New Year's crafts / Origami

Do-it-yourself voluminous snowflakes using quilling technique!

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Snowflakes are the easiest way to decorate your home for the New Year. We have already shown you how to cut. Can be done can be done and even

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Today you can learn how to make graceful snowflakes using the quilling technique!

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We will need:

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strips of colored paper 5 mm wide in different shades of blue

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(office or special paper for quilling)

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toothpick or narrow awl

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ruler with holes;

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PVA glue.

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for the first snowflake

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54 strips of dark blue paper

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36 strips of light blue paper

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for the second snowflake

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51 strips of dark blue paper

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39 strips of light blue paper.

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You can buy ready-made quilling kits, or you can cut them yourself from A4 colored paper, as we did. To make the snowflakes more picturesque, we will use stripes of two colors in each element.

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We will fold snowflakes according to the scheme, taking into account that:

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For a free roll and one large thick roll you will need three strips of paper - 2 dark blue and 1 light blue,

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For 1 small roll you will need one strip made up of halves of different colors.

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So, cut the paper and start rolling the rolls.

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Thick rolls will ensure the strength of a snowflake made of paper that seems fragile at first glance. To do this, it is convenient to use a simple toothpick.

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It is convenient to adjust the diameter of the rolls using a special ruler by placing the not yet glued roll in the desired cell - in it it will “unwind” to the desired diameter. Rolls can be made loose (free rolls) or dense. We will need both thick rolls.

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Free roll: We wind the strips (pre-glued end-to-end) onto a toothpick, holding them with our fingers on both sides so that our roll turns out even. Then, after obtaining the desired diameter (using a ruler), carefully glue the edge.

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Tight roll glue it without unraveling.

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For making rhombuses from free rolls, first squeeze them on both sides, as shown in the photo on the left, and then do the same operation, forming the other two corners - this action will give the roll a diamond shape.

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We arm ourselves with glue and begin to glue the elements, starting from the center.

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It is most convenient to do this on any covering like polyethylene, to which our snowflake will not stick. You can, for example, print out the diagram and place it under a transparent file so that the future snowflake turns out to be as symmetrical as possible.

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We are left with the most exciting and creative work - decorating the Christmas tree with snowflakes! Use your imagination a little and your snowflakes will be different from each other, just like their real friends!

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Master Class. DIY paper snowflake

Tolkacheva Galina Aleksandrovna, teacher of MBDOU combined type kindergarten No. 28 “Mishutka”, Art. Voronezhskaya, Ust-Labinsky district.
This master class is designed for preschool teachers, teachers and parents.
Purpose: Christmas tree decoration, gift, interior decoration.
Target: make a snowflake out of paper using the quilling technique.
Tasks: Introduce quilling, its basic forms, teach how to make basic quilling elements from paper and create a snowflake-shaped composition from them;
Develop attention, memory, imagination, creativity, fine motor skills and eye;
Cultivate accuracy, hard work, and patience.
Material for work: for work you will need white office paper, cut into strips 5 mm wide and 30 cm long, scissors, PVA glue, ruler, stencil with circle shapes, toothpick, stationery knife, wooden board, template printed and laminated with tape with rays, needles for basting , thread for Christmas tree decorations.

Quilling is the art of twisting long and narrow strips of paper into spirals, modifying their shape and creating three-dimensional and flat compositions from the resulting parts. The quilling technique is used to make postcards, panels and three-dimensional figures, such as snowflakes.
Sequence of work:
To begin, prepare a tool for rolling paper strips: take a toothpick, cut off the sharp tip with a stationery knife and make a crevice 5 - 6 mm deep.

To make this snowflake you need to make the following
basic elements made of paper using quilling technique:
1. Drop

Take a strip of paper, insert the tip into the crevice of the toothpick and twist it evenly, helping with your fingertips.

Place the resulting spiral in the circle of the ruler (I have a diameter of 1.5 cm) so that the elements being made are the same size and let it unwind.

Take a toothpick and, moving the center of the spiral to the edge of the template circle, carefully remove it.

Squeeze one end of it with your thumb and forefinger so that the spiral takes the shape of a drop. Glue the tip with a drop of glue.

