Christmas paper quilling pine cone handmade real photo illustrated tutorial (can be used as Christmas gift box decoration)
After you have made a simple and elegant Christmas gift box (see tutorial: Easy handmade tutorial for Christmas quadrangular gift box), the next main task is to decorate your It’s a Christmas gift box, but what is the best way to decorate it? It is especially recommended to use quilling paper for decoration and embellishment. This is because paper quilling itself is a very elegant handicraft art, both in appearance and artistic conception, it is very in line with the feeling of literary Christmas, and as you become more proficient in making quilling paper, now you can make it Making a paper quill by hand is already a very easy task. Maybe you have prepared various paper quilling tools and are just waiting for the Christmas paper quilling related tutorials.
The making of this Christmas paper pine cone may seem complicated, but it is actually very simple. Although it is not like many 2D paper quilling works that only require simple rolling and pasting on cardboard, the production of this paper quilling pine cone is nothing more than rolling and pasting, but the three-dimensional effect produced is incomparable to other flat paper quilling tutorials What it doesn’t have. If you like paper quilling, you definitely can’t miss this tutorial. Whats more, Christmas is coming soon. If we don't speed up production now, it will really be too late. In addition to decorating gift boxes, this handmade paper Christmas pine cone can also be used to embellish and decorate the Christmas atmosphere in the home, and the overall effect is also very good.
1. The quilling paper strips used at the beginning are adhesive quilling paper strips, that is, one section of the quilling paper strips is golden and the other is brown. This method of processing quilled paper strips is still very common in quilled paper production. If you are a beginner in paper quilling, you can refer to this basic tutorial first: Basic paper quilling tutorial. Here you can learn how to make paper quills and use paper quills.
2. Follow the same method as above to make multiple paper strips ready for use.
3. Roll the processed paper strip into a loose roll. If possible, use a shaper to shape it. That is, as shown in the picture, use a shaper to fix the rolled loose rolls to size, and use white latex to seal the ends. In this way, a paper quilling loose roll is ready.
4. Follow the same method to make several paper quills. The advantage of using a shaper is that it can ensure that the loose rolls produced are basically consistent in size. This way you can make the quilled paper pine cone look more beautiful in the subsequent production, but there is no mandatory requirement and you can decide according to your own situation.
5. Press the rolled loose roll with your fingers and shape the round structure into a drop-shaped shape as shown in the picture. However, the paper roll at this time seems to be far away from the shape of pine nuts, and it needs to be further processed.
6. Further processing transformed the teardrop-shaped quilling paper into the structure shown in the picture. This structure now looks closerto the real pine nuts.
7. Based on the previous quilling pine nuts, use your fingers to lift up from the middle of the quilling roll, that is, poke upward from the bottom as shown in the picture. The purpose of this is to make the quilling paper roll form a certain three-dimensional effect, mainly because the quilling paper strips we use are different in color. This treatment can ensure that the convex part is the golden part, and The parts on both sides are brown parts.
