Birdhouse With Quilled Flowers

I was cleaning my craft room the other day and found my box of quilling papers.  I also re-discovered my birdhouse cutting die.  It seemed like a perfect pairing, so I got to work.

I cut the main part of the birdhouse from Pool Play cardstock* and the roof from Pumpkin Bread cardstock*.  The shingles were cut using the Border Basics die set*

Most of the quilling was done using Juya quilling paper. I used 3" strips for the flower petals and leaves.  The stems vary from 3" - 5".  They're all very basic shapes.  It had been quite a while since I had done any quilling, so they're not all consistent.  Here's a closer look.

 

I used up most of my black strips for the "hole" in the front of the birdhouse and I made a couple skinny pegs from brown paper and stacked them for the perch under the hole.

All in all, it was a fun project and I think the resulting birdhouse is adorable. I think I will fill it with treats and give it to one of my bird loving friends.

Item List

Bird House Box cutting die*

Border Basics cutting die*

Pumpkin Bread cardstock*

Pool Play cardstock*

Juya quilling paper

Quilling tool

White glue

Quilled Creations Precision Tip Glue Applicator*

Coffee Filter Rose

For Thanksgiving this year, my son set an empty place in honor of a soldier he lost from his unit and he asked me for a rose to include in the place setting.  There is quite a bit of symbolism to each item at the table and he didn't have all of them this year but he plans to make this a tradition every year.
Not knowing about the tradition beforehand, I did not realize the rose was supposed to be red, so it was white this year. I made it from a large coffee filter and I think it turned out pretty good for a first attempt.  Several people asked me for a tutorial, so here it is.

The coffee filter I used is enormous, but you could use any size filter. Why do I have such enormous filters? A friend of a friend ordered the wrong size and rather than send them back, gave them to me. I've been trying to figure out what to do with them ever since.