paper quilling for beginnersá: a complete all-in-one guide to creating 75 paper flowers, plants, vegetables and decorative items!

Create beautiful paper flowers, vegetables and decorative items with this comprehensive quilling guide for beginners!

Under the expert guidance of Japanese quilling artist Motoko Maggie Nakatani, one of the world’s top paper quilling experts, you will learn how to make many wonderful paper objects with just a few inexpensive tools and paper strips. Maggie’s simple roll-shape-and-paste paper quilling method is ideal for beginners--allowing you to form dozens of shapes and objects easily.

Paper Quilling for Beginners features easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographic instructions for 30 projects comprised of 75 adorable paper quilled objects, including:

• Frilly flowers with ornate petals and leaves which make sweet and romantic decorations!
• Colorful vegetables, herbs and fruits that look lovely on your kitchen wall or containers!
• Decorative tiles with fancy whorls and flourishes that can be framed to add a splash of kaleidoscopic color to any room
• Japanese dolls, lions and masks which add a touch of Asian flair to miniature hoop frames and shadow box arrangements
• Delicate butterfly and heart brooches and other one-of-a-kind wearable art pieces that add the perfect finishing touch to any ensemble
• And dozens of other delightful projects!

This complete how-to guide has templates as well as information on how to display and use your finished creations--as framed displays, handmade cards, accessories, bouquets and personal accessories.

Motoko Maggie Nakatani discovered her love for quilling when she owned a toy and candy shop in Kobe, Japan. She taught herself to quill and began importing quilling tools and materials to sell in her shop beginning in 2003. After attending her first North American Quilling Guild convention, she was inspired to offer quilling classes to pass along the techniques that she’d developed herself and learned from other quillers. Maggie is also the lead instructor for Botanical Quilling Japan, a group that focuses on work expressing the seasonal beauty of plants and flowers. She is a founding member of the Japan Quilling Guild and the Japanese representative to the North American Quilling Guild.