Origami Kusudama Flower - Paperwork.

Hi,👋

I'm back with a new post where I'll show a origami paper kusudama flower that can be a part of the house decoration.

The term kusudama originates from ancient Japanese culture, where they were used for incense and potpourri; possibly originally being actual bunches of flowers or herbs. The word itself is a combination of two Japanese words kusuri ("medicine") and tama ("ball"). They are now typically used as decorations, or as gifts. WIKI.

I followed this DIY idea from an online article and I don't credit myself for the original idea.
Let's see how I did this paperwork.

Equipment's:

I used total 3 color papers (A4 size) where I used the pink papers for the flower and a part of a green paper for the leaves and I needed a scissor, glue, a stick and clips.

Steps to follow:

There were only two steps to follow, 1. The Flowers, 2. The leaves. I'm going to show the flowers steps first and then the leaves part.

I folded and divided the pink paper in 4 parts at first.

Then I needed square shapes from those parts so I folded a single part in the following way.

And I got 4 square shape papers although they looks triangle when they're folded.

I didn't need to unfold from this point as I needed exactly this folding. And I folded it furthermore like above.

And then I folded it in the above direction got the paper in this way now. I know it looks a little complicated but when you try it, its not that hard. It just gets folded in the opposite side.

Then I folded the extra part of the wings inside like above and repeated same for the other part.

And I it like this where I needed to use the glue to attach one side with the other side as you can see above.

After gluing, I got this petal of the flower and this is a single petal where I needed a total of 8 petals for a single flower.

Then I used this clip where the glue is getting attached so that the glue is attached perfectly.

Here I did the same for a total of 4 petals that I got from a single A4 sized paper. If I wanted the flower to be bigger, then I needed to get 2 petals from a single A4 sized paper.

The petals are glued well and its time to go to the next step.

Now I glued the parts of two petals that you can see above to attach them.

Then I used two clips in so that the glue gets attached well.

After two petals was attached perfectly, I glued one more petal and then one more that gave me half of the flower with 4 petals.

Then I used another A4 sized paper that gave me 4 more petals and I got the whole flower after attaching them following the same steps.

This could be the finishing of the flower part but as I wished to attach a stick inside the flower so I did something more on my own.

I took this cropped paper of same color as the flower and I folded it as further as I could.

Then I cut it in the above way and after I unfolded the paper, I got it as above.

Then I attached the stick with this and made the small flower to stick into the main flower.

And I got this final flower part after attaching it.
And this is the finishing of the flower step. Now, I needed some leaves.

I used cropped green paper as I didn't need a whole paper for some leaves. I then cut them in almost same size.

Then I folded them all and I cut them in round (not whole circle though) and it gave me a leave shape as above but that's not all.

I started folding them in the above way until from above to below of the paper leave.

And I got this shape of the paper that gives it a realistic and better look.

Then I attached the leaves to just below the papers on the stick and I placed the flower in the recycled flower vase that I talked in my previous post.

And it is finished.

I may show more of my paperwork later.

No more today, I'll talk more later with another craft soon.
BYE BYE.