Quilling for Beginners: Tools, Shapes and Video Tutorials

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Explore quilling for beginners with tools, basic shapes, and video tutorials to help you start making paper designs. This project can help you give a card, small gift, or decorative piece a personal paper-art finish. It is a starting point for paper crafters who enjoy arranging small shapes and exploring color combinations. Compare the shapes and spacing before choosing a design, and start with one detail you would like to practice.

You can also explore quilling leaf designs and handmade quilling card designs when choosing complementary colors, materials, or display ideas for your next project.

Quilling For Beginners

This post for all those who want to learn quilling from basics. You can find quilling tutorials for beginners from the basics to learn this art.

Quilling is the art to roll paper strips and turn them into a beautiful and decorative design. In this quilling technique paper strips are rolled, looped, curled, twisted to create shapes that make the design decorate greeting cards, jewelry, pictures, boxes, miniature 3D models, and more.

Quilling Tutorials for Beginners

In these tutorials, we will teach to make basics quilling shapes and quilling leaves using quilling tools. If you are a beginner, then these tutorials are best for you to learn quilling shapes from basics.

Quilling Tools

First of all, you need to know about quilling tools. We use quilling tools to work with paper strips. These tools help us to do this art very easily.

We make the roll, loops, curl, and twist stips to create shapes that make the design. And then decorate greeting cards, jewelry, pictures, boxes, miniature 3D models, and more.

  1. Quilling Needle used for making rolls of paper strips very easily.
  2. Quilling Coach is helpful to hold paper strips while making quilling rolls.
  3. Quilling Mold used to mold tight quilling rolls into attractive 3D shapes.
  4. Crimper used to make zig-zag strips by passing through its gears.
  5. Quilling Sizing Board is used to make fixed-size loose quilling rolls.
  6. Quilling Comb used for making quilling shapes by different techniques. You can also use any ordinary comb for the same purpose.

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50 Basic Quilling Shapes

These are the basic shapes you can learn very easily. If you can make these shapes, then you can make so many beautiful designs. You can make jewelry, handmade cards, paintings, and miniatures.

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A labeled chart displaying colorful basic paper quilling shapes in a grid.

Part – 1: How to make these 50 shapes – Complete Tutorial

Quilling Leaves Shapes

These are very beautiful leaves shapes you can learn. We have used simple techniques to make these leaves. Watch our videos and learn beautiful leaf designs.

Part – 2: 14 Quilling Leaves Design Tutorial

Part – 3: 5 Quilling Leaves Design Tutorial

Part – 4: 7 Quilling Leaves Design Tutorial

We will add more tutorials in this post so you can keep visiting this post from time to time. If you like these tutorials then share them with your friends and your WhatsApp groups.

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Complete Turorials for Beginners