To Wanda

To Wanda, Look at April 24 and you will find the project explaining the paper pottery. Will be posting soon, Kris

To Chris P.

I use quilling paper to make "paper pottery". I believe if you look in April under the posts named paper pottery you will find them. It's not quilling, but using the quilling paper.
I will be making up the project for you all today, taking pictures and writing, I hope to post it Friday. TTYL Kris

Everyday gets better, I try not to get a picture of him in my head, if I do the tears come.

I have an idea for a new tutorial for you all, I am going to try to get one out a month, maybe another one if I have time. I do enjoy teaching. I posted the last one near the end of the month so I think I will keep on that schedule.

Thank you for helping me through this, it really did help reading your kind words, I reread them all of the time!

Kris

Hi Guys, Thank you for all of your kind words and encouragement, I've gone back to read them several times. My husband and I are "critter" people and we will always have something running around on the place. We just didn't expect this to happen, we raised one before, he was doing so well, just getting to the fun stage, running around and playing, poking into things and exploring. Fidget wanted to be with me, wanted to see what I was doing, curl up and nap.
I am feverishly upholstering furniture, trying not to think of him, it's getting better, time heals. When I need to be near him I look at the baby picture, it's the only one I took, and I read your kind words. Thank you for taking the time to send them, Kris

I won't be blogging for awhile, Fidget passed away this morning. I don't know why, I loved him very much.

Another Quilled Project, A Shelf

Hello to everyone, here is another project for you to try.



This is a bathroom room box I made a long time ago. My husband made the box for me.











My oldest daughter, Katie, made the lady soaking in the tub. Before she started college she was quite the doll artist. She had an article in "Dolls in Miniature" some time ago.












The lady has cucumbers on her eyes!



































I am going to show you how to make the shelf on the wall using quilling paper.




























You first need to make a form for the sides of the shelf. I used 1/4 inch thick basswood. You can use a shape already made that you find in packaging. Sometimes mints come in packaging that can be used. The shelf doesn't have to be my size.
To start I used a circle template, you can use an oval template, too.









I traced a 9/16" circle, just to the halfway marks.

Slide your ruler to the end of the circle and make a mark there and at the 1/2" mark and at the next inch mark.












You see the top half circle, then you see the marks in the middle at the 1/2" mark. Make another half circle at the last marks you made.















There should be an inch between the bottoms of the half circles.

Now, remember this is just the size I chose to make, the size is up to you.











Now, place your ruler on the drawing and match up the middle mark on the drawing to an inch mark on the ruler. Measure 3/8" on each side of the inch mark, make a mark on the drawing. This is where the shelves will go.











I have drawn the scrolls onto the drawing, you will refer to this later.

Cut this drawing out and glue to a piece of 1/4" thick basswood. I don't cut on the lines, I leave paper around the drawing. Using a scroll saw or band saw cut your pattern out following the lines on your drawing.
If you are using something else as a pattern just disregard this.






To keep the glue from sticking the paper to the wood use wax to coat the side of the wooden pattern.















Use 1/8" wide quilling paper and Elmer's glue, apply a little glue on the paper, smear it and wrap it around the pattern.
You don't have to have glue on the whole length of quilling paper, just enough to get you around to the end to secure.

I got my glue bottle from www.paperwishes.com, under "Cool Stuff", under "Quilling Paper Crafts Supplies". I comes with a stainless steel straight pin.


I wrapped my paper around the form 3 times applying glue as I went.















Make one side and let it dry a bit, remove and make the other side. You can put the first side back with the other and let them both dry on the form.














With the markings on the drawing that was glued to the form you can transfer the shelf marks to the paper sides.

I used 1/16" thick basswood cut the width of the diameter of my circle, 9/16". You can use mat board or any thick card board you have.







Glue your shelves into the sides. I used Elmer's Wood Glue. It grabs faster than Elmer's White Glue. That doesn't mean it's like Tacky Glue! I just mean the wood glue is going set up faster than the white glue.
You might be wondering why I am using white glue. It dries hard and stiff, tacky glue always stays flexible. We don't want this shelf to be flexible, we are imitating metal.





Now, we add the scrolls. Cut 4 pieces of quilling paper 1 inch long. These are the top and bottom scrolls.


Use the quilling tool to roll the paper up. In the quilling blog about the paper pottery I explain how to make a quilling tool instead of buying one.

Unroll the paper slightly, place a little white glue on the inside of one of the half circles and with tweezers pick up and place the scroll into a half circle.




Refer to the diagram above for the direction of the scrolls.

















Next we are going to make the reverse scrolls that are glued in the middle.
Cut 2 pieces of quilling paper 2" to 2 1/8" long. You can play with the length, it depends on how curly you want the scrolls to be. Measure and mark on the paper 1", it's the middle of the piece.
Use your tool and roll the paper up to the middle mark. Remove the tool and roll up the other end, rolling in the opposite direction this time. Remove the tool.

Slightly unroll the scrolls. Apply white glue to the shelves and the inside of the sides where you see my reverse scroll glued. The scroll will be glued in 4 places.
You can play with the curls with a tweezer to adjust the looks.













For the inside scrolls that are glued to the middle reverse scroll cut 4 pieces of quilling paper 1/2"long.
Use the tool to roll these, again unroll them slightly. Apply glue to the middle of the reverse scroll and place the little scrolls on the top and bottom middle of the reverse scroll.








This is the finished shelf. You can paint it with acrylic craft paint or enamel paint to make it shiny like a metal shelf.



I hope you have fun trying this out.

TTYL Kris

Casual Classics Easy Chair

Hello to everyone. I have finally finished a piece of furniture. Still not back up to speed, and raising a baby, too. Fidget is doing fine, he sleeps through the night and is walking on all fours, now. I will take a picture soon so all can see.

The new piece is what I am calling Casual Classics with a bit of British Colonial flavor. It's body is woven rattan and the cushions are silk painted to look like aged leather. It's over at the CDHM site. I am trying to get out more furniture, need to update!!!

The chair is setting on a rug I copied off the internet using the suede paper I bought from Dragonfly International.

Back to work! TTYL Kris