Thanks for all the comments to the crafts I made last weekend everyone! A few of you asked for instructions so I’m working on tutorials for both projects, which I hope to publish soon. I’ll post here when I do.
Here’s another project I’m working on: kusudama flowers made from book pages taken from an old copy of “Diet for a Small Planet” {the first book I read on vegetarianism. I’ve been a vegetarian for 24 years since}. I saw these flowers on one of the flickr groups I follow, the Modular Origami pool. They’re beautiful and look hard to make, but they’re not really. A little origami, some glue and in just a few minutes, you have a flower. It takes five “petals” to make a flower. Twelve flowers and you have a spherical ornament. I’m not sure if I’m going to make the sphere or not, I kind of like the way they look as-is, so maybe I’ll just attach them to stems and stick them into an old glass jar for a book-ish bouquet.
Here’s a tutorial. Here’s another. And another.
I was inspired by these from Flickr user Maliah
Very beautiful!
Comment by Marloes — April 21, 2009 @ 9:00 am
Yes and easy enough for our seven year old daughter to get good results too! jason when are you going to write that Papercrafting book for crafty families!
Comment by Ilira — April 21, 2009 @ 9:52 am
Ha ha Ilira. When I find the time I guess. You gonna co-write it with me?
Comment by Jason Thompson — April 21, 2009 @ 10:05 am
These are very cool!
Comment by sue bleiweiss — April 21, 2009 @ 5:24 pm
Woww! Absolutely beautiful!
And important, to take a book with a positive meaningful content!
I’m gonna try this!
Great idea, Ilira!
Comment by Uschi — April 22, 2009 @ 1:55 am
Jason, you’re so creative!
Have to try this with lily this weekend, if i can get her off her bike. NYC soon!
Comment by carolyn — April 22, 2009 @ 6:28 am
Can’t wait to try the flowers, lovely ideas great blog.
Comment by sandra — April 23, 2009 @ 11:20 pm
so beautiful..guess not very easy
Comment by kaylovesvintage — April 27, 2009 @ 3:03 pm
hi jason - i WAS going to go to bed early tonight (for a change) but thanks to you & these links i can kiss that idea goodbye!
thanks for a great blog and keeping me inspired!
Comment by candice — April 28, 2009 @ 5:37 am
those are gorgeous. i love that you used book pages. i’m thinking maybe i need to do this with my discarded dissertation. yes, i think that sounds great.
(here via papercrave, by the way)
Comment by julie green — May 4, 2009 @ 12:45 pm
I know I’m late, but I love this. I can’t wait to try!!
Comment by Amanda — May 15, 2009 @ 3:39 pm
That is BEAUtiful
Comment by Tamara Smith — June 12, 2009 @ 6:08 am
I LOVE the hot pink and lime green paper. It is wonderful. Where can I get some?
Comment by Paula Hardesty — July 3, 2009 @ 9:41 pm
they are just gorgeous
Comment by sapa — July 18, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
Thanks you so much - my daughter and I have had a ball making these together!
Comment by Marni — July 20, 2009 @ 8:13 pm
I love these! I can’t wait to dig into my fabulous stash of vintage book pages and make some!
Comment by Katie — September 2, 2009 @ 4:32 pm
These are lovely!
Comment by denise (chez danisse) — October 26, 2009 @ 6:36 pm
wonderful flowers!
Comment by peggy aplSEEDS — July 15, 2010 @ 11:31 pm
The paper flowers are delightful! I liked the ones made up from colored papers. So gorgeous!
Comment by Caitlin at Backlink Building — November 13, 2010 @ 4:49 am
I just made one with printer paper to practice. They are so easy! I plan on making a lot of them for wedding bouquet stuff and for the reception. In book paper of course! Such a cheap and neat way to make flowers.
Comment by Katherine — April 15, 2011 @ 2:13 pm