Origami Creations - Simple Santa and Christmas Tree

The spirit of Christmas is still with me and the family so I have done a lot of Santa folds aside from my own creations.

Here is one of my favourite Santa designed by the famous japanese  origamist/master Kunihiko Kasahara.

Pure origami cuteness

And not to be outdone, I have paired it with my simple christmas tree from my "Christmas is a time for love - 3 in 1 model" design which I have blogged here.

Using special kami paper for tree decors :-)

I am very proud of this unique design as it is one of a kind - to have 3 different objects for one uncut sheet of paper.  The diagram is now available in my newly opened Etsy shop.

Below is a sneak preview of the model:

Have a wonderful Christmas and run-up to the New Year!

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Origami Designs - Cool to have another one published

So very happy to see another one of my creation published in "The Fold" online paper of Origami USA.

Tada ...

Cool, huh!

So very blessed and happy to see it recognized and more importantly to have it shared with the world.  This is my second publication and an awesome incentive to continue designing pieces.  The first piece published is here.

 Surely be having a great weekend this week!  Hope you would too!

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Origami Design - Christmas is the time for LOVE 3 in 1 Model

I joined the Mini-Reto Hearts origami challenge again and came up with a cool design.  It's a "3 models in 1" from one uncut square sheet of paper.

Here it is:

Front View - "Sumo"Santa Claus

A big bodied Papa Noel ... I likened to the sumo wrestlers of Japan but super cooler :-).

Back View - Christmas Tree

A cute mini christmas tree for the back side.

Inside - a Huge Heart

An enormous movable heart ... a big surprise!

Made a short video of this special model so you may be able to see the transformation clearer. 

Enjoy and wish one and all a wonderful Christmas!

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Origami Creations - Easy Modular Christmas Tree

I am quite impressed with the multitudes of origami Christmas Trees designed this year so I thought of trying my luck with creating one.

After much folding and creasing ... I end up with re-using a Traditional fold - the Iris flower.  You can find the diagram here.

Lovely Irises

Introducing the Bottom's Up Iris flower Christmas Tree ...

Adorable <3

Here is the short "the making" video.  Enjoy!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to one and all!

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Origami Designs/Creations - Simple Wind swept tree

A challenging origami theme competition titled "it's a windy day" has just started. This is a tough one ... google images to the rescue!

Most photos are showing trees swaying from the wind.   The "swaying" part would be hard because I've only done dry folding i.e. hard straight crisp folding.    Other than the theme, there is also another important rule to contend with - fold must be less than 15 steps.

So without further ado, I came up with this - a 7 step model using color change for trunk and leaves.

Wind swept tree

It's a very easy piece using no base fold but just creative (trial and error) ingenuity (heavily leaning on my nuclear science background).  :o))))).

Finally the finished model was born:

Curling using a pen and made the trunk 3D

The back side view of the model.

Crease Pattern (CP) - Really easy!

Quite interesting.  I may try to do one or two more.  Onward to Google images!

Have a nice day!

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