quilled decorations.

I find all things paper a wonderful place for inspiration for paper crafts.

paper flowers

http://www.craftstylish.com/item/49153/how-to-make-elegant-parchment-flowers-with-jeffrey-rudell

I have made these flowers with thick white paper, These flower look more elegant when parchment paper is used.

can't stop quilling

Akhil thinks it looks like my earlier flowers , I think its a little bit different.

tissue paper carnations.

I taught tissue paper carnations to last year summer camp students , this is a variation from that. I liked this tutorial, adding colour to the tissue paper is a nice idea.

http://foldingtrees.com/2008/08/flower-week-tissue-paper-carnations/

quilled roses

This seems to be my tenth post on quilling , yet I am not able to get quilling paper anywhere.

I have used yellow and pink chart paper to make these roses.

These flowers are made by alternately winding and folding a 1cm width paper around the needle

quilled roses

These roses were too easy to make. But very beautiful.

I found this wonderful site which has wonderful tutorials. Here is a tutorial for quilled roses.

cut out a neat square, draw a spiral starting from the sides to the center, then you can use craft scissors to cut out the spiral or you can do what I did .I drew a wavy line along the spiral that I had drawn and cut along the wavy line.

start quilling the paper from the outer end to the middle and stick the end .

http://increations.blogspot.com/08/04/floral-motif-on-cd.html

quilled lotus

I remember as a child I drew lotus somewhat like this.

I will think of some other flower for my next post.

I used the same length of paper for all the petals.