Hello quilling lovers! Christmas ball - a traditional part of the decoration Christmas tree. Of course, you can always buy it in a store, but you must admit that a DIY Christmas ball is still better! In addition, if you have the time, and most importantly the desire, you can easily make your own unusual New Year's toy, and I will share with you an idea of ​​​​how you can make a New Year's ball with your own hands out of paper. Of course, I suggest that you decorate the New Year's ball with quilling elements and create a whole New Year's composition. Use my quilling DIY paper Christmas ball master class with detailed description and step-by-step photos of production.

Materials:

• Paper ribbons 3 mm, length 29.5 cm, density 80g/m2: blue and white
• Paper ribbons 1.5 mm, length 29.5 cm, density 80g/m2: brown, white, green, red, pink, black and white
• Scissors
• PVA glue
• glue gun
• Twisting tool
• Quilling ruler
• Styrofoam ball (diameter 80 mm)
• Eyes (diameter 4 mm)
• Blue tape 5 mm wide
• green paper
• Hole punch "Leaf"
• Red glue glitter
• Green leaves

We wind rolls of white paper tapes 3 mm wide with a diameter of 7 mm.

We take foam ball 80 mm in diameter.

We glue the ball (a little less than half) with rolls using a glue gun.

We make a loop from the blue tape and glue it to the ball with a glue gun.

We wind rolls of blue paper ribbons 3 mm wide with a diameter of 7 mm.

We glue the ball with rolls using a glue gun.

We make Christmas tree branches from green paper ribbons 1.5 mm wide. We glue them from 3 elements. How the elements of the branches are made, I have already described in the previous MK headings.

Glue the top of the ball with Christmas tree branches.

We twist a roll of white paper ribbons 1.5 mm wide with a diameter of 22 mm.

Glue the roll to the ball with a glue gun.

We twist another roll of white paper linen 1.5 mm wide with a diameter of 25 mm.

Glue the roll with a glue gun.

We make 2 “droplet” quilling elements from white paper ribbons 1.5 mm wide (the diameter of the unraveled roll is 14 mm).

We glue the "droplets" with a glue gun.

We make 2 more “droplets” from white paper tapes 1.5 mm wide (the diameter of the unraveled roll is 12 mm).

We also glue the "droplets" with a glue gun.

We twist 2 rolls of white paper ribbons 1.5 mm wide with a diameter of 6 mm.

We form rolls with a semi-ball and glue with a glue gun.

We make a triangle of black paper ribbons 1.5 mm wide (the diameter of the unraveled roll is 4 mm).

Glue the triangle with a glue gun.

We make another triangle of pink paper ribbons 1.5 mm wide (the diameter of the unraveled roll is 5 mm).

We glue the element with a glue gun.

We take purchased eyes.

Glue on the eyes.

We make 2 “eye” quilling elements from white paper ribbons 1.5 mm wide (the diameter of the unraveled roll is 18 mm).

We glue the elements with a glue gun.

We make curls from white paper ribbons 3 mm wide (each curl of 10 ribbons).

We glue the curls on both sides of the rabbit with PVA glue.

We wind rolls of red paper ribbons 1.5 mm wide with a diameter of 4 mm.

We make leaves from green paper using a hole punch.

Glue the leaves and berries on both sides to the curls.

We take 2 purchased green leaves. We cut the branches (wire) on the leaves.

Glue the leaves with a glue gun.

We make 8 droplet quilling elements from brown paper ribbons 1.5 mm wide (the diameter of the unraveled roll is 12 mm).

We make 7 more “droplet” quilling elements from brown paper ribbons 1.5 mm wide (the diameter of the unraveled roll is 10 mm).

We also make 6 “droplet” quilling elements from brown paper ribbons 1.5 mm wide (diameter of the unraveled roll is 8 mm).

And we also make 4 “droplet” quilling elements from brown paper ribbons 1.5 mm wide (the diameter of the unraveled roll is 7 mm).

We glue the cone in tiers (from large elements at the bottom and smaller elements to the top) with a glue gun.

We make 2 voluminous bumps from the elements of the quilling "droplet". For a cone, we need: 1st tier - 6 elements (diameter of a loose roll 8 mm); 2nd tier - 6 elements (diameter of a loose roll 10 mm); 3 tier - 7 elements (diameter of the loose roll 10 mm); 4 tier - 6 elements (diameter of the loose roll 8 mm); Tier 5 - 4 elements (roll diameter 7 mm). We glue the cones with a glue gun.

