Simple decorative origami heart / book mark

This is an easy origami heart, great for rookies and pros :)

Since I officially suck at explaining, the pictures may help you more than my description of the step.

Also, since the bottom of the heart opens, you can also use it as a book mark.

Step 1: Step 1: paper

I used printer paper for the instructable, but origami paper or any other will do.
Cut it into two connected squares.

Comments

[bobert610]

They're called "squash folds" :)

[Excess]

Except step 8 where I "overfolded" a little bit too much, excellent instructable. I would love to see your instructable on the tulips from the last step, those look great too.

[sunshiine]

This is very pretty! I will try making one for holiday gifts. Thanks for sharing your hard work!
sunshiine

[Alberta Leong]

aww very sweet! can't wait to try it out!

[jessyratfink]

This is gorgeous! No idea how I missed this before. :)

[clugo1]

can u help me better this is prety hard

[monseulementreveur]

easy to follow instructions- THANKS!

[PeckLauros]

Beautiful! Thanks to share it with us!!!

[aheperi]

I found these instructions great and easy to follow. Thanks for posting :)

[Buzzsushi]

Pretty cool product, but im not going to lie, you need to redo the instructable. No offence... but this one sucked.

[ninjacow258]

Sorry =.,=

[spectacular]

Hey! At least ninjacow said at the beginning that he/she wasn't good at explaining things. i think that they did a pretty good job at explaining anyway

[TheGeekFather]

I agree. The pictures pretty much tell the story. You do not really need to write anything more. Good job.

[Blechmen]

how big is the paper

[ninjacow258]

The paper size really doesn't matter, as long as one side is twice as long as the other.

[Blechmen]

can you please redo this instructable becaus i have no clue how you do this dont under stand the first step

[kim020289]

Your instructions are pretty clear to me. I just followed the pictures you posted. Here's the heart I did.

[kirbygirl46]

it reminds me of the kusudama flower because it has similar folds and although this isnt a flower, it appears like that one. Also, they're both beautiful and easy to make. Anyways, thumbs up. Nice project. Easy steps, and looks great. thanks a bundle. (: i just made one

[morris_glr]

This was such a great instructable! It was very easy to make. Even though it is said that the explanations are not great; the pictures really made up for it.

[theguru08]

 Great instructions. They were easy to follow even though you doubted yourself. My only critique would be that you should use paper where each side is a different color (like origami paper) this will make your images more clear since the folders will know which side to show. Otherwise great instructable keep it up

[GameCat]

This is a really cool Valentine's day project; your explanations were easy to follow. I would have liked to watch your video, but when I clicked the link, it had been taken down.  Thank you for sharing this neat project.

[surrealdelirium]

It might be the simplicity involved in the making of the heart, but strangely this is one of the easiest origami tutorials I've seen for something that actually looks nice! Very clear pictures, I think. Thanks!

[bondagebonni]

I was a bit confused for about a third of this but i figured it out.  my heart came out really pretty.  This would be great of you made a video to go along with it. :)

[AALISS]

woO thats alot easier to make than it looks :D
Thanks ninjacow

[crak-a-bottle]

yayz! it's pretty! :]

[ninjacow258]

Thanks

[hoshi_neon]

it's simple to understand .... until the 7th step. Could you explain it a bit more?

[ninjacow258]

Well...let's see *scratch head*...In that step, the origami is basically a square-ish shape, right? So, you currently have 4 corners. 2 opposing corners are loose, and if you fold one of those 2 corners backwards (mountain fold) then it would be outta sight when you look at it from the front. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out which two corners can be folded :)

[hoshi_neon]

Oh. Thanks a lot :)

[santi.schen]

please, i need to know how to make the box n flowers!! thanks a lot, nice work!!

[ninjacow258]

You can find the procedures for the roses on www.bloom4ever.com, they sell paper roses. Thank you for commenting xD

[scoochmaroo]

Beautiful! I've added this to the origami guide!