We will need 12 such fragments.

Take 6 teardrop shaped pieces for the center of the snowflake. Place them on the template with a narrow edge facing each other along the 6 rays of the snowflake.

Where the elements touch, glue them together with PVA glue. To keep the elements stationary, first secure them to the template with pins, and do not forget to place the template on a wooden board.

2. Eye.

Make the next element. Take a strip of paper, insert the tip into the crevice of the toothpick and twist the strip until the end. Place the spiral in the circle of the ruler and let it unwind along the diameter of the circle.
Carefully remove it so that the spiral does not unwind and press the spiral at both ends with the index and thumb of both hands, making sure that the center does not move.

You need to make 6 such fragments.

Place them between the elements of the drop, secure with pins and, in places where the parts touch, apply PVA glue.

3. Heart.

To make this element, you will need half a strip, so take the strip, fold it in half and cut it with scissors at the fold.

Fold the half in half. Twist part of the ribbon toward the center of the fold on one side, and then do the same on the other side. Roll towards each other.

You need to make 6 such parts.

Place the hearts with the open twisted ends between the eye pieces. Glue in places where the paper touches each other.

4. Curl.

Take a strip of paper and lightly mark the middle of the strip without making a fold. Twist the ends towards the middle, but in different directions. Straighten the curl a little.
Make 12 of these elements.

Glue the curls in pairs at the points of contact, placing some ends directed towards each other, others away from each other.

Place the resulting elements on the snowflake between the hearts, secure with pins, and glue.

Finally, decorate the snowflake with the remaining 6 drop-shaped elements, gluing them to the ends of the curl.

Take the thread and make a loop. The snowflake is ready.

They fly straight to us from the sky
Light fluff.
Silver and shine
White snowflakes. (A. Grishin)
Ideas for creativity:

A ruler with round holes is needed to ensure that our spirals are the same diameter. You can buy a regular ruler with holes at a stationery store. Although for our snowflake this ruler is not needed. It is worth noting that you can twist the strips with different tools. You can use an awl, a special rod with slots, or a toothpick.

Now let’s make an openwork and airy one with our own hands.

snowflake using quilling technique.

So, for the snowflake we need:

• Strips of paper:
  1 – 15 cm for the central circle
  8 – 8.5 cm for sleeve
  4 – 15 cm for scrolls
  4 – 7.5 cm for droplets
  4 – 5 cm for diamonds
  The standard strip width is 3mm. The paper should be quite thick (paper weight should be at least 60 grams per square meter) so that it folds neatly and holds its shape. If you have a shredder, you can make strips directly on it.
• Any quick-drying glue, preferably not very liquid
• Special tool for quilling. The most common alternatives are a gypsy needle or a regular wooden toothpick.

0 We start from the central circle (15 cm strip). The paper needs to be rolled very tightly so that it can hold the correct shape itself. After this, we drip glue onto the tip of the strip and glue it to the circle.

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0 For the droplets we use strips 7.5 cm long. The technique is almost the same as in the previous step, only at the end, before gluing the edge, we leave a little more free space and give the circle a droplet shape.

0 We make diamonds from strips 5 cm long. We twist small circles, glue the edge and then make a diamond out of it.

0 Let's move on to the scrolls. We bend strips 15 cm long in half and roll them into spirals towards the center, you should get some kind of hearts.

0 The last piece is the sleeves. For them we use strips of 8 cm. On one side we make 2 turns, on the other we weld about 2.5 centimeters. When all the sleeves are ready, glue them together with their “backs”.

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After all the preparations we should have:
• 1 lap
• 4 drops
• 4 diamonds
• 4 scrolls
• 4 sleeves

0 Now that all the parts are ready, step by step we glue our snowflake together. Once the snowflake is ready, you can cover it with glitter or silver spray.

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You can leave the snowflakes white. Or you can cover them with a spray can or sprinkle them with glitter.
You can hang a snowflake using a beautiful ribbon or colorless fishing line.

Snowflakes can be made from white paper and spray painted with the desired color. You can also make snowflakes from colored paper.

