Origami Flowers and Boxes
I was given copies of these Origami books to review. Affiliate links to Amazon below.
Paper is a fun medium to work with. I love the fact that it is a very inexpensive craft. Generally, I do paper quilling. Some of my most popular paper projects on the Sitcom are my Quilled Monogram, Quilled Butterfly in a Jar, and Quilled Starry Night. Unlike quilling which consists of paper coils, Origami is the art of folding paper to create unique shapes.
This week, I’m reviewing two great origami books, Origami Boxes Super Paper Pack
and Origami Flowers Super Paper Pack
by Maria Noble. Both books have easy step by step photos, and each supplies you with a nice big stack of beautiful paper to work with!
I used my books to create this pretty paper flower sculpture, sitting in it’s own paper folded box. Yes, I know it is winter, but isn’t a pretty paper flower in the windowsill a nice distraction from the wintry weather?
Love unique origami ideas? Well these two books not only show you how to create beautiful floral masterpieces out of paper, but also supply the colorful paper to make them with!
The Origami Flowers Super Paper Pack includes complete step-by-step instructions for tulips, lilies, roses, and other flowers, contained in a removable 32-page booklet.
The pack also includes 464 sheets of beautiful origami paper, printed on both sides, in nearly 40 different colors and patterns!
I was immediately drawn to these pretty tulips.!
The Origami Boxes Super Paper Pack features 10 box designs and over 200 pages of double-sided origami paper. Perfect for thinking “outside the box” with your origami!
This pack includes step-by-step instructions for 10 origami boxes of all shapes, some with lids and some self-closing, and 464 sheets of origami paper in more than 30 different colors and patterns, printed on both sides, and bound into the book for easy removal.
I was perusing the Origami Boxes Super Paper Pack, when I found it…the project that needed to be made.
After some thought, I finally chose the pretty paper that I wanted to work with and began the folding process to make my little box.
Would you believe this little box is made from one sheet of origami paper? No cutting. Just fold away! The instructions were easy to follow and I love the fact that I have so much paper to choose from!
To fill it with flowers, I went back to the Origami Flower book and chose a pretty red paper. Each flower takes just one sheet of paper to make.
The instructions even included how to fold up green origami paper to create the leaves and stems! My tiny little centerpiece came to life in no time!
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I really enjoy reading your emails. I would really like to see creative new ideas or patterns to make as gifts for the holidays or birthdays. The more unique, the better i say. Keep up the goof job 🙂
I just joined and love this site. I would really like to see some more no sew quilting projects. I am going to try a few of these projects I saw on the site. Hope 2016 is a great year!
I just joined and love this site. I would really like to see some more no sew quilting projects. I am going to try a few of these projects I saw on the site. Hope 2016 is a great year!
I just signed up, and already love what I see! Would love some tips on wine bottle crafts, and burlap tips- seems to unravel too much. Thanks and be blessed!
I love the sitcom and I love the traveling sitcom even more. Hubby and I are seriously considering the RV lifestyle while we are still young enough to enjoy.
I would like to see more crafts using natural and found materials. Such as pine cones, seashells, and found or repurposed materials. And projects to do with the g-kids would be much appreciated.
I love all your projects but I would love to see more ideas for quilling. Love Origami projects!
I would love to see more repurposing projects. Thank you for this great giveaway.
I like upcycle/recycle and paper crafts.
I like upcycled/recycled craft projects, holiday craft projects, paper crafts, and kid’s crafts. If it’s short and sweet, all the better since I don’t have time for more involved projects. Thanks for the awesome giveaway.
Great blog! I would love to see some simple but interesting things to with polymer clay, how to blend, make beads or small flowers, etc,. I would also like to see more stuff to do with modge podge. And this is a given (?) . . . how to use fabric for origami, that would certainly open up lots of possibilities. Have a great Christmas and a happy New Year
Well, let’s see. I love all kinds of crafty things so it’s hard to choose but I would
LOVE to see some tutorials on how to paint with acrylics. I’m good at painting 3D objects but when it comes to painting on a canvas I’m not too good. I don’t know where to put the shadows or highlights just to name a couple.
I would love to see more paper crafts
I enjoy all your projects! I teach art to teens and adults that have developmental disabilities and we always work on our abilities of what we can do and your crafts have been a great help very age appropriate and easy to follow directions all the participants have been very successful and proud of there accomplishments with your help. we would some new recycled projects – reduce, reuse, repurpose.
How many different things can you do with a paper plate(s)?
