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Quilling: Something Old. Something New. Something Rolled with a Dab of Glue Create beautiful designs by rolling and shaping colorful paper strips. Great for embellishing greeting cards, scrapbook pages, tree ornaments, gift bags and boxes and home accents too! Just roll and pinch! Easy, step-by-step instructions and photos show you how. Using just a dozen different shapes, you can create countless pictures and patterns and add a modern dimension to this sixteenth-century craft. Bonus techniques include husking, fringing, spiraling and folding!

Author Biography

Suzanne McNeill is often known as a Trendsetter for arts and cratts. Dedicated to hands-on creativity, she constantly tests, experiments and invents something new and exciting. Suzanne is the woman behind Design Originals, a publishing cmpany dedicated to all things fun and creative. She is a designer, artist, columnist, TV personality, publisher, art instructor, author and lover of everything hands-on. She was the 2011 winner of the Craft and Hobby Association's Industry Achievment Award .
Contributor Laua Gregory is a native Texan with an education degree from Abilene Christian. She has been in the craft industry for many years as the owner of the Scrapbook Page in Fort Worth.
Contriburtor Jane Cleveland, originally from England, is a registered nurse who enjoys numerous papercrafts.
Contributor Katrina Hogan is a sales representative and a scrapbook instructor.
Congtributor Ruth Ann Warwick enjoys traveling and scrapbooking.

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Paper quilling, also known as paper filigree, is the ancient art of rolling and shaping colorful strips of paper to create beautiful designs. Quilling is thought to have originated in Europe between the 13th and 15th centuries. Nuns were known to cut narrow strips of paper from the edges of book pages and roll them on bird feather quills into ornate designs. This traditional craft is the perfect paper embellishment for scrapbook pages, greeting cards, tree ornaments, gift tags and boxes, home accents, and more. Quilling shows you how to use wonderful designs in an infinite variety of combinations. Add quilling leaves to flowers, loosely scrolled waves to a torn paper ocean, or dimensional accents to die-cut shapes.Just roll and pinch! Step-by-step instructions and photos make it easy to do. Using just a dozen different shapes, you can create countless pictures and patterns and add a modern dimension to this sixteenth-century craft. Bonus techniques include husking, fringing, spiraling and folding.

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Create beautiful designs by rolling and shaping colorful paper strips. Quilling is great for embellishing scrapbook pages, greeting cards, tree ornaments, gift tags and boxes, home accents, and more. Roll strips of colorful paper into amazing works of art with quilling. The art of quilling, also called paper filigree, is believed to have originated in Europe as early as the 13th century. Nuns would take scraps of paper and create rolled designs that they used to decorate religious artifacts. The name itself comes from the original quilling tool. A bird feather quill was easy to find and the perfect size to wrap small bits of paper around. The simplicity and accessibility of this technique aided in its popularity, and it spread to other continents where it is still a practiced and popular form of papercraft today. One of the best parts of experimenting with quilling is that it can be used in so many ways. You can create handmade cards and announcements, add texture and fascinating detail to scrapbook pages, and even embellish found objects to create home d

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