Paper Folding Crafts

For starters, lets deal with the beautiful art of Origami. Basically Origami involves a small number of various folds. However, intricate designs can be made using origami paper folding by combining these folds. Although professionals would insist on a Kami, a thin, easy to fold paper, any normal notebook paper can be used for practicing this paper craft. Kami is a type of paper, colored from one side and plain on the other. Notebook paper can be used, especially for making a crane and a watercomb. In the Occident, the most popular of the paper folding objects is paper boats and airplanes. These are the most practiced and known paper folding crafts.

Now after reading about Origami, I am sure you must be itching to get into some action. So check out the ways for folding a paper flower. If you do not have a kami, well then, no problems, you can indulge in some paper napkin folding.

Folding Paper Flowers

• Keep 3 to 6 sheets of tissue paper or paper napkin at your disposal. If you can use tissues of different color, then it will be an icing on the cake. Nevertheless, a single color napkin will serve the purpose. So after compiling the tissues, lay them on top of each other, to make a stack.
• After you are done with this, mark 6-by-6 inch square on the topmost tissue paper. Making sure that the markings are proper, cut the squares of tissue paper.
• Now stacking the cut squares of tissue paper and then fold an edge an edge towards the inner side, the fold not being more than an inch.
• Fold the stack inward at the same corner, but flip the stack now.
• After you are down with folding on the inward sides, hold the stack in the compressed, folded accordion. Follow this up by folding the stack in half. This will provide the base for the flower.
• Get the hold of the paper at the base and then using a floral wire, wrap around the base. It should be around half an inch up considering the bottom of the base.
• Wrap the wire till the bottom of the paper all through.
• Wrapping the pipe cleaner around the base, cover the remaining part of the tissue paper. Now uncover the shape of the flower by pulling out the layers of the paper. Now, this is like a Pandora's box. Keep on pulling out the layers, till you do not get the perfect shape you want.

Its pretty easy, isn't it? Well, you can try folding a paper star as well, by a technique similar to this. There are also many paper folding patterns available which can be of further help. Flowers or stars made using Origami paper folding technique can also be used in greeting cards, scrapbook, your craft book and so on. Paper folding crafts can really add that personal touch to your gift or card.

If you find folding for making a particular thing too cumbersome, there always these craft related books. The crease pattern is the contemporary form of origami and involves amazingly intricate and delicate creases to form a single object. Its absolutely miraculous.

There is a lot more that can be done using these paper folding crafts, than just flowers or stars. So get set to unfold the miracles and uniqueness of the art of paper crafts and paper folding!