Malkan Ngantok

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Quilling Craft - Fringed Golden Sunflower

Quilling craft is really a wonderful craft which i have ever been doing and i have gained a lot of interest in it.

Here is a beautiful fringed yellow sunflower i have made these fringes make the flower look more beautiful.

Materials :

1. Yellow strips
2. Green strips

How to make:

1. Fringed flowers: Make 3 fringed flowers of 3" length of 3/8" width gold trim. Glue 3" length of 1/8" width brown paper to the fringed paper and roll into a fringed flower beginning with the brown paper.

2. Greenery: Roll 7 green 3" marquises (shape of the leaves) leaves.

3. Buds: Cut 9 triangles from the width of gold trim of about 3" length. Roll each on the tool beginning with the wide end of the triangle, and glue the end. Glue these in groups of three to short lengths of narrow width green paper.

Arrange the flowers, the leaves and buds as shown in the picture.

In this way one more beautiful fringed sunflower is ready.

Quilling-Craft-Fringed-Sunflower

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Valentines Day Gifts - Flower Bouquets

14th February has been known as Valentine's Day. This is the perfect occasion for romantic proposals and dating. On this day, gift your sweetheart with flowers, soft toys, candles, diamonds, chocolates, gift baskets, perfume, books, watches, jewellery and others. Shower love and enjoy the day with your beloved.

Flowers are always a common gift as the beautiful colour of flowers make every heart eager to say it loud, 'I Love You'. So let your loved one say this everyday as you can gift him / her flowers that wont ever fade its beauty. Yes, you heard it right these are duplex paper flowers that you can turn it into a beautiful handmade bouquet.

Method to make these Cosmos flowers:

1. Take some cotton to add for the bud cover the cotton using any dark colour duplex paper.

2. Add pips / pollen surrounding the small bud and tie it tightly. See the pic below you will come to know how the pips / pollens are arranged around the buds and attach aluminium wire to it.

Flower-bouquet

3. Now take a square piece of duplex paper fold it into four parts cut the ends giving a round shape and pass the aluminium wire through the center of the round duplex paper.

4. Twist the paper slowly to give wrinkled effect to the flower.

5. In the same way make as much flowers you want and arrange a proper bouquet with some dried leaves and all that are easily available.

These flower bouquet can be gifted for any occasion. I have personally made this bouquet for my friends birthday. I hope she will like it a lot.

Here is the beautiful flower bouquet ready to gift to you dear ones.

Valentines-Gift-Flower-Bouquet

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Quillied Greeting Card - Fringed Flower Heart

I hope everyone liked the necklace for Valentines day. There are lots of gifts that you can make gift your loved one choice is yours.

There is a common choice that every one prefers to give, i.e. a beautiful Valentine greeting card. So girls get ready to learn this beautiful heart shaped greeting card and gift it to your special someone.

Here is the method to make this card:

1. Take Quilling strip of the 1/4" width paper with the length of 3" and fringe them very finely.

2. Arrange these fringed flowers on the gift tag in a heart shape.

3. Make around 12 green loose scrolls and leaves and add to the heart shape.

Note: Fringe means to cut one end of the paper very finely, if you make the fringe think the beauty of the flowers wont be there. So try cutting the strips finely. Look at the picture you will come to know.

So here is the beautiful fringed flower heart ready for Valentines Day.

Hope you all like this new technique.

Heart-Shaped-Valentines-Card

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Quillied Necklace - Valentines Day Gift

Friends Valentines day is nearing and everyone will be busy busying something or the other for your loved ones. Valentines Day is a day to express your love, and to celebrate the spirit of love.

So are ready to share the spirit of Love. Here with my Quilling skills i made a beautiful pendant for this special occasion. If any one would like to gift their loved ones this beautiful necklace you can, as this is the most simple and elegant gift. Handmade gifts are always precious so, i tried out Quilling on accessories and made this necklace.

I promise to come out with more exciting cards and accessories for Valentines day.

How is this Necklace for your Valentine?

Valentine-Day-Gift-Quillied-Necklace

Pendant of the necklace.

Valentine-Quillied-Pendant

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Quilling craft designs- Bunny with Flowers

Now came out with new creation in quilling. There are lot of this i tried out and majorly those were floral craft. So thought of doing something different and here i tried out a cute bunny.

This is a real cute greeting card which i made as the bunny came out to be really good.

As i had mentioned in my earlier post that I'll be trying out miniature quilling. this is one of miniature quilling.

Here is the method of making miniature bunny and flowers:

1. Bunny: Roll a brown 18" teardrop for the body (teardrop is the shape of the body, check out in the pic). Add 7" teardrop for the head and 2 brown 2.5" marquises for the ears. Roll a brown 3" brown teardrop for the foot and a brown 2" loose circle for the tail.

2. Marquise Flower (make 2): Glue together 5 dark pink 2" marquises (marquises is the shape of the petal, it looks like eyes). Add 1.5" yellow tight circle for flower's center.

3. Bunny Ear flower (make 3): Glue together 3 purple 2.5" bunny ears (bunny ears is the shape of the petals of purple flowers shown in the pic) and add a 1.5" white tight circle for flower's center.

4. Stems and leaves: Add green stem to each flower. Roll a 5" green marquise and a 4" green marquise for the leaves.

Here is how u can make a cute miniature greeting card.

There are lot of names of the shapes used in the post. Will have a new post with all basic shapes and the names of it for better understanding.

Here is my Bunny with flowers cards.

Quillied-Bunny-Flowers

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Quillied Earrings - Patterns and Designs

Quillied earrings are always beautiful and more Eco friendly than any other earrings.
I have tried out Quillied Earrings earlier and came out really good.

This time I tried out a different pattern in earrings and even this came out to me amazing. So try out this quillied earring and enjoy your own designed earrings.

Here is the one I made.

Quillied-Earrings

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Dried Bamboo leaves and hay Craft - Birds Nest

This is not the first time I'm trying out some craft using dried and waste things. Even earlier i have done a craft using Waste Branches - Rose on Branches.

So here I'm back again with some more craft using dried bamboo leaves and dried grass.

Materials:
1. Dried bamboo leaves and hey or grass
2. Aluminium wire
3. Jute thread
4. Some artificial birds (for more decoration)
5. Glue

How to make:

1. Take a long aluminium wire and apply some glue all over the wire.

2. Now paste the dried bamboo leaves and hey all over the aluminium wire thickly and tie it with jute thread tightly.

3. Now roll the aluminium wire slowly making sure the leaves and hey does not fall, this make the nest base.

Here is how the base of the nest will look like.

Dried-Bamboo-leaves-hey-Nest-Base

4. Now tie the bamboo leaves together at one end and leave the other end, now make it look like a clown cap.

5. Next put it above the nest base and tie all ends including the base and keep a small hole in any one side to look like nest.

6. Next get some birds and attach it along the holes to get a natural look.

Here is a beautiful looking birds nest ready to hang on to any corner of your house.

Birds-Nest