Paper Crafts (5)

Heard of paper quilling/rolling before? I never thought of trying my hand at it coz it simply looks difficult. 

some awe-inspiring picture of paper rolling art 

Ok la, I just scared myself with those awe-inspiring pictures by punching 'Paper rolling' into Google.

The basics - my version of simplifying the art of paper rolling - roll the paper strips, adjust the rolled paper to a desired size, stick the open end, pinch here pinch there to form a shape, stick the whole thing onto a piece of wood/card/paper, and adjust the shape using a toothpick. 

It requires much patience and a fine character. 

When the sis suggested to make paper quilling craft for the saints in Taiwan, I thought it was quite impossible. 

Anyway, convinced by sis that it's not difficult at all, we started the 3 days marathon of doing paper rolling crafts.  

It turned out that the challenging part was not with rolling the paper and shaping it (coz we're doing real simple shapes), but to be creative, coming out with new designs to be shaped into with our rookie rolling skill. 

Here's our bookmarks decorated with paper rolling craft.

I had to squeeze my right brain to come out with designs. Butterfly is our default idea.
So to be exact, I only produced 4 own designs in...err...2 days time..*mortified*

Just as we thought we have had enough, we realised we had to use the same paper rolling craft to decorate banner frames, which size is 10x larger than a bookmark -which means lots empty spots to be decorated, lots of papers need to be rolllleeedd and lottss of designs and arrangement of the designs need to be done.....

Now this is the true art of paper quilling -rolling thin paper strips into various shapes which are then collectively arranged to form designs.

G.A.V.E  U.P. 

Paper folding, ribbons, stickers, and whatnot were incorporated instead to fill up the remaining empty spots around the banner. We are indeed creative.

Results of our hard work *proud face*

Making crafts for the saints is quite suitable gift, IMO, at least from visiting young sisters like us. The saints love them.

I have been searching for some simple and unique bookmark ideas these days. I came across this corner bookmark idea which I found interesting.

Interesting yet not practical. The flower is so heavy that it can outweigh the book itself. Ok maybe not a book, but it certainly is heavier than a booklet. What's the point of having one big heavy paper flower hanging at the side of your book?

Now this origami heart bookmark is much more practical, in addition that it is easier to do and cheaper in cost. All you need is a paper in rectangular shape. Any measurement will do. (I'll recommend 15cm x 7cm)

Tutorial can be found here:

On a side note, I'm currently obsessed with calligraphy writing. 

What is the first thing you learn to write? Your own name.

...and my blog's name

**I've been MIA long enough. This post was actually written about 4 months ago.

So I guess a definition clause is needed. 

"In this post, 'these days' or 'currently' refer to 4 months before November 2012."  

and drafting lecture said you must show courtesy in everything you write, end it with a thank you.

So... 

Thank you! =)

Farewell

To dear sisters,
Two days  ONE day to go and I guess I could only bid farewell in this way....since two of you are the majority of my blog readers. (Hooppefully you know who you are? Haha.)

Thank you for being my...

Spiritual Companions

Propagation companions

Children service companions

Crafts making partners

Housemates

Soulmates

Sports partners

Adventure partners

Makan kaki

Shopping kaki

Chit-chat kaki

(photo unavailable because we're too busy talking)

...for the past three years.

The only pic of us during our first year. We were soooo young back then...sigh...

For the next two years I'll be 'visiting' you all here -->

See ya! =)

In Christ,

Sis Pauline

Paper folding craft (4)

Origami korean Paper Bow! It's 'korean' simply because the original designer of this craft is a korean. This is how it looks like...

Cool right? I know ;P..so I'm going to show you origami Korean paper bow step-by-step in pictures.

 First, begin with a square paper. It's easier if the paper is colored/ printed on both sides, but most common type of origami papers are colored on one side only. In that case, the colored side should be facing inside and the plain one outside while you're folding it.

Fold the paper in half in both directions (up-down, left-right).
Unfold the paper and you'll find 2 creases.

Then fold it diagonally into a sandwich shape

fold the triangle into half. Still a triangle.

Open the pocket from the bottom and follow the crease to make it into a square.

It should look like this when both sides are done. A square or a diamond shape.

Fold the tip of the closed end.

Unfold the whole paper. You'll find the paper with these creases, with a small square at the center.

The inside (colored side) view.

Then the next 2 steps I don't know how to explain, you just see and try yourself ba...

Then press and flattened it

Now you  have a shape like the diamond symbol for Poh Kong.

Fold 4 sides of the closed flaps 

Open the paper slowly....

and you'll find a 3D square at the center.

Flattened it and you have the 'knot' of the bow. Then turn the whole paper to the plain side.

Cut the line of the side folds with, preferably, a knife. Ermm...where to cut?

Here lo...how to explain...Anyway, cut all four sides of  'here lo'.

Flip the upper part to the bottom

Then for the two 'wings' on left and right, fold them into sharp ends.

Turn the paper to the colored side.

Grab the sharp end of each wing and insert it into the 'knot' of the bow. 

Then use a scissor to cut the vertical line coming down from the 'knot' to create tails for the bow

Cut abit from the side towards the center line to create distance in the middle.

Cut ribbon tails.

And you're done!

Feel the satisfaction when you finish the craft, so cute and pretty! And ponder yourself: why don't I just take a ribbon and tie a bow in less than 3 seconds?

Have fun trying it!