The group called Special Techniques

I started quilling only for one simple reason, I wanted to make dolls, and my dream is to fill my golu padis to fill with my own hand created dolls. I was and still am sure that I will not be able to do it with any kind of clay. But I can do with paper strips. Whenever and wherever I get opportunity to find quilling toy making tutorials, I will make sure, I am learning it. More than videos, pictures help me a lot to learn to make things the right way and when one wonderful gentle man in a group in FB announced that he is planning to teach making 3D dolls and asked people to contact him via his number, I jumped in and messaged him. He then added me to the whatsapp group called Special Techniques and lo my journey to learn a lot of things especially 3D figures started from there. It had been 3 months and with my teacher's permission, I will be sharing the projects that we all were taught one by one with pictures.

Not only that gentleman, but each and every one in that group is a wonderful artist by themselves and the way they teach others makes me feel at home and I definitely have learnt a lot of things from all there. 

One of the projects that I have learnt from the group.

The Quilling Crimper tool - An overview

The crimper tool is a device with two cogs and a handle, small and easy to carry in a pocket. This tool helps to make a wavy pattern in quilling strips that will give a unique style to your projects, be it 2D or 3D. When I purchased this tool, way back when I started quilling, ofcourse, I started collecting all the tools one by one seeing the net, I was making few 2D projects and decided to try making them using crimped strips. It definitely was fun making them and kids took turns in crimping the strips. It became a great holiday fun activity too.

Things to be noted while crimping:
5 mm strips get easily crimped, so do 7 mm.
If you donot keep the 10 mm strip properly a half of the strip is not crimped.
The 3 mm strips tend to get entangled in the cogs, so handle it carefully by holding one end of the strip.

Quilled Maragatha Lingam

After watching the movie Linga, when I was making 3d Shivalingams my husband suggested me to make a Maragatha Lingam which will be in green colour. It turned out really good.

MDF Ganesha painting

Painting using Ceramic Cone in MDF cut out is always a new experience. Gifted for a dear friend.

White pretty white

I was so stumped to see the end result of a white jhumka with white pearls which was made on the request of my daughter's friend. She wanted to wear it along with her white uniform. Tried it with a 10mm strip as she wanted a elongated top. Used just two strips of 10mm which gave me this result.  Attached a pearl on top and a pearl in the bottom.

Small sized fridge magnets

For a birthday party return gift of my son's class mate, I was asked to make small fridge magnets in different shapes. And here is the outcome of the same. Though a few are not so clear, the kids loved it as usual.