Origami flower tutorial

Just when I thought I could not come up with any more flowers, of any kind, I surprised myself. I came across an interesting-looking Japanese pillow and immediately wondered if I could turn it into paper flowers.
Here's the result- I call them origami-flowers, just because I can't think of anything better...



You'll need scraps paper, a bone folder and a glue stick. That's it!

As always the measurements are not very important.


Here I used:
4 papers 1 1/2" x 3"
4 papers 1 1/2" x 2 1/2"


You can use single or double sided paper and it's up to you if you want them all the same color or mix it up. Try to avoid heavy card stock paper. It's very hard to make nice folds with it.

 
Fold all the papers in half just to get a guideline.
Fold all the corners in towards the middle. Try to get them to slightly overlap, so that there will be no gaps.

 

Use glue or tape and put on the sides before you fold those in, meeting in the middle.

Now you will have this:

Glue them on top of each other 4 and 4.

And then glue the two layers on top of each other.Add something to the center and then bend all the "pedals"up.

This example turned out a bit crazy looking, but you'll get the idea!

Here is one where I used 16 strips rather than 8. I like that look, but I'm afraid it will look a bit bulky on a layout. I will try it on a card (someday)

I promise, I promise that next tutorial will not be any kind of flower. I'm gonna move on to some card tutorials.