Friday, July 18, 2008

Flower Making (Quilling) - Part I



Sorry guys for the delay .... held up with lots of work and unable to spend time for this blog :(

Okay moving on to flower making......

I am bit lazy today, to key-in ..... so I have just posted the pictures for each process.... and described in few words... If you have any questions/doubt, please feel free to ask me ...


Materials Needed :


Glue, Toothpicks, small sharp scissors, strips of colour papers (I used 15 cm length and 1cm width)


Method:

Step 1:
Use 2 colour papers. Cut one strip into 2 halves. Again cut one half into two lengthwise.


Step 2:
Use the other colour strip. Fold into 4, and start cutting them carefully so that it looks like a fringe.


Step 3:
Glue the fringed paper and the half-cut paper.


Step 4:
With the help of the toothpick, slowly roll them. Toothpick should neither be tight nor loose, it should come out of it easily.


Step 5:
Roll completely and glue it at the end.


Step 6:
Remove the toothpick, and carefully press the cut strip, so that it becomes a beautiful flower.



These are very simple flowers..... so flow your creativity, make your flowers, take a picture, publish it in your blog, and email it to me at illatharasi @ gmail dot com, by next wednesday (July 23rd).

We will display all our flowers here :)

Mine is displayed below:



Next week, we will see a different design....... Keep checking!

19 comments:

EC said...

wow...lovely flowers, will try to contribute

notyet100 said...

WOW,..WILL SURE TRY,..BUT WHERE TO BUY PAPERS FORM? :-(

Jose said...

very pretty, and will be back, :-)

Indian Khana said...

flowers are looking so nice...very cute

Illatharasi said...

Thanks EC, will wait for yours :)

Thanks Priyanka, its available in Popular stores. Otherwise you can use plain color sheets.... cut into strips:)

Thanks Jose, will wait for you:)

Thanks Priti!

Anonymous said...

Hey Ilatharasi,
That ia creative! I am just loving your blog!
-Vedavalli

Illatharasi said...

Thanks Veda, for stopping by and adding my blogs to your blogroll!

Do visit often:)

Cooking Station said...

They look lovely! and purple appeals me very much..Thanks for sharing the flower making steps.

Indranee Batabyal said...

Nice blog you have! Really lovely paper flowers!

Illatharasi said...

Thanks LG and Indranee:)

Purva Desai said...

wow!!! u ve really good creative ideas....as rakhi approaching, i can make hand made rakhi's taking tips from ur blog :)

Vaidehi Bhave said...

paper flowers look so cute...nice creation

Illatharasi said...

Thanks Purva, please do and send me the pictures :) I will also learn from you ;)


Thanks Vaidehi, do visit often!

Lakshmi said...

Finally we made these flowers. You can see it on my blog now at http://hobsmusings.blogspot.com/

Sankri said...

Greetings,
Nice creations.I have
been desperately trying to find a web,blog n etc to learn to tie flower garland (the Indian way), but have been in vain....Would you exploring this???
I have lots of flowers at home and currently, tie them as charam only...Have a great day...

KonkaniBlogger said...

Those flowers look lovely and look easy to make too..Thanx for sharing..

Malini's Signature said...

nice work... super

Unknown said...

hey nice idea i would use this in my diwali card and pls let me know if u have something else which as easy like this caz i m going 2 sell these cards and the contribute 2 orphanage.thanx..........

Angel said...

wow ! ,this is superb.you've done it without a slotted tool.very nice.