A Journey into Quilling & Paper Crafting

This is a 3D flower arrangement  is quilled to look like ikebana. I have made the stems with one inch strips and have made it look gnarled and twists like the twigs used in ikebana. The ...

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This tutorial is on how to cut thin stips to make 3d quilling. I have tried using a paper cutter but feel that the wastage is high. So I now cut them manually even though it takes more patients. ...

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This tutorial is posted at the request of one of my followers. The question was what I meant by " gluing the basic shapes to follow the contours of the object being quilled. This concept is de...

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This quilled landscape nature frame was done a while back. I have used my unique paper painting technique using 3mm strips for the fur. The eyes too are created to give a more realistic look so...

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Here is a quilled landscape picture of sand, water, stones, greenery and birds. Nature is my favorite topic for quilling and, combining diverse techniques to make something different from oth...

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This quilled picture of a Jezebel butterfly alight  a daisy was made quite a while back when I was experimenting with quilling 3d flowers plants. I have not used coiling  technique to make ...

http://ajourneyintoquilling.blogspot.com/2014/06/quilled-flower-frame-daisies-jezabel.html

Hello to all my followers and friends, Its been quite some time since I posted. I just ran out of space to keep my quilling so I stopped for a while. I have so many un posted quillings so I sha...

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I love the colors of autumn. The hues of red and yellow are so vibrant and full of life. Autumn to me is the very lifeblood of the seasons. Winter somehow seems such a waste, sort of a season o...

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Well, I posted a tutorial on making pine branches in my last post and you may have been wondering how I came about making pine branches when I had not used it in any of my posts. Ta Daaa!!.......

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 Last year I posted some tutorials and quillings tagged under  Christmas quilling and though I did a tutorial on 3d pine cones I did not post a tutorial on the leaves as I did not really lik...

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Well, I had a major issue with my Windows logon and have been shut out of the net for far too long. Had to restore my old version and lost all my software. I hate blogging from the android as t...

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Everyone's doodling so I practiced some of my graphic quilling skills and created this doodles canvas with my favorite medium, paper strips!! I used black card strips for the straight line geom...

http://ajourneyintoquilling.blogspot.com/2013/09/quilled-doodle-wall-frame.html

It has been a while since my last post, but here I am once again with a quilled riverside landscape. This time I have tried out chrismas trees . For this project I have used several techni...

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I wanted to try my hand at using shaped pegs for petals so I decided to do this frame for which I have used  one shaped  peg for the lip petal. The rest of the petals are basic tear shaped wi...

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This quilling tutorial covers 3 types of leaves using the same method. If you look carefully one leaf has the loops glued to the sides, while the other has the loops glued to the mid vein. Th...

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This tutorial will be in 3 parts as I am hoping to cover several types of leaves using folded strips.   BAMBOO LEAVES & LONG GRASS For bamboo leaves, take 2, A4 size 3mm strips of two sh...

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Its been a while since my last post !! I have been exploring Chinese and Japanese paintings and I came up with the idea of quilling some bamboo as it looks so elegant.  Then I thought I'd ad...

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I have seen many a beautifully quilled flower frame with quilled flowers glued with only the front perspective as I guess you find it difficult to affix it to a calyx, so here is a tutorial ...

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Its been ages since I quilled something as easy as a rose, so I thought I'd make a bunch  of 3d quilled roses and here it is .... a bouquet of blood red roses with one, white one, to break t...

http://ajourneyintoquilling.blogspot.com/2013/07/quilled-flower-frame-bouquet-of-roses.html

I have been meaning to blog this graphic quilled picture of a butterfly among sunflowers for a long while but never got down to it till today. As you can see I have graphic quilled the flow...

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This tutorial is on how I shape pegs (tight coils) to make receptacles for flowers, thorax and abdomen for butterflies. You do not need special molds or tools and as you can see you can get ...

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Its been a long while since I quilled  a nature landscape using only basic shapes, so I did this quilled picture of a pathway through the forest. It took me quite a while to make all those b...

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During my one and a quarter year journey through quilling , I have been quilling butterflies of all shapes, sizes and colors. This  Goliath swallowtail is one of my butterfly frames.  I hav...

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Today, it's quilled berries with an emphasis on the quilled compound leaves, inspired by a pic I took some time back. I have seen many beautiful leaves, but wanted to try out a compound leafÂ...

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  As promised a tutorial on quilling compound spike type (inflorescence type) flowers which I used for the quilled Black Maned Lion  ,  Behind the Picket Fence and  Lilly White . The o...

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