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Home / Craft Projects / Easy Quilled Shamrock Card for St. Patrick’s Day

Easy Quilled Shamrock Card for St. Patrick’s Day

March 7, 2016

I love quilling! The act of twirling little paper strips into something lovely is a bit magical for me. While I came up with the card idea a few years ago, I’ve now updated it to include a quick 2-minute video showing you how to make this cut quilled shamrock. And if you need a lucky clover, just add one more leaf and you are good to go!

Easy Quilled Shamrocks- make cute decorations from twirled paper! Full tutorial and video from CraftTestDummies.com

Easy Quilled Shamrocks- make cute decorations from twirled paper! Full tutorial and video from CraftTestDummies.com

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To make each shamrock, you’ll need :

  • two strips of dark green quilling paper
  • OR/ one strip each of light and dark  green quilling paper
  • white glue
  • quilling tool /kit
  •  toothpick
  • quilling sizer is optional

Here’s that video I promised!

Start off by ripping the lengths of quilling paper in half. Try to do so at an angle, as it decreases the bulk at the seam. Use a dot of white glue and let dry.

Then, using your quilling tool, roll the paper up. Let it unspool a little until it’s the size of a nickel. Use a dab of glue to keep the spiral at that size. If you have a sizing tool, place it in there with a pin as shown. Add a dab of glue and let it dry.

When you have three spirals, it’s time to make the leaves. First you pinch the spiral with the bulk of the coil between your thumb and forefinger.

Then- this is fun part- mash the rounded bit on the table, like this:

You can make the leaves pointier if you like, by making a “v” on the side you just mashed on the table. I like my leaves to look like this:

To make the card, I first applied a gold seal to my card front. Then I glued the three leaves down, and added a lightly curled scrap strip to make the stem.

Easy Quilled Shamrocks- make cute decorations from twirled paper! Full tutorial and video from CraftTestDummies.comI like the touch of gold, but that’s up to you. It’s fun to whip these up. Ohh… how about one on a circle for a cupcake decoration?

By the way, if you are super-crafty you can make your own DIY Quilling Tool- here’s a video for that, too:

 

You’ll see in this video, you can easily make Quilled hearts, too!

 

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  1. thezenofmaking says

    March 12, 2012 at 15:01

    Cute!

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