This quilled purple flower made simply using the basic techniques of quilling makes a wonderful handmade table top decorative piece. You may decorate a bunch of pebbles with flowers and keep it as a centre table piece or you use it as a paper weight.
Fevicryl Acrylic Colours - Crimson 04, White 27, Fevicol MR, Fine Art Brushes, Colour Palette, 3mm Quilling Strips, Slotted Quilling Tool (Quill On – Battery Operated Tool ) Scissors, Pebble, Sponge
Take 3mm thick quilling strips Choose two colours in the strip, we have selected a light and a dark shade in violet colour Make 5 small loose coils in dark violet coloured strips Shape them in a tear drop shape The rest of the petals are made in two colours The size of the petals grow slightly bigger as you start arranging the petals of the flower
Take a medium sized pebble, shaped like an egg Wash the pebble nicely and dry it completely Colour the pebble in a baby pink shade made my mixing Acrylic Colours - Crimson and White Leave it to dry
Arrange and stick the single coloured tear drop shapes to form a flower with five petals Use Fevicol MR for sticking
Arrange and stick the second layer of the petals which is also slightly bigger in size
Add more petals in layers around to make a bigger flower Take 3mm green coloured quilling strips to make the leaves and the spirals Arrange and stick them around the flower using Fevicol MR
Your Easter egg shaped pebble paper weight is ready