We glue the cones with a glue gun.

We glue the berries (rolls with a diameter of 4 mm) with a glue gun.

We glue the leaves (made by a hole punch) and berries (rolls with a diameter of 4 mm) onto the New Year's ball.

We decorate all the berries on the New Year's ball with red glue sparkles.

Do-it-yourself Christmas ball made of paper is ready!

Thank you for your attention!

Categories:// dated 24.09.2017

Ordinary Christmas decorations already bored, and there is a desire to do something interesting with your own hands? It is worth trying to make jewelry using the quilling technique. This easy way to create paper crafts is now very popular due to the simplicity and availability of materials.

There are ready-made quilling kits on sale, but in order to make a Christmas ball on your own, it is not necessary to buy such a kit. All it takes is a double sided colored paper, scissors, a wooden stick for winding, PVA glue, tweezers and a base ball. The foam base can be purchased at the store. Or you can use the old boring christmas ball. Better plastic than glass, so as not to accidentally cut yourself.

Any, even the most complex patterns in quilling are assembled from simple basic elements:

• Curl - the strip is wound on a stick, the end remains free
• Coil - twisted, removed from the stick, carefully unfolded to the desired size and the tip is fixed with glue
• Drop - the finished coil is squeezed with fingers on one side, forming a corner
• Peephole - corners are clamped on both sides of the coil
• Ring - paper is tightly wound on a thick pencil and fixed with glue

Quilling for beginners basic elements video master class

To make a ball, you need to apply glue to the base in the place where the element will be located, fix it in the right place and let the glue grab. And so, step by step, cover the surface with patterns. It is better to do this with tweezers so as not to wrinkle the paper. It is better to start with large details. For example, collect a flower from drops or a snowflake from rhombuses and stick it on the base. Arrange one or more large patterns symmetrically, and fill the remaining space between them with small coils.

The main thing is not to rush. Having fastened together several parts, you need to wait for them to dry completely, and only then continue to lay out the drawing.

The base will shine through openwork paper. This must be taken into account and selected colors suitable for each other. By choosing a base of a contrasting color, you can get an interesting and unusual result. Quilling looks airy on a transparent ball.

Manufacturing Christmas balls in quilling technique - fascinating creative occupation that both adults and children will enjoy. Handmade jewelry will perfectly complement christmas decor, and will help create a magical holiday mood in the house.

Quilling (English quilling; from quill "bird feather"), also known as paper rolling - the art of making flat or voluminous compositions from long and narrow strips of paper twisted into spirals. The finished spirals are given various shapes and thus paper rolling elements, also called modules, are obtained. Already they are the "building" material in the creation of works - paintings, postcards, albums, photo frames, various figurines, watches, jewelry, etc.

The art of paper rolling originated in the late 14th and early 15th centuries in Mediterranean Europe. It is believed that quilling was invented by monks. Cutting off the gilded edges of the books, they wound them around the tips of bird feathers, hence the name (quill - translated from English as “bird feather”).

In Russia, this art became popular only at the end of the 20th century; quilling is also very popular in Germany and England.

This technique does not require significant material costs.

Very beautiful toys on the Christmas tree can be done using the quilling technique.

Christmas snowflake

Scissors;

Ruler;

Stationery knife;

Progress:

1. Cut quilling paper strips 25-27 mm long, 3-5 mm wide.

2. Insert the first strip of paper into the notch of the tool and slowly twist it into a spiral. In this case, there is no need to rush, because then the craft may not work out.

3. The finished spiral must be removed from the tool and placed on a flat surface so that it unwinds slightly.

4. Apply a little glue to the end of the strip and glue the spiral.

5. Make the required number of blanks.

6. When the required number of parts are ready, start forming a snowflake. Gently squeezing the round blank, give it the desired shape. Start gluing the pieces together, forming a snowflake out of them.

7. Finished snowflake can be decorated with beads, ribbons, rhinestones.

Christmas ball

For such a ball you need a base. It can be a ball of foam, plastic or glass.

To avoid disappointment and multiple corrections, before starting work, you should think over the concept of your work - what colors the ball will be in, more transparent or denser elements will make it up and only then proceed to implementation.

For manufacturing you will need the following:

Special paper for quilling;

Special tool or wooden skewer;

Scissors;

Ruler;

Stationery knife;

The base around which there will be a paper decoration.

