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Deer & mushrooms printable

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This deer and mushroom full-page printable design from Babalisme is super-kawaii! Shown below is a cute mini-notebook that she made from the paper:

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PS – I’ve just added a new category – Printable Patterns - for this and other full-page printable pattern designs. These are great for making your own origami paper, or printing your own decorative paper for other projects like the notebook above. I’ve added our previous posts that featured printable patterns – check out the Printable Patterns category in the right sidebar for more resources –>

Posted: June 29th, 2009 by June & Eve under Printable Patterns.
Comments: 1

Tea Bag Folding

Tea bag folding is a paper craft that originated in Holland, where many tea bags come wrapped individually in paper packets. By cutting each bag down to a square, the bags can be folded and then combined into a geometric shape, just like in 2D modular origami. These medallions can be used to decorate handmade greeting cards, embellish your wrapped gifts, or you could try adding a hanging loop (glue the units together first!) to make an unusual Christmas decoration.
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Don’t let the name ‘tea bag folding’ put you off – you can perform this craft with any small squares of coloured paper. To give a more authentic result, the squares should be patterned, and each square should have the same pattern. There are many online resources that provide printable sheets of repeating patterns to cut into squares, and fold diagrams to produce different shapes. Google ‘tea bag folding’ and you will find many more links than I have provided here.
 
I’m going to demonstrate one fold pattern here to give you an idea of the method – hopefully it will inspire you to look more closely at this fairly obscure papercraft…
 
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Posted: October 29th, 2008 by June under Folding Trees Tutorials, Origami, Printable Patterns.
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Printable patterns

Pretty printable paper designs from Margit, who suggests printing them onto cardboard and making boxes out of them, but I think they would also work well for origami. You can’t go wrong with a cherry blossom design! [via CraftyPod]

Posted: September 11th, 2008 by June & Eve under Boxes, Origami, Printable Patterns.
Comments: 3

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