To make these cards, Step 1 download my free pdf pattern and print it onto cardstock. There
are two pages in my pdf file page one has two hearts and page two has the additional message
step two take a scoring tool and score vertically in half you can use a score
board like this or a dried up pen step three cut horizontally in half to get two greeting cards
fold along the score line then unfold it to make the card lay flat on your work surface
now i designed these two magenta outlines of hearts fading to white in the middle
so it makes it easy for you to fill in these shapes this way you don't have to worry
about outlining a heart shape or getting your elements spaced evenly on your card
before i start showing how to make these cards i just want to say i designed this tutorial
and free pdf download to help beginners feel like quilling a card can be easy and fun to do my main
goal is to make quilling less intimidating if you want to see more tutorials like this please let
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if you're new to quilling this is the perfect card for beginners in fact it's based on the same card
idea i made for my mom for her birthday in 2007. this is the first card i ever quilled for her
and it was inspired when i walked by a store in the mall called levion rose this is a picture
i took of the front of the store and i remember thinking it looked just like quilling so i went
home and made this card she loved it so much she kept it on her fridge for years
to make this card i cut all my strips to 4 inches long the paper that i'm using here is 1 8 inch
wide and it's just conventional thin kind of quilling paper and i love this burgundy color
because it's always such a nice contrast against a light pink so let's get started making the basic
s scroll and you can see the s scroll is right here and winding that way so let's
just make one of those i'm just going to i what i tend to do is soften my strip
so we already see that we have an s shape going on and to do that i just ran my finger along
the strip like that turned it around this direction and ran it again that direction
so i just tend to soften my paper fibers like that and then what i'm going to do is press the
paper against my finger using the tool like that and gather it up and we have a
tight coil on one side and then i'm going to turn it around and do the same thing on this side
and we can see that the s shape that i've made here is quite tight and let
me show you a simple way to loosen up those coils i'm just going to unravel it by hand
and then re-ravel it again do you see how much more open that is in comparison
to what it started off with and i can do the same with the other side
and then all of a sudden our coil looks completely different and if you want to you can
re-ravel this one just a little bit smaller and recoil this one just a little bit larger and then
look what happens now one side is smaller and one side is larger so we call that asymmetrical
kind of s scroll and there's a little bit of kinkiness going on right around here and so i'm
just going to smooth in that out using my tool i'm going to grip this side and just kind of smooth in
those paper fibers just gently running it like that and then it just kind of smoothens the
those little kinks out anything that you might see usually i find that happens between those two
coils so we've just got one done and you would just go around the entire heart i would just i
tend to start right here and place this here and then just outline the heart all around with these
loose shapes and i wouldn't worry about gluing just yet i basically tend to fill
the outline first and if i like what i see then that's when i dip them into glue and then glue the
outline just to give myself like a starting point and another shape that i have here is
what they call the sea scroll and this is kind of backwards but it just kind of fit that shape
quite well so i'll just show you how to do that we're just going to
soften both sides and we can see that we're already getting that that arc of the letter c
and just like with the escrow we're just going to press the tool into our finger coil it up
turn it around and do the same thing and again this is what you would find as a standard kind of
sea scroll and again i'm just going to uncoil it a little bit and then recoil it by hand
and that gives us that sort of conch shape that has to me it has more vitality it has more
dynamic movement for your eyes and so i just kind of go around the hearts and determine where do
i like those coils happening and adjust as i go and then i just kind of dip it into glue and fill
that outline and then that is to me the easiest way i can possibly feel a shape one other tip i
have for you when you're filling in your heart is to pretend it's a bit like a jigsaw puzzle
and if you're trying to see does this shape fill this area well and if it doesn't then just
take it out and uncoil it recoil it the way that you want it to fit and then put it back into that
space and just like a jigsaw puzzle see if it fits if it doesn't take it out adjust and then try it
again and make it fit within that area this is a very adjustable shape both of these and you can
make it form any kind of hole that you want okay pretend it's a jigsaw puzzle now that you guys
have mastered the s scroll we're going to try something called the loose scroll and to me it
just kind of looks like a question mark we have a coil here and then the tail just kind of ends
as a loose kind of tail and so the strips that we're using here are measured in three inches
two inches and one and a half so where we're using them is these loose scrolls here are three inches
the heart here the larger heart here is the two inch and this smaller heart is one and a half inch
and i'll show you how to make all those elements so let's just start with the loose scroll first
so just like the s scroll i'm just going to soften one direction and soften the other direction
so we can see the beginning of an s scroll here and i'm just going to coil this one up
and we can see the beginning of that right there so i'm just going to loosen that up
and just recoil that by hand and that's how we get that shape now you're wondering
okay well how do you get more of that coil there to happen and you can actually use your
circumference of your tool to just kind of press that into your finger and voila there you go there