Colored snowflakes (quilling)

More photos of beautiful snowflakes in this wonderful technique from Stephanie Sanchez:

Please note that some snowflakes are made of two colors, but all the colors are very soft, which gives the snowflakes a lace appearance.

Airy snowflakes and paper decorations

What technique can better convey the airiness and lightness, the openwork lace pattern of snowflakes, than the quilling technique? Making snowflakes from paper, or rather from twisted strips, resembles a mosaic or a kaleidoscope with a huge number of options. The prepared parts can be glued to the base, making cards or panels, or they can be glued together to hang amazing lace decorations on the Christmas tree. To perform these works, you will need white office paper. It needs to be cut into strips 5 mm thick along the short side. It is better to cut several sheets at once using a stationery knife along a ruler. For small quantities, you can cut it with scissors. You can twist the strips using different tools. You can use an awl, a special rod with slots, or a toothpick. But it was for making snowflakes that we most liked working with a wooden skewer. To make a snowflake (pendant or applique) you need to prepare various shapes from twisted strips. The forms can be closed, that is, glued together, or open, where no glue is used. Both are suitable for applications. And for a snowflake pendant, you can only use closed molds.

The quilling technique appeared quite a long time ago, about 500 years ago. For the first time it began to appear in European countries. This technique involves twisting strips of paper and then gluing them together. These twisted stripes are then used to create various patterns and crafts. Collapsed stripes form both closed and open figures. Simple figures are used to form patterns that can be either simple or entire works of art. The patterns in this technique are very airy and lacy. Therefore, today we will look at how to make a step-by-step original quilling snowflake. We will make an openwork snowflake that can be hung on the New Year tree or near the desktop so that it reminds us that the holidays have arrived and we need to devote more time to our family and relaxation.

Learning the basics of quilling technique: snowflake step by step for beginners

To make it we will need:

• Toothpick;
• Tweezers;
• Scissors;
• Glue;
• Paper.

Let's start making a large snowflake using the quilling technique.

We take a landscape sheet and draw stripes on it using a pencil and ruler. Be sure to make sure that the lines are straight. Then we cut the sheet along the drawn lines. A stationery knife can help us with this.

We take a toothpick and apply it to the edge of the strip, and then we wind the strip onto the toothpick, turn by turn.

We secure the end of the strip and carefully remove the resulting roll from the toothpick.

If you don’t quite understand the description of this process, don’t worry, below you will see a photo that shows step by step the process of creating basic elements.

We make another such blank, only now we squeeze one edge with our fingers. As a result of this action, we get an element that looks like a droplet. For our composition, we repeat the above manipulations five more times.

Then we glue the resulting 6 drops to the first figure.

We take the toothpick again and wind up more rolls and now squeeze them on both sides so that the result is a figurine in the shape of an eye.

Between the petal rays we glue the parts we just made.

Now we take 3 strips, bend them in half and cut them, we get 6 short strips.

We crowd them in the manner described above.

On each tip of the part we glue a figure in the shape of an eye.

We make 6 more coils and bend them with our fingers until we get a square shape.

Glue them at the top to the large coil.

Now we wrap a strip of paper around a pencil, glue the end of the paper and remove it from the pencil. This part will serve as a loop for hanging it on Christmas trees, or whatever your heart desires.

Glue it to one of the tops of our snowflake. We stretch a ribbon or thread through the resulting ring.

As in any type of activity in quilling, of course, there are certain clichés or, in other words, basic elements. Let's look at what they look like. There are various forms of coils. Let's look at the most popular ones.

1. An open coil is when the end of the strip is not attached to the main part of the strip.
2. Closed coil - the end of the strip is secured to form a closed loop.
3. Tight coil - the strip is stretched very tightly throughout the entire twisting and is tightly secured; such a coil looks like a knot on an openwork background.
4. Large coil - when creating, we use a regular pencil or any other thick core or frame for winding.
5. Drop - press one end with your fingers.
6. Eye - press both ends.
7. Petal - squeeze with your fingers and bend on one side.
8. Sheet - squeeze on both sides and make waves.
9. Curls - fold the strip in half and twist the ends in different directions.

