New Year's crafts made of paper. Quilling

Word "Quilling" comes from the English word "Quill" (The "bird's feather"). Really elegant filigree details from twisted paper are very similar to bird feathers. In the past, the art of quilling was only available to rich people, because high-quality paper was very expensive. In addition, quilling was considered only a woman's entertainment. Now people are engaged in quilling around the world.

Before you start making New Year paper crafts in quilling technique, take care of instruments. You will need an awl with a diameter of 1 mm with a convenienthandle, tweezers with sharp, precisely aligned tips without a notch, scissors with pointed tips, PVA glue and paper. Quilling paper is cut into strips 3 mm wide (width may vary depending on the product). You can buy ready-made strips, or you can pass paper through a shredder. The density of paper for quilling should be at least 60 g / m 2.

How to make a part in the quilling technique? Very simple. First you need to take two fingers with a piece of paper and pull it off with two fingers of the other hand with pressure. Swipe it over with a fingernail so that it slightly bends - so it will be easier to wind on an awl.

Wrap the bent tip on the awl, makingseveral tight turns. The diameter of the resulting roller should be about 3-4 mm. Then you can remove it from the awl and continue to twist by hand. This must be done with both hands to make the disc dense. To the tape does not bloom, constantly intercept it with your fingers.

When you fold the entire strip, relax a littlefingers, so that the spiral of paper slightly blossoms. Glue the end of the strip with PVA glue. Blanks can be compressed and stretched with your fingers, giving them a variety of shapes - for example, drops or a heart.

The basic forms of blanks are as follows:

• A drop. The middle of the workpiece should be pulled in one direction, and on the other hand - it should be squeezed so as to get a sharp end.


• Eye. Round workpiece should be simultaneously compressed from two sides.


• If you make the billet "eye" give it a curved shape and tear the corners with a shift, you get a crescent.


• Square. Make the "eye" work, turn it over and squeeze it again.


• Rhombus. Turn the square upside down and squeeze a little vertically.


• The triangle is made from a drop, the base of which needs to be slightly flattened, grasping the corner.


• From the triangle you can make an arrow, pressing the middle of the short side inside with your index finger.

There are also open billets:

• Lamb. Bend the strip for quilling in the middle and twist out each half.


• The heart is performed in the same way as the lamb, but the folded paper curls inwards.


• For a curl, you do not need to fold the paper - just mark the middle and twist the ends in its direction, one clockwise, the second - against.


• To make a twig, fold the paper in the ratio 1: 2 and twist its ends in one direction.

So, you learned how to make blanks. How to make New Year's articles of paper in the technique of quilling? There are many options. For beginers, it's easiest to use quilling parts for New Year's applique. To glue a part, grease the workpiece with PVA glue in two or three places, press firmly against the base and hold it for a while.

What can be plots for applications in technologyQuilling? The most different! You can make a New Year tree or a composition with a wreath and candles (examples of such applications are in our article). You can make a symbol of the coming year 2011 - a rabbit or a cat. Very beautiful come out snowflakes made in quilling technique - for them the details must be laid out symmetrically in six directions. Before making workpieces, sketch out the silhouette of the future application and design the location and shape of the parts.

In the quilling technique, one can make and bulk snowflakes, having laid out them from details on a table or a paper, asfor the application, and gently gluing the contiguous parts of the blanks. The easiest way is to glue together, moving from the center to the edges - first an internal series of parts, gluing to it an external one, etc. To the finished snowflake you can tie a string or ribbon and hang it on a Christmas tree or a chandelier. You can glue the finished snowflakes together, having got a beautiful openwork garland.