Whip up quilled botanicals in no time for interesting cards

What you need...

• Quilling papers: 3mm wide, orange, deep orange, turquoise, deep turquoise
  
• Card: cream, turquoise, orange
  
• Dies: Xcut, Alice Alphabet, small frame
  
• Ribbon
  
• Adhesives

instructions

1. Mum - 1. Tear orange strips into lengths between 6cm and 8cm. Form a tight coil at one end of each piece, then glue to secure, leaving a tail of paper. Repeat until you have around 12 for each seed head.
   
   2 Trim cream card, 12.5cm square. Stick the coils in place as shown with two extra pieces at the base of each seed head. Add a stem by fixing one long strip from the seed head to the bottom of the panel.
   
   3 Create a loose coil with a 13cm strip of orange paper, then pinch to a heart shape. Repeat until you have 12. Attach these heart-shaped leaves either side of two stems. Wind three larger hearts, then fix to the front with their own stems as shown.
   
   3 Create a loose coil with a 13cm strip of orange paper, then pinch to a heart shape. Repeat until you have 12. Attach these heart-shaped leaves either side of two stems. Wind three larger hearts, then fix to the front with their own stems as shown.

2. With Love - 1 Cover a blank, 13cm x 17.5cm, with orange. Layer turquoise, 11.5cm x 17cm, and then cream, 10.5cm x 16cm, on top. Create orange and turquoise seed heads, then add two stems with heart-shaped leaves.
   
   2 Form open coils in deep orange paper, then pinch in half. Layer several strips to create a thick stem, then fix leaves either side. Pinch coils to teardrops and fix in clusters at the top of the turquoise stems. Print a sentiment and cut out using a frame die. Glue in the top-right to finish.

3. Happy Mother's Day - 1 Take cream card, 10.5cm square, and mount to orange. Fix the panel to a cream blank, 11.5cm square. Cut strips of turquoise paper measuring between 13cm and 15cm, and create a seed head design as before.
   
   2 Make orange heart-shaped coils from 13cm strips of paper, then fix across the card front. Print a sentiment onto cream card, then trim to measure 11.5cm across. Fix to the greeting with foam pads to finish.

4. Tag & Gift Bag - Make your own mini gift bag by scoring a long strip of orange card and folding into a triangle shape. Insert a present and secure with ribbon. Decorate the bag with a single turquoise seed head mounted on cream card. Add orange heart coils to finish the design.
   
   A quick matching tag is made with a single orange seed head and three hearts.