Using thin strips of paper to make pictures is not something that seems run of the mill. It is said that it started in the 1500’s when there were similar decorations done with metal which were called filigree. Since it was expensive to use metal, someone thought of curling up strips of paper with a writing quill, gluing them down, and then gilding them. Some even think that the beginning of quilling was when monks and nuns had damaged bibles with already gilt pages, which they used to roll up to make the beautiful designs.
The following link is a very short video that has a nice young lady who will give you a basic idea about quilling: https://ro-ro.facebook.com/pbs/videos/728007434280735/
There is also a type of quilling where there is less rolling up of paper, and it is more like making a painting. The paper is stood up on edge, and layered as if a painting was shaded. There are some very beautiful images. Check out: https://www.artyulia.co.uk/fine-art and https://trendyartideas.com/beautiful-paper-quilling-painting-by-lucia/
However, if you would just like to have a beautiful, sometimes complex design that you can put together with a kit, there are uniquilling kits. They have foam boards, with slits cut into them. The slits are where you will be able to cut and insert the paper strips of each color to follow the pattern in the kit, which also comes with a frame. Check out: https://uniquilling.com/
The following video gives simple visual instructions for making the different quilled paper shapes, and the second video shows how to use a few of those shapes, showing how to make one capital letter outline and one small letter outline. The third video shows how to do a kit, to make some cool quilled hyacinths.
The fourth video has some creative tutorials broken up by time stamp, with an easy project, a medium hard project, and a harder project. I am not sure, I would try to add the blue pieces of paper that represent cactus spines, but not everyone has the same taste.
There is a small bit of information in the menu of recent blog posts to the right, under the title, ‘Two Types of Quilling’, or you can go to the ‘Home’ page above and find the same blog there.