Kusudama Flower

Isn't this bouquet of flowers gorgeous?

It's called an Origami Kusudama Flower.

I first saw it in this magazine

So here is my photo tutorial so you can go and create your own gorgeous Kusudama Flower Bouquet.

I use those 6 inch x 6 inch paper pads, so easy and they are double sided.

 Fold in half corner to corner

 Fold the right flap to form a half triangle

Fold the left flap to form another half triangle 

 Fold both flaps back out again in half

 Put your finger inside and open up and flatten

 Like this

 That's two done now

Go ahead and fold down the point in line with the top edge

 do this to both sides

 Then fold that flap in  half

 both sides, so that you are back to a square

 Added strong double sided tape, this eventually flipped open so I resorted to using the hot glue gun

 A tip when using those red liner double sided tape, I put some cheap double sided tape down on a scrap paper and stuck the rubber backing from the red liner tape onto this because those suckers just want to stick to your fingers.

 So this is what one petal looks like after the sticky tape

 You need 5 to complete a flower

 Red liner tape on all petals

 This is it put together

 Before you join the last petal to the first, put your stem in, I used the hot glue gun to do this

 I added ribbon to hide the joins at the bottom of the flower

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

You can see the tutorial as a video here

Leave me a message and tell me what you think of it and if  you will attempt it, believe me its very easy. And I'd love to see what you create so leave me your blog address