Instructions:

To begin, you will need your slotted tool and cardstock. If you are cutting your own strips, follow the directions for the layout using the width and length of the paper strip as instructed. Place the paper strip into the slotted end of the quilling tool making sure the edge of the paper is even with the tip. Hold the slotted quilling tool in your right hand and your fingers of your left hand over the paper. (If you're left handed, reverse the process.) Now, start turning the tool away from you or toward you, as your fingers of your left hand hold the paper at the tip of the quilling tool. Keep turning until all the paper is curled, then glue and shape as directed below. Try to make sure it is rounded as you turn, and not square, or the final result will end up not a perfect circle. 

Here are some sample instructions for shapes to get you started: 

1. Tight Circle*: glue end to circle before taking it off the slotted quilling tool.
2. Loose Circle: take the quilled circle off the slotted tool and let it loosen slightly, then glue the end to form a circle.
3. Teardrop: take a loose circle and pinch one end bringing it to a point.
4. Eye: take a loose circle and pinch two ends opposite of each other, bringing both ends to a point.

Autumn in New York*

Take the Harvest Leaves® paper 3" x 8 ½" strip and place on left side of the brown 8 ½" x 11" cardstock, to start border. Glue in place, layer with the terra-cotta color and then the mustard. Place two of the 4 ¼"x 4 ¼" squares Harvest Leaves® to the right of the border ¼ of the way down, leaving room for the title. Layer the 4" x 4" forest green squares on the Harvest Leaves® paper. Take the ½"x ½" squares in orange, forest green and terra-cotta and glue them at an angle on the mustard strip border.

Making the autumn leaves:
Make four marquise shapes in forest green and glue them closed. Make one more marquise shape and do not glue it closed, leave a strip open and scroll the end upward for the stem of the leaf. Then place a drop of glue between the stem and the marquise shape. Repeat this for each of the remaining orange, brown and terra-cotta colors. You should have five leaves: two forest green, one mustard, one orange and one terra-cotta. Place the leaves on the squares and glue them together as well as to the cardstock squares.

Well, there you have it! You have been introduced to the art of Quilling in scrapbooks by the Author of Creative Quilling for Scrapbooks©. Click here to order this book or a quilling tool.