lucky wishing stars
Posted June 18th, 2008 by
kath_red
Folding Trees is a new international collaboration between Eve in New Zealand and June in Canada – it will showcase tutorial and projects on: origami, paper art, quilling, papercutting, recycled paper crafts – to name just a few.
check out their lucky wishing stars tutorial
June 20th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Thank goodness for bloglines & whipup! I’ve been volunteering with kids who survived the Sichuan earthquake and are in my local hospital (I live in China), and just yesterday I bought a pack of paper strips (same on that’s in their photo!) that had instructions on the back to make these stars. I thought it would be a great, fun craft project to try out with the kids, but I tried one myself and couldn’t figure out the instructions at all. I was disappointed and left the stars at home.
This morning, I was reading the blogs I follow via bloglines, and was thrilled to see this whipup article! I followed the link to the folding trees site, and just finished the tutorial with an adorable (and tiny!) green star – I can’t wait to share with the kids next week!
I’ll take photos soon and add them to the flickr group for and my blog. Yay!
June 20th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Thank you so much for posting this! A friend and I decided it would be fun to make a bunch of these easy little stars… but since they’re “lucky wishing stars”, we’re writing sweet phrases on the strips before folding them into stars. It makes it a little more personal to the recipient, whoever that may be. Thanks again!