Beginners Course - How to make 3 Beautiful Paper Quilled Earrings

1. Introduction: Hello. My name is Anisha, and I'm the instructor for this course. Thank you so much for choosing this course and I'm very happy to welcome you here. This is a beginner friendly course and you will just need some basic tools and supplies to get started. In this course, you will get introduced to the tools and supplies that are required, and you'll learn how to use these tools to make some basic quilt shades. Then you will start learning to make three beautiful paper quilt earrings with clear step by step instructions. Since these earings are made out of paper, you will also learn how to water approve them. Towards the end of this class, you will have more ideas to create your own personalized jewelry. Come on, let's get started. 2. Tools and Supplies: In the section, let's see the list of tools that are required for this project. The first one is a slot a coiling tool. This is the basic tool that you'll be using for almost all the coiling projects. This tool has a slit at the top wherein the paper has to be inserted and then rolled to a coil, and you also have a handle to hold. This coiling tool comes in different lengths so you can choose the one that you like. Next would be a pair of sharp scissors. This is used for trimming and cutting the paper strip. Next one will be a pair of tweezers. You can either use straight or angle tweezes. I personally prefer to use angle tweezes, as it's easy to lift the coils from the template board, and you can also use the tweezers to position the shapes in the QL the projects. Next one is a very useful template board. This is available in different sizes and shapes. For this project, I'm going to use the circular template board. It has circles ranging from the largest to the smallest, and for each size, you'll have multiple slots. This is very useful in situations where you have to create identical sized coils. Next is this fine tip glue applicator. Generally, for coiling projects, you need only a tiny bit of glue to stick the paper strips. This nozzle helps in letting out only a little bit of glue at a time. And you can fill this bottle with the craft glue that you're going to use, and it also comes with a lid, which prevents the glue from getting tried. This is a useful tool. But if you don't have it, you can also go for toothpicks. You can just spread the glue in a palette and you can use this toothpick and pick a little bit of glue and you can use that to stick the paper strips. As we are going to make some earrings, you will also need some jewelry tools like pliers. I'm going to use both flat and round nose pliers. You would also need a clear top coat nail polish. Instead of this, you can also use mod patch with a brush. This is just to give some waterproofing. Finally, you would need some jump rings and earring hooks. 3. Paper Types: In the section, let's see the type of paper strips that we will be using for this project. For all the three earrings that I'm going to make. I've chosen three MM white coiling strips. The colors are completely up to you. You can choose anything that you prefer. These coiling strips comes in different sizes and width, like three MM, five M, seven MM and ten MM. I have chosen three MM, but you can even choose five M if you want to. These iling strips are available in multicolor packs or single color packs. You can go for either of them as per your preference. 4. Basic Shapes: In the section, let's see how to use the tools to make some of the basic shapes that we'll be using for this urings project. I'm going to take a single three MM it coiling strip. Insert the tip of the coiling strip in the slit at the top of the tool. Hold it tightly and start rolling. Just slide your fingers down the paper strip as you keep rolling. Continue to roll till you reach the other end of the paper strip. As the coil gets formed, you can place it in between your fingers like this and continue to roll. Do it slowly and. Now we have reached the other end. Hold it tight like this and slide your fingers through the tool and take it out. Hold it well and apply a little bit of glue to the end. And seal it. Just hold for a few seconds and it will be stuck. That's all. This is called a tight coil, and this is the basic shape that we'll be using in almost all the coiling projects. The next one is going to be a loose coil Is the tip into the and start rolling as we did for the tight coil. T. Continue to roll till the other end. You have a tight coil now. Slide the shape out of the tool. I'm going to make a loose coil first. For this, I'm going to use the template board and place it in one of the slots and leave it to unwind and then I'm using this angle tweezers to take it out. This is how a loose coil will look. I'm just securing the end with a bit of glue. And you have a loose coil. This is a tight coil and this is a loose coil. To convert it