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1. 

   Cut a couple (i used about five) of different colored pieces of paper into fairly thin strips. It doesn't matter if the strips vary in thickness or if a single strip has different widths. It gives your art more character!

2. 

   

   Using scissors to curl the paper like you would a balloon ribbon, give one end of the paper strip a starting curl.
   
   You don't really need to use scissors for this, you can just use a fingernail, or make it curly some other way. I just think its fun.




3. 

   

   Roll the paper between your fingers to get the right kind of spiral. I think you get the idea

4. 

   

   Roll up the rest of the strip to your desired size. Varied sizes are fantastic!




5. 

   

   Now you can shape your spiral a bit. Squish it between your fingers to get different shapes. After you make some pinched corners, let it loosen a bit so you have this cool effect. Its sort of hard to explain, but try it on really tightly spun paper strips : pinch and let unravel.

6. 

   

   Glue the loose end of the spiral down. Now you have a self sustaining spiraly circle

7. 

   You can also do shaping after you glue the loose end down. It really doesn't make a difference unless you want to have the unravel part.

8. 

   

   Now you need to glue down the pieces. If you are not using a quick drying glue, you may need to hold it there for a while. But it will still work if you don't have any fancy types of glue.

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Danyell W.

10 May 21:12

I might just use this for the Mother's Day card I'm procrastinating on making...

Twinkle_Toes

11 May 08:23

thanks will try asap

Shivi

12 May 08:13

cool!
p.s.-the official name is paper quilling

Debbie the Vegan

12 May 09:04

cool great tut thanks :))
deb

Emily

12 May 21:19

thanks for the comments everyone.

shivi, paper quilling! thanks for the official-ness you have granted!

Emily

30 May 21:26

!!wow!!

i didnt think so many people would like this project.
thanks everyone.

Kris B.

19 Jun 05:50

Just last week I found two *ginormous* bags full of leftover strips from paper shredders at school. Now they will be curly-awesome paper strips. :)

Cat Morley

19 Jun 13:36

Awesome, thanks for showing us how!

DIS.AR.RAY

03 Aug 08:56

This is cool, they are cute... I was just wonderig what you could use them for?

Erica H.

20 Feb 20:53

What if you glued several different colors of these on a single piece of paper and framed it? it could be colorful wall art with texture. This is going to be really cheap addition to my dorm room. Thanks for the inspiration!

Posted By:
Emily »
May 10, 2008 10:14

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