Introduction and Copyright Notice...... 2
Heart Card......................................... 18
Origami Symbols............................... 3
Two-Heart Card................................. 22
Heart................................................... 4
Flying Heart Card.............................. 23
Clip-Heart.......................................... 5
Flying Two-Heart Card...................... 24
Clip-Heart Binding............................. 8
Double Heart..................................... 25
Clip-Heart Bookmark......................... 10
Double Heart Garland........................ 27
Clip-Heart Valentines........................ 11
Double Heart Card............................. 28
Two-Heart Valentine.......................... 14
Flying Heart....................................... 29
Winged Clip-Heart............................. 15
Valentine........................................... 32
ROMANTIC ORIGAMI is another book from Origami Holiday Series by Oriland authors that will teach you how to add origami magic to your romantic moments whatever anniversary you celebrate, first date, wedding time and, of course, Valentine’s Day! Reveal your creativity by taking origami magic into your own hands to make original origami gifts for those whom you love! Do-It-Yourself – fold romantic origami cards, charming hearts, lovely decorative clips, heart bookmarks and garlands - all originally designed by Yuri and Katrin Shumakov. There are almost 215 detailed step-by-step colorful diagrams, placed on 35 pages that will guide you through folding the 16 original origami designs of the Oriland style and their variations. The 'Origami Symbols' section is explaining international origami symbols to help you to read diagrams for folding. The models are ranging from simple to intermediate level of folding as shown by stars and are good for the novice and the expert alike. Happy folding!
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These simple origami symbols will help you to read diagrams of folding.
Valley fold
Step fold
Turn the paper over
Mountain fold
Pull out
Turn the paper around
Valley fold and unfold
Inside reverse fold
Enlarging the following diagram
Mountain fold and unfold
Outside reverse fold
Reduction the following diagram
Push in. Sink Open and squash
Fold the paper over and over
Simple Simple-Medium Medium Medium-Complex Complex
X-ray view
The system of levels of folding is more as a guide line, an approximate approach just to orient you and mostly depends of your skills in paper folding. If you are a novice, even the simple level can be challenging for you. And if you are already a connoisseur even a complex model can be simple for you.
Use a square of paper, colored side down. Valley fold the square of paper from left to right. Press the paper flat and unfold it. 1
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2 Valley fold the square of paper from top to bottom.
Valley fold the two layers up, so that the raw edges meet the top edge.
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Separate the front layers. Valley fold and unfold them in half, as shown.
Valley fold the left- and right-hand halves of the bottom edge up to meet the vertical middle line.
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This should be the result. Turn the model over.
11 Here is the completed heart! 10
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Valley fold the corners as shown. Note, you need to fold all layers. Press them flat.
This should be the result. Turn the model over and...
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Open the triangular pocket slightly, separate the two front layers at the left-hand side and valley fold them to meet the vertical middle line. Then, repeat the same for the right-hand side.
Valley fold the top corners, thereby shaping the heart. Heart © 1996 Katrin Shumakov - page 1
This Heart-Shaped Paper Clip will be useful to bind a few sheets of paper with a very special message :) Use a square of paper, for instance, a 3-inch (7.5 cm) square. If using two-color paper, begin with colored side down. Valley fold the opposite sides together in both directions, and open them up. 1
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Valley fold the top and bottom sides over to meet the horizontal middle fold-line.
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This should be the result. Turn the paper over.
4 Reduce the paper along the ‘valley’ foldlines toward you, at the same time, mountain fold the middle, as shown. 5
Valley fold both halves of the top edge over to meet the vertical middle fold-line. Press the folds until horizontal middle fold-line and unfold them. Repeat with the bottom edge.
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7 Valley fold and unfold the Continue reducing the middle corners at the top, as points, thereby bringing the shown. Repeat behind. model into the position shown in the next step. Clip-Heart © 2006 Yuri Shumakov - page 1
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This should be the result. Working with the right half, open out the front layer slightly.
