Fold a set of colourful blooms to brighten your home
We’ve all sighed with envy at Instagram and Pinterest boards showing homes adorned with beautiful pot plants, but if you’re not exactly green-fingered, Amanda Walker has the answer!
With clever origami folds, she has created adorable plants with pink and yellow flowers that will never wilt or fade, plus you don’t have to worry about watering them. Each of the projects have been placed in small terracotta pots to create a stand and complete the look.
Cactus Leaf
1 This leaf is for the pink flowers.
Fold a green square diagonally and open out. Turn the paper so that the diagonal crease is running vertically. Fold the left and right corners in towards the centre crease, lining the outer edges along the centre crease to make an arrow shape.
2 Turn the piece around and fold the other outer edges in towards the centre crease, forming a shallower arrowhead shape. Still working on this point, fold the edges in once more on both sides. Turn the piece over and fold the piece in half, matching the two points together. Next, fold the whole piece in half lengthways along the first diagonal crease line.
3 Pull the narrower point out away from the larger and re-crease the base. Bend and curl the larger leaf shape out and away from the narrower point that will become the stem of the plant.
Flower
1 Pink flowers: divide and cut a 15cm piece of pink paper into four equal smaller squares. Fold one of the smaller squares diagonally and then cut the piece in two along this fold line. Working on the long diagonal edge fold over 5mm across the length of the edge, turn the piece over and fold another 5mm. Carry on folding and turning, creating a concertina effect across the piece.
2 Fold the piece in half, matching the two pointed ends together. Stick a small piece of double-sided tape along the edge of the first fold to hold the sides together. Open out the fold slightly to create a leaf-shaped flower. Using a small piece of double-sided tape, stick the flower to the tip of a cactus stem.
3 Red flower: take a 15cm square of red paper, cut diagonally and fold in the same way as the pink flowers, working from the cut edge.
Three Leaf Sprig
1 This leaf is for the red and yellow flowers. (For the red flower use a whole piece of 15cm square paper, for the yellow flowers, divide and cut a 15cm sheet of origami paper into four equal smaller squares). Fold the square diagonally one way and open out, then fold the opposite way across the paper, again opening out the square. Turn the square over, fold it in half one way, then the opposite way and
