I love punches, I must have about... Hmm, well lets just say its in the hundreds. Leaves are always good punches.  When you are a quiller, sometimes it's nice to have  a leaf that isn't quilled, it adds a new direction to things.  

The punches in the photograph are not ones I would normally put together, two types of holly leaf and two hearts, they don't really do much for each other.  However in quilling these particular punches are very very useful.  

They make fantastic frames!

I took a strip of paper and wrapped it around the punch, gluing as I went.     I only did a couple of rows around the punch just to show you how it works, but even they are pretty solid.  Make sure that you glue pretty well at the corners, this is obviously the weakest point, and on this shape the bottom corners hold the rest of the shape.

This is one that I made the other day just using scraps of different colours of paper, I used violet around the outside and then used a gold pen along the top to hide all the colours I had used. This has about 5 rows of paper wrapped around the punch and when the glue dried it is very solid.

You can use literally hundreds of things to make frames with.  I am sure there are lots of things in your studio that you could use.  Also in the bathroom or on your dressing table.  Just taking a look earlier I realized I could use the bottles holding foundation makeup, a deodorant bottle, a moisturizing bottle, hairspray can. There are loads of different shapes, and I'm sure I can use them for something! 

Make sure that the item does not have metal rims, especially things like hairspray cans, you have to make sure that you can get the paper off without altering the shape.  I tend to leave it for a bit until the glue has dried and then just gently ease it off.

So, what can you find in your home to quill around? I would love to know.  Tune in tomorrow to see what I made of the frames.  Happy Quilling!