Weddingbee Blog

A while ago I posted all the different origami flowers I was working on for the wedding (here and here), and I had great feedback for all of them except one. Remember the cherry blossoms from this post?

{ Image source and tutorial 1.0 (Link) }

Well, I had a hard time trying to figure out how to finish these flowers. So after I finally did, I had to teach everyone in person so they could help me (MOH, Sister, Mamá Poodle and more), because they could not finish the last steps of this tutorial. I thought it would be really helpful if I could add more pictures to the 1.0 version of the blossom tutorial, and I came out with this next version (it’s basically the same, but I added some more pictures and details).

So, to make things easier I drew a star, a heart, and two lines on each corner, all of them in different colors, so that way if you draw and replace the colors I used (purple, green, pink and blue), you can follow these instructions a bit easier.

1. Start with a square of paper and fold it in half from corner to corner.

2. The, fold it again from corner to corner making a small triangle.

3. Partially unfold from one corner. Take the point from the far side of the triangle and fold it downwards to the top point, like in the picture where the “purple” goes to the “pink”.

4. Flatten down into a square like this, then flip over and repeat on other side.

5. This is what you end up with; on the left you see it unfolded, and folded on the right.

6. Now, take the tip of the square (the heart and star) and lift it away from the base, like in the right picture.

7. Now you need to fold the “heart” to the center line, and repeat the same with the “star”, like in the pictures above.

8. Flatten it down like in the above picture.

9. Now, you can lift back that side and “hide” the star and heart.

10. Now you need to turn it over to the other side and do step 7 all over again.

11. Here you can see me doing number 7 again

12. And now repeat number 9. Both sides will look the same.

13. Now you need to take the tip with the star and heart and fold it back to leave a mark.

14. Now using that mark, you need to unfold the petal and turn the star and heart “inside”, like in the picture.

15. Here you can see me unfolding and folding the petal “inside”.

16. This is how it should look at the end. Only 3 more to go!

17. Now repeat the process with the other 3 points (the ones that have hearts and stars).

18. Again after making the folding line, unfold the petal and turn “inside” the heart and star.

19. This is how it looks with 2 of them done. Let’s go for the 3rd one!

20. The 3rd one is ready.

21. Finally, the last one.

22. This is the end result after doing 4 of them.

23. Take one of the outer corners and fold it towards the center line. Remember that this is the bottom center of our flower (all the ones we folded are on the opposite sides).

24. It should look like this. Repeat on this half of this petal, then repeat both folds on the backside.

25. Hold the flower and gently separate the petals in an outward direction.

26. It should look like this with all 4 petals completed.

Remember:

To create the center of your flower you need to cut a small piece of crepe paper twice as long as you want the center to be, gently twist a couple of times in the center, fold crepe paper in half and gently insert into the center of the flower. I use a bit of glue on the folded point to secure in the flower and a small nail or wire to ease the crepe paper lower into the base.

From The Flirty Bride

I’m really happy about the feedback I got from my previous post, and knowing that so many brides are thinking about this option for their centerpieces.

Happy folding!