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origami star ornament

Jess of How About Orange posted an inspirational round-up of 3D paper holiday ornaments. I have a nice stock of pretty origami papers that I never get around to using, so this seemed like a sign…

I decided to try the many pointed star – the tutorial is in the form of a video (really useful because you can pause and rewind to re-watch the tricky parts). Wouldn’t this star look great hanging on a Christmas tree?

3d origami star

Technically, this is an example of modular origami, because one star is made from six sheets of paper, although there is no cutting or gluing involved. I used six 3″ squares of origami paper and the finished star is about 2.5″ at it’s widest points.

I got stuck at one point in the folding sequence, but I watched that part of the video a few more times and once I’d figured it out, it was all plain sailing from there. Assembling the star was quite easy too. It’s quite time-consuming to make, but watch a DVD at the same time and the time will fly by!

PS – Apologies to any mailing list subscribers who just got this post e-mailed to them! Slight technical glitch…

2 Comments »

  1. futuregirl said

    I totally love modular origami, too! I like making these:

    www.futuregirl.com/craft_blog/2006/02/stellated-icosahedron.html
    www.futuregirl.com/craft_blog/2006/03/origami-at-work.html

    They are sorta big, so you’d need a big tree to put them on, but they are fun to make and only take about an hour each. 🙂

  2. I am loving your christmas decos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! stunning… I will need to try to do some origami ones… I just bought some stunning paper!

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