Hello, I'm Cecelia Louie of Paper Zen. Aren't these vortex coils amazing
they're so dynamic in the way that the
papers touch in certain areas and expand
in others and they just seem to draw you
into like a black hole so I'm going to
be showing how to make these four shapes
here and I'm using the full length of my
strip so I've just quelled the entire
length of my strip and slid it off and
I'm going to pinch into a marquee
without releasing any of those coils and
I want to use as much force as I can and
do you see these points on either side I
want to really pinch them sharply and if
this is hard on your fingers perhaps
what you could do is put it against your
table and use another object to push
down on it so that you really get a good
squeeze so now I'm going to release it
and before I do I'm going to set with my
fingers I'm just going to set the
triangular shape that is going to start
unraveling too now of course you know
I'm not holding this closed anymore but
it's starting to unravel within itself
and you could actually just glue that
closed just so it doesn't unravel beyond
that triangle that you want so I'm just
going to gently put that corner pop
against the rest and
glue that part clothes just so that all
that work doesn't come undone now you
could sort of work at it you could sort
of poke at that little football in there
but you know what I started to do was I
have this case of screwdrivers set for
my glasses and I took the smallest one
and inserted it into the innermost coil
and then just started twirling this way
now sometimes my coils are so tight in
there that it's hard to get the
screwdriver in there but if you're lucky
enough and to work it in there and if
not you know no big deal just use your
needle tool and gently pry them open and
you can see that the vortex takes shape
there and if you actually start to turn
the innermost coil with your fingers
like that you can actually accentuate
those coils if you unturn it the other
way you're you're going to create a
different effect so just play with it
until you you like what you see so the
square and the diamond are actually the
same thing it's just purely the way that
you pinch and elongate one area more
than another and you can actually force
the diamond into a square so really
they're kind of the same thing
so again I'm going to pinch the same way
and really give those corners a squeeze
now when I unravel I just need to keep
in mind I want to unravel it into a
square so it tends to want to go into a
triangle like that but I need to kind of
tease it into a square
again I'm just going to glue that end
closed so all my work is not lost
now you'll wonder how did I get from
there to there well you know it actually
took a bit of work because you see how
it wants to keep wanting to be a
triangle on the inside so I basically
had to make sure that all my corners are
aligned so just keep teasing it out
until you get the square shape from the
from corner to corner from the outside
corner to the inside corner what I also
found helpful is to use the next size
screwdriver up size and then I can
unravel a bit more readily because it
has opens then the smaller screwdriver
has though no way of turning after that
so now comes the tricky part I want to
pull aside some of these corners so that
they're all aligned
and if it's not aligning like don't
force it but you see how most of these
corners are all now in one area so at
that point I'm going to put my leave my
needle tool in that corner as I pinch
again
and what this pinching does is re
accentuate the corners
see how it's sharper now then of course
we need to do the opposite side so now
I'm going to pinch the other side
so that's a square and of course you
just need to play with it a little and
there you have diamond now for the
circular shape I have to admit it was
actually hard for me to get it into a
perfect circle because we've done so
much work to crimp the edges so
essentially it's basically like the
triangle but what I found was if I
soften as much of the outside as I can I
can sort of bring it back into a
semblance of a circle and leave the
vortex to do its magic as usual I'm just
going to glue that down
and you see the vortex is already
happening now these corners are here so
all I'm really doing is kind of
softening just the outside
and then what I did was I just took
another strip of the same color and I
actually wrapped it around this shape
and then I glued it together put it into
my circle template and let that dry so
this was actually in the 16 hole with
this piece all around it so to just kind
of reinforce a little bit of a circular
pattern so I'm just going to find my
edge
now it did it didn't give me a perfect
circle the way I would have wanted to
but I just find it softened up the edges
a bit go as far as you like I'm just
going to tear this edge
and just let that kind of cure in there
when it comes to gluing these shapes can
you imagine the hell of a time that
you're gonna have gluing the tornado
down so I'm not sure if all of you guys
know this technique but basically what I
would do is choose the side that you
enjoy most
so sometimes because of the way I
inserted the strip into the tool maybe I
might have marred one side more than
another or maybe you're doing a piece
and you want all those innermost coils
to be all facing the same direction
whichever side that you choose choose
the bottom part of that coil I like the
way that this side looks then I'm going
to do what I'm going to do next on here
so do you see where all those coils are
all touching one another I'm just going
to apply some glue right across that
Ridge a very small amount and then with
your tool you can just kind of smear it
flat and try not to you know destroy all
those coils that you just took so much
time to make if you need to fix anything
go right ahead but what that's going to
do is when the glue dries it's going to
set all those coils in place and then
when you're ready to glue to your work
surface you're going to have a more
structurally sound piece to glue and you
won't have to deal with tornadoes
I always smear my glue flat so that any
of the excess glue doesn't pick up on
the sides of your quilling and show
anyone where those glue petals are now
here's the first coil that does not have
any glue holding together so I'm just
going to show you what I mean by tornado
doing so I'm pressing down to make sure
that all my glue all my edges are being
touched by that glue so if you try to
pick this up now watch what's going to
happen all that work that you just did
so even if you were to pick it up from
the middle it doesn't matter it's still
going to tornado out like that
that's not fun so here's the coil that I
have added some glue to the bottom and
that's dried now so all those coils are
all secured so let's watch what happens
when we put that one down into our glue
puddle there we go if you enjoyed this
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