9 Working with the front layers only, inside reverse fold the top corner along the existing foldlines, sinking it between the layers.
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Inside reverse fold the top right-hand corner (all its layers) along the existing fold-lines, sinking it inside the model.
This should be the result. Continue working with the right half, from the middle, open out the front layer slightly as shown.
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Insert the corner into the pocket, as shown, thereby locking the right half of the model.
Clip-Heart Clip © 2006 Yuri Shumakov - page 2
This should be the result. The right half of the model is ready. Working with the left half, open out the front layer slightly.
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Working with the front layers only, inside reverse fold the top corner along the existing fold-lines, sinking it between the layers.
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This should be the result. Continue working with the left half, from the middle, open out the front layer slightly as shown. Inside reverse fold the top lefthand corner (all its layers) along the existing fold-lines, sinking it inside the model. Insert the corner into the pocket, as shown, thereby locking the left half of the model.
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The clip-heart is ready.
When separating the layers at the bottom slightly, you’ll see a slit, which will be used in order to attach the heart to something...
Clip-Heart © 2006 Yuri Shumakov - page 3
For the clip-heart, use a 3-inch (7.5 cm) square of paper or so. Take a few sheets of paper to bind them with this Clip-Heart. Take the folded clip-heart. Separate the layers at the bottom and open out them softly, not making the folds.
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Valley fold the layers down, thereby locking the corners of the sheets by the paper clip.
Insert the corners of the sheet (or a few sheets) under the layer into the pocket as far as it will go.
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4 Mountain fold the heart in half as shown, just to strengthen the paper lock, and then release it.
Clip-Heart Binding © 2006 Yuri Shumakov - page 1
Here is the completed clip-heart binding.
You can bind two nice squares of different sizes for a very special message :)
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If you add the clip-hearts on corners of the paper rectangle, you’ll receive a lovely frame.
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You can add a picture into this frame.
This clip-heart will be useful to bind a few regular sheets of paper with an article or your homework or whatever you want.
Play with this clip-heart and add a lovely touch to regular things!
Clip-Heart Binding © 2006 Yuri Shumakov - page 2
For the clip-heart, use a 4-inch (10 cm) square of paper or so. For the bookmark, take a strip of thick paper, about 8 inches long or so.
Insert the end of the paper strip into the pocket of the heart as far as it will go.
Valley fold the layers down, thereby locking the bookmark by the paper clip.
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Take the folded clip-heart. Separate the layers at the bottom and open out them softly, not making the folds.
6 You can vary sizes of the heart and the strip, but keep in mind that paper for the strip should be strong enough. Adding the second heart on the strip will make a nice decoration.
5 4 This should be the result. The Clip-Heart Bookmark is ready.
Clip-Heart Bookmark © 2006 Yuri and Katrin Shumakov - page 1
For the clip-heart, use a 4-inch (10 cm) square of paper or so. For the card, take a half of the regular sheet (Letter or A4 format). If using two color paper, begin with colored side down.
1 Prepare 4-inch (10 cm) square of paper or so for the clip-heart and a rectangle of paper, which is a half of the regular sheet (Letter or A4 format), for the card.
Note, two raw edges are on the top. Make a foldmark, as shown. 2
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Fold the clip-heart. Put the folded heart aside for awhile.
3 Working with a rectangle of paper, begin with colored side down, if using two color paper. Fold it in half, as shown. Clip-Heart Valentines © 2006 Yuri and Katrin Shumakov - page 1
Valley fold and unfold the top corners (all the layers), as shown.
Separate the layers and fold the corners along the existing foldlines inside the model.
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This should be the result. Now, take the folded clipheart, separate the layers at the bottom and open out them softly, not making the 8 folds. Insert the corners of the card into the pocket of the heart as far as it will go.
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Mountain fold the heart in half as shown, just to strengthen the paper lock, and then release it.
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9 Valley fold the layers down, thereby locking the corners by the paper clip.
