Fold, Cut & Curl: 75 Exquisite Snowflakes, Stars and Sunbursts to Make

Exquisite designs anyone can make using origami, kirigami, and quilling. Capture the perfect geometry and delicate beauty of stars, snowflakes, and sunbursts in paper. This beautiful book explains all the techniques you need to create 75 exquisite shapes. You can cut, fold, and curl your very own blizzard or galaxy! The core techniques of origami, kirigami, and quilling are clearly illustrated with step-by-step photographs. Each design includes detailed written instructions, helpful hints, and templates where required. Also features inspirational ideas for finished projects. All three shapes look beautiful taped to windows or hung from a Christmas tree, but they can also decorate gifts and note cards, be used in appliqués or stencils, or even be transformed into exquisite jewellery.

Table of Contents:
PRELIMS (5 pp) INTRODUCTION (2pp) A brief overview of origami, kirigami, and quilling styles, and how to use this book. SECTION ONE / THE SELECTOR (14 pp) • Choose your favourite from an array of beautiful designs using a combination of origami, kirigami, and quilling styles, organised in pleasing colours and designed to encourage browsing. • Each design is tagged with a skill level and cross reference to the relevant instruction page. SECTION TWO / CORE TECHNIQUES (12pp) This section covers the essential knowledge and core techniques for origami, kirigami, and quilling. Clearly demonstrated with step-by-step photographs and text instructions, creating a thorough grounding in the craft for beginners and a useful reference manual for the experienced. Origami • Choosing paper: types of paper; which paper is suitable and which is not; how paper choice changes the look of the finished piece. • Basic folds and bases: basic origami folding techniques, terminologies, and bases necessary to make the designs introduced in this book. Folding techniques will be shown with step-by-step photographic instructions with added lines/arrows and text. Quilling • Pre-cut paper strips: thickness, width, gilded edges. • Tools: slotted or needle quilling tool, scissors, cutting knife, pins, fine-tip glue, cork board with multiple circumferences, tweezers, clear acrylic spray. • Basic techniques: how to quill basic shapes; tracing on top of templates; applying glue. Kirigami • Choosing paper and tools: paper choice and how it affects the look; recommended cutting tools (scissors, cutting knife), needle, and other helpful tools. • Basic techniques: how to make the folded bases for both rectangular paper and square paper (Japanese traditional kirigami uses square sheets); how to use the templates; cutting techniques. SECTION THREE / DESIGNS (94pp) The designs showcased in the Selector are organized into quilling, origami, and kirigami styles, with detailed instructions, helpful hints, templates for kirigami and quilling, and beautiful photographs of finished pieces in different paper choices. There are twenty five projects for each style, sub-divided into designs for snowflakes, sunbursts, and stars in harmonious colors. Quilling (15 SNOWFLAKES, 5 STARS, 5 SUNBURSTS) • Initial basic quilled shapes form simple snowflakes, stars, and sunbursts that are ideal for beginners. Quick enough for experienced users to make for larger events. • Also includes more intricate patterns, suited to both beginner and intermediate quillers who would like to spend more time per project. • Open quilled shapes define a shape's faceting with negative rather than positive space. They are more delicate to handle yet more graphic to behold, these deisgns are a challenge for quillers who want to use less common shapes to form their patterns. Origami (12 SNOWFLAKES, 8 STARS, 5 SUNBURSTS) • The designs shown first are simple ones; a great start for beginners, but also a satisfyingly beautiful and simple project for the experienced. • The designs shown next are more elaborate and complex, but not only for the experienced: some designs are modular models composed of multiple pieces of simple folds. Kirigami (13 SNOWFLAKES, 6 STARS, 6 SUNBURSTS) Ever since science revealed the intricate, symmetrical patterns of snowflakes, this aspect of nature’s beauty has fascinated many artists around the world and kirigami is a great medium for creating graphic shapes. This section also details kirigami designs for equally stunning sunbursts and stars. SECTION FOUR / CRAFT PROJECTS (14 pp) Each craft project includes beautifully photographed finished works, a list of supplies, and detailed instructions. These projects showcase some of the designs featured in Section Three. The reader can alternate them with other snowflakes, stars, or sunbursts featured in the book. • Stringing—Readers can use strings or ribbons to turn their crafted shapes into gift tags, gift toppers, napkin rings, garlands, and more. Includes instructions on how to attach string/ribbon and how to add embellishments. (Origami, kirigami, and quilling) • Pasting—Snowflakes are perfect for seasonal greeting cards, these designs are beautiful and far from ordinary. Also includes unique ways to paste sunbursts, snowflakes, or stars to other materials or objects, such as fabric star appliques on a canvas bag, silhouettes on a lantern revealing symmetrical shapes and layers, decoupage on a glass, and more. (Origami, kirigami, and quilling) • Stencil—If you cut out the paper carefully, it can be a great stencil template. (Kirigami) • Wearing—The perfect way to show off your creations! Paper earrings are so kind to your ears because of their light weight. Includes instructions on coating for durability, and attaching findings and embellishments. (Origami, kirigami, and quilling) INDEX AND CREDITS (3pp)

