Arts and Crafts
Quilled Snowflake Card
By Gloria
The holidays are coming! And most people think of cards or gifts. Even if it wasn’t the holiday season,
cards are great to have on hand always, wether it’s for birthdays, thank you’s, congratulations, etc. This
card is winter themed for the changing season!
You will need:
• White quilling paper (or whatever color you want your snowflake to be)
• A quilling tool (standard size)
• Tweezers (the finer the tip the better!)
• Glue (school glue works great!)
• Curling coach (not needed, but I recommend having one)
• Envelope and blank card
• Paper towel
• A ruler
• A table or place to work (unless you’re like me, and you’re fine on the floor)
Instructions:
1. Take out your quilling paper, and cut six strips into 8” pieces, and six into 4” pieces.
(20cm and 10cm)
Using your hands to tear the paper instead of cutting it, gives it softer edges
We are now going to make the center of the snowflake, this shape is called a marquise.
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2. Take your quilling tool, and grab an 8” strip of paper. Stick the end of the paper into
the slot at the top of the tool, twist the paper around until you have a circle.
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3. Carefully remove the rolled paper and place in a curling coach to make a loose circle.
You may need to prod it with tweezers to help it expand.
(All your circles need to be the same size, if you can do that without a curling coach
that’s fine! The curling coach just helps make sure all your circles are the same.)
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4. Put a little bit of glue onto a paper towel. Take your tweezers and remove the paper
from the curling coach. Dip the end into the glue, and carefully pinch both sides of the
circle to form the marquis.
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5. Repeat steps 1-4 with the remaining 8” strips of paper.
There should be six marquises total.
Now it is time to make the heart shaped ends.
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6. Take a 4” strip of paper and fold in half, roll the ends inward a little more than halfway
on both sides, and let it loosen a bit.
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7. Repeat step 6 with the rest of the 4” strips of paper. Try to keep them approximately
the same size.
There should be six heart shapes total.
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7.
!!!OPTIONAL STEP: color or draw on your card
before proceeding to step 8. !!!
I would recommend doing this with colored pencils, instead or markers or crayons.
We are now going to glue the quilled pieces to the card.
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8. Put glue on a paper towel, and use your tweezers to dip a marquis in the glue before
placing it on the card.
Place the rest of the marquises around the first one.
I like to off-center it, but it’s your card do as you wish! Arrange the pieces before glueing
it on, so that you know they will fit where you want them.
Use your fingers to gently press the shapes into the card. This will help the glue stick and
stay on that spot.
*(You may need more glue before continuing)
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9. Use your tweezers to dip the heart shapes in the glue. Place on the card so that the
marquis is poking the top of the heart.
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10. Let the glue dry. (This doesn’t usually take very long) Clean up and put your things
away.
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11. You are done!!!
You can now save this for a special occasion, or write and address it for a special
somebody!
I hope you enjoyed making this! Be inventive and create your own snowflake designs, all
snowflakes are different and unique!
Quilling is the art of curling, bending, and arranging thin strips of paper into artwork. The
ways of using quilling are many. Be creative, and make your own arrangements. You can
put your artwork on so much more than just cards! Feel free to share any ideas that you
have!
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Crochet Scrunchie
By Gloria
You will need to know how to crochet to make this. If you can crochet, this
is a fun and easy project to do! It only takes an afternoon to make!
You will need:
• Yarn (a good durable yarn, you don’t want it super stiff, and it doesn’t
have to be very thick)
• Crochet hook (I am using size H or 8 or 5mm. Adjust the size according
to your yarn)
• Scissors
• Thread (a good solid thread, the color doesn’t matter since you won’t be
able to see it)
• Needle (to go with the thread)
• Plastic needle (the ones you usually find with craft kits, you can use a
darning needle for this)
• Elastic (1/4 inch (1/2 cm) wide, and 8-9 inches (20-23 cm)long)
• Ruler (a foot-long one)
• Safety pin (makes the job so much easier! Use the biggest one you can
find)
Instructions:
1. Using your yarn and crochet hook, chain 10.
2. Turn around and single stitch across the top of the chain (make sure
you add an extra stitch before single stitching)
3. You want to make a long rectangle, so keep going back and forth
single stitching. Once it is 12 inches long (~30cm) you’re good.
4. Bind off. You’re done crocheting!
5. Darn the loose ends of yarn into the wrong side (the side you don’t
want to show). Your project should look like a long rectangle.
6. Cut a piece of yarn and sew the SHORT sides together (right sides
facing each other). When you’re done turn it right-side out. Darn in the
loose ends.
7. Fold it in half long ways, so that the wrong sides are facing each other.
Your project will resemble a donut or a bagel.
8. Cut a long piece of thread and overcast the long edges shut. Leave a
hole about an inch or so wide.
9. Open up the safety pin and thread on the piece of elastic. Close the
pin and thread the elastic through the hole in the scrunchie.
10. Cut a piece of thread and thread the needle. Sew the two ends of
elastic together. Make sure that it is secure, if the elastic comes
undone, the scrunchie is unusable.
11. Finish overcasting over the hole. I like to overlap the places that I
started and ended overcasting, just to ensure that it is all closed up.
12. Tie a small, tight knot and darn in the ends. Make sure to make it as
discreet as possible. Cut off any extra yarn.
13. You’re done!
Play around with how long you make crocheted piece, and how long you
cut the elastic. The longer the crocheted piece and the shorter the elastic,
the more it will “scrunch.”
VARIATION
If you prefer knitting, or you don’t know how to crochet. Make this
scrunchie by knitting it instead of crocheting!
You will need knitting needles instead of a crochet hook, I like working with
size 10 knitting needles, but adjust them to your preference and yarn.
1. Cast on 10 stitches
2. Knit one row
3. Purl one row (you will be doing the stockinette stitch)
4. Keep going until it is 12 inches long.
5. Bind off.
6. Continue with step 5-13 in the crocheting instructions.
Feel free to change it up! You can knit every row, purl every row, or do a combination that you like!
