While quilling, I often feel the need to ask someone experienced about how I should make a certain design or how to make a kind of coil...I thought of buying a book, some kind of quiling bible that would help me make my quills look more professional. Ha! But that seemed too much to ask for! I have scanned all the leading bookstores in Delhi from Jain book Depot in C.P. to Teksons in South Extension but the expedition only strengthened my belief that quilling in India is in its pre-embryonal stages (there there, the biology can't stop from creeping into everything I do).
So I did the next best thing...I googled my way through to quilling wisdom. The amount of information I managed to get astounded me (and let me tell you that with all the unsurmountable material I've sifted through while making my college assigments and projects; I'd thought I'd seen it all). Anyway let me not careen off the tangent and get down to the things I found on the net that any quilling amateur will love.
These sites below were some of the real good ones, check the details I've given with each to make it easier.
- http://www.mypaperquilling.com/
Its an easy to navigate site and has the basic shapes and methods to make them described nicely. There's a bit on the history of quilling too but you can give the designs a skip, there are better ones on:
- http://www.quilledcreations.com/ The site is very nicely laid out and the designs are beautiful. Go to their photo gallery which has a huge variety of finished products you can look at. Caution: the gallery takes quite a while to open!!
- For some really classy and ornate designs check out www.customquillingbydenise.com/QuillingGallery/ Its amazing how a mere strip of paper can be twisted into such an exquisite art!
- Want to make an interesting gift? Try out scrapbooking. You can add a little zing to it by throwing in some quilling. For ideas have a look at:
www.scrapjazz.com/topics/Techniques/Quilling/33.php
- For a little more difficult designs see http://www.whimsiquills.com/home.htm
Don't get disheartened if you can't get them the way they look on the site because
a) the designs are real tough
b)one needs the proper tools to do this with (which unfortunately seem aggravatingly impossible to get in India!)
Well well so I've done all the dirty work and sifted through the junk. So check out these sites and get some real cool ideas...(heh heh you must be wondering that the sites must be paying me, the way I'm endorsing them!! Sigh! If only....)
I've really gone on and on today...so people you better get down to some serious quilling now..am off to do the same
Take care
chandni :D
Well well..its been long since I wrote here last (not that my non-existent audience even bothers or misses me in the least!!)
Anyway, this card I've put up today is not my own design...I came across it while surfing the net. I've modified the original design by making it colourful (original was in shades of blue) and putting a bead for the bird's eye. Its something different from the regular flowery designs I've been doin and so took a little time. To make it look different I've painted the girl's face. So its interesting to mix up things like sticking beads ,ribbons or painting a bit with the quilling..
Do try this out..its a little tough but good fun
Till next time...take care
Chandni