into a tear drop shape, I'm just holding it in one hand and pinching at the corner and you have a tear drop shape. I have another loose coil now. The loose coil will be the base for making almost all the shapes. Let me show you how to make an eye shape. I'm just holding it and pressing it at the opposite ends. You have an eye shape now. See how to make a triangle. I have a loose coil. I'm just making a tear drop by pinching one of the corners. I'm just placing it against my fingers like this and I'm pushing it down and you have a triangle. That's all. Next, we'll see how to make a square shape. I'm just placing it in between my fingers and I'm pressing the opposite ends to create an eye shape and turn it like this, and you have to press the remaining two, two opposite ends. Now you have a square. Now we'll see how to make hard shape. For this, you'll need two identical sized loose coils. I'm just taking one now and I'm holding it and pressing at one of the corners to get a tear drop shape. I'm going to do the same thing with the other loose coil as well. Just to get a tear drop. Now we have two similar tear drops of same size. Now I'm applying glue to one of the sides of the tear drops and I'm going to fix the other one. Just hold it tightly and press it. Continue to hold for a few seconds, so that it remains in place. Just press the tip, and now the heart shape is ready. These are some of the basic shapes that we'll be using for making the earrings. 5. Lotus Earrings Project 1: In this section, let's see how to make a simple and elegant lotus earrings. For this earrings, I'm going to use a pink color iling strip. It's a three M white strip. I've taken one strip out of it. I'm just going to cut it into half. For this, I'm just folding it and bringing the ends together. Mark the center and cut it down with the scissors. Let me show you how long this one measures. The half cut strip measures around 22.5 centimeter. The whole strip will be 45 centimeter long. You'll be needing five of these half cut strips. I have taken one, and I'm going to insert the tip into the slit at the top of the tool and I'm going to start rolling. Continue to roll till you reach the other end. Hold it tightly and slide it out of the stool. Apply a bit of glue to the end and seal it. Just hold for a few seconds. It will be stuck. Now you have a tight coil, keep it aside, and I've taken another half that paper strip. Just insert the tip into the equ tool and continue to roll. Once you reach the other end, hold it and slide it out. Now I'm going to place it in the template board. I'm placing it in the size two of the template board. Leave it to unwind and use the tweezers to take it out and now I'm going to apply some glue to the end, and seal it. You have a loose coil now, and then hold it and press at the opposite end to convert it into an ice shape. This will be a petal. I'm going to repeat the same for the remaining two coils as well. Just apply some glue, seal the edge, and place it between your fingers and press it at the opposite ends. And for the last one. Seal it and press it. For now, we have made three petals, but for each hearing, we need to make five petals. So we have to make two more petals. I've made all the five petals ready and I have the tight coil as well. Let's start gluing the petals to the tight coil. And just applying a little bit of glue to one of the ends of the petals. Tick it to the tight coil. Continue to do the same for all the petals. Just apply glue to one of the ends. And stick it close to the previous better. For the third petal, I'm going to apply glue to the end and also to one of the sides. Just reposition it when the glue is still wet. For the last one as well, like to the sip end to one of the sides. That's all done, and the final petal is going to go in the center. I'm going to apply glue on both the sides of the petals. Just place it at the center like this. Leave it a dry for some time, and you would also need to make another one of exactly the same way. To seal this earrings, you can either use a top nail polish or you can use mot patch. Both of them will have the same purpose. If you're using mot patch, you can apply it with the help of a brush. Before applying the top coat, just place it on top of the polythene sheet, and I'm just taking the clear nail polish. Apply it generously on both the sides. Make sure you cover all the surface, even the tips corners everywhere. Just flip it over and do the same for the other side as well. Make sure you cover all the places, so that it gets sealed completely. It's almost done now. Leave it to rest on a polythene sheet and repeat the same for the other earrings as well. If you're using pot, you have to do the same way, but with the help of a brush. It's all done on both the sides now. I'm just going to apply it on the corners. Once it's completely dried, you could see the firmness and you could get that shine as