Well, this is my fourth Tulips quilling frame. Here are my first, second & third tulips arrangements. If I consider miniature as well, then this becomes my fifth one.
As mentioned in my previous posts, my love for Tulips started in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In my recent visit to my sister's place, we happened to visit Dallas arboretum. Tulips were in full bloom and I was astonished to see the wide variety of Tulips.
Probably, that picture might have registered in the back of my mind and silently inspired me to pick this Tulips project in rainbow (VIBGYOR) colors.
Each flower needs 4 petals and each petal was made with 6 strips. So, a total of 96 strips need to be worked up on. This involves 7 colors => 672 strips.. It took awfully lot of time to prepare the flowers. Stemming and then covering the floral wire with crepe paper is one big task. The leaves again had to be cut from crepe paper and stemmed carefully. It's been really long since I made a paper quilling butterfly. So, I wanted to add one here. Here comes my Tulips arrangement with ~700 strips. Though it was tiresome, I liked the final outcome.
A closer look at the butterfly
