Quilling Embellishments for Scrapbook Pages

Quilling is a paper art where you learn to coil, curl, twist, or fringe long even shreds of paper into a large variety of coils and scrolls, creating intricate, beautiful patterns and quilled embellishments. Quilling takes some practice to get the hang of but is a much easier paper craft to do than it seems. You'll certainly be glorified by many people when they see your quilled creations since this is a paper craft that looks very detailed and time consuming. It is the perfect scrapbooking embellishment since it is unique, beautiful, and made from acid free paper. You will find with simple to follow step-by-step instructions, the basics of quilling are easy to master. Then you can start to make your own designs with ease to embellish your scrapbooking pages!


The history of quilling dates back hundreds of years but is recently gaining a new interest since quilling patterns are a great way to embellish scrapbooks, invitations, announcements, and home-made cards. Besides that, the cost to get started with quilling is comparatively lower than almost any other craft you could create at home! Although the art of quilling has been around for years, it is not very popular in craft stores so you may have a hard time finding supplies unless you know where to look online.


Often people wonder what types of designs they can create with quilling paper strips. The majority of work you will see is probably flowers since quilled flowers are a lot of fun to make and are a very popular in many female scrapbooking pages. Beyond floral designs, you'll find that you can create with quilling almost any design you can think of! Things like animals, numbers, beach items, and holiday themes are great items you can learn to quill with paper to create amazing intricate and beautiful scrapbooking embellishments! You will have a lot of fun trying new ideas with quilling even if you don’t have a pattern to follow (although it definitely helps for beginner quillers).

How Do You Learn How to Do Paper Quilling?

Quilling is a fun and easy craft to learn but as a beginner you’ll certainly need to have some patience as you learn the basics to quilling and start making cool quilling designs. The tools you’ll need are easy to find once you know where to look and they are inexpensive. You can spend as much time as you want quilling; it can take just a few minutes or a few days to created a quilled design, depending on how detailed and intricate you would like to make it. Quilling is a craft but also an art form so don’t be discouraged if your quilling does not look exactly like the pattern you used or the design you anticipated. Your work of art will be unique and beautiful if you take the time to learn the basics and understand the proper tools and supplies to use.

I’d love to help you learn the art of quilling with my new course at learnquilling.com I’ll even give you a free sneak peek of my course so you can see if its for you. Beginner quillers will certainly enjoy learning step by step and learning my time saving, money saving, and sanity saving tips I give you through this course. Once you learn how to do basic quilling from me, you can continue to learn more advanced patterns and really make this a form of art that is unique to you and a beautiful way to decorate all sorts of crafts such as scrapbooking, card making, and other craft projects you’ve already created. Quilling does not have to be a stand alone art and instead it can really be something great that you can add to other projects you enjoy working on. Learning how to quill will give you an additional way to jazz up so many of your craft projects and can be learned by following step by step instructions on DVD and in a written manual with photos.

I will say that if you’re good at learning something new just by seeing a photo and being able to replicate it, then grab a quilling book from your local craft store (if you can even find it…they aren’t available in most stores but you can sometimes get them on the craft store’s website). However if you’d prefer to learn how to do quilling with step by step instructions, hundreds of color photos, and an instructional DVD that you can watch while you do your quilling craft at the same time, then check out learnquilling.com and you can even grab your first lesson for free to get a sneak peek at the instructional quilling course I’ve put together called “Secrets to Quilling Success” only at www.LearnQuilling.com