Clip-Heart Valentines © 2006 Yuri and Katrin Shumakov - page 2
This should be the result. The card is almost ready. You can use it as is, but a few more folds will make it stand.
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Valley fold and unfold the bottom edge, as shown. The distance is about 5/8 inch or 15 mm or so.
Here is the completed Clip-Heart Valentine! Check another variation out, shown in the next steps.
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Separate the layers and sink the bottom edge into the model along the fold-lines made in the previous step.
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15 If in step 4, you fold the top corners in this way…You will receive a nice variation of the Clip-Heart Valentine.
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Don’t forget that you can use fancy paper for the card to make it stand out. Clip-Heart Valentines © 2006 Yuri and Katrin Shumakov - page 3
For the clip-heart, use a 4-inch (10 cm) square of paper or so. For the card, take a half of the regular sheet (Letter or A4 format). If using two color paper, begin with colored side down.
The first 11 steps are the same as for the Clip-Heart Valentines. 11
12 Valley fold and unfold the bottom corners, as shown.
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14 Here is the completed TwoHeart Valentine!
Separate the layers and sink the corners into the model along the fold-lines made in the previous step, thereby making the card heart-shaped.
Two-Heart Valentine © 2006 Yuri and Katrin Shumakov - page 1
Here is an original origami clip for holding papers together. This one can hold together up to about 12 sheets of regular copy paper, especially if the clip is folded from origami foil. Let your papers to be bound creatively! Use a 4-inch (10 cm) square of paper, preferably origami foil. When you mastered this model, try to fold it from a smaller square of paper, for instance, a 3-inch (7.5 cm) square. 2
If using two-color paper, begin with colored side down. Valley fold the opposite sides together in both directions, and open them up. 1
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Valley fold the opposite corners together, in turn, to mark the diagonal fold lines, and open them up. Then, turn the paper over.
Make ‘valley’ folds, as shown. Valley fold two opposite corners over to meet the middle point.
4 5 This should be the result. Turn the paper over.
Along the existing fold-lines, valley fold the side points into the middle, thereby making two small squares. Squash them flat. 8 6 Valley fold and unfold the opposite corners as shown. Then, turn the paper over.
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Winged Clip-Heart © 2006 Yuri Shumakov - page 1
Valley fold the front layer of each of two small squares as shown.
This should be the result. Turn the paper over.
10 Valley fold all the layers of the opposite corner.
9 11 Valley fold all the layers of the top left-hand corner. Press it flat and unfold it.
12 Insert the corners of the sheets into the pocket before the last layer as 13 far as it will go. 14
Unfold the front flap, as shown. Valley fold the model as shown.
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Separate the layers and valley fold the front flap, keeping the thin layer in the same place.
Valley fold the lower flap, as shown.
Insert the corner into the pocket, thereby locking the model.
Winged Clip-Heart © 2006 Yuri Shumakov - page 2
Open out the triangular pockets and bring the middle corners to the side points, as shown, thereby shaping the model into the position shown in the next step.
19 Here is the completed paper clip ‘Heart’. 20
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Mountain fold the points, as shown, thereby shaping the heart.
Attach the paper clip as shown in steps 13-20.
With this paper clip, you can bind the sheets at the top. To do that, place the paper 21 sheets with front side down and valley fold the top corners of the sheets as shown. Then, turn the paper over.
This should be the result.
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24 Play with this paper clip and have fun!
Winged Clip-Heart © 2006 Yuri Shumakov - page 3
Use a square of paper, colored side up. The finished card will be 1/4 of the initial square in size. For example, when starting from 6-inch (15 cm) square, you will get a cute card 3x3.5 inches (7.5x9 cm) in size. 2 Valley fold the square in half from top to bottom Valley fold the square in half and unfold it. from left to right. Do not 1 press the paper completely flat, but press down on it at the top half of the paper. Then, unfold it.
