Friday, August 08, 2014

Origami Flowers Kit Review & Giveaway



This is the pretty Petallunia Moon Flower! It's just one of 20 projects in LaFosse & Alexander's Origami Flowers, Lifelike Paper Flowers to Brighten Up Your Life. The boxed kit, published by Tuttle includes 180 folding papers, a full-color instructional booklet and DVD. You get 2 sizes of folding paper, 7 and 15 cm squares in purple, yellow, red, green, orange and pink solids. To make this flower I used five 6 cm squares of handmade Japanese paper, 1 for each petal. Best of all the design is modifiable, add or remove petals to transform the look of the flower! It wasn't difficult to make, I found the instructions very clear but if you get stuck just use the instructional DVD, it's very well done, you can go from project to project. Can you imagine how spectacular a bouquet of paper flowers would look? Get your kit below!


CONTENTS

Introduction
Symbols Key
How to use This booklet and DVD
Categories of Origami Flowers
Origami Flower Materials
Techniques and Tools
Inspirations and Uses

Lily
Lily Leaf
Kyoko's Flower
Maple Leaf
Anne's Orchid Ohana Orchid
Orchid Leaf
A Tulip for Betty
Modular Blossom
Plumeria
Clean Leaf
Modular Six-Piece Day Lily
Petallunia Moon Flower
Petal Module Calyx
Petal Modules
Star Flowers
Canday Blossom
A Rose for Irene
Rose Calyx
Cullen's Flower

Going Beyond This Kit

Origami Flowers is available in both my Canadian and USA Amazon Stores and worldwide at Tuttle Publishing. Check out their unique catalog, rooted in Asian culture, language and history at Tuttle Publishing. Tuttle has generously offered to giveaway an Origami Flowers Kit! One winner will be selected at random. Good luck! Open until August 23, 2014, Canadian and USA addresses only.


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44 comments:

  1. I really like the Creative Beaded Jewelry book

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  2. Like to have the all about japan children's book
    sonflower277 at gmail dot com

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  3. I would love the Chinese Fables book!

    thanks

    RAFFLECOPTER NAME is Anne Taylor

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  4. I would love the book on Covered Bridges book. Thank you

    candieluster(at)gmail(dot)com

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  5. That this will be great, now that my Daughters Summer job has finished

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  6. would LOVE to get a closer look at Chinese Fables!
    http://www.tuttlepublishing.com/books-by-country/chinese-fables-hardcover-with-jacket

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  7. I love Origami and I'd also love the book on Creative Beaded Jewelry. Thanks for an awesome and different giveaway.

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  8. I love the Chinese Zen

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  9. Following you on GFC as Yvonne Woodstock and on Networked blogs as Yvonne Marie W

    manifestmiracles@live.com

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  10. I would also LOVE to read Tuttle Publishing's CHAKRA WORKBOOK as well as their I-Ching Books and some of their Buddhist Zen books for myself and to share with any equally interested loved ones once I was finished reading them.

    manifestmiracles@live.com

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  11. I follow via GFC
    Thanks
    Rafflecopter name: Enelram

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  12. I follow on GFC suzquiz
    9oofus at gmail dot com
    I hope this is not a duplicate

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  13. I would like to read Chinese Embroidery
    9oofus at gmail dot com

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  14. I would love to read A Dictionary of Japanese Food.

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  15. I would like Balinese Children's Favorite Stories!

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  16. Grandma Panda's China Storybook caught my attention and I would like to read it to my kids.

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  17. checked out the site and would also like 'Paper Cutting for Celebrations '

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  18. The Chinese Fables Book looks interesting!

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  19. The Bible Origami Kit would be great for my daughter when she taught children's church

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  20. Hello, I checked out other books at Tuttle Publishing and I would love to get the Feng Shui Garden Design. Thanks for a great giveaway!~
    trishden948(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  21. The book called Cupcake Envy sounds good.

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  22. Id love the American Boys Handy Book for my son!

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  23. Another book I'd like is Creative Beaded Jewelry

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  24. I'd love to have Itty Bitty Crocheted Critters

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  25. I would love to have Balinese Food to expand my repertoire.
    MPaula

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  26. I like American Covered Bridges

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  27. I would like to buy the book, "High-Performance Paper Airplanes Kit". I would buy 2 and give one each to my brothers for Christmas. They loved playing with paper airplanes when we were little.

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  28. I would like the Origami Animal Sculpture

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  29. Ming's Adventure in the Forbidden City

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  30. would love the Chinese Fables book!

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  31. I love Origami Flowers!
    zonk368@yahoo.com

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  32. I would also like to have Chinese Fables: http://www.tuttlepublishing.com/books-by-country/chinese-fables-hardcover-with-jacket

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  33. I would also love to have the Creative Beaded Jewelry book.

    jweezie43[at]gmail[dot]com

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  34. I would like to have America's Covered Bridges!
    ischu9 at aol dot com

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  35. I also like Gramma Panda's Chinese Storybook.

    Nancy
    allibrary (at) aol (dot) com

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  36. I would love the 10-Fold Origami book for my classroom.

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  37. I would love to receive the Chinese Embroidery Book.
    Laurie Emerson
    lauraemerson17 at yahoo dot com

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  38. Love Origami and Paper Crafts, so this book would be great too: All Things Paper!

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  39. Oh there are so many books at Tuttle Publishing that I am interested in ~ honestly ~ I don't know where to begin!

    I course I love the prize and any other book about creative uses of paper (I love making collages and doing decoupage!)

    We also love to cook! We are very much into pretty much ALL Asian cuisines: three cookbooks that immediately caught my eye are:

    Asian Cooking Made Easy
    An Edible Mosaic
    Middles Eastern Home Cooking
    (to name just a few!)

    Zen Chinese also caught my eye and I've been wanting to try my hand at jewelry making (especially with beads) so Creative Beaded Jewelry also belongs on my wish list! Thanks for the giveaway and the intro to Tuttle Publishing ~ my kind of books!

    Jesselyn A/Jesstinger
    jessterlyn(at)aol(dot)com

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  40. The Creative Beaded jewelry book looks like something my daughter would really enjoy!

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