Magic box!!

Another quick post...
If you remember my previous post Curls kusudama , this is the continuation story of that.
So ..I showed the kusudama to my husband with all excitement.This is what he says 'Are you going to send just this small ball???'
Phewwwww!! But you know what, his comment helped me to try something new for the first time.To add on,that night,I came to know that my colleague's travel got postponed by one more day and leaving on the following day evening.
Yipee.. so I had few more hours to make something more specia.I was happy to make something more because my manager is more than a friend though worked together for a short period.

That night within 4hours, I made this magic box.It is 12cm X 8.5cm size box

Luckily I had one small carton

So I made my first ever exploding box though simple. (Please bear with me as is it a heavy post)

This is the lid. I decorated it with a bunch of quilled roses

There are orange flowers on the outer side of walls.All the quilled flowers including roses were made out of 130gsm paper.I manually cut the paper into 5mm strips and made this.

 Inside,I decorated with the craft punch flowers along with hand written messages.

 In the center of the box,I placed the kusudama on top of a mini 'Happy Birthday' mug.You might not be able to see the mug clearly due to my poor photography skills :(..sorry

I used the same 3 colors of the kusudama to make the box as well.Though very short time, I was very much excited with the outcome.I placed the gift box on the table and slept that night and in the morning, my husband says 'Haaa... this looks better..'..Finally ..huh :)

Hope my manager opens the box without holding the walls ;)


Entering to
snehal's challenge of making any type of box
Itsy Bitsy's craft flowers challenge
TheInspired Challenge #34 for colors
Anything goes with a twist by 'For the Love of Crafting'
'Freinship challenge by 'Hands to Hearts'

Colorful Curls..

Hellooooo,

It has been a long time since I made a kusudama and two days back I got a wonderful opportunity to make one.

This is very special as I made this for my manager who is in US.My manager is getting retired on August 1st. Yes... she will turn 65 years in the month of September.Very sweet lady and it was wonderful working with her.

I had just one day to make something because my colleague who was travelling to US was leaving in just two days. But I really wanted to give her something special ....something in handmade...something made by me.So finally this what I have made for her - an Origami Cuboctahedron.

It is made of 3 different colour sheets of 130 gsm. I wanted to use bright colours to give that Indian flavor.
I used 12 square papers(8X8cm) to make this.Here is the tutorial to make origami cuboctahedron

Hope she likes it!!

Origami and Kusudamas

Today I want to share few of the origami creations made by me.

Kusudama means ball of origami units. Origami is the art of folding paper.. Its Japan art.

I love to make origami kusudamas introduced by Tomoko fuse. The fun part is the assembling of all the units. I searched internet for instructions to make these models. Succeeded in finding few and making few. 

These pics were actually taken by my friend Deb whose hobby is photography. He photography skills brought the real beauty to my creations.

Those origami stars are made by me and added them as a special effect to kusudamas

Here is the Christmas tree which I made with the help of instructions from Tweety Atelier site. You get loads of instructions for different origami creations from his site..very inspiring!!

Lot more to learn and fold

Happy Folding!!!