Basic Quilled Shapes

I was looking over my posts the other day and in all the time I've been giving tutorials I haven't ever given you the basics of quilling. The shapes are very important in all the quilling you do. So here's a copy for you to use as reference and to practice. This will help you on future projects and tutorials I have for you. If ever you need another one or want to share with a friend, it's on the tutorial sidebar under basic quilled shapes. Don't forget, on the Scribd page under "more" you can print it from there. You can visit MY BLOG for other great quilling goodies too! Thanks!

Basic Quilled Shapes

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Daffodil Tutorial

Here is how I made the daffodils on this card.

You may like to refer to this post if you haven't seen it before - Tool Substitutes

As usual - click on any picture for a larger view.


Here's the list of items needed to make a daffodil:

• Scraps of yellow and orange paper
• Green card
  
• Moulding mat
• White pva glue
• DEET tool
• Embossing ball tool
• Character shaper
• Pencil
  
• Scissors
• Deckle edge scissors
• 5-Petal Flower Punch
• 1/2" Circle Punch
• Boho Blossoms Punch
  

Punch out two 5-Petal Flower shapes, one of the largest Boho Blossoms shapes and one 1/2" circle.


Using the scissors, cut out one petal as above.


Continue cutting off the petals as with the first one until they are all separated. To make one daffodil, you will need six petals, so cut one petal from the second flower also.


With a petal on the moulding mat, and using the DEET tool, place the needle end flat on the petal running from the base to the tip. Apply pressure and draw the needle along the petal towards the tip, all the time keeping the tool flat against the paper. Now do the same thing once on each side of the central line, and make these lines fan out from the base of the petal to the edge. Turn the petal over, and make some more lines in the same way, between the ones already made. Repeat on all of the petals.


Draw a dot with the pencil in the centre of the 1/2" circle. Hold the petal by the tip, and dip just the very point of the base into a blob of pva glue on a scrap of paper.



Stick the petal on to the circle, with the point of the base in the centre. Stick on two more petals in a triangle arrangement.


Now stick the remaining three petals on top, evenly spaced between the first three.


Using the deckle edge scissors, cut the tips off the largest Boho Blossom flower all the way around.


Cut a slit from the outside to the centre.


Using the rounded end of the Character tool, and light pressure to begin with, emboss in circles - around the edges first, gradually working your way in to the centre.


Where you have cut the paper, the two edges will slide over each other - as indicated by the arrow. Place a tiny spot of glue between these overlapping edges, and stick together to hold the cup shape.


Place a small spot of glue in the centre of the yellow petals, and place the trumpet on top. An embossing ball tool is handy for pressing the two layers together. Make sure that the trumpet settles in an upright position.


Cut a small rectangle of orange, and at one end cut about 7 narrow strips to make a fringe. Cut away the rest of the rectangle from beside the fringe as above.


Beginning at the fringed end, roll the paper tightly. Here I am using a quilling tool, but if you don't have one, you can use the needle end of the DEET. Place a spot of glue at the end, and continue rolling and stick together.


Trim the rolled base so that it is a couple of mm long, and also trim the fringe if necessary to make it about as long as the trumpet is deep.


Dip the base of the stamens into the blob of glue on the scrap paper, and then stand upright in the centre of the daffodil. Once you are happy with the position leave to dry before gently spreading the stamens a little. If you try before the glue is dry, they will come out!


Cut slightly tapered, narrow strips of green card to make the leaves. Round off the top, narrow end. Then use the DEET tool in the same way as for the petals, to make a crease down the centre of the leaf. The flower stalk is made in the same way, but just cut a slightly longer length, and don't taper it. No need to round the end as it will be hidden behind the flower head.


Stick the stalk on to the back of the flower as shown.



The finished flower.

On my card, I made three flowers and a few leaves, which I arranged at different levels. I stuck them down to the white oval and then trimmed off the excess length from around the bottom edge of the oval before sticking it down to the matting.

My blog Mainly Flowers

Cuttlebug and Nestie Tutorial - Make a Flapper Hat and Flower

Hi my name is ikki and this is my first article on this great blog and I would like to share my tutorial with you.

I have had so many questions about my Nestie flower, that I thought I should illustrate it further because it really does make a great embellishment, and matching your flower and papers is easier and cheaper too! Then you will save your pennies to buy more nesties! Clever, eh!

You will need:

Patterned paper - I like to use handmade paper because it's stronger, and you can emboss, curl, manhandle and it just looks better for it.
Nesties Petite scalloped Circles in 3 different sizes (or 3 hand cut circles, or 3 made with any other method you have at hand)
Cuttlebug folder: I like the Textile folder for this


Ink for edging petals
Flower centre - I used a pearl brad
Sissors and, of course, your Cuttlebug

If you would like to make the complete card you will also need

A4 sheet of cardstock folded in half and shaped as this templete


To make the flower

Cut 3 circles











Now emboss

Cut into embossed circle and re-shape edges of the petals. Curl, ink and fasten together with brad. (With the petite scallop circle, cut between the 4th and 5th scallop, then rounded the edges. If using the large scallop you will need to adjust. )





Your finished flower




When attached to card you have a very striking embellishment


I hope you'll find this flower tutorial interesting. I have to admit that I'm a true BUG fan, and love sharing ideas with others, you'll find more of my work and tutorials on my blog ikki's Cuttlebug Cupboard.

