Day 5 - Quilling adventure - practice-practice-practice

Today's objectives:

1. Stop fighting the glue monster
2. Do smaller projects for practice
3. Give more explanations => Basically talk-talk-talk

I will start today with the finished project image, yes you read correct projects. I decided after yesterday's messy mayhem to do smaller projects, cleaner projects with templates that I made with hand after getting inspired from Pinterest.

The result looks like this:

Yes! Objective 2 was accomplish but no medal was given:(

and they are small cards that you can add to your gifts. ( I don't know if they have a name but I will call them petite cards :) ) => If you know the real name of them please tell me.

Objective 3 - talk-talk-talk
So if you want to try it at home this part of the post will be helpful so I will add more bla-bla and nice images. (yes-yes I will edit them to be more pretty then the ones added in the first post, and I will do that not because somebody told me (you know who you are) but because it's Friday and I have more time). If you are not interested in nice images and explanation then skip to the good part, the fighting glue part.

I started on a math A4 paper drawing 5 cm squares. And adding one animal or element in each of them ( no more then one so it's not complex).  Started up with 6 squares and at the end of this I had 15.

As you observed, I didn't do all the 15 petite cards. I left the Christmas and Halloween for later, so that left me with 10 and it's a little late today so I choose 3 that I liked, the rest in another day.  Let's start with the explanations and steps for each of them:

• Snail

- quilling paper I used: 30 cm with 0.5 cm width
- for the snail I used 3 colors:  yellow (2 strips), red(1 strip) and black  (1/4 strip)
- made with the yellow and red paper 3 lose coils as in the left image
- used glue and waited for it to dry

 - after the glue dried made 1 teardrop with one of the yellow coils and with the other one a slug coil
- the black strip transformed into a quote scroll

SEE I know the fancy words :D I chose not to use it.




 Start arranging the snail and glue it. While it dries prepare the white paper you will put it on.

Glue it to the paper and tha-da the nice little snail has arrived.

• Lavender

- quilling paper I used: 30 cm with 0.5 cm width for green and the purple is a little less width ( I just saw purple in the store and got it, did not imagine that it doesn't have the same width  like the one I have... that's life)
- green paper (2 strips), purple (2 strip)

I try making 1 leaf with pins and 1 with  the comb. I liked more the comb so I made the other one with the comb as well. Pictures attached:

- the purple paper was transformed into small teardrops. 
- glued everything together. Lovely

• Cat love

- forgot to take more pictures 

- quilling paper I used: 30 cm less then 0.5 width, colors: black, white and read
- make everything to coils, leave a pies of paper for the tail
- red coil => transform in a hearth
- the body is a teardrop
- the feet are teardrops
- the ears are triangle

- glue everything but not your fingers

Side note: Still no medal :(

Stop fighting the glue monster
It started from the beginning, I got school transparent glue in a bigger bottle and it I can use the bottle to put direct glue so I have to use a container and to spread it with a toothpick, yesterday I got glue in a little bottle but the glue is so not nice, it is like hot cheese stretches and makes thin like a spider web ( probably you are confused right now).

So my perfect combination would be the first glue in the second bottle. :))) And yes I know you can buy special containers like

but at the hobby shop I'm going they don't have it :(

Today I used the toothpick because I like it more, but still not perfect and I still have moments when the glue gets out of hand,

Did not get the real medal but Google gave me one when searching for medal.

Have a great weekend!