Monday 20 June 2011

Paper Quilled Sun

I thought I would have another go at paper quilling, this time a sun for the summer solstice. We have already made tea light lanterns for the garden, so this will hang in the window and hopefully catch the sun.


First, I shredded a sheet of yellow card as you can see above, the quilling tool was made by my husband and If you would like to make one yourself I will put a link at the end of this post.


I made lots of different sized circles very simply by rolling the strips of card around the quilling tool, loosening slightly and sticking the end down at the required size. Some circles are made with the full length A4 strip and some with half a strip. They were then fixed with a spot of glue into a circle of card to give the body of the sun.


Then I made these shapes to go around the outside, I made the circle in the same way, loosened to the desired size and pinched one side of the circle. This gives you this tear drop or flame shape. Do enough of these to totally go around your sun.


Stick them at random orientations around the outside like the photograph above to finish the sun shape. After this I sprayed just a touch of gold paint on to the sun, not enough to cover the yellow but just enough to give a gold glow in the sun.


 A piece of gold thread was added to the top so that it could be hung in the window and I wanted to add a bell or some glass beads to the bottom but I couldn't find any so sequins have been added to catch the sun.


Here it is in the window, not a very sunny day but hopefully this will look lovely with the sun shining on it.

The link to the post for making your own quilling tool is here.


17 comments:

  1. Ooh it's beautiful! I always love to see your quilling projects :o)

    Hannah@HomeBaked (it wont let me comment with my profile)

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  2. thank-you for reading and your kind words :)

    A few people have mentioned problems with comments, I'll have to look into it.

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  3. I really like this, I hope to summon the patience one day to make something so lovely. I'd be so proud of myself!

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  4. thank-you for visiting and your lovely comment, it really isn't that difficult, well worth a try :)

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  5. How pretty! I seem to remember once having a quilling craft kit when I was young - probably in my Christmas stocking. I've seen some lovely greetings cards made this way too.

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  6. thank-you for visiting, I made snowflakes at Christmas for the tree and also put some on Christmas cards too :)

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  7. Wow, that's stunning. I bought some quilling paper but have always been too scared to try it. Perhaps I should give it a go :)

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  8. thank-you for visiting, definitely recommend giving it a go it is quite relaxing :)

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  9. Oh how gorgeous! I tried my hand at quilling once, It's not as easy as it looks is it?

    Very well done indeed. It looks amazing on the window.

    Thank you for linking up!

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  10. thank-you for reading and your lovely comments:)

    I haven't found it that hard but I have just been very random with the measurements as this is how I like it. I can imagine it would be much harder if you were very precise with getting everything measured out identically :)

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  11. I've never tried this before. The effect is really beautiful. x

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  12. thank-you, first time I tried it was at Christmas, me and my daughter made snowflake tree decorations... and quickly became hooked :)

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  13. Very beautiful! I've never seen that technique before x

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  14. thank-you for visiting and your lovely comment :)

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  15. Beautiful, I've never seen this being done either!

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  16. thank-you for visiting, I hadn't seen it until last Christmas either but found it on a craft search for snowflakes and gave it a try :)

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