Quilled butterflies

I haven't done any quilling for a long time.  And I thought it's fun to do it once in a while.  Today, I've made quilled butterflies.

It's very easy to make.  You need 6 strips of paper (dimension: 11" x 1/8") - 2 white and 4 blue.  You can make any color combination.  Blue and white is what I've used here. 

Create 2 loose coils (circles) of 1cm diameter with the first 2 blue strips.  You can look at here to find out different shapes can be made from quilling.  Then connect one blue and one white strips to make a longer strips (see below).  After the glue is dry, make another 2 loose coils (of 2cm diameter) with the remaining strips. 

Note: Make sure the glue is completely dry before quilling the blue+white strips, otherwise you won't get a nice pattern inside the coil.  

You now should have 4 coils.  Then make them a teardrop.

Arrange them in this way and use glue to stick it together. 

                                     

Hope you like it.

Clean & Simple

There are quite a number of cards to make for April and May. You probably will see more postings in the next few weeks. Here is a birthday card I made (my mom's birthday is coming soon) inspired by the Clean and Simple challenge. And with this, I'm entering the All Sorts Challenge "For a Special Lady" challenge.



I used the quilling apples I made earlier.

Quilling exercise

I have been playing with paper quilling these days and created the following:





(followed instructions from http://blog.naver.com/paper6262/60062286543)

Hearts paper quilling

I usually post the completed version of the cards that I made. Recently, I found out it's fun to just build the components that can be used to make cards instead of the whole card. While I'm still in paper quilling mode, I made some hearts:



From another angle:

Ad Inspired card

I was creating some flowers inspired by Claire Choi . Her work is always amazing. I cannot imagine how she could make such beautiful things out of paper. If you haven't visited her blog before, I'd strongly encourage you to go there. It will change what you think about paper crafts!

Anyway, going back to cards. Using the paper quilling flowers, I entered the 365 cards ad inspired challenge.

Here is my card:



To be honest, it's not completely done because I would like to add some "words" on the card. But since I cannot think of whether it should be a birthday card or card for other occasion, I'll just leave it like this for now.