You can see various options for snowflake patterns in the photo below:

Quilling is the art of creating openwork patterns from paper. Translated from English, quill means “bird feather.” The brainchild of your creativity can be beautiful airy lace patterns that are completely transparent. You can create amazing compositions, full of all the colors of the rainbow, evoking the mood you need. Paintings made in this technique will fit into any interior: from gothic to high-tech, the flexibility of this art allows you to combine rigor and grace, colorful or dark colors, from flowers to portraits, it depends only on the desires and scale of the work: all this is possible talk about quilling. You can not only have fun, but also benefit both your interior and your wallet, because high-quality work has a high price.

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The quilling technique appeared quite a long time ago, about 500 years ago. For the first time it began to appear in European countries. This technique involves twisting strips of paper and then gluing them together. These twisted stripes are then used to create various patterns and crafts. Collapsed stripes form both closed and open figures. Simple figures are used to form patterns that can be either simple or entire works of art. The patterns in this technique are very airy and lacy. Therefore, today we will look at how to make a step-by-step original quilling snowflake. We will make an openwork snowflake that can be hung on the New Year tree or near the desktop so that it reminds us that the holidays have arrived and we need to devote more time to our family and relaxation.

Learning the basics of quilling technique: snowflake step by step for beginners

To make it we will need:

• Toothpick;
• Tweezers;
• Scissors;
• Glue;
• Paper.

Let's start making a large snowflake using the quilling technique.

We take a landscape sheet and draw stripes on it using a pencil and ruler. Be sure to make sure that the lines are straight. Then we cut the sheet along the drawn lines. A stationery knife can help us with this.

We take a toothpick and apply it to the edge of the strip, and then we wind the strip onto the toothpick, turn by turn.

We secure the end of the strip and carefully remove the resulting roll from the toothpick.

If you don’t quite understand the description of this process, don’t worry, below you will see a photo that shows step by step the process of creating basic elements.

We make another such blank, only now we squeeze one edge with our fingers. As a result of this action, we get an element that looks like a droplet. For our composition, we repeat the above manipulations five more times.

Then we glue the resulting 6 drops to the first figure.

We take the toothpick again and wind up more rolls and now squeeze them on both sides so that the result is a figurine in the shape of an eye.

Between the petal rays we glue the parts we just made.

Now we take 3 strips, bend them in half and cut them, we get 6 short strips.

We crowd them in the manner described above.

On each tip of the part we glue a figure in the shape of an eye.

We make 6 more coils and bend them with our fingers until we get a square shape.

Glue them at the top to the large coil.

Now we wrap a strip of paper around a pencil, glue the end of the paper and remove it from the pencil. This part will serve as a loop for hanging it on Christmas trees, or whatever your heart desires.

Glue it to one of the tops of our snowflake. We stretch a ribbon or thread through the resulting ring.

As in any type of activity in quilling, of course, there are certain clichés or, in other words, basic elements. Let's look at what they look like. There are various forms of coils. Let's look at the most popular ones.

1. An open coil is when the end of the strip is not attached to the main part of the strip.
2. Closed coil - the end of the strip is secured to form a closed loop.
3. Tight coil - the strip is stretched very tightly throughout the entire twisting and is tightly secured; such a coil looks like a knot on an openwork background.
4. Large coil - when creating, we use a regular pencil or any other thick core or frame for winding.
5. Drop - press one end with your fingers.
6. Eye - press both ends.
7. Petal - squeeze with your fingers and bend on one side.
8. Sheet - squeeze on both sides and make waves.
9. Curls - fold the strip in half and twist the ends in different directions.

You can see various options for snowflake patterns in the photo below:

Quilling is the art of creating openwork patterns from paper. Translated from English, quill means “bird feather.” The brainchild of your creativity can be beautiful airy lace patterns that are completely transparent. You can create amazing compositions, full of all the colors of the rainbow, evoking the mood you need. Paintings made in this technique will fit into any interior: from gothic to high-tech, the flexibility of this art allows you to combine rigor and grace, colorful or dark colors, from flowers to portraits, it depends only on the desires and scale of the work: all this is possible talk about quilling. You can not only have fun, but also benefit both your interior and your wallet, because high-quality work has a high price.

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