Tutorial after forever :)

Hello All,

I so missed making tutorials that I HAD TO make one today! :D Here is my tutorial for using your shredder is more ways than just plain shredding of paper :) I used Kathy's Pad Challenge colours as the starting point and just rolled and rolled :) I must thank Sharenya for her exclamation when a paper shredding went wrong! She planted the idea in my head that we can try something like this with the paper that otherwise was termed spoiled! :D

You can try a host of variations of this, cut straight (as opposed to at an angle the way I have done!),cut deeper, shallower or leave the shredded ends unrolled, using multiple layers of end-shredder papers, using printed papers, two sided papers.....................sky is just the beginning for variations :) The shredded ends can even be made with hands by those who don't have a shredder. It will be a bit of work but worth trying, I guess :)

I will be posting a tutorial on how you can use your shredder as a fringer the next time. Just need some time to get that going :)

Here is the card I ended up making.. (I feel the card is still incomplete but I just ran out of ideas for 'filling it up' and will take it up later :)

I am registering the card for Kathy's Lily pad Palette challenge

Here is the video (followed by snapshots for slow internet connections!) for making the background...

SNAPSHOTS:

As I said, I have put the paper in at an angle, but you can do it straight too :)

Those (lucky!) ones who have tape runners can use the runners, I don't have one so I use glue :)

I love to make my own scrapbook like patterns on paper, so I am using a gold glitter gel pen. You can effectively use a scrapbook paper as well :)

I decided to edit this post because I got so many queries about the shredder I have used. It is a Ryman Personal A4 shredder (mine is a lurid pink colour though :D), which has an inlet width of 22 cm (it is slightly more than the short edge of an A4 paper). It shreds paper up to 120 gsm or so (I know I push its limit) to strips of slightly more than 3 mm width. I bought it online frmo UK but since they don't deliver to Sweden (delivery ONLY inside UK), I had a friend send it to me by parcel.

The shredder cost only 5 pounds but the delivery (Ryman's charges plus charges for getting it to Sweden) came to 16 pounds. So, totally, it cost me 21 pounds (I know it's expensive!).

For people in India, something similar but USB powered is available from Ebay India. For people in UAE, I think Shaikha stocks a similar shredder but made by Draper. I don't know its specifications but you can ask her. For USA, here is the link.

Hope that inspires you too to create something completely new :)

Happy Quilling

Pritesh

PS: If my posts inspire you to create something on similar lines, I feel highly flattered. But please, do respect the effort I take in conceptualizing and executing, please give a direct link to my work when you are inspired by mine. Thanks for understanding........:-)