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Faux Frosting

Adding frosting to your cupcakes is always yummy! But adding them to your cupcakes on cards is even yummier! Here’s a quick tutorial on how to add faux frosting to your cards or scrapbooks. This frosting can also be used for snow on your winter projects as well.Hope you enjoy!Don't forget to visit my blog for other great goodies!

Fold out Book

Well its been awhile but I have another article for you -

Pretty huh? But the real magic is how it works inside with all its fold out sections -

So, here's how to make one for yourself -

Card cut into the following dimensions –

1. 21cm x 30cm folded in half to create the main card section. (we’ll call it section A)

2. 20cm x 28cm folded in half to create section B

3. 13cm x 28cm folded in half to create section C

4. 13cm x 24cm folded in half to create section D

5. 12cm x 22cm folded in half to create section E

6. 10cm x 22cm folded in half to create section F

To assemble –

1. Open section A and adhere section B to the centre of the right side, ensuring it opens to the left.

2. Open section B and adhere section C to the centre of the right side as well, ensuring it open upwards.

3. Open section C and adhere section D to the centre of the bottom side, ensuring it opens to the right this time.

4. Open section D and adhere section E to the centre of the left side, ensuring it opens to the left.

5. Finally, open section E and adhere section F to the centre of the right side, ensuring it opens downwards.

6. Decorate as desired. I chose to use patterned paper to coat most sides of my pages in addition to cutting photo mats from the leftover card to adhere to different pages ready for my photos. I also attached a strip of ribbon below the patterned paper covering the cover to tie my book closed.

A little plea....

I have just received an email warning me that the bandwidth on my Photobucket account is close to being exceeded

This is because so many of you lovely people are displaying the Inspirational banners on your blogs ~ Thank you x

I wondered if you'd be kind enough to upload the banner onto your own Photobucket account/image hosting site otherwise the banners will stop working. It will simply be a case of uploading the Inspirational banner to your photobucket and then replacing my photobucket code with yours

If you don't know how to do this, lets not panic...... I'm hoping that those that do know how to do it will outweigh the ones that don't lol

Lets see how we go

Thanks once again for you all your support for the Inspirational Blogs

Julie x

TWEET TWEET!

Ready to make your own little Birdie?

The birdies (and owls) are the flavour of the month in scrapbooking at the moment as we follow the trends in fashion and interior design.I have used the Upsy Daisy Designs papers titled "TWEET" for my altered project and layout.

Step One:Draw three tear drop shapes onto spare card and cut these out as "templates".OR click HERE

for my own template of this birdie to appear.
Simply print it out and you will then have a template ready for this project.Place this template down on your chosen paper and cut out the shapes, then ink softly all around the edges of each shape.

Step Two:Once you have inked all the edges, Cut into the bottom portion of each wing several strips in order to make it look like feathers. Adhere the larger tear drop shapes wing to the main body of the birdie.

Step Three:Apply mounting tape or squares to the underside of the smaller tear drop shaped wing and adhere over the top of the first tear drop shapes wing.Use the end of a pencil or paintbrush as a means of curling the wingtip feathers.

Step Four:Cut two small triangles out of scrap card and ink the edges. Adhere to the underside of the bird's face, each triangle slightly overlapping each other.Add an eye by either drawing a dot on the bird or attaching a jewel.

Voila! One completed birdie.Have fun and happy scrapping girls!

Sares x

PS: Visit my Blog Leonardo's Apprentice for heaps of other Tips and Techniques to use in your scrapping!

Quilted bowl tutorial

Hello everyone,

My name is Geta and I am a passionate quilter living in Romania. Unfortunately, here quilting is an unknown craft for most of the people.
Thank you, Julie, for giving me the chance to be a contributor here.

You can see a few quilting tutorials on my blog.
Now, I want to share with you a tutorial for a quilted bowl. This is my first attempt:

The bowl measures 13 inches from a point to the opposite point.

I used these templates:

Download templates here (this is a "pdf" file; you will need Adobe Reader to open it- download it here - it is free).
After you print and cut the templates, check out that the bottom side of the "A" piece has the same size as the side of the hexagon .

Make six "A" pieces and one "B" piece. I made these pieces from quilted fabric.

Make a sandwich from a piece of fabric, batting and backing.

Iron a heavy weight fusible interfacing on the backing fabric to get stiff pieces.
Quilt the sandwich as desired.

You can use appliques, trapunto, shadow trapunto or quilted motifs to embellish each piece.

After the quilting is complete, cut the pieces and satin stitch around all edges.
Use a nice backing fabric because the back of the bowl will be visible.

Below is the front and the back of a piece:

Sew the bottom sides of the "A" panels to the sides of the "B" center piece, following this succession:

Use a wide zigzag stitch and be sure you catch the both edges. Backstitch at the beginning and the ending of each seam.

This is how it looks after I stitched all the pieces around the hexagons:

The stitches on the back:

Next, to form the bowl, you have to sew the sides between 2 pieces. Use a satin stitch or a close zig-zag stitch and make it wide enough to catch both sides. Start from the center, take a few stitches then backstitch. Continue to sew and pull the sides together as you sew, so they meet. Sew over them; it's very easy.
Do this for all the sides.

After you completed all the stitches, you will have a bowl like this:


The back of the bowl:

And the funny part: the bowl is reversible !

If you want to make your own templates, be sure the bottom side of the "A" piece has the same size as the side of the hexagon :
and you must have some distance between two "A" pieces :

Happy sewing !