About the Author :
Ayako Brodek's love of origami started when she was a little girl. On long ferryboat rides to her grandparents' home in Shikoku, her mother made origami cranes and boats from candy wrappers to chase away the boredom. Her fascination with origami continued, and after thirty years of folding for personal enjoyments she founded OriCraft to introduce her origami creations to a wider audience. Her focus is on designing origami works of art that can be loved and used in everyday life. Wearable origami is one of her biggest passions, and she has devoted considerable time to exploring ways to transform origami objects into exquisite and durable jewellery. She sells her work at art and craft shows and through her website. She also teaches origami to all ages at local libraries and schools. Shannon Voigt has always had a passion for creating since she was young and is self-taught in many disciplines including cake decorating, quilting, crocheting/knitting, cross-stitch, and of course quilling. She picked the skill back up in 2008 and started selling quilled snowflakes in her Etsy shop, ForeverFiligree. Her snowflakes have sold all around the world and were used in Jockey International’s 2011 Holiday Catalog and Sundance’s 2012 Holiday Catalog. This is her first book.

Review :
Aug 13 This book shows beautiful designs that can be made using origami, kirigami and quilling. With a focus on stars, snowflakes and sunbursts, readers can create bursts of colour with these paper techniques. The three core skills are clearly illustrated with step-by-step photographs and detailed written instructions, helpful hints and templates. Oct 13 I love this book from start to finish. It’s for anyone who loves playing with paper and making beautiful things. You’ll find 75 paper designs including origami, kirigami and quilling. The techniques for each craft are demonstrated and clearly explained. Each project is graded and this book is suitable for all skill levels. Templates are given where necessary, the book is enhanced by clear photographs and step by step instructions. The projects are divided into snowflakes, stars and sunbursts. The kirigami is great, the origami superb, but for me the quilling is simply amazing. I have never took much notice of quilling before, but I am hooked on these fabulous designs. All the projects are shown at the front of the book, followed by basics, materials and core techniques. Then each project is shown with many photos and steps, so you cannot go wrong. There are projects at the back of the book to try out your new skills. It would be a wonderful gift for anyone interested in paper art or a perfect treat for yourself. Nov 13 I haven’t yet used a star rating system for my book reviews – but this title, appropriately, gets five stars (or sunbursts, or snowflakes). Last year, Search Press had a big hit with their lovely crocheted snowflake title, 100 Snowflakes to Crochet, by Caitlin Sainio. This new book looks to be a follow-up for papercrafters - an idea with legs (or rather, snowflake arms). I am a mega snowflake fan – in fact, I have designed a template of my own papercrafted Snowflakes & Stars for Hot Off the Press. Many papercrafters are big snowflake fans, too – I notice that whenever I run a snowflake-themed project on the blog, it gets a lot of hits. Could it be childhood memories of happy snowflake-cutting sessions? The snowflakes, stars, and sunbursts in this book are much more sophisticated and elegant than your childhood makes (although for the kirigami flakes, the fold-and-cut principle is the same). This book has a winning format. Up front, there’s a Selector section, a glorious gallery of all the different styles, presented by category (snowflake, star, or sunburst). Each style is labelled with name, number, and turn-to page. A good system. Following the gallery, there’s a skills section, teaching quilling, origami, and kirigami core techniques in a clear and concise manner. Lots of excellent instructional tips, like how to use a needle quilling tool for finer designs. It is commendable how this book has enlisted two experts: Ayako Brodek for the origami and kirigami projects, and Shannon Voigt for the quilled designs. This is a much more successful approach than stretching the skills of one author to encompass all that is required. The origami section has lots of variety. You will learn how to construct hexagonal, pentagonal, and octagonal snowflake bases (basic training!). Some of the designs are modular ones – this unit approach to origami is very popular. My favourite quilled designs include Comet, in which a whoosh of a filigreed tail almost seems to animate the centre star; and Radiance, which very cleverly used pieced quilling strips to craft a graduated colour effect. The Projects section is the weakest of the book, but it still has value and presents good ideas. It is just that the individual designs are perfection, and these are just presentation apps. For example, the Quilled Window Ornaments, attached with suction cups, are an ace way to showcase the snowflakes. And the Origami Garland, constructed with beads and fishline is a valid idea, too. This title would make a delightful gift for a papercrafter. Or buy it now for crafting festive decs. Dec 13 The subtitle of this delightful and innovative book is “75 exquisite snowflakes, stars and sunbursts to make” and this is, in a nutshell, what the book is all about. The two authors show you how to make these images using quilling, origami and kirigami. The theme means that this book is very useful for making Christmas cards and decorations, with the sunbursts bringing a joyous touch to birthday and other less wintry occasions. As with many Search Press books there is a page on how to use the book and a selector showcasing all the projects with page numbers so you can dive in and choose your favorites. You can also learn how to do all three papercrafts in some detail, as well as finding out what you need to buy and even a page all about paper. I particularly like the section showing the various bases for the origami and kirigami folds which simplifies the processes while cutting down on pages, leaving room for more projects. These are all graded according to difficulty and each project comes with several photographed stages for a fairly foolproof result. At the back are a few ideas as to how to use them as well as a very tiny number of UK websites that supply origami paper. More would have been good but this is a minor fault in what is an unusual, useful and most enjoyable book.