Tuesday 3 May 2011

Quilling the line

I had an un-quilled printed card left over from my earlier experiments with shadow borders, so I decided to add some quilling to it over the holiday weekend.  This is the result:

I wanted to try the technique of intersecting a 'straight line' strip with open curls as I have seen other quillers do to great effect - notably Yulia Brodskaya, who is surely an inspiration to us all! I decided to glue down the straight strips first, and found this was not too difficult to do with the short lengths I used here. But I would imagine that doing it with longer strips would be much more challenging. Does anyone have any tips for this? And has anyone succeeded in gluing down a large circle outline made from a single strip? I'm sure that keeping a perfect circle shape must be very tricky!

6 comments:

  1. Philippa,
    This is also a beautiful type of quilling and never tried to do it. Your card is already above what you can do.
    Hugs!

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  2. That is so pretty. But then all your cards are.

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  3. Love the simplicity of the design. Although of course it's not so simple to achieve simplicity when it comes to quilling! A circle of regular quilling paper would be very difficult to do perfectly. Cardstock weight would make it easier or use regular quilling paper to make a ring coil of several thicknesses.

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  4. Thanks everyone, and for your suggestion Ann. Going to have to experiment with this one ...

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  5. I always wondering on how put up the straight strips i.e alphabets ; tried actually but to no avail. Guess i am not that good LOL

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