wonderful art. If you goole it you'll see what kind of amazing things can be made by using this technique!We don't have any kind of special quilling tools so we used a simple pencil to quill the paper or just did it with fingers. As for the first time I think we did pretty well.