2 Simple Origami Bookmarks

Hi!

Welcome to my blog, My Chubby Fingers, and my first post. I am a crafter and a baker. I have had this blog for a while but just started to use it. You may have already met my mum, Mrs Green Fingers. She will do gardening posts.

Anyway, today I will be showing you how to make 2 simple origami bookmarks as shown below:

There is a woven bookmark using a strip of paper and a corner bookmark using a square piece of paper.

The first bookmark is a corner bookmark.

You Will Need

• A square piece of paper
• A book

Start with a square piece of paper,

 And fold in half diagonally.

Then fold up the corners like shown above and below.

Then fold the top corner down to the bottom edge.

Then refold the corners up.

Then tuck those corner into the pocket you just made.

Ta Da!!!! Done! If you like, you can tuck the flappy triangle into the other triangle to have a triangle bookmark instead of a square one!

Now for the woven bookmark!

You Will Need

• A strip of paper
• Scissors
• 
  

Fold the strip of paper in half

Unfold and fold half the paper down on that crease at a 45° angle.

Then fold that part of the page down again at a 45° angle.

Flip the page round.

Then fold that piece of paper down again at another 45° angle.

Put that last folded strip behind the other strip.

Now you just repeat. So you fold the piece of paper down at a 45° angle.

Then flip.

Fold the strip down at a 45° angle.

And put behind the other strip.

Fold the strip down at a 45° angle.

And flip.

To finish of, you trim the ends and slot them into other strips of paper. If you struggle with this, you can glue it but slotting it in does work.

 And that's how to make 2 simple origami bookmarks!

TIP >> To make a degrees sign (°), you hold Alt and press 248 on the side keyboard.

Miss Chubby Fingers (MCF)

Links

How to type a degrees sign
Woven Bookmark
Corner Bookmark

Week One

Hi!
Welcome to my first post. I am a very keen gardener who likes to grow all sorts of foliage and flowers.
I have been thinking about blogging for a very long time but my real encouragement came from Debra Prinzing and slow flowers movement.
In her blog, Debra has created 52 arrangements over a 12 month period in which all flowers were locally grown.
I am challenging myself to create a simple arrangement from material from my own garden every week.
This is the first one:

I have cut some Forsythia branches in the garden, stood them in warm water, after making an angled cut to help absorb water, and kept it in a north facing window for a few days to force the flowers to open. The rest of the branches wee collected from the garden, after the heavy wind last Wednesday, and were from a Viburnum bush (it had the white flowers a few weeks ago.)

Mrs Green Fingers (MGF)

Links

Debra Prinzing's Website

Martha Stewart - How to Force Flowering Branches