Quilling is a technque I just learned about that is a way to take ordinary paper and turn it into decretive, 3 diminsional works of art. Why this is of interest is the fact that these pieces of art can be placed on your scrapbook pages for embelishment. You create your own embellishments which makes your scrapbook page ideas completely custom and unique. It makes your scrapbook your own personal book. Rather than others that use prefabricated scrapbooks, your's will be completely unique.
Here is how it is basically done: First, you take strips of paper and you form them by rolling, shaping and then glueing them together. A quill is used to create a basic quilled shape. What this quilled shape means is that it is paper wound in a continuous series of loops around an instrument. Thus, the name quilling. This wrapped, spun paper is then glued to the tip of the coiled shape and arranged as flowers and leaves and other ornamental designs.
These designs are then flattened and attached to your scrapbook page. This is great for children's scrapbook page ideas. You can make interesting animal shapes and designs such as a lion or deriaff or other animals and paste them onto the pages. This is a great scrapbook page idea for a day at the zoo or some other day trip to remember.
This is great for kids for other reasons as well. One good purpose is these scrapbook page ideas can be used for those rainy days when young ones are confined to the house. Just bring out that zoo day scrapbook pages and declare the day to be an "add to scrapbook day" and make it a project day. So all the enjoyment of the zoo day or days comes back and the enjoyment is back.
There are many ways to perform quilling and many designs, so more to come on this technique. Quilling for your scrpabook page embellishments.
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