Folding Trees

We hope that all our readers have a safe and happy holiday with family and friends

A little eye candy: here’s a selection of the wonderful projects we’ve seen posted by our readers to the Folding Trees Flickr group. I’ve chosen examples of all sorts of different paper crafts for this roundup – hopefully this will inspire you to try something new!

 

Iris Folding by crafters100

Tea Bag Folding by paperfacets

Quilling from ..::aga::..

Book pages folded into stunning patterns by Rhymes With magic

Modular origami by eikosi

Origami by f.guarnieri

Paper flower by jchristinahuh

Paper pop-ups by elodole

Papercutting by nelatankosic

We love to see what you make, so keep posting your pictures. Show us your papercrafted ornaments on your Christmas tree, whether its an artificial christmas tree or a real one! The group is open to everybody. And Happy Christmas to you all!

This is a call to YOU, our favourite Folding Trees readers! We want to see what you’ve been making from paper. Join the Folding Trees Flickr group and add photos of any paper projects you’ve made – they don’t have to be related to ideas we have featured. And we might even showcase your work in the next Readers’ Pics roundup!

Here’s some inspiring work that’s been posted in the pool lately:

Amazing decoration Box ring by Flickr user: eikosi

 Gorgous and delicate papercutting by Flickr user: Nelatankosic.

Summery quilled oranges by Flickr user: …::aga::…

We love to see what you make, so keep posting your pictures. The group is open to everybody.

This is a call to YOU, our favourite Folding Trees readers! We want to see what you’ve been making from paper. Join the Folding Trees Flickr group and add photos of any paper projects you’ve made – they don’t have to be related to ideas we have featured. And we might even showcase your work in the next Readers’ Pics roundup!

Here are some of the projects our talented readers have been posting in the pool lately:

Origami giftboxes made from magazine pages by pauseability & a group of kids 

Construction paper mosaic of a cute Mario Mushroom by DIY Sara – great idea to use a square hole punch to make the mosaic ’tiles’

Ridiculously cute origami kitten by the talented Himanshu (Mumbai, India)

A pile of origami butterflies by kittykatkards

As always, we love to see what you make, so keep posting your pictures – the group is open to everybody.

This is a call to YOU, our favourite Folding Trees readers! We want to see what you’ve been making from paper. Join the Folding Trees Flickr group and add photos of any paper projects you’ve made – they don’t have to be related to ideas we have featured. And we might even showcase your work in the next Readers’ Pics roundup!

There’ve been so many amazing projects uploaded to the pool recently, it’s hard to choose which to feature! So today I’m going to limit myself to a selection of the most recent flowers that have been added, with only one project per technique – let’s see how many different techniques we end up with!

Flowers from handmade paper scraps by Quince and Quire

Junk mail art (I think they are flowers!) from cindyascottauer

Stunning crepe paper roses from jchristinahuh

Quilled card by ..::aga::..

Lovely wreath by dana.barbieri

I’m not sure this is a flower, but that’s what it looks like to me, so let’s go with it. Curler unit origami by izws

Aren’t they all lovely? Do check out the Folding Trees flickr group and see all the other amazing projects in there – it’s not just flowers! We love to see what you make, so keep posting your pictures. The group is open to everybody.

This is a call to YOU, our favourite Folding Trees readers! We want to see what you’ve been making from paper. Join the Folding Trees Flickr group and add photos of any paper projects you’ve made – they don’t have to be related to ideas we have featured. And we might even showcase your work in the next Readers’ Pics roundup!

Since we posted Ann’s lovely quilled pendants tutorial last week, we’re seen a lot more quilling in our group – we hope we’ve inspired some of that! So for this week’s Readers’ Pics, we’re going to show all quilled creations: 

cindyscottauer‘s first attempt at quilling letters

purple flower card by yorkshirelass49

A boldly coloured flower from ssquilling

oovtulips first attempt at quilling

We love to see what you make, so keep posting your pictures. The group is open to everybody.

This is a call to YOU, our favourite Folding Trees readers! We want to see what you’ve been making from paper. Join the Folding Trees Flickr group and add photos of any paper projects you’ve made – they don’t have to be related to ideas we have featured. And we might even showcase your work in the next Readers’ Pics roundup!

Here’s some of what we’ve seen in the pool lately: 

 
Origami dragon by Mammaoca2008

Elephant made from a recycled postcard by pauseability

Beautiful paperweight cranes by iris_rheajm

Nice quilled flowers from Bristol67

Gorgeous photograph of an origami swan by Himanshu (Mumbai, India)

 
 We love to see what you make, so keep posting your pictures. The group is open to everybody, and anything paper qualifies!

Wow, there have been a lot of great projects added to the Folding Trees Flickr group recently! If you haven’t joined yet, please do - add photos of any paper projects you’ve made – they don’t have to be related to ideas we have featured. And we might even showcase your work in the next Readers’ Pics roundup!

Here’s some of what we’ve seen in the pool lately:

Lovely table decor by vania passos

The Michigan State Capital Building by Cutter9 – amazing!

Family portrait silhouettes by pauseability

Lots of teabag folding by Bristol67

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the pics in the Folding Trees group – there are over 500 pics of paper eye candy to browse through. We love to see what you make, so please keep posting your pictures! The group is open to everybody.

This is a call to YOU, our favourite Folding Trees readers! We want to see what you’ve been making from paper. Join the Folding Trees Flickr group and add photos of any paper projects you’ve made – they don’t have to be related to ideas we have featured. And we might even showcase your work in the next Readers’ Pics roundup!

Here’s some of what we’ve seen in the pool lately:

Origami butterfly hairclips by Flickr user Obajoo.

Puffy hearts by Flickr user l0ttie (with a tutorial).

Cute tent houses folded from 1 sheet of paper by Flickr user F.Quarnieri

We love to see what you make, so keep posting the pictures – the group is open to everybody.

This is a call to YOU, our favourite Folding Trees readers! We want to see what you’ve been making from paper. Join the Folding Trees Flickr group and add photos of any paper projects you’ve made – they don’t have to be related to ideas we have featured. And we might even showcase your work in the next Readers’ Pics roundup!

Here’s some of what we’ve seen in the pool lately:

Some very pretty earrings made from recycled paper by Flickr user: papermode.

Origami morning glory by Flickr user: Dancusa

A 3D Ganesh by Flickr user: Nirmitee

We love to see what you make so keep posting the pictures, the group is open to everybody.

Every week, more and more beautiful work is added to the Folding Trees Flickr group - it’s so lovely to see what you are all making. Don’t forget to keep adding photos of any paper projects you’ve made – they don’t have to be related to ideas we have featured. And we might even showcase your work in the next Readers’ Pics roundup!

Here’s some of what we’ve seen in the pool lately:

eatthepeppers has been using graduated coloured quilling paper – I love this effect! 
 

Mammaoca2008 recycled newspapers into origami boxes.

And handmadebydebbie made hexagonal boxes with origami paper.

And to finish off this roundup, here are some beautiful origami flowers from Katpster.

Check out the group for more crafty paper goodness, and remember – keep posting those pics!