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Valley fold the top edge over to meet the horizontal middle fold-line. Press it flat and unfold it. 4
Valley fold the left- and righthand edges over to meet the vertical middle fold-line.
5 Valley fold the top edge over to meet the the bottom edge.
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Open out the flap. 7
Valley fold and unfold the corners, as shown. 8
9 Step fold the front layer into the position shown in the next step.
On the top half, valley fold the left- and right-hand edges to meet the vertical middle line. Heart Card © 1996 Katrin and Yuri Shumakov - page 1
Open out the model.
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Form the 'valley' and 'mountain' folds along the existing fold-lines as shown.
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12 Press the paper flat. 13
Bring the left- and right-hand sides around and together, shaping the paper as shown in the next step. 14
16 The marked place is enlarged in the following steps. This should be the result. Turn the model over.
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Valley fold and unfold all layers in half as shown.
Heart Card © 1996 Katrin and Yuri Shumakov - page 2
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Valley fold the top central point of the front layer down and bring the lateral points, so that their edges meet in the middle.
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Open out the model slightly and unfold the paper on the top. Valley fold the top edge along the existing crease made in step 16, thereby making a lapel. Then, collapse the paper in the position shown in the next step.
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Mountain fold and unfold the corners as shown. Then, turn the model over.
20 Pull out the points in the direction shown by the arrows.
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This should be the result. Turn the model over.
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Open out the layers in the middle slightly. Mountain fold the top edges inside the model.
Pull out the points in the direction shown by the arrows into the position shown in the next step. Heart Card © 1996 Katrin and Yuri Shumakov - page 3
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24 26 Sink the middle corners of the front flaps as shown. Sink the corners as shown. Then, turn the model over. Mountain fold the corners back, thereby shaping the heart. 27 28
Insert the corners inside the pockets, thereby locking the model. Then, turn the model over.
Working inside the model, mountain fold the middle corners under the internal layer, thereby locking the card. Then, turn the model over. Starting from step 27, you can fold this model further to make Two-Heart Card! 27
29 Here is the completed Heart Card.
Heart Card © 1996 Katrin and Yuri Shumakov - page 4
Use a square of paper, colored side up. The first 27 steps are the same as for the Heart Card. Valley fold the corners as shown. 29 Press them flat and unfold them. Open out the sides and valley 28 fold each of them along the line between two dots as shown and transform the flaps, thereby bringing them into the position shown in the next step. 30
Open out the first front layers as shown and mountain fold the inner corners along the existing fold-lines.
On each side, open out the first front layer as shown and inside reverse fold the 31 front side corner along the existing fold-line. 32
Working with front layers, valley fold the corners as shown. Press them flat and unfold them. Insert the side corners into the pockets, thereby locking the model and shaping the bottom heart.
There should be the result. Turn the model over. 33
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Here is the completed Two-Heart Card.
Two-Heart Card © 1996 Katrin and Yuri Shumakov - page 1
Use a square of paper, colored side up. The first 23 steps are the same as for the Heart Card. This should be the result. Turn the model over.
Along the existing fold-lines, open the flaps out, bringing them into the position, shown in the next step.
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Valley fold the side flaps, as shown. 25
Valley fold the corners, as shown. Press them flat and unfold them. 26
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Open out the triangular flaps.
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28 Working with central corners, fold them in the direction shown by the arrows, so the dots coincide, bringing them into the position shown in the next step.
Working with one side first, righthand for instance. Fold the upper side corner along the existing fold-line and so the dots coincide. At the same time, fold the side flap as shown. Now repeat it for the left-hand side.
Flying Heart Cards © 2009 Katrin and Yuri Shumakov - page 1
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This should be the result. You can optionally make ‘valley’ and ‘mountain’ folds on the wings as shown at the left-hand side. After that, fold the top corner of each wing a little as shown. 32
First, fold the top corners, thereby shaping the heart and making the paper locks. Then, valley fold the wings in the direction shown by arrows to bring them into the position shown in the next step. Here are the completed Flying Heart Cards with plain and pleated wings.
