Quilling Wall Hangings

How about decorating your house walls with a paper quilling wall hangings ? Yes it can be done. Wall hangings can be a nature scenery or an art work . A nature scenery is a good choice to start, which would include mountains, rivers, valleys, trees, huts etc. doing all of these using paper quilling will be very interesting, this is exactly what I will be describing in my article below.  You can use your own imagination and ideas to make your landscape look more beautiful. In this typical landscape I have made use of trees, rivers, mountains, birds ,a hut , some fishes using quilling.

To make this quilling landscape I have used :

• Kg cardboard ( white color )
• Crimping tool
• Quilling strips ( 10 mm and 5 mm ) of different colours
• Quilling needle
• Fevicol for sticking

Crimping tool

Cut a white color kg cardboard of size 30/35 cm. (you can select your own size)

Now let us look at how to make the  other landscape elements :

Tall coconut  trees :

                     Make a tight coil using 10 mm brown color quilling strip by attaching three strips. Push your finger / needle into the tight coil to make a long cone. This will give the shape of a tree and bend it slightly like shown below in the pictures else it would look a inverted ice cream cone :) . 

Tight Coil

Tree shape

Coconut tree leaves :

          Take a 5 mm green color ( light / dark)  quilling strip. Make a half moon shape and stick it. Make four to five of such types and stick in the pattern shown in the picture. To see how to make half moon please refer to my earlier posts.

Coconut 

Tree with leaves

Half moon shape

 Make the coconuts by simply making small tight coils.

Flowing river:

   Take a 5 mm blue color strip. Crimp it using crimping tool. ( refer to picture ) .

Crimped quilling strip

 At the bottom of the sheet, stick the whole strip in such a pattern, so as to look like waves . For the upper flow of water, cut the strip into required size and stick in this pattern ( refer to picture ) Take care as to stick the strip on the length side so as to get embossed look and not flat as shown in the picture, this will need some time and practice. 

River

Cute fishes :

              Take 3 mm quilling strips of different colours. Make a tear drop , a marquise shape and a petal shape and stick them together , use petal shape for tails , marquise for body and tear drop for fins to make the form of a fish as shown in the picture. Draw the eyes of the fish with a black sketch pen.

Complete quilling fish

Parts of fish ( Click for enlarged picture )

Hills :

           Take a 5 mm brown color strip. Crimp it using crimping tool. Stick the crimped strip in a zig zag pattern to give it a look of the mountain.

Hill Range

Sailing boat :

         Take 3 strips of 5 mm size , join them and make a half moon shape. 

Next join three 5 mm quilling strips of different colors and make a tight coil. Leave it loose, pinch at three points to make a triangle shape. Join these two shapes and your (yatch) boat is ready.

Parts of boat

Complete quilling boat

Birds :

          Make two half moon shapes using a 5 mm quilling strip. You can use a black or grey colour  for the bird.. Stick the two half moon shapes in the pattern shown below. Your birds are  ready to fly fly fly.

Flying Birds

Hut :

          Join three quilling strips ( 5 mm ) of red color and make a lose coil.  Make a triangle . The roof is done . Now for the hut join four strips ( 5 mm ) cream colour and make a loose coil. Using your fingers make the four ends sharp to get a square shape. Join these two to complete your hut.

Hut

Sun

Shinning sun:

         Use a yellow color 5 mm strip and make a tight coil.  For the sun rays make small triangles  and stick it around the tight coil. The sun is ready.

Once all this done, stick them on the kg cardboard as per your choice. You can do light shading of colours to make your landscape look more colourful. You can use your own creativity  to design your quilling landscape. 

After completing , frame your landscape for hanging on the wall and see how beautiful and natural it looks.  

Please feel free to share your views and wait for more on wall hangings ..