A Journey into Quilling & Paper Crafting

This is a 3D flower arrangement  is quilled to look like ikebana. I have made the stems with one inch strips and have made it look gnarled and twists like the twigs used in ikebana.
The flowers are made using multi strip technique and the leaves have been made with moulded Quilling techniques which I have used in lilly white....

This tutorial is on how to cut thin stips to make 3d quilling. I have tried using a paper cutter but feel that the wastage is high. So I now cut them manually even though it takes more patients. So here goes.....
Things required
A cutting mat with mm markings for accurate cutting....

This tutorial is posted at the request of one of my followers. The question was what I meant by " gluing the basic shapes to follow the contours of the object being quilled.
This concept is demonstrated clearly in my quilled sunset project.
Nevertheless here is a pictorial....

This quilled painting was done a while back. I have used my unique paper painting technique using 3mm strips for the fur. The eyes too are created to give a more realistic look so I have not used pegs.
I have described the technique in some detail in my...