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Working inside the model, mountain fold the middle corners under the internal layer, thereby locking the card. Then, turn the model over.
Use a square of paper, colored side up. The first 31 steps are the same as for the Flying Heart Card. Then continue folding with steps 28-35 of the Two-Heart Card.
33 Here are the completed Flying Two-Heart Cards with plain and pleated wings.
Flying Heart Cards © 2009 Katrin and Yuri Shumakov - page 2
Use a square of paper, colored side up. Valley fold the opposite corners together, in turn, to mark the diagonal fold-lines, and open them up. Turn the paper over.
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Valley fold the corners into the middle.
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Valley fold the opposite sides together in both directions, and open them up.
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Bring the sides together and down towards you. Press the top down neatly into a square.
This should be the result. Turn the model over.
Valley fold the front flap in half and unfold it. Turn the model over. 8 7
Open out the layers and move them in the direction shown by the arrows into the position Repeat step 6. shown in the next step. Repeat behind. Double Heart © 1996 Katrin Shumakov - page 1
Valley fold the top corners to meet the diagonal fold-lines as shown. Press them flat and unfold them. 9
Valley fold the top edge to meet the horizontal middle fold-line, at the same time push and squash the left- and right-hand top points.
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Valley fold the top corners to meet the diagonal fold-lines as shown. Press them flat and unfold them. 13
Valley fold the right-hand flap over to the left.
This should be the result. Turn the model over. 12
Mountain fold the top middle corners. Repeat behind.
14 Valley fold the top edge to meet the horizontal middle fold-line, at the same time push and squash the leftand right-hand top points.
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Valley fold the right-hand flap over to the left. 15
16 Double Heart © 1996 Katrin Shumakov - page 2
Valley fold and unfold the top middle corners as shown. Repeat behind.
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Sink the top point.
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Mountain fold the top corners, thereby shaping the heart. Repeat behind. Here is the completed double heart! 20
It looks pretty from both sides and the heart’s core with a valve of other side of paper will be useful to make various decorations and attach the heart to something.
You can make a hanging decoration with the double heart. It could be one model tied by a ribbon or a garland of double hearts. When making a 5 garland, tide up the Take a piece of Here is the completed string around each string or nice hanging decoration heart’s core. ribbon, in length, with the double heart. appropriate to your double heart. Fold in half and make a knot to fix 6 the loop. 3 You also can finish the 1 garland with hanging the bigger heart in the end, so it will add a charm 2 as well as weight to keep string strained.
4 Place the string’s ends between the layers of the double heart as shown and tie up them to bind the heart’s core.
You can hang one decoration on another as shown.
7 Here is the completed garland with the double hearts.
Double Heart Garland © 1996 Katrin Shumakov - page 1
You will need the card stock and one or two double hearts. For regular sized card stock, 1/2 of Letter or A4, the size of paper for hearts could vary from 4-inch to 2-inch square, depending on your idea for a card. For this card, make two double hearts, one from 3.5-inch (8 cm) square and another from 2.5-inch (6.5 cm) square.
Mark the fold-lines out on your card to receive the cupboard-like form with two doors that can be opened and closed. You can do doors symmetrical or asymmetrical, as in our case.
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Define the place for each of the double hearts. Then glue them to the opposite edges, so the layers of the one half of the heart are enveloping the edge and glued to it by the heart’s core. Close the doors of your card at the same inserting the card’s edges into the slots of the opposite hearts.
4 Here is the completed asymmetrical cupboardlike card with the Double Hearts.
Here is the completed symmetrical cupboard-like Double Heart Card. 5
Double Heart Card © 1996 Katrin Shumakov - page 1
Use a square of paper. If using two-color paper, begin with colored side down. Valley fold the opposite 2 corners together, in turn, to mark the diagonal fold Valley fold the upper rightlines, and open them up. hand corner to meet the 1 intersection of the foldlines made in step 1. Press it flat.
