My daughter's birthday was this past Monday and I made her a card using the bee hive technique, which can be found here http://susanquilling.blogspot.com/2011/12/beehive-flowers.html
I saw a tutorial and they recommended about an inch to start the following curl. However, I used 1 1/2 inch and tried to tighten the coil. I still like Susan's better. I'll post the whole picture once she sees the card.
Here is the card topper I had made before I realized I didn't like how the curls and coils looked.