Methods for making Christmas tree using quilling technique

Quilling technique Suitable even for beginners. With its help, remembering just a few simple instructions, you can create an elegant decoration for the New Year in the form of a voluminous Christmas trees.

Before you start making a Christmas tree using the quilling technique, you need to figure out What is the essence of this method?

Volumetric composition can be an individual decor item or used to decorate postcards and other flat surfaces. Schemes for quilling often not required, but used materials differ in cheapness and availability. The basis for the craft is multi-colored paper with both smooth and corrugated surfaces.

You can cut the blanks yourself or purchase a ready-made set in the store of goods for creativity. In addition to paper, work requires:

• small scissors;
• glue stick, PVA or glue gun;
• ruler with round holes of different diameters;
• toothpicks, rods, marker and pens.

Most masters also prefer to use special tool for quilling. To decorate a paper figure, it is customary to use beads, rhinestones, tapes and sparkles.

Even a novice craftswoman can make a paper Christmas tree for the New Year using quilling technique with her own hands. Crafts in this style can be created individual elements of decor or on cardboard, which is subsequently transformed into a greeting card.

A fairly simple master class will allow you to independently make a beautiful tree with branches covered with hoarfrost. Following the step-by-step instructions, first you need to cut paper blanks. To create a Christmas tree you will need: two strips of brown shade with a width equal to 7 millimeters, as well as 42-43 green paper ribbons and the same number of white blanks, the width of which will be 3 millimeters.

Strip length determined depending on the size of the tree, but in principle, you can stop at 20 centimeters. In addition, glue, a special tool for quilling and bright beads for decoration are required for work. To make the stripes the same, you need a ruler template.

First, the brown stripes are twisted in rings, and their tips are fixed with glue. It is from them that the trunk of the Christmas tree will be formed. The easiest way to make rings is by twisting them on the marker. Green papers should be used to form “drops”, which after will receive a white frame. To create an unusual shape, after twisting it is necessary to move the center of the spiral to the edge and fix in this state.

To do this, the resulting roll is compressed on both sides, and one of its ends is fixed. Each “drop” will need to be wrapped twice with a white blank. Having treated the upper part of the “stem” ring with glue, it is necessary to glue on it the green “drops” of the first row. Then, on the second ring, the lower part should be processed with glue. Having placed it over the first fragment of the trunk, it is necessary to glue the “drops” of the second row. Fragments of the third green row will be fixed on glue directly on the objects of the second row.

Similarly, it will be necessary to form the fourth and fifth rows. The "drops" of the sixth row should already form the crown of the tree, and therefore they will have to be glued in almost vertical position. The lower part in this case will be fixed on the main body of the craft, but the upper tips of the “drops” only connect to each other. The finished Christmas tree is decorated with beads.

The scheme for creating a snow tree using quilling technique is also not particularly difficult. Of the materials, white strips are required, the width of which is 7 millimeters or corrugated cardboard with similar parameters. In addition, you will have to use the usual cardboard light brown tint. Standard work will require PVA glue, scissors and the tool used to create quilling rolls. The first thing for the Christmas tree is created blanks for the frame: 11 cardboard strips with a length equal to 20 centimeters and a width not exceeding 7 millimeters.

All strips needed glue togetherapplied at the bottom and extending to almost half of the entire length. Next, the outermost paper tapes are folded down to form an acute angle. On the following stripes on both sides it is necessary to measure 4 centimeters from the bend and cut them off. Third pair of stripes bends down again, but after 4 centimeters from the previous section. The last tier of spruce paws is formed in a similar way.

At the bottom of the tree you can add a strip on each sidebent at right angles, which will provide additional stability. When the tree frame is ready, you can proceed to the creation of "leaves" using strips of white paper. The resulting "drops" are fixed with glue on the barrel.

Making a quilling Christmas tree with a star is suitable for needlewomen of different levels. Of materials will be required green and red paper strips, white or green cardboard, medium-sized multi-colored beads and a glue gun.It is immediately important to remember that a finished tree should have two tiers of 7 “petals”, two tiers of 6 “petals”, two tiers of 5 “petals” and one upper tier with 4 “petals”. Either toothpicks or a special tool are useful for creating quilling elements directly.

Work begins with the fact that several circles are cut out of cardboard with different diameters. On each a small cut is created, allowing you to bend the workpiece with a cone. Ends the mug must be fixed with glue. Green stripes are used to twist rolls using the appropriate tool and ruler template. "Leaflets" of spirals are created by pinching the opposite ends.

On a cone with a maximum diameter, 7 "sheets" are glued in a circle. Each element should immediately be decorated with a bead attached using a glue gun. To fix the second tier on the first, the cone must be coated with glue from the inside and fixed on top. Gluing “petals” onto the tier, it is worth sticking to the checkerboard pattern. Other levels of the Christmas tree are collected in a similar way. The crown is formed of four “sheets” glued along the edges and one inverted “drop” fixed in the middle.

Two stars are created from red paper blanks. The quilling technique involves the formation of free rolls, which then corner beams are plucked five times. Finished stars are glued on both sides of a vertically standing drop. We should not forget about the decoration of the upper tier with beads.

When it comes to creating a greeting card, a little different tools will be required to work. Be sure to prepare an awl, glue and sharp scissors, as well as a blank for postcards in A6 format and green paper for rolling rolls. Stained-glass paints and satin ribbons are useful for decorating a gift. To form “drops”, you must first twist the quilling roll, then dissolve it to a diameter of 15 millimeters and fix it with glue. Squeezing one end with your fingers, the workpiece must be shaped like a curved drop.

Fixing elements on a postcard blank is possible using conventional PVA. To give the tree fluffy "leaves" can be alternated with curls. You can make the last ones by gluing four green strips and twisting them slightly on one side. A finished Christmas tree should definitely be decorated, for example, with a bow from a satin ribbon.

Beginning quilling masters should remember that to get a tight roll, you must first wrap the tape tightly, and then immediately fix the end with glue. However, if you first wrap the tape tightly and then slightly dissolve it, you will get a loose roll, which is also used in the work. To shape the workpiece drops or half-bomb you need to flatten the part with your fingers. To create eye shape, the round billet must be simultaneously compressed on both sides. Square shape obtained from the workpiece in the form of "eyes", which then unfolds vertically and is compressed again on the sides.

Rhombus shape can be obtained from a slightly flattened “square” shape. Triangle shape formed from a standard "drop", the base of which is flattened. To create arrow shape, you must first construct a "triangle", and then with your index finger to push the middle of the short side inward. Crescent shape is done in much the same way as the "eye", but the corners of which are plucked with a slight shift, creating a bend. All the above quilling elements can be involved in creating the Christmas tree, for example, for its decorations.

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