Thank you so much for taking The Art of Quilling-A Sunflower. I believe that art is a way to clear our minds of all the daily clutter and hopefully you were able to clear some of that clutter away today. Here are a few things to look at to explore what we did today and some informative links for quilling.

Key Takeaways and Next Steps:

Today we learned

What quilling is
What tools you need to quill and how to use them
How to create basic shapes used in quilling a sunflower
8 yellow teardrops (Size 30 or about the size of a half dollar)
2 green teardrops (same size as above)
1 brown big loose circle (use 4 strips of brown ½”-1” wide)
And, you began your journey to make a beautiful quilled sunflower!

Explore Supplies Used for this Class:

Strips of paper (⅛-¼ “)
An instrument to wrap the strip of papers. (quilling stylus, skewer, pencil, pen, paintbrush)
A runny glue (Elmer’s, Aleen’s Craft glue, etc.)
A plate or dish for the glue
A small paintbrush to apply glue
Paper or cardboard for backing (cut to 1 ½” circle)
Pencil and eraser
Extra paper, scissors, ruler
Optional tools: A quilling paper trainer, and tweezers

Links to recommended tools:

(I only provide links to products I personally own or have tried that are really good products-all of these are on Amazon Prime. However, shop around and find the best prices!)
Quilling Kit 1
Quilling Kit 2
Quilling Papers
Quilling Stylus Kit
Aleen’s Craft Glue

Review demos from today's class:

Please note that these demo videos were created just for our class on Get Set Up. Please don’t share the link. Thx!)

Here is a link to recap the sunflower video.
Here is a link to how to quill scrolls.

Links to additional resources that may be of interest to you:

Create Your Own Art:

Attached instructions:

Images from today's project

Link to all my classes