Showing posts with label paper folding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paper folding. Show all posts

Saturday, March 30, 2013

How to Make an Origami Butterfly

In this tutorial, it is explained how to make an origami butterfly (designed by Akira Yoshizawa) out of a sheet of printer paper. We must first make the paper square, and then go on to make what is known as the "Water Bomb Base" or "Paper Balloon Base". 

After that, we will go on to make the wings and head of the butterfly, finally folding it into the final shape. 

This tutorial should be regarded as fairly simple and is gone over in detail.

How to Make an Origami Butterfly





Friday, March 29, 2013

How to Make an origami Business Card Holder


While browsing the web, I came across the great tutorial from Jessica Jones, over at How About Orange.  Thank You for such a wonderful and detailed tutorial.

Here's a quick and easy origami project: a business card case or gift card holder. Use patterned gift wrap (I like heavier-weight wrapping paper for a sturdier case), graph paper, a paper bag, magazine pages, or origami paper. Decorate the case with washi tape or stamps for a cute way to present gift cards. It will look like you put a lot of thought and effort into a gift that was probably the easiest thing you could buy. Slacker.

Just kidding. Sometimes gift cards are the very best present. 

To make a holder for a standard 3.5 x 2" business card, start with an 8.5" square of paper. For a standard gift card, use a 9" square.

Place the paper pretty side down. Fold the sheet in half vertically and open it back up.

Fold the left and right edges inward to meet the center fold. 

Open the paper again. Fold each corner inward so that the corner points meet the nearest crease. 

Close the left and right flaps.

Turn the paper over and fold the top down so that the exposed diagonal edges meet precisely at the fold.

Fold the bottom up in the same way, tucking the bottom edge into the diagonal flaps. They should overlap slightly. 

Insert a card to make sure it fits, then fold the case in half. All done!

To make a fabric version of this case, see this post.