Monthly Archives: November 2008
06/11/08 Video Tutorial Showing How To Fold An Origami Lily Or Iris
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05/11/08 A Field Of Origami Flowers
I think you will like this video of a field of origami flowers! A little bit of creativity and ingenuity and lots of paper, and you get the following:
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04/11/08 A World Of Origami Kingdoms!
I am amazed! I am amazed at how versatile origami is. And with enough time and patience, a whole kingdom can be folded! Over at Oriland.com, you can explore several kingdoms that the two authors have created from just origami. It’s amazing what they have done. There are a lot of free origami folding instructions [...]
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03/11/08 Pink Lily
Here is a pink lily that I made. The lily turned out really nice and huge! It measures almost 9″ in diameter! Just like with the orchid, I got the instructions for this from a CD from Oriland.com. I make them with 20″ long stems using floral wire and tape.
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03/11/08 White Phalaenopsis Orchid
I really like this origami flower of a white phalaenopsis orchid. This flower requires 3 sheets of paper (one large, one medium, one small). The large sheet is for the flower petals, and the two smaller sheets are for the mouth of the orchid. I got the instructions for this from a CD I bought [...]
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03/11/08 Video Tutorial Showing How To Fold An Origami Kawasaki Rose
The long stem roses that I fold are folded using the Kawasaki method. It only uses a single square sheet of paper. I know some other methods use several pieces of paper. But I like to sticking to one sheet if at all possible. And this Kawasaki rose looks gorgeous! There are free tutorials for [...]
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03/11/08 Long Stem Roses
Roses are forever flowers, in my opinion. They are timeless in what they stand for. Here are some paper origami roses. I’ve made these in various colors. I make these with 20″ long wire stems. The roses measure about 4″ in diameter.
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02/11/08 Origami Flowers: Popular Blossoms and Creative Bouquets Review
One of the books I use as reference for my origami flowers is the book written by Hiromi Hayashi called Origami Flowers: Popular Blossoms and Creative Bouquets. This book includes many different flowers. And all of them are very close to the real thing, you’d be hard pressed to tell them apart if you mixed [...]
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02/11/08 Purple Floret
This is a simple purple floret origami paper flower. When you combine a couple dozen of these, and arrange them in a sphere, you’ll get a hydrangea! The instructions for this one is also in the book “Origami Flowers: Popular Blossoms and Creative Bouquets” written by Hiromi Hayashi. The folding diagrams for this floret is [...]
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02/11/08 Yellow Star Flower
This yellow star origami paper flower was made with yellow paper. This particular flower takes some skill to make as the folds need to be exact to make the petals thin enough to form a star shape. The directions for this yellow star flower can be found in the book “Origami Flowers: Popular Blossoms and [...]
Tags: star flower, yellow
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