Unusual Valentine

Handicraft techniques / Quilling / Quilling cards 6 876 0

It's always nice to receive a token of attention, a souvenir, a small present. It is especially nice when this gift is a symbol of your love. An original valentine card can be such a sign of attention. With just a little patience and accuracy, you can create beautiful and memorable images from plain paper. crafts. In our valentine we will combine two techniques for working with paper: trimming and quilling.
We will need:

crepe paper,
quilling paper,
two-color paper,
cardboard,
pencil,
glue,
scissors,
special device for quilling.

Crepe paper, quilling paper, and forked sticks are available at your office supply store. If desired, you can replace the crepe paper with simple multi-colored napkins, cut thin strips from two-color paper, and use an awl, toothpick or knitting needle instead of a quilling device.
We cut out the base of our valentine - a heart - from cardboard and draw a second, smaller one on it.

Cut strips of crepe paper 1 cm wide.

We cut the strips into squares measuring approximately 1x1 cm. From two-color paper we cut out three strips approximately 1 cm wide.Choose green paper for quilling.

Wrap a square of paper tightly around the blunt end of a pencil and coat the end with glue.

Press the glue-coated leaves tightly onto the workpiece.

Glue both hearts around the perimeter.

We wind the quilling strips onto a jig or knitting needle.

Carefully remove the workpiece, slightly unravel it, glue the tip and squeeze it on one or both sides.

Fill the big heart with pieces of crepe paper.

We randomly fill the shape of a small heart with green blanks - these are the leaves of our bouquet.

Now the most difficult part - making roses from strips of two-color paper. Bend the tip of the strip inward.

We wrap the strip around the stick two or three times.

Remove the workpiece and bend the strip outward.

We continue to fold the strip until the end of the lapel.

Again, turn the strip outward and roll the tube further. At this stage, you do not need to squeeze the workpiece too much.

Secure the tip of the formed rose with glue and drip a drop of glue into the center to hold the petals together.

We make three such roses. To complete the composition, you can form rose buds from quilling paper of a suitable color. We are finally forming our Valentine card.