Progress:

1. Make the required number of blanks.

2. Take the base and apply glue to it in the place where the element will be located.

3. Attach the element and let the glue set. And so, step by step, cover the surface with patterns. It is better to do this with tweezers so as not to wrinkle the paper. It is better to start with large details. For example, collect a flower from drops or a snowflake from rhombuses and stick it on the base. Arrange one or more large patterns symmetrically, and fill the remaining space between them with small coils.

4. The base will show through the openwork paper. This must be taken into account and selected colors suitable for each other. Quilling looks airy on a transparent ball.

Pleased us with a couple of wonderful new year ideas implemented using the quilling technique. The result is very delicate decorations - a wreath and a Christmas ball. Get armed! Manufacturing technologies are absolutely available. Of course, a certain amount of patience is required. But in creativity, as you know, without it in any way. :)

New Year's wreath in quilling technique

In these New Year's Eve days, all creative people are obsessed with crafts, including Christmas wreaths. I also had such an idea, and I made a New Year's wreath in my favorite quilling technique.

For work you need:

- paper for quilling;

- a tool for quilling;

- scissors;

- double sided tape;

- packaging corrugated cardboard;

- thin cardboard;

We cut out a circle with a diameter of 18 cm from the packaging cardboard with a hole in the center with a diameter of 6.5 cm. Cut out the same circle from white paper, glue it to the cardboard on the back side.

To create volume, we cut out strips from thin cardboard and glue them to the circle with "arches", as shown in the photo.

We seal the voids between the strips with trapezoidal elements of the appropriate size.

Now you need to wind more than 500 paper rolls.

Let's give them the shape of a drop. We glue the quilling elements on a cardboard base in two rows - we get a voluminous, convex wreath.

For decoration, I used lurex ribbon bows (I already showed how to make them), as well as beads.

As a result, we got such a New Year's wreath using the quilling technique.

New Year's ball in quilling technique

I also want to tell you how to use the wonderful quilling technique to decorate a New Year's ball. There is nothing complicated here, you just need patience.

For work you need:

- a foam ball with a diameter of 10 cm (if there is none, you can replace it with another one or make it yourself from newspapers);

- glue Titanium, Moment or the one you are used to;

- ready-made strips for quilling (I cut them myself, the width of my strip is 0.5 cm);

quilling tool;

- ribbon and beads for decoration.

First we make a snowflake. It requires the following elements: a tight roll, an “eye”, an element in the form of an “open heart”. We make the required number of parts and connect everything into a snowflake.

We transfer the snowflake to the ball, glue Titanium with glue.

After that, we proceed to filling the rest of the surface of the ball, using the following elements for this: loose rolls, “drops” and processed “drops”. To decorate the ball, I used more than 200 strips of paper.

Having filled the entire surface of the ball, we proceed to decorate it. We make a bow from satin ribbon and decorate with beads.

As a result, we got such a Christmas decoration.

The quilling technique as a kind of applied art continues to gain momentum. It attracts with openwork and ease of creating crafts. For those who are not in the know, let us explain: quilling is a technique of twisting strips of paper, shaping them into the desired shape and creating compositions. The latter, by the way, can easily receive a prize and the title of a masterpiece.

Most often, the quilling technique is used to create holiday cards, they are decorated with openwork crafts. By the way, wonderful snowflakes are made from twisted paper for the New Year, so in December the theme of decorating postcards is especially relevant.

Crafts using the quilling technique for the New Year

Snowflake

We will need:

• glue;
• strips of colored paper (you can use blanks from the store);
• scissors;
• threads;
• matches;
• beads.

Process of creation:
1. Wind the strip around the match
Take a match and use a sharp knife to split its edge. Clamp the edge paper strip in the crevice of the match and start winding it around the match. Make it not very tight so that the detail is more beautiful.
2. Make paper blanks
You will need 12 pieces of such blanks, so repeat the action 12 times.
3. Make a snowflake
Start shaping the snowflake. Gently squeezing the round blank, give it the desired shape. Start gluing the pieces together, forming a snowflake out of them.
4. Glue the beads
Glue beads around the perimeter of the entire snowflake. Make a loop out of the thread and attach it to the snowflake. This craft will successfully decorate Christmas tree in your house.

Christmas tree. Option 1

We will need:

• glue;
• toothpick;
• paper strips Green colour;
• scrap paper;
• beads;
• glitters;
• greeting printouts;
• corner punchers;
• ribbon;
• snowflakes.

