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SECTION 7 -LEAVES
There are various ways of making leaves to
add to your floral projects...
- The simplest way of making leaves for your
quilling projects is to use paper punches as there are many good leaf shapes
including fern, oak and maple that come in a variety of sizes. These are
available from good papercraft/scrapbooking stockists and even newagents/stationers
worldwide.
- You can also cut them out of paperstrips in
wider widths to match your quilling strips. Try to emulate the actual shape of
the leaf in nature that you are attaching to a particular flower.
Obviously there are many flowers in quilling, eg. fringed, that are just
artistic impressions and have no equal in nature so just choose whatever you
like!
- With either above option, make sure your
emboss the leaves a little to make them more realistic and draw or etch ( with
PCA SCRIBER) the veins onto the leaves too.
- Parchment vellum is an excellent leaf
medium, colour your desired green ( or use green vellum!) and blend well using
oil pastels on the reverse and a small piece of tissue and oil to blend.
Then cut or punch out your shapes and you can go ahead and use our embossing
tools such as the PCA SCRIBER, PCA SHADERS and Ball Embossers to give the
leaves real definition.
Fringed Leaves: made by using a wider
strip of quilling paper and folding it in half and then using scissors ( or a
special 45 deg cutting fringing machine- more about that in fringed flower
section) snip through both layers from the outer edge toward the centre at a
45 degree angle ( which will be the vein) stopping about 1 mm or so from the
crease. Repeat the snip as close as you can over and over until you have a
leaf length section. You might like to do an entire strip and make several
leaves at the same time after fringing.
Then open out your fringed strip and use
scissors to cut into a leaf like pointed shape with some width at it's waist as
I have done below. Glue onto projects where desired.
Now go on to
SECTION 8 - FRINGED FLOWERS
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