well. If you prefer, you can even apply another coat of this clear varnish. But I'm sticking onto just one coat. Now let's attach the earing hooks to the earing base. I've taken jump rings and also earing hooks. You have to use the pliers to open the jump ring and insert the jump ring through the gaps at the top of the petal and take the earing hook. T and insert the loop of the earing hook into the jumping and close it. Close it and make sure there is no gap in the opening place of the jumping, close it tightly, and it's all done. You have to do the same process for fixing the earing hooks to the other earing as well. Just open the jumping, insert it in the gap at the top of the petal. Attach the earing hook. And close it. That's all beautiful pair of lotus earrings is now ready. You can either make this in single color or if you prefer to go for a lighter shade of pink, you can also use that color to make this earrings. I hope you liked it. Let's move on to the next earing project. 6. Hanging Hearts Earrings Project 2: In this section, let's see how to make a beautiful double colored heart hearings. For this, I've taken a salmon pink color strip and also a maroon color strip. Both are three M white ailing strips. I've taken a salmon pink strip and I'm just inserting the tip of the coiling strip into the tool and I'm starting to roll. We have to roll till you reach the other end of the strip. Hold it tightly and take it out and we have to place it in the template board size two of the template board and leave it to unbind. Make a tight coil with another salmon pink color coiling strip. Take it out and place it on the exactly the same size two of the template board. Let it unwind. I've taken a maroon color coiling strip and I'm going to roll it into a tight coil first. Take it out and place it in the next slot. Place one more maroon color coil in the next slot. All four coils has to be of same size. That is why we are using this template board and take one of the coils and apply some glue and secure it and hold the coil and pinch at one of the corners to make a tear drop shape. Take the other salmon pink coil and do the same by applying the glue and seal the edge and press to get a tear drop shape. Repeat the same process for the remaining two maroon colored coils as well. And make a tier drop out of this final maroon color coil. Now we have four tier drop shapes, two in each color. Apply a little bit of glue to one of the sides of the tier drop and take the other tier drop shape and bring it together and press. Press it firmly and hold it for a few seconds till it gets stuck. Now you have a beautiful art shape. Make another heart with the two maroon color tear drop shapes, the same way. Just apply a little bit of clue to one of the sides and bring the other tear drop, press it and hold it firmly. Till it gets stuck. Hold it there for a few seconds. Now the maroon hart shape is also ready. I've pick on salmon pink color coiling strip. I'm just folding it and I'm going to cut it into half. I'm going to do the same for the meron colored strip as well. I'm just folding it and make a cut at the center. I'm just going to glue the maroon color strip with the salmon pink color strip. Each of them is half cut coiling strips. I'm just gluing them together. Now, insert the edge of the maroon color coiling strip inside the coiling and roll it into a tight coil. When you reach the end, take it out, and place it in the size two of the template board, leave it to unwind. Use tweezers to take it out and apply some glue to the end and seal the edge. Now you have a loose coil. You have to press at one of the ends to make it into a tear drop. This is a double colored tear drop. Now, once everything is dried, we have to assemble, have taken a maroon color strip and have applied some glue on both the edges of the tear drop, and I'm placing the salmon pink color hard shape on top of it. Apply some glue to the tip of this tear drop. And attach it to the bottom of the maroon color ut. Make sure it's all straight. Leave it undisturbed for some time till it gets dried. In the meantime, we have to prepare a tiny tight coil with a salmon pink color strip. I've taken a half cut strip and I'm just cutting into another half. It's like one of a coiling strip. I'm just inserting into the tool and making a tight coil. Apply some glue and secure the edge. Tight coil is ready. It has to be attached to the top of the pink color hard shape. Attach the tight coil here like this and let it dry completely. In the same way, make another earring, exactly the same size. Here, we are going to seal it with the clear varnish. You can also use mod watch, as I already said, apply generously all over. Turn it over and do the same for the other side as well. Need to apply around the edges to make sure all the parts of the earrings are completely covered with this varnish. Once it's all done, let it rest till it gets