Make frequent cuts on paper. To speed up this process, fold the strips in 3 pieces, and then cut.
Wrap the prepared strips on a toothpick and fix with glue. You should get a tight bud.

On one Christmas tree leaves 10 buds. Stick the buds on paper, and then fluff each one with your fingers, and you will see how the buds open.

Finish the corners of the rectangles with a decorative hole punch.

Make a ribbon bow and glue beads in the center. Cut paper towel into 1cm x 1cm squares.
Using the trimming method, make a snowdrift. For the tree trunk, use a paper bag handle.

Glue a printout with congratulations on the back of the card.

Using green glitter, cover the lush buds of the Christmas tree with glitter. The forest beauty will sparkle, as if thousands of lights were lit on it.

Christmas tree. Option 2

If you twist the quilling paper not into such dense rolls as in the previous master class, but give them a shape, you will get original Christmas trees.

Volumetric Christmas trees made of paper

If you glue and assemble quilling paper into one piece, you can get a voluminous Christmas tree. Decorate the crown of such a beauty with a gilded star. Don't forget your Christmas tree decorations. Glue beads to replace paper tree Christmas balls, apply artificial snow and glitter.

Postcard with quilling decor

We suggest you make two postcards using the quilling technique: the first will show a snowflake with spruce branch, and on the second - a Christmas tree with gifts.

Snowflake with fir branch

We will need:

• pin;
• openwork hole punch;
• white, yellow and green paper, cut into strips (the width of each is no more than 0.5 centimeters);
• ruler with circles of different diameters;
• thick postcard paper.

First, cut out a rectangle. In the corners, make openwork elements using a decorative hole punch for this.

Take a sheet of paper and cut it into small strips. They are intended for the future snowflake.

Start twisting the strip, and then insert the roll into the diametral ruler. The end of the strip must be glued so that the roll does not lose its shape. Then squeeze the edge of the mug - you should get a drop.

Make a few of these. When there are several details, you can begin to select the location for them on the postcard and form the snowflake itself.

Make the same details in green. From them make a spruce branch.
Similar details are needed and yellow color: they will form a candle.

Christmas tree with gifts

We will need:

• pin;
• openwork hole punch;
• green and pink paper, cut into strips (the width of each is no more than 0.5 centimeters);
• thick paper for postcards;
• glue.

First, let's prepare the card itself, the base. To do this, decorate a rectangle of thick paper with openwork corners.

Cut green paper into strips, and then twist them, as you did in the previous version.

Make a drop by gently squeezing one edge of the workpiece.

Finished parts fold into a Christmas tree, after attaching it to a postcard.

Make gift boxes. Use pink stripes for this. Sometimes, to twist small parts, use a pin.

As soon as all the details of the future postcard are ready, start collecting them into crafts. First glue the Christmas tree. And place gifts under it.

By the way, use beautiful cardboard, as well as a quilling kit for your crafts. In this technique, you can create many New Year's motifs. Options for postcards, photos will come to your aid.

Tips for beginner quilling masters

To get a tight roll, you need to wind paper tape firmly, and then secure the tip with glue.
If you wind the strip at first tighter, and then slightly release it, you get the so-called loose roll. You can give the workpiece and the shape of a half-rhombus or, for example, a drop, for this you need to flatten the part with your fingers. Most often, this technique is used in the manufacture of petals for a flower.

For each form, experienced craftsmen use different techniques.
Eye shape. It is necessary to compress the round billet simultaneously from both sides. "Square" shape. First, make an "Eye" shape, then rotate it vertically and squeeze the part again on the sides.
Rhombus shape. Make this part from the "Square" blank, flattening the figure a little.
Triangle shape. First of all, make the “Drop” detail, then grab the corner, and flatten the base of the triangle.
Arrow shape. Twist the “Triangle” blank, and then press the middle of the short side inward with your index finger.
Crescent shape. This detail is made almost like the “Eye” blank, only with a curved shape. The corners of the part are pinched with a shift, and not opposite each other.

Open Forms:
"Heart". Fold the strip down the middle. Bend both free halves inward.
"Horns". Fold the strip down the middle. Screw both halves out.
"Curl". Mark the middle of the strip, but do not fold. Twist the ends to the middle, only in different directions.
"Twig". Bend the strip approximately in a ratio of 1: 2. Twist the ends to one side.