Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, so today has been quite a busy day for us! We have this tradition in our Church, where we decorate the Church with palm leaves. Well, you can’t just hang palm leaves throughout the Church, so we usually make these simple decorations with the palms and then tie them to the windows, doors. They turn out like little flowers and make great additions to walls, windows, even stair cases, or just as [Continued..]
And finally, I managed to complete the tutorial for the snowflakes from this post. I have put up 2 snowflakes – the cream one is very simple and the pink one is more complex. The tutorial is for a moderately complex snowflake. The same principle will apply for both these snowflakes. Materials: 1. Strips of paper – the preferable width of the strips is 0.5 to 1 inch. The smaller the width, the more delicate-looking [Continued..]
While origami kusudamas and other modular oriami pieces are great decorations for Christmas, one must admit that they are not the simplest of decorations to work on. They are usually time consuming and, in my case, unless I start preparing for Christmas at least a month in advance, I find that I have very few pieces to decorate my house with. That is where paper crafts help me out a lot! Paper craft decorations usually [Continued..]
As promised in my post on the simple bookmark, here is the tutorial. Click on the image for a bigger and more readable version Steps: 1. Use a square piece of paper about 2-3 inches in size. You can try out a bigger square also, but I think it results in a bookmark that is just a tad too big.. 2. Place with the white side facing you and fold along the diagonal to form [Continued..]
The Omega Star is actually a variation of the XYZ Planar model (by Ed Sullivan) that I had done previously. This variation was created by Philip Shen. This Omega Star makes a great Christmas decoration and I have made quite a few of them for our Christmas tree. The same star can also be made from a single sheet of paper and this was created by John Montroll. It is of course, more complex than [Continued..]