My first love in the paper crafting world, quilling! You’ll find some great ideas on how to use quilling in your crafts, as stand-alone décor items, floral designs, and of course, how to begin quilling!
I made this card for a friend of mine that recently married. She enjoys quilling too, so I decided that a card that incorporated a beehive quilling decoration was in order. The card itself is rather simple; it’s a white panel with fun foam underneath for sturdiness through the mail. For the embellishment, I used a…
On my last shopping trip, I noticed a growing number of products with tassels on them – especially handbags and necklaces. I love tassels, so today I thought I’d try making a paper tassel as a decoration for a gift for a friend of mine. There are a couple of different ways I could have gone…
It’s Fiesta time here in San Antonio! One of my favorite things about Fiesta is the colorful decorations. Many people adorn their houses and businesses with brightly colored fiesta flowers, wreaths, and streamers. For those of you not familiar with our Texas-sized parties down here, Fiesta began as a way to honor the memory of the heroes…
Today I decided to put together a card with quilled coneflowers for a friend. Since I didn’t have a background, out came the Distress Ink cubes. First thing I did was tape down my card base with a little Eclipse tape: I started with the lighter of the two distress inks and gradually worked it in…
I have had people ask me how I make my quilled watches. I’m a detail-oriented person, so I love to make tiny things. In fact, I feel much more comfortable with small projects than something that would take days or weeks to do. Maybe it’s me always being in a hurry, or perhaps having the attention span…
The history of quilling is relatively easy to find on the internet if you’re interested in how it all came about; the short version is paper was a much cheaper medium to create filigree work than the traditional metal, so poorer churches used the gilded edges of their bible pages to decorate things. Quilling is pretty…