Quilling for beginners: sketches and master classes for making snowflakes, butterflies and valentines.

Quilling is a bird feather, translated from English. This technique originated in Europe in the late 15th century. At that time, by twisting feathered paper with gilded edges, the monks made unusual medallions.

Today we will learn how to make quilling for beginners, schemes and job description you will find below.

Below are only some schemes for quilling - flowers, owl, firebird, butterflies and fish:

Snowflake

The easiest way to start making quilling with a simple snowflake is in the technique, so let's look at how to do it.

A master class on quilling for beginners is given below.

What is needed

• Office white paper;
• Office colored paper or plain colored paper;
• Scissors;
• Pencil;
• Ruler;
• Adhesive;
• Toothpick.

Description of work

Cut or buy strips for quilling. Now you need to form the details. To do this, a strip of paper on the toothpick, turn a little in the opposite direction and pull out the toothpick.

Give the roller a little untwist, then give it the shape of the eye, lightly squeeze it with your fingers.

In order for the part not to untwist, glue the edge of the strip.

It turns out such a detail as in the photo.

It is necessary to make 12 such details of blue and 6 white.

The next item will be in the form of a heart. It is necessary to fold the strip in half and twist inward from both ends to the bend, give a little unwind and glue in the center.

You need to make 6 such white parts.

Next item is "lamb".Also fold the strip in half, but wind the ends already outward.

Such details need 6 pieces of white.

The total should be:

6 items in the form of an eye of white color and 12 blue;

6 items in the form of a white heart;

6 details of "lambs" of white color.

Assembling the snowflake( you can see the quilling for beginners):

Toothpick, very carefully, apply glue to the edge of the parts and attach them to each other.

To make here such flower.

The second row to lay out the hearts like this:

In order to assemble the 3rd row, you need blue details in the form of an eye to glue two together. Then attach them between the hearts.

The last series consists of details of lambs. These details are glued in the middle of each of the pairs in the form of a blue eye. To glue the curls of the neighboring lambs and everything, the snowflake is ready.

To make it more clear, attach video lessons.

Flowers

It's also easy to make flowers in this technique. Below are the color schemes.

Flowers made according to these schemes can be used to create postcards, pictures and pictures.

For example:

These wonderful pictures can be made with the help of colors, made in the quilling technique.

MK are offered on the following videos:

Valentine in quilling technique

To make such an unusual valentine, you need strips of the size, color and quantity and glue you need.

First you need to wind a lot of spiral.

Then make from spirals elements of different shapes. Fold them heart shape.

With the help of the remaining elements, you need to fill the heart, selecting the elements that fit in the form.

Finally form the heart and glue all the elements together.

Volumetric heart for Valentine's Day is ready! It turns out that the quilling technique can be used not only to create paintings, in this technique you can even make crafts.

We make a butterfly in the technique of quilling

First we need to glue the strips together to get 4 long colored stripes. Length and width should be chosen according to the size of the butterfly itself.

Now you need to make 4 rolls, 2 of which are slightly larger. Then, to make the butterfly look unusual, shift the center of each roll to one side and fix it with glue.

Next you need to make a butterfly body. To do this, twist the strip into a tight roll and make it in the form of a cone. Such cones need 2.

Now you need to glue these 2 pieces together. At the joint to glue the strip.

Here's what happened.

Butterfly is almost ready, it remains to make the antennae.

Bend the strip in half and glue 2 small rolls to the tips.

Using simple schemes for quilling, this technique will be able to master even those who have never done this kind of crafts.