3D Origami Dolls

3D Origami Dolls basically only consist of 3 type of origami works :

1. Kusudama Venus part's Origami




2. Bellflower Origami




3. Umbrella Origami
This one made from a round paper which are being fold into a half at 8 sections, then those folding creases are being arranged just like an umbrella creases.

Kurumi-e work # 01 - Childhood Friend

Since I love to work with papers, it's no surprise that I fall in love with Kurumi-e work. I found out about it months a go when I was browsing the internet and suddenly I had the urge to make one...no... some by myself XD
I bought 2 sets of Kurumi-e at first. Each set was already including :

1. The pattern
2. 1 small sheet of thick paper
3. 1 small sheet of thick paper with sponge
4. Some small pieces of various type of paper (washi paper etc)
5. Ready-made face part
6. 1 Shikishi board

The works are basically cutting the art papers then wrapped them onto each hard papers which are already been cut according to the main pattern, then they're being arranged on the Shikishi board by some glues.

Here's the result of my 1st Kurumi-e :

Childhood Friends

ZOOMED IN

I decided to make the frame for it (of course) from paper. So I made a box with a see-through lid shaped of a frame :

The Base

The Lid

Here's my Kurumi-e inside its box frame :



Actually we can re-produce similar ones if we keep the pattern like I do (I made a copy of it at the beginning of the work). We also might be able to make them with different patterned papers. But we're going to need that ready-made face part and I'm very sure that I won't be able to find them around my area -____-;;
If only I found a way to get that face part, it'll be possible for me to make another one of this...

I still have one set of Kurumi-e kit to be made. But I want to make something I've been obsessed first.. XD
I'll show it when it's done ^^

Shikishi Board Flower Origami - Spring Sakura

Recently I'm addicted to make flower origami. I found an e-book about flower origami which are arranged on a shikishi board then I got interested in making them.

Shikishi board is made from fine handmade art papers laminated to hard board backing. they are edged with a strip of gold paper on the border and back.
Unfortunately shikishi boards can hardly be found at my area so I made them myself from duplex cardboard paper. In that case I'll be able to make any kind of shikishi board flower origami that I want.. v(^o^)v

Here are my first origami work for this kind. I meant to make them for spring so I chose 2 kind of Sakura (Cherry Blossom) flower origami.

The 1st one is regular sakura branches :

Zoomed in

2 colored of Sakura flowers and 2 types of Sakura bud

Falling Sakura petals

Butterfly

I've decided to attach my favorite Swallowtail Butterfly every time I made flower-like origami, so I attached 3 butterflies on this.. ^^

And the 2nd one is Fuji Sakura branch :

Zoomed in

2 colored Fuji Sakura flowers and 3 types of Fuji Sakura bud

Washi Hina Dolls

I attached 2 Hina Washi Ningyo I got from Yukiko mama. I thought they are fit pretty well for this season and I think they look nice to be put under the Fuji Sakura branch.
Yukiko mama, Hina ningyou arigatou! Watashi tachi wa koko de korabo shita yo ne ... (^o^)/


I'd like to show you the example of how the parts look like :

Shikishi Board

Sakura

Complete Parts

Here are the instruction to make them just in case anyone interested :

Mass Product # 03 : Kusudama Fragrance

Well... this is the 3rd type of Kusudama for Monkichi's wedding ceremony. I don't remember exactly how many Fragrance Kusudama I made this time because I was totally tired in making them. Can you imagine that I worked on those for around 3 months straight?! I even brought them to work and made them during my break... My colleagues at work thought that I'm insane because of it... -____-;;

So here they are :

Mass Product # 02 : Arabesque

This is the second type for Monkichi's wedding ceremony. I made around 24 of Kusudama Arabesque in various colors. Here's all of them :






The next post will be my last mass production for her wedding ceremony.

Mass Product # 01 : Sakuradama

So these are my first mass production for the wedding ceremony of my dear 'Monkichi'. I made around 30 Sakuradama in various colors :




And these are all of them :






I'll continue with the second one at the next post.. ^^

Blockfolding Project # 01 ~ Hello Kitty

Just like I promised, I'll show my 1st project of Blockfolding Origami Hello Kitty 3-D figure.

The paper size for each part is 7 x 4 cm.

This project mainly needs :

1. White : 584 pieces
2. Blue : 132 pieces
3. Pink : 14 pieces

Here're the instructions :





And now I proudly present my Hello Kitty 3-D figure :




I'm proud of it because I could bear the boring feeling because I had to do hundreds of same folding works.
Yatta yo!! (^o^)9

It took me a whole week to finish this project with a great help from my friend. I'm glad to see it's done well... ^^