This project concentrates on fairly tightly Folded Roses as discussed in the folded rose section and I have done their leaves by fringing metallic green paper.  The lattice is a very simple paper weaving technique. 

Requirements: in addition to PCA Quilling tool ( slotted) PVA adhesive, toothpicks, scissors, pastels, aperture base card in pale pink pearl finish.

• Paper strips: 30cm long strips of metallic paper ( colour on both sides) in desired rose colour(s) at a width of 6mm, 9mm 1.5 cm to vary the size of the finished roses.
• Metallic  dark green paper cut ( with personal trimmer) to a width of 1.5cm  2 lengths of approx 30cm are sufficient.
• 3 24 inch long strips of 6mm wide paper in brown for the paperwoven lattice.

Method and Construction:

Paper weaving- measure the size of the aperture in your base card for width and length and cut the brown paper strips into enough pieces to cover that with the addition of a 1 cm overhang in each direction to adhere ends of strips to card.

• Lay one strip across the shorter side ( ie card face up and paperstrip will be vertical nb this is a horizonal card) adhere one end, on the INSIDE of the card, across the aperture.   Measure 1 width spacing and adhere another strip in the same manner... repeat until you have what looks like a widely spaced fringe across the BACK of the open card aperture.  Check by closing the card that it will look like the lattice when closed ( the vertical strips of it at this stage)
• Open out to the inside again and along the 90 deg vertical side of the aperture, adhere your first LONG sideways paper strip, weave this strip OVER and then UNDER, over and under the vertical strips. Then repeat with next strip making sure that you leave the same size space between each strip as you did when adhering the vertical strips.
• Before adhering all the loose ends down, close card and adjust any alignment or spacing of strips, then glue down those ends and also glue the inside flap of the card closed too so that you now have a card that looks like a 2 fold card, not like the original trifold that it started as.
• Using chalky soft pastel stick, colour the strips vertically for the vertical strips, horizontally for the horizontal strips in a woodgrain like pattern.  This is just to break up the plain brown paper strips and make it look more like outdoor wooden lattice work.

Roses:   You can vary the length of the strip AND the width to give yourself a slight variation in the size of the finished roses, otherwise they will all be the same.

Please go to our FOLDED ROSES LESSON to learn how to make folded roses ... basic instructions follow however.

Using your PCA Slotted Quilling tool, slip your rose coloured strip into the slot along the side of the tool and wind around just a few times to create the centre of the rose.  Then fold down the free edge of paper ( on left of tool if you are holding tool in right hand) in a 45deg angle DOWNWARDS ...roll the folded section around the tool until the free edge of the strip reappears at a 90 deg angle to the tool handle again.

Fold down the free end of the strip again as before and wind onto tool until the paper is again at a 90 deg angle to the handle . As you do this, try  to keep your right thumb held onto what will be the BOTTOM of the rose being created to allow it to be smaller there and flare  out at the top, as you would expect the petal edges to do.

Continue folding and winding until your rose looks to be the desired size.   Let go of the rose, slip it off the tool and allow it to relax a moment.  As this happens it will unfurl a little and you can then control HOW big and OPEN the rose looks.  If you then glue the end to the underside of the rose you will stop it "opening" any further.   So if you want the rose to look more OPEN... let it relax more before gluing the end down... if you want it to look more tightly closed, nip it in the bud ( so to speak!) by gluing the end down before it starts to unfurl too much.

Make 9 roses in slightly varying size ( or as many as you like!) and then arrange them as you desire onto the lattice work on your card and adhere the bottom of each rose to the lattice. You will need to push down the rose centre ( the part that is in the middle made by your initial few turns of the tool handle before folding) and hold in place for a minute or so until the glue takes over and holds securely.   If you don't do this, the centre is apt to pop back out of the rose and may come undone.

Leaves: If you like, check the LEAVES section of PCA QUILLING WORLD to go through the leaf lesson.

These 26 leaves are made with 1.5cm strips of metallic dark green paper ( double sided also), folded in half and then snipped along at a 45deg angle, to about 1mm from the centre fold, through BOTH layers, to make the fringing that will shape the leaf.

Make your snips as close as possible and repeat all the way to the end of each strip and the unfold the strip and cut out your leaf shapes with scissors.  I then went along both edges of the leaves and made small snips to ensure that the edge of the rose leaf was JAGGED ( like a rose leaf is ) rather than smooth along the edges.

When you cut out your leaf shapes from the fringed strips, make variations in their size and shape also, rather than monotonously all the same.

Then adhere this under the rose petals directly onto the lattice beneath and twist the odd one to give it a little shape from above.

Voila!

Now go onto Section 11 - Huskings or onto the Card Gallery to see work that I have recently quilled.

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