you've got more curve and that's how i've done every one of these ones here it was just that easy
so to create the hearts and it's the same whether it's the larger heart or the smaller heart okay so
i'll just show you one time but really it's just the size of the strip that makes it different
so what i'm going to do is fold the strip in half and then i'm going to curve it this way
and this way kind of like a bird in the horizon
and then i'm going to turn it upside down and curl it this way
so now it kind of looks a bit like a mustache in a way like that okay and now do you see these
two curves that are going upwards let's just give them a little bit more curve like that
on either side we're going to turn that mustache down a bit and then we're just going to add a
little dab of glue and then bring these two ends together then i'm just going to re-accentuate that
fold right here and just pinch that with my tweezers
and that's how we get the heart so simple right that easy if you're having problems gluing your
shapes to your card and you're finding that you're having lots of specks of glue showing on your work
surface you can watch my other glue video and find out why i smear my glue how i glue my pieces to my
card and another tip i might be able to give you when you're gluing shapes that are longer like
this is to set one side down before you do the other so in other words after i've dipped my shape
into some glue what i tend to do is keep this side up in the air and put this side down first so
if you can imagine this is this whole surface is glued what i would do is leave this part up in the
air set this point down and just kind of set your finger on top of it gently so that it doesn't move
and then glue this side down you can see what happens is this way your eye is not forced to
look at so many places all at one time i'm forcing my eye to just look at this one end right here and
then this side here and i'll try to show you from the side view what we would do is just kind of set
this tail side down first right where you want put your finger there so it doesn't move around
and then here you see how this finger can this part of my hand here can dictate exactly where i
want that coil to go and i want it to go there to follow that outline here then from there you can
press down and hopefully that's going to alleviate any extra glue spots where you don't want it to be
okay that's card number two i hope you enjoy making this one for the first two cards i
deliberately showed you examples of cards that use just one color of quilling strip on the design and
for some beginners i know that you can sometimes feel a little overwhelmed by all the color choices
so i just want to show you that your cards can look just as beautiful with just one color
now this card is based on page two of my pdf file and as you can see i've got the writing in here
already and basically i just kind of eyeballed it so if i want to make a shape here i just kind of
look at the space around here and triple it so in other words if the space is here then i just
kind of eyeball to the left and to the right and i would just cut right about there and just kind of
make my coils for that space if i find that this is too long or too short it's really easy to just
snip off a little bit extra and then it makes it shorter and as you've seen me do you just make
your coils a little bit larger a little tighter and it just kind of adjusts to fit the space so
i know it can be kind of stressful to try to figure out what is the right length there
is no right length it's just whatever your fingers want to jigsaw puzzle together these
designs okay just give it a try now to make the flowers they're just some simple closed coils
and these ones here were three inches long these smaller ones were about two inches long
i all i did was take the strip and soften it on both sides and coil it up
all the way so that's a typical kind of tight coil you can see the difference between
that kind of traditional coil and this kind of loose coil so i just unravel it to about there
and then re-ravel it really loosely and that's how we get that shape and we'll just glue that
closed and if you want to you can take a pair of tweezers and just kind of crimp that join just to
make sure it seals quite well so do i care about the circumference of the flowers making them even
not really not even in the slightest i actually like it when they're different shapes and
different sizes because that's how nature looks and when they're too similar and the same it's too
static so i actually like it when they're slightly smaller slightly bigger and just to give that an
even look it makes it more natural and then i just changed up some of the colors so here's a light
pink a medium and a darker kind of purple that picks up the color in here so they just kind of
all go together another tip i have for beginners is to look for the direction of your coil
so because my name starts with the letter c i make sure that all the coils face in the same direction
on your layout and that way your eye can subtly feel like they're all going in the same direction
it gives a subtle feeling of cohesiveness when one goes the opposite direction your subconscious
can't tell you quite exactly what's going on but something feels a little off okay now i was really
lucky to find the exact color match of my paper strip to a piece of card stock and to create these
leaves all i did was use a dollar store punch design and i turned it upside down to save paper
and you'll see how i punched it right to the edge of my paper when you turn it upside down
you can bring the stamp right to the edge of the paper and then slide it around till you see the
the one that you punched on the side and then you know okay there i can waste the least amount
of paper and then i would take a pair of scissors and just basically cut one of those petals towards
the middle and then i would take your needle tool and just kind of score along the middle like that
and using my tweezers i'm just going to crimp it in the middle and fold it in the middle
and there we've got our leaf and then i would just dip that into some glue and place it to the side
of those flowers so as you can see it's really easy to make some floral designs you don't have
to create leaves out of quilling paper we can borrow crafts from other paper crafting supplies
and add it to our design here don't forget to visit my blog to download my pillow box design