Birthday cards, birthday, wedding, New Year's own hands

Qiling or paper wrapping, it was popular in the days of our grandmothers. Now this kind of art has again received its recognition among the younger generation. Young mothers, children's creative houses study quilling techniques. The most popular are cards for quilling.

To create a shape or a flower you need to fantasize a little and stock up several strips of colored paper. Having mastered the technique of quilling, starting with simple figures, you will create masterpieces with your own hands, do birthday cards, decorate walls, create whole pictures. The quilling technique is based on creating complex three-dimensional shapes from the simpler and smaller ones. In other words, the components of a complex figure are small pieces.

Basic billets for quilling

In order to make postcards in the quilling technique with your own hands, you need to study the diagrams for creating simple parts.

Here you can see the basic workpieces for quilling. Let's consider some of them. The shape of the spiral( roll) is performed as follows - on a toothpick or paste from the handle, wind a strip of colored paper, the tip is glued. If at the twist, the bar is loosened, then we get a free spiral. If we need to create another shape, then after the glue dries you can start forming. You can compress the spiral from one side and get a figure called a drop, you can compress from both sides and get an "eye".Squeezing the roll from four sides, you get a roll-square shape, with three - a triangle. The other quilling figures are done in a similar way, you can come up with a figure and give it your name. Quilling is usually done on paper with an average length of 25 cm, width from 1 mm to 1.5 cm, the paper density should be 100-120 g / cm3.But doing professionally this kind of creativity can simply buy paper in special stores. And, of course, when talking about tools for quilling, you can not help mentioning the forceps. It is needed in order to take small parts and carefully glue them on the base.

Now, a little bit, having studied the basics of quilling, let's move on to practice and learn how to make postcards.

Master class quilling postcards for the wedding

Postcards for the wedding, made by yourself, are very much appreciated by the newlyweds. And if you want to reproduce the impression of the newlyweds and their relatives, then the wedding card quilling is exactly what you need. After all, the postcard, made in the style of quilling, turns out to be voluminous and fluffy, and conveys all the warmth of your feelings when creating such a work of art. Let's learn to make them.

We will need

Color paper for quilling, square of red cardboard, stick or usual toothpick for curling quilling parts, glue and scissors

Proceed as

Prepare a heart pattern, circle it on a cardboard folded in half, and cut out so that the heart opens,it turned out in the form of a postcard.

Prepare a lot of paper pink pale pink stripes up to about 20 cm long, we need them to create gentle fluffy buds to decorate the card. We cut the entire length of the strip and wind it with rolls on a toothpick or a special shelf for quilling. For the whole postcard you will need to prepare sixteen spirals( roll).

Now glue the edge of the strip and remove the strip from the shelf, the flower will remain fluffy.

Gently glue the buds around the edges of the postcard to the transparent adhesive.

To the heart of the heart did not remain empty, you can arrange it with simple curled twigs of the same tonality as the flowers. Curl twigs with scissors and carefully paste them on the postcard.

Inside it is possible to write by hand a wish to young people or print and print text. This postcard is also very well serve as a postcard for men on Valentine's Day.

But we will not limit ourselves to hearts and flowers. Soon the New Year, elegant New Year cards, decorated with various Christmas trees and snowmen, Christmas balls or little animals is very pleasant and entertaining to create.

Quilling: New Year's cards

Cards with fir-trees of white tones, filled with the simplest figures "eye" and "drop", a snowman from ordinary "circles" and a snow cover made of "spirals".Everything is simply glued to the blue cardboard, carved along the edges with beautiful lace, and is supplemented with some elements of the decor of red color.

A greeting card with a green herringbone, made of green buds and decorated with colorful toys from the blanks of the "circle" form. Around snow-white snowflakes, just cut out of white paper, everything is decorated on a white sheet of paper, glued on a green cardboard folded in half in the form of a postcard.

To make postcard quilling New Year you just need to think up what you will be depicting, making workpieces of the simplest details, choosing the right tonality and contrast of colors.

I will bring a few photos of simple postcards, when viewing which you can independently make a postcard.

As you can see, it is possible to fulfill the theme of the postcards of the quilling of the new year to the novice craftsman, it is enough to prepare the simplest components and show a little imagination. And your New Year's greetings will be unique and unrepeatable.