Fold your way to fabulous flowers! Bringing flowers into your home can make it brighter and more beautiful. But flowers can be expensive, especially in the middle of winter, and they don't last forever. And growing your own flowers can be time-consuming or, if you don't have a yard, downright impossible! With 'Flower Origami', you'll have everything you need to create stunning, long-lasting bouquets. '* Flower Origami' teaches you how to turn a flat sheet of paper into a flower. Whether your favorites are dahlias or azaleas, daffodils or sunflowers, you'll find simple instructions--and the necessary supplies--for crafting them in your own home in this useful kit. * Use this traditional Japanese art to make elegant bluebells, pink anthuriums, and bright yellow narcissus that will look just like the real thing. With 'Flower Origami', your folding skills will grow by leaps and bounds--just like a flower!
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Joost Langeveld lives in Holland. Creativity has always been an important part of his life. Until he was about 14, Joost obsessed over Technic Legos, making remote cars, cockpit interiors, a joystick, and even a food mixer to make pancakes. By the time he was 16, he had switched his creative energies to computers and began programming simple computer games and vector-animations to impress his friends and family. Joost's career is still in the computer field, but since he turned 26, origamihas become his favorite hobby. Joost is fascinated by both the technical and creative aspects. He has found that it is one thing to fold a model so it has four legs, a tail and a head--but quite another to make it look like a real animal. Joost is especially known for his amazing and realistic flowers and arrangements.
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Yes!
April 22 2012
By Marty
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Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book has instructions for 20 different flowers, plus a stem, plus 4 different leaves. (Pansy, tulip, anthurium, bluebell, carnation, rose, water lily, azalea, sunflower, violet, primrose, dahlia, lotus, cherry blossom, hyacinth, Christmas cactus, daffodil, iris, lily, narcissus.) There is very little `sinking', which is nice since I'm a low to mid intermediate origamist, only 4 months doing it, but I love it! The book is spiral bound thus lies nicely flat; the illustrations are beautiful; the instructions are right with the illustrations. His mountain fold is a solid line instead of the dot-dash I'm accustomed to, so you have to get used to that.
The paper that comes with the book is simply gorgeous; I haven't used it yet, want to be sure I can follow all the instructions so I don't waste any of that beautiful paper. Only one minus, and maybe it's just my perception: and that is, the folding illustrations use Langeveld's paper, and sometimes that makes it a bit difficult to see exactly what one should do. Maybe if I wasn't such a wimp, and just went ahead and used his paper right away, the instructions might be a whole lot more obvious. But, I just don't want to have to throw away any of those lovely sheets when I make a horrible boo-boo! I'll get there by and by! And, by the way, there is special paper for the stems and leaves as well as for the flowers. It would be absolutely delightful if he would market that paper by itself (not have to buy the book to get more of it); the paper is really special! Hey Joost, do you hear this?
I love making flowers and have completed many types from other books and off the internet. Pansy, tulip, bluebell, lotus, iris, lily, etc etc; Langeveld's instructions for those and others is different, not worse, not better, but different (well, maybe better sometimes), and it's neat to learn other ways of doing things. More than one way to skin a cat! Like, it's not the blow-up tulip, for example. And the iris and the lily have more than four petals. Cool!
Five stars for sure, and I'd give five stars to a separate purchase of the 100 sheets of `specially designed paper' if it was ever made available.
The paper that comes with the book is simply gorgeous; I haven't used it yet, want to be sure I can follow all the instructions so I don't waste any of that beautiful paper. Only one minus, and maybe it's just my perception: and that is, the folding illustrations use Langeveld's paper, and sometimes that makes it a bit difficult to see exactly what one should do. Maybe if I wasn't such a wimp, and just went ahead and used his paper right away, the instructions might be a whole lot more obvious. But, I just don't want to have to throw away any of those lovely sheets when I make a horrible boo-boo! I'll get there by and by! And, by the way, there is special paper for the stems and leaves as well as for the flowers. It would be absolutely delightful if he would market that paper by itself (not have to buy the book to get more of it); the paper is really special! Hey Joost, do you hear this?
I love making flowers and have completed many types from other books and off the internet. Pansy, tulip, bluebell, lotus, iris, lily, etc etc; Langeveld's instructions for those and others is different, not worse, not better, but different (well, maybe better sometimes), and it's neat to learn other ways of doing things. More than one way to skin a cat! Like, it's not the blow-up tulip, for example. And the iris and the lily have more than four petals. Cool!
Five stars for sure, and I'd give five stars to a separate purchase of the 100 sheets of `specially designed paper' if it was ever made available.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Great patterns for flowers!
Feb 16 2013
By Julie Ackerson
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Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
The book has really nice patterns and paper to make flowers. However, they are not easy and could be difficult for people with arthritis in their hands.
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Great design
Jan 7 2013
By David Ray Mullins
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Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Very cool paper for very cool flower designs. Be warned, not for beginners. There are varying levels of difficulty so just about anyone can do something.
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