By Valentine's Day, an excellent gift for a loved one will be a composition with the image of the heart, made using the quilling technique. When choosing a fairly simple scheme, even a beginner can create it. Such a gift will look spectacular and contain a particle of spiritual warmth.
Features
Quilling - A spectacular and very simple form of needlework. He does not need rare materials or specific tools. A product made in this technique consists of spirally twisted narrow strips of paper. Otherwise, this type of needlework is called “paper-rolling”. Quilling can be created as flatso and volumetric composition. It’s easiest to make a flat one, you just need to stick the elements to the cardboard sheet in the form of a picture. Depending on the nature of the picture, such a product can easily serve as a postcard for any holiday.
Materials and Tools
To create a card with a heart using the quilling technique, we need:
- red double-sided paper (you can buy ready-made strips of paper for quilling);
- a sheet of white or light cardboard (we will stick elements from paper on it);
- scissors;
- glue (PVA glue or hot glue - your choice);
- a toothpick, match or awl (an auxiliary tool on which we will wind strips of paper).
Step-by-step technique
When the materials are prepared, and the mood to create is in full swing, it's time to start creating the composition. The above scheme is very simple and suitable for beginner needlewomen. First you need cut paper on long strips about 1 cm wide. Further strips need twist in spirals. This will be more convenient to do if you use a toothpick, awl or the like. To fix the finished spiralglue the loose end of the paper.
On a blank sheet of cardboard with a simple pencil draw a heart outline. Now paper glue the spirals to a sheet of cardboard close to each other (or leaving small spaces). To get it neatly, we focus on the previously drawn contour. At the end of work, we get a cute card with a voluminous heart - the perfect gift for February 14th! A minimum of time was spent on its creation, and it will be very nice to receive such a gift, because it is made with your own hands.
If it seems to you that such a card looks boring, and you want to diversify its design, below are tips and ideas on how to do it.
- You can experiment and make strips of different widths, and then stick them in random order, or, conversely, reducing or increasing the width from the center to the middle. This will give a volume effect to the final product.
- With that how tightly twist the spirals, you can also experiment. If some elements are made tight and others are looser, you can also get an interesting effect in the finale.
- Color - Another parameter with which you can play. The easiest way is to make spirals of several shades of red and pink, for example. You can also find paper that is on two sides of a different color. Another option is to use a stick for gluing from several shorter strips of paper glued into one long strip.
- Multicolored elements can stick randomly, but you can do it in the form of some drawing or lay out the outline in one color, and fill the heart with another.
- The cardboard base is also a field for imagination. You can use not plain cardboard, but with some kind of pattern. The main thing is that it is not too colorful - your heart will be lost against such a background.
If needlework is not new for you and you are ready to spend a little more time and effort on creating your gift, you can complicate the above scheme.
What if the heart contour is not just round paper elements, but a whole floral branch? Bringing such an idea to life is very easy. First you need to take paper in suitable colors: one or several shades of green for foliage and red with pink (or any other your favorite colors) for flowers.
As in the normal scheme, cut the paper and twist the spirals. Now try squeezing the green elements from two sides so that you get sharp corners. And so we gave them the shape of leaflets! In a similar way we act in colored elements, but we make only one corner. Flower petals are ready. It remains only to glue the elements in the form of a branch of flowers with leaves. If it is difficult for you to navigate, and you are afraid that it will turn out unevenly, it is better to draw an approximate arrangement of elements and the distance between them with a simple pencil. As a stem, you can use strips of green paper, glued to the sheet with an edge, and if you want to attach flowers to the core, you can make small spirals of paper of a different color, use sequins or beads.
Quilling is an ideal solution for those who want to create a simple and effective composition with their own hands.
It can be a postcard - just decorate it by gluing decorations: sequins, ribbons, beads and so on. You can make a frame for the composition and also decorate it with small elements - you will get a wonderful panel that will enliven any interior. And if you cut the cardboard according to the shape of the composition and stick the magnetic strip, you get a cute fridge magnet. Any of the options will be a wonderful gift for your loved one.
How to make a heart using quilling technique, see the video.
