here just score along that line now when you come to the end here look for either
a return arrow which means you just pick up the strip and bring it to the next
line to continue scoring the page just isn't long enough to deal with some of
the strips that are this long so I just had to continue it along now obviously
when you come to this icon here which is a scissor that just means to cut that
strip at that length so you don't have to worry about getting a ruler to
measure everything as you go makes it a lot easier don't you think so let's
follow along here and follow the outline of the letter to fold your scores now
when you fold because we are human we can be a little off so don't fold like
that use your fingers to make sure your strip is perfectly aligned because
that's going to make gluing a lot easier so just follow the outline as we go and
there we have the outline of the letter A so I've gone ahead and made the
smaller inside shape and for now I'm going to suggest that we don't glue
these two corners together and you'll see
why for the smaller inside shape I'm going to suggest that we do glue that
because as a smaller shape it's a lot easier to just glue that to your surface
without anything moving around so I'm gonna give you some tips on how I don't
by doing that I just use a plastic card and apply a bead of glue in a straight
line and I'm going to kiss the glue that's what I call the turn it just
means to just brush up against it and run a bead of glue right all on that
edge maybe that's a bit too much and then use the side of the card and align
this edge to it and then bring this side up against that edge just so and this
way you don't have an overhang it's not too little not too much just perfect
you're gonna get a perfect corner now that we finished preparing the strips
let's go back to the template you'll see the letter sitting in the middle of six
by six inch square outline it's not quite in the middle it's actually a
little offset a little bit higher from the bottom just so that when you see it
on a greeting card or on you know a monogram ring monogram it's just a
little balance that way the outline is here so that you can buy a sheet of
scrapbook cardstock and cut it in half and then fold that in half and you've
got a perfect 6 by 6 inch greeting card so I'm gonna suggest that you put some
removable tape on the corners with the sticky side facing you and then I'm
going to suggest that you go to a sunny window and line these two up and then
press against the removable tape so it stays against your sheet then you take a
dry pin and follow along every line and just trace and score into your cardstock
so I'm just gonna go ahead and do that and I'll come right back now that I
finished scoring the letter A on my card I can remove my template and it's ready
to start going on now if you'd like to use the letter A on
a size other than what you see here this is the baseline there's the center and
hopefully that's going to help you align it for any project you'd like to make
now we're ready to glue the strips down to our card the glue that I prefer using
most is aleene's original tacky glue I like it because it's super thick and it
dries really fast I like to put it in a fine tip glue bottle in a shot glass
that has a tissue paper a wet tissue down there and so it doesn't dry up the
nozzle so I'm going to put the outside strip aside and I've got a lovely waster
card from my trip to the UK I going to be shoeing this because then this way
you can see how much glue I'm putting down on against this blue color I mean
you can use a yogurt lid whatever you prefer it doesn't really matter I'd like
to use a piece of plastic because then I can reuse it again and again after the
glue is dried I just toss out that dried glue and use it again so I deliberately
put a thin stream like that so you can see how much I put down and you can see
the letter doesn't even get covered and I actually don't mind that because then
this way I just kind of move it around as I go and because it's such a smeared
thin layer of glue I don't get glue coating the edges of my strip this way
you don't have any glue blobs on the edges so now for this outside piece I'm
only going to get put the glue right on this one edge first maybe okay maybe two
I'll do these two so I'm going to start by just pressing down making sure I'm
getting good contact all around there
and if you're in doubt you just pick it up and confirm
and the reason why I like to work with just two edges or you know one side at a
time whatever suits you is then you have much more control see this part is still
easy for me to manipulate if I needed to so I'm gonna take this I have some
leftover strips here and I'm going to take that leftover glue waste not want
not they say right and I'm going to lift this edge up I mean you could use new
glue if you wanted so as you can see when I work one side at a time it gives
me the flexibility to move the piece around without having to smear glue
everywhere the paper I'm using here is called meat all from Canson and I'll
leave a link in the show notes for you I've cut it to a quarter-inch here just
because I like that depth as I'm quilling it four letters
I like this thickness paper because it's a lot easier to handle than the thinner
type of standard quilling paper
and since I'm running out of glue and it's kind of drying up I'm going to use
a new sheet you don't want to use dip your piece and glue that's been dried
because you get a bit of a skin on there and then you end up taking the skin up
onto your strip and it's a bit of a magician act right you never let them
see how you glue that paper down because everyone kind of wonders wow how did you
how did you quill that piece or at least I feel like a magician anyway
and gets a little harder as you go down to the last piece here and I'm going to
apply glue to both of these because I want any flexibility to move that piece
around and set it at the same time I'm going to use this card here as a stopper
piece to align this corner now I got a little bit of glue on this corner here
not a big deal if you catch it in time
before it dries now I tend to prefer gluing even this corner to this corner
and I'll just show you how I go about doing that
same idea as the kissing the glue it's just a small amount and I tend to rub my
metal instrument against that edge just to make sure because my fingers are you