When I take a bottle of wine to a friend I like to decorate it with something fun and festive. Here is an easy-to-make idea that could be used to accompany your gift of a special bottle of champaign, wine, or other beverage, for any occasion. The origami hat you see here is my own [...]
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With the approach of the holiday season this festive origami twist box is an easy-to-make container for a small gift. Fold the box using red and green papers for Christmas or orange and black papers for Halloween. As a wedding favor the box could be folded with white or pastel colors; for a birthday party any [...]
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Don’t wait for Valentine’s day, Mother’s day or a birthday to give! An unexpected present creates a joyful moment for the recipient, and the giver too. A handmade gift expresses depth of feeling and a greater degree of personal involvement in a relationship than a mass-produced item. A few weeks ago, at Maria Sinayskaya’s flikr [...]
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When making greeting cards, I like to keep myself open to the many creative possibilities offered by traditional and simple origami models. In this post we’ll look at one example of using the traditional origami windmill to create different cards. Note for beginners: If you’re just getting into folding, the video below will show you [...]
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When visiting Evi Binzinger’s flikr page not long ago, I spotted –among other lovely origami models, this swallowtail butterfly that Evi had created. I fell in love with it and immediately set myself the task of deciphering the folding sequence. This sequence turned out to be as enjoyable as looking at the finished butterfly. With [...]
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I added handles to a triangular box created by Hans-Werner Guth and made myself a contemporary fashionable handbag. It is made from an A size rectangle. Clever and a pleasure to fold! Now it’s time to take a walk around town and show it off. Cool! Diagrams for the triangular box HERE. Crease pattern HERE. [...]
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The heart-shaped picture frame shown in the left panel was designed by Mike Van Horne. It’s a nice and easy origami model folded from the windmill base. For the variation shown on the right, I added a few more folds that made for a firmer lock, removed the small white “cracks” and produced the solid [...]
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I love the symbolism of hens: fertility, abundance, the feminine force, maternity, and the beginning of life. I designed this origami inflatable hen a while back and it became the inspiration for my logo. I call this model ‘Abundance Hen’ because as a container it can be filled with various small items. Depending on your [...]
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World’s Best Origami’ by Nick Robinson is a treasure trove of origami models for anyone from beginner to seasoned expert. The book is divided into ten chapters with each including models suitable for beginning, intermediate, and advanced paper-folders. Traditional and classic models are featured along with elegantly ingenious models created by contemporary origami artists from [...]
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