dried completely and repeat the same for the other earing as well. Always make sure to use some polythene sheets for placing the coated earrings. It's all completely dried now. You can see the nice shine on these earrings. I've taken two jump rings and two earring hooks. You have to insert the jumping into the tiny tight coil at the top of the earring. Just open the jumping and insert it at the center. Put in an earring hoop and you have to close the jump ring. Make sure there are no gaps. Just close it as tightly as you can. And it's done. Do the same for the other earing as well. I'm just opening the jumping. Insert it into the tight coil at the top. Attach the earing hook and close the jumping. All done. Another beautiful pair of double colored heart shaped earrings is ready. I hope you enjoyed making this earing with me. Let's move on to another interesting earring. 7. Circular Earrings Project 3: In this section, let's see how to make a beautiful and vibrant circular earrings. For this, I'm going to use two color strips. One is a teal color, the other one is yellow. Both are three MM white. I'm going to take three te color paper strips. I've taken three. Just apply glue to one of the ends of the paper strip. I'm just going to attach all these three together and bring in the other paper st and attach it. And get to the end of this paper strip and apply some glue and fix the third coiling strip. Just glue it and press it for some time so that it gets stuck. That's all. Now, we have a long teal color coiling strip. Get to one of the ends of the strip and insert it into the coiling and start rolling. Keep rolling. It's going to be a big sized tight coil. You have to roll till you reach the other end. Once done, take it out, and apply some glue to the other end and press it and hold it for some time and you have this tight coil. Next, I've taken two yellow color paper strips. I'm just folding it into half and I'm cutting it at the center. Now I have four half yellow color strips. I've taken one of it, and I'm going to roll it into a tight coil first. Once you reach the other end, hold it and take it out of the tool. Glue the end. Just hold it for some time. It's all done. Repeat the same with all the remaining three half cut yellow strips and make tight coils. Take another full length yellow color paper strip. Insert it into the tool and roll it till you reach the other end. Take it out and seal the edge with a little bit of glue. And that's all you have one big coil and just pressing it to get it to a te. Apply some glue to the rounded edge of the tear drop and attach it to the teal color coil like this. Now we have to fix these tiny yellow color coils. Apply some glue to two points. Make sure one of the glue point attached to the, the other one attached to the tear drop shape. Do the same for the other one as well. Use ases if you find it difficult to handle it with your hands. Attach the last yellow color coil next to the another tight coil like this. I've taken a color strip and I'm going to cut it into a half. Roll it into a tight coil. Take it out and glue the end. You have a tiny tight coil. Apply some glue and fix it exactly at the opposite end of the clear color coil, opposite to the tear drop. Leave it to rest for some time and make another earing in the same way. I'm going to the v. Just apply it generously all over on both the sides and around the edges. Just make sure you cover the entire surface of the earrings with this clear varnish. Once it's all done, leave it to rest on a polythene sheet and do the same for the other earing as well. Cover all the sides with this varnish and again, leave it to rest. Once they are completely dried, you can attach the earing hooks. For this, I've taken two jumps and two hooks. Take the and with the help of the per, just open it up. And insert it into the hole at the top of the tight coil and attach the earing hook and close the jumping with help of another player. Just close it without any gaps, and that's all that. In the same way, insert the jump ring into the tight coil at the top. Insert the earning hook into the j and close it tightly. That's all. Our double colored and vibrant looking circular earrings is now red. I hope you like this design. You can however use colors of your choice. You can either go for double color or even triple colored or you can make with a single color strip as well. The choice is completely. With this, we have come to the end of this course. 8. Conclusion: We have come to the end of this course. Thank you so much for joining me here. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and keep practicing more and more and enjoy the process of making your own quill jewelries. I hope the instructions were clear and easy to follow, and it would be great if you could take some time to leave a review. Happy illing, and I'll see you all again in another interesting project. So then take care bye.