This inspiring guide features more than 100 papercraft designs for making cards, gift boxes and bags, party favors, and other ornamental items. Includes simple, step-by-step instructions and numerous color illustrations.

This essential sourcebook modernizes the historic papercraft of quilling with fun and funky designs, all broken down into bite-sized steps for quick and easy crafting. Packed with fresh ideas, techniques and tips, Thrilling Quilling will inspire both beginners and more experienced crafters looking for new creative venues. The author offers clear instruction on creating a diverse gallery of quilled items and explores papers and equipment and teaches techniques such as coiling, pinching, fringing and husking. With the perfect balance of information and inspiration, papercrafters of all skill levels will be able to produce sensational projects through the timeless craft of quilling.

Create exquisite, long-lasting quilled paper flowers with this step-by-step detailed guide! With the help of Japanese quilling expert Motoko Maggie Nakatani, you can create breathtaking quilled flowers with just a few inexpensive tools and paper quilling strips. Her simple roll-shape-and-paste method is perfect for beginners—allowing you to quickly create dozens of different flowers. A Beginner's Guide to Quilling Paper Flowers has all the information you need to embark on this fascinating hobby using easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographic instructions. Make 32 different varieties of quilled flowers, including: Roses—with frilly petals and ornate leaves for sweet and romantic gift decorations! Gerbera—with a graduated 3-level "wedding cake" effect that makes it the highlight of any display! Japanese Wisteria—whose contrasting colors and cascading blossoms make a memorable impression! Black-Eyed Susans—with clever arrangement of the petals creating a unique 3D effect! Dogwood Blossoms—whose intricate harp-shaped petals really showcase your skill as a quillist! And dozens of others! This complete how-to guide has templates and detailed step-by-step instructions as well as information on how to use and display your beautiful paper flowers—as gift toppers, framed displays, handmade cards, photo frames and in shadow box displays.

Create eye-catching projects with basic quilling tools and suppliesLearn to create a wide variety of quilled shapesNew shapes are introduced with each seasonal segmentProjects will appeal to beginner and experienced craftersLearn and perfect your quilling skills while creating these exciting card and home decor projects!

The Art of Modern Quilling breathes new life into a time-tested craft with innovative instruction and creative projects you will love to make and wear! Colorful strips of paper and a few simple tools are all you need to create an infinite number of amazing projects with author and quilling expert extraordinaire Erin Curet! Erin shows you a host of innovative techniques and provides plentiful inspiration in The Art of Modern Quilling. New to quilling? That's no problem! It will only take a few minutes of instruction for newbies to be able to create modern paper crafts. You'll soon be making quilled jewelry, works of art that will dazzle, and fun household items that are as interesting to look at as they are useful. No matter how you cut it, quilling is the greatest craft that you have never heard of. Well, until now, that is!