Discover how simply and cleverly Paper and the Quilling technique can be used to create a good mood Stretched Canvas-work of art.

Here's how it's done:

First of all, a font is selected on the PC. The personal message is printed out, cut out and transferred to Stretched Canvas

Now a white quilling stripe is carefully glued upright along the contours of the lettering

Next, quilling strips in different colours are rolled into small bells. For large bells, simply stick two Paper strips together before rolling up, for especially small bells only use half of a paper strip
The colorful Quilling circles are now glued close together around the writing. This makes the writing visible in the unglued inner surface of the artwork.

The Quilling flowers of the picture consist of 9 petals each. These are made with the help of a quilling comb:
first the end of the quilling strip is rolled around the central tooth of the comb and fixed with glue. Starting from here, the Paper strips is wound in ever larger loops, first around the next but one tooth of the comb, then around the tooth on the opposite side of the comb, and so on. The last loop is wrapped around the complete loop weave, the petal curls are pressed together at the corners and fixed with glue. The centre of the flower forms a wooden bead

For the green quilling leaves a is Paper strips rolled up and placed in a round Stencil . The curl is fixed with glue, finally the corners are pressed together to a sharp bend