Below is my first creation. I've been into quilling for about 4 years but hadn't done it in a while. This project was originally going to be a card, but it was too heavy, so I decided it will go into a frame and hang on the wall. I didn't have the quilling strips I wanted for the quilled roses so I made my own using my handy dandy Purple Cow 2-in-1 trimmer. This trimmer is AWESOME for making quilling strips. With other trimmers I've tried this with it was a bit difficult to get strips that were 1/8" wide. Not so with my Purple Cow! :) The larger flowers I glued two strips of paper back to back as the paper wasn't two sided. With the smallest rose, I used one strip and inked the back of the paper. I also inked the quilled birds after they were done to get the color I wanted them. The "stem" and the "leaf" I inked before I quilled them. Your options are pretty limitless with quilling.
