Easter Quilling

Easter Quilling: The Basics

Another name for quilling - paper filigree. Working in this technique is quite simple. You will need strips of heavy paper and an awl with a diameter of 1 mm. A strip of paper is wound on an awl, then the resulting paper spiral needs to be loosened a little so that it is not so tight, and fix the tip with PVA glue. Squeezing and stretching the fingers of the workpiece, you can give it different forms - drops, crescent, heart.

In more detail about the quilling technique, wewere told in our article devoted to New Year's hand-made articles made of paper. There you can find a more accurate list of the necessary tools and materials and a more detailed description of the technique. Basically, Easter Quilling is no different from, say, New Year's, except for the immediate subjects.

Easter Quilling: Easter Egg

In the quilling technique, you can do very much beautiful and unusual Easter eggs. As the basis for such an egg is takena wooden or plastic blank, but you can also decorate an ordinary egg. To do this, you need to do two holes on the "poles" of the egg and gently blow the contents through them, and gently wash the shell in warm water and allow to dry.

While the egg dries, think about what the pattern will be. You can decorate an egg with an abstract pattern made up of basic elements of quilling, or you can make a plot: a butterfly, flowers. After making a sufficient number of blanks, start gently sticking them on the egg. You can completely cover the egg with quilling elements, and you can first make a background by painting an egg, wrapping it with a string or using other decor techniques. You can combine easter quilling with traditional applique.

Easter Quilling: Other Crafts

In this technique, you can do other crafts for Easter. The principle remains the same, just changing the object, which you will glue. For example, You can make a decorative easter basket in the quilling technique. To do this, you must glue a basket of thick paper or thin cardboard. First, glue the cylinder, glue a round bottom and a handle to it, and then you can start to glue the elements of the quilling.

Very easy to do Easter wreath in the technique of paper filigree. From the cardboard, cut out the round base for the wreath,glue it with colored paper (and you can immediately use colored cardboard), decorate with quilling elements and applique. At the end, attach a ribbon to the wreath, for which you hang it on the wall or on the door.

You can use this technique for manufacturing Easter cards. Let's try to make a postcard with an Easter bunny. First, cut out a rectangle of colored cardboard - this will be the basis for the postcard.

For head make a ring-shaped base large enough and paste it on the colored cardboard. Top glued eyes. You can make them yourself from colored paper, but you can take ready-made eyes-stickers. Also need to cut out paper and paste spout.

Then do two blanks - "droplets" slightly smaller than the head; this will be the ears. To get a "droplet", you have to squeeze one edge of the round billet. Glue the ears to the head. Another "droplet", only a large size, will be the trunk.

After that you need to make four more "droplets": two more and two smaller. It will be paws. From orange paper it is possible to make carrots and glue it to one of the front legs. You can additionally make grass, flowers, sun.

Easter Quilling is a fairly simple technique that allows you to create very impressive Easter handicrafts.