Eiffel Tower (la tour Eiffel)

The biggest attraction of city of love, Paris

The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It was named after the engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and build the tower.

I have been staying near the city of love, Paris, since last three months. Orsay-ville, a beautiful hill station of the Paris region, is my new residence and certainly the new nest to nurture my creative ideas :)

With time, I had realized that Paper Quilling art is not just something I like to do, but it is something which gives me enormous happiness and a passion to live with for long. So I created my very first quillography and 3D assembly project with the theme of EIFFEL TOWER or la tour Eiffel as the French would say.

Here comes the picture of the completed project.

The center is a hand drawn Eiffel Tower (created from an impression) and then outlining it with 3 mm width black text-quilling strips from A-one craft supply, Bangalore. The rest of the quilling is done with 3 mm light green text-quilling strips. The beehive pattern to fill up the texts (Adine Kirnberg Calligraphic font) is done with light blue and orange color strips, each of 3 mm width.

Canvas background: The complete project is created on an A4 size (8 X 10 inches) canvas. The canvas background is created by the distressing effect with Tim Holtz distress inks (purchased from the craft shop, Bangalore).

The 3D assembly is a technique by which the flowers, leaves and swirls are incorporated on the project and customized accordingly.

Following are snapshots of the project on the go:

Outlining text with text-quilling strips and also the Eiffel tower impression (high gsm, 3 mm wide)

 Completed outlining the text

Completed beehive pattern inside the outline of text

For the floral assembly, all the flowers, leaves and swirls etc are assembled separately and finally they are arranged on the final project. 

 Preparing the 3D flowers on silicone sealant

Below I have shown another assembly idea which can be used in any other project and can be arranged in a customized way.

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