Art of Paper Quilling: Designing Handcrafted Gifts and Cards

by Claire Sun-ok Choi

An exquisite paper art book featuring quilling techniques for cards and gifts. With a focus on simple, elegant projects, the The Art of Paper Quilling offers paper crafters a complete technique guide along with step-by-step project ideas for making beautiful framed pieces, cards, gifts, and more. The designs are all built upon simple rolled coils of paper that when grouped together, form intricate flowers, graceful butterflies, and delicate scrollwork...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592533868
• ISBN13: 9781592533862
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Quarry Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

The Best Quilling Book Ever

I've been quilling for a few months and was totally bored with all the little cutsie patterns and projects and didn't want to get into quilling marriage documents or birth anouncements. Everything I saw was based on the idea that you were a beginner who wasn't really interested in this craft until I found this book. The author is amazing! She is without a doubt the finest quiller I have ever seen. Her work has inspired me to expand on my own with new ideas and techniques. Her projects take you step by step through each section in clear and easy to understand directions to a finished piece that you wouldn't mind giving as a gift or framing for your own wall. There is a gallery of quilling in the back of the book that shows pieces I would never have believed were made from paper except that now I know how to do them myself from reading her book. I am working on a project now that uses 6 new techniques that I have never found in any other quilling book. It's a three demensional flower arrangement of my own design and every time I look at it I am amazed that I am the one who created it. Quilling is fun again! This book showed me that I have only just scratched the surface of this amazing craft. Thank you Claire Sun-ok Choi for taking the time to share your knowledge.

Wonderful & Inspiring!

This book definitely is the best quilling book I own or seen in stores. The projects in the book range from simple to complex. The workmanship is neat and exquisite, a great model to follow. There are some techniques that I have not seen elsewhere that produce interesting effects. The gallery of the author's work is wonderful and inspiring. I hope she would publish a book on how to create those large, complex pieces of quilling artworks. I'd like to try creating one of those heirloom-quality quilling artworks and proudly hang on my wall. The "Art" of Paper Quilling is a very fitting title for the book. Update: The book has folded roses that are much prettier then roses in other books. However, the directions on page 24 were not detailed enough for me to follow and produce a good looking rose like the ones in the book. I emailed Claire asking for step-by-step instructions. She replied with a video she recorded demonstrating the folded rose. Absolutely wonderful! Seeing it done once is a thousand times better then reading instructions on how it should be done. After seeing the video, I was able to create folded roses just like the ones in the book.

Wonderful, Artistic, and Instructional

I own several paper quilling books and this is one of my favorites. I highly reccomend it. Claire shows off beautiful work, ranging from the simple to the complex. I also enjoyed her gallery in the back a great deal. The only thing is that nearly all the pieces are floral themed, which I found to be perfectly fine.

Wonderful Work in a Great Book

I am fairly new to the art of paper quilling and was not really very interested until I received this book. Ms. Choi did a wonderful job in the explanation of techniques and methods in which to create wonderful projects with paper. This book has full color photos and complete illustrated sketches as well as instructions on how to create great projects. I am very interested in making the square gift box on page 102 and was surprised to see that the author has given detailed instructions on how to create the box that the quilling will be placed on. (In most cases I am told to go to my nearest store to purchase a ready made box!) She even has given embellishment tips. Great job on a great book. I will definately recommend this book to anyone out there who is interested in paper quilling.

Exquisite quilling

Filled with beautiful designs and exquisite worksmanship, Claire Choi takes quilling from craft to art.