I'd like to think that I have inherited some of her craftiness. I've painted light bulbs to look like little Supermen to use as Christmas ornaments. I've wrapped picture frames in maps to help decorate my upcoming wedding. And even the crafts that I don't know how to do are at least familiar to me (some of them I might learn this month!)
But today, I asked Heather Livengood to help teach me a craft that I had never heard of...
Heather is really good at it, and it's obvious that it's something that she's been practicing at for a little while...
To start you take a strip of paper and use a rolling tool. Quilling kits come with pre-cut strips and tools, but I am pretty certain that you can rig something up at home without them.
Each design has different things that you need to do with the paper. For most (at least the designs that I saw), the basic thing to do is to roll the paper in a loose circle. You glue the end back on to itself so it stays intact.
After a little folding and gluing, I was able to create this little guy...
And after some more gluing and folding, I came up with the finished product...
My gift tag with the little balloons (and those ARE balloons, not fish) is clearly a first attempt. But apparently, if you get good at it, you can create something incredible. Heather introduced me to the work of Yulia Brodskay. She is a quilling artist that has produced masterpieces like this:
And this...
And this...
Those are all just strips of paper. Pretty amazing what something so small can amount to in the end.
Other things I learned/looked up today:
1) The black end of a violin bow is called a "frog" (thanks a lot, Dad!)
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