Mixed media, I don’t know where to start, but I want to do. Merry Christmas
I love your projects. I am definitely a fan of quilling and I love watercolour painting so projects and tips would be great.
I always find the engineering of the craft the hardest. Could you do a few posts specific to glues, paints etc. I really want to do the alcohol paint projects, but trying to buy the right paint when you get to the store is a pain! Maybe a list or suggestions on what tools and supplies you keep on hand and organization ideas. Love your email and travel blog!
I’d like to see paper projects. I enjoy quilling and am interested in origami.
I would love to see more quilling projects. I have never done it but what i have seen is gorgeous. Maybe some beginner projects. Also, some else mentioned guord carving, i would like to find out more about that along with making bird houses and painting them. Thanks for all you do!
Thank you for all the wonderful posts this year. You always surprise me with something new. So I’m wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Thanks for all your ingenious ideas. I have been a fan of yours for years and hope to be for more to come. Any ideas you come up with would be great. Here’s one for you, carving gourds? May you and yours have a Blessed Christmas and a Prosperous New Year. 🙂
I would love to see some more mixed media craft projects! I used to do origami as a young person! Life got in the way but I would love to pick it up again!
I would love to learn origami, I make crafts to raise money for the Pharmgirls Alzheimer’s Walk Team, so make crafts all year long. Any new ideas would be most helpful.
I have enjoyed your sense of humor as much as anything on this blog! 🙂 As far as projects, I would enjoy more of your “wood-based” projects. Also, is it possible to have your patterns provided at full scale? Sometimes it’s a bit of a challenge to make them larger. You really are amazing and I appreciate your dedication to helping all of us “simple Simons” look like we know what we are doing! :-p
Thank you–James Tanis
Love your blog so so much. I became familiar with it when I saw your Butterfly Origami in the Jar. I emailed you for some help with it. You were so nice and answer me right away. I have so enjoyed each and every email I have gotten from you. Thanks Suzy for sharing your time with each and everyone one of us!!! Looking forward to 2016 and what you will bring to us. Big hugs……????????
I like your repurposing/found object crafts and also would like more ideas for mod podge
and paper crafts.
I would love to see some piñatas made.
We have a wide age range from 5 to 51 and have loved everything we have tried from your blog. I would like to see some of the old crafts like I used to make with my grandmother.
Just lots of mixed craft as l love your ideas they are the best
More origami, more quilting, more recycling. I love your blog.
I have only been following your blog for about six months. I am always surprised by the variety of topics for your posts. I enjoy reading your narratives. Maybe you could “revive\update\refresh” some of your older posts with a “2016 twist”. I am always on the lookout for ways to upcycle tin cans and glass jars – transforming them from food containers to decorative pieces or decorated storage\organization units. May you and your husband enjoy a festive and safe holiday season.
I just started getting your email, I am amazed by the craft projects on your site.I would like to do crochet, I am a visual learner and I really like that you have tutorial.
Your quilled project are spectacular. I would love to see more of them. And upcycling is always fun.
I love your blog, I think you shouldn’t change a thing, the randomness is great. Although, I have taken up sewing, and am looking for crafty things to sew. With three small house dogs, I have already made a couple of dog beds. That is how I found you. I plan on doing you batik with crayons, as soon at the holidays are over. It’s a hard decision between the boxes or the flowers. The box origami would win out though.
More quilling ideas, maybe ornaments or easy quilled earrings
I lwould ike items made from other items , repurposing
I like your metal embossing and piercing projects and would like to see more of them.
I love your emails. I have already made quite a few of your projects although I haven’t been receiving your mail until recently. I do two crafts that I love and perhaps you are familiar with one or both. If so it would be wonderful to see some ideas or patterns from you. The projects are Japanese Temari and also Shuttle tatting. You are so creative I love it! Thank you
Love the tulips!
Loved the stained glass peacock. (That’s how I found you from pinterest.)
Modge Podge projects would be great to see.
Thanks for sharing your craftiness!
I have only recently begun to receive your emails so I have not had a chance to have a favorite as yet. I am just enjoying looking at all the things you have on here! I do enjoy working with paper and would love to win these books. I do a lot of scrapbooking, card making and stamping. I just got the new CricutExplore Air Gold for CHRISTmas so I will be playing with it for a while. Thank you for the opportunity to win these books.
Looks like a great project!
Hi Suzy,
I would like to see more recipes for home made craft products. Example- bread dough clay, stained glass paint. I particularly would like to know how to make home made antiquing gel. I need gold and can no longer find the product I have used before. The origami looks like fun too. Just today I could have used the box pictured. Thanks and best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!