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Valley fold the upper left-hand corner to meet the intersection. Press it flat.
4 Mountain fold the top triangle back along its bottom border. Valley fold the top corners along the existing fold-lines.
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Valley fold and unfold the middle corners of the front layer, as shown.
This should be the result. Repeat step 7 with the left-hand side. 7
By pressing in the specified place, open the layer and turn it out into the position shown in the next step.
Flying Heart © 1998 Yuri Shumakov - page 1
Separate the corner and valley fold and unfold it as shown.
By pressing on the top corner, open its layers and squash them into the position shown in the next step.
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Valley fold the corners as shown.
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Separate the layers and tuck the little corners into the pockets.
Valley fold the top corners, thereby shaping the heart. 13
This should be the result. Valley fold the bottom edge up to meet the middle fold-line.
Working with front flap, valley fold the bottom edge up, as shown. Press it flat.
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Flying Heart © 1998 Yuri Shumakov - page 2
Again, valley fold the bottom edge up, as shown. In case, you started from the small square, and this flap is very narrow to the moment, you can omit this step. 17
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Open up the pleated flaps into the position shown in the next step.
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Pleat the flap along the existing fold-lines, compressing in the middle, thereby shaping the wings as shown in the next step.
19 You can adjust the position of the wings as you wish. This should be the result. Turn the model over.
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The Flying Heart is ready! Mountain fold the heart in half as shown, just to strengthen the paper lock, and then release it. Flying Heart © 1998 Yuri Shumakov - page 3
Use a rectangle of paper, approximately 4:1 in proportion, colored side down. Also it's possible to use a rectangle of paper, 3:1 in proportion. In this case, the card will be lower.
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Valley fold the paper rectangle in half and unfold it.
Valley fold the right-hand edge to meet the top edge. Press the paper flat and unfold it.
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Valley fold the right-hand edge to meet the bottom edge. Press the paper flat and unfold it. Then, turn the paper around into the position shown in the next step.
4 Valley fold the top corners to meet the intersection of the fold-lines made in step 2 and 3.
6 Valley fold the top corners along the existing fold-lines. The marked place is enlarged in the following steps. 5
Mountain fold the top triangle back along its bottom border.
Valentine © 1998 Yuri Shumakov - page 1
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9 Valley fold and unfold the middle corners of the front layer, as shown.
By pressing in the specified place, open the layer and turn it out into the position shown in the next step. This should be the result. Repeat step 8 with the lefthand side.
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By pressing on the top corner, open its layers and squash them into the position shown in the next step. 11
Separate the corner and valley fold and unfold it as shown.
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14 Separate the layers and tuck the little corners into the pockets.
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Valley fold the top corners, thereby shaping the heart.
Valley fold the corners as shown. Valentine © 1998 Yuri Shumakov - page 2
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Valley fold the bottom edge and insert it under the heart as far as it will go. Press the paper flat.
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This should be the result. Turn the paper over.
This should be the result. Turn the model over.
Along the fold-lines made in step 19, mountain fold the layers as shown, thereby locking them.
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Valley fold the corners over the borders of the front layer. Valley fold both layers of each corner as shown and unfold them. Valentine © 1998 Yuri Shumakov - page 3
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Open out the layers and sink the bottom edge inside the model. Valley fold the bottom edge along the existing fold-line and unfold it. Then, turn the model over. Move the bottom edges apart a little. 24 The nice Valentine card is ready!
Romantic Origami. Origami Holiday Series. Copyright©2009 by Katrin and Yuri Shumakov. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address
[email protected] This book is available exclusively in electronic format as a portable document format (PDF) file. The product can be purchased exclusively through www.oriland.com or from official Oriland distributors, see www.oriland.com/store/main.asp#distributors Any other ways of obtaining this book are considered illegal. NOTE: The diagrams from this book may be printed out only for personal use, and may not be redistributed or republished in any way without the express written consent of the creator. For information, address
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