Snowflakes - v2

Monday, 3rd November 2008


Spent the whole afternoon to making these two snowflakes;


Which is your favourite? Feel free to leave a comment about my work (pretty? or pretty ugly? how can I improve? Any other snowflake designs that you’d like me to make?) together with your pick of favourite snowflake(s) and I’ll be more than happy to make one for you send you a picture of it! =D

Snowflakes

11.48pm, Sunday, 2nd November 2008


Took me almost 2 hours to make this snowflake from scratch - cutting strips of papers, quilling, gluing, and finally assembling the papers. Like, wtf right? 2 hours for a snowflake. But whatever la. It's not called a hobby if it doesn't suck your time or energy. (or in this case, both your time AND energy)

The snowflake has a diameter of 10.5cm. Kinda huge, right? I didn't expect it to get so big either.

It's not perfect (unsymmetrical curls, uneven quills, etc) but since it's been months since I last did paper quilling, I’m pretty happy with the outcome. =)

I'm planning to make more snowflakes with different designs. After all, Christmas is coming soon! (Not that I celebrate Christmas =.=) So expect more posts on paper quilling!

Paper quilling

I have always been interested in arts and craft, though i'm pretty much a talent-less freak in that department - I can't draw, i can't paint. Heck, i can't even draw a circle properly!

It wasn't until recently (and by recently, i meant a few months back =P) that i found out about the beautiful and colourful world of paper crafts! Most would know about origami, or maybe even scrap booking. But have anyone heard about paper quilling?

If you're too lazy to Google it up, let me explain to you. It's a very simple form or paper art, where you take thin stripes of coloured paper, roll it up, make it into shapes that you desire, and stick it according to your design! It's as easy as that!

Don't get what i mean? Let the picturs do the talking then! See, i'm so kind to explain and illustrate for you non-existential readers to see. =P (yeah lar, i just wanted to show off my work of art.)

My first quilled flower! =)
Idea was not originally mine. Stole some of the design somewhere :P

See the details? Purty...

Done during the sem break, given to a friend as a birthday card.

Of course, there are many, many other quilling designs other than these. If you'd prefer to look at some other work of art that is not amateurish-ly done by yours faithfully, do check out Inna's Creation! She's a darling in crafts, and that includes paper quilling!

Enough of paper quilling for now. After all, paper quilling part 2 will definitely be coming soon. I'll talk more about it then, together with my wonderful work of art! Hehehe...