3D Origami Fun!: 25 Fantastic, Foldable Paper Projects

1. the triangle size in cm was wrong.2. many desigs are simmilar

Love it

I have never seen an origami book of projects like Stephanie Martyn's book. It has 25 very creative and in my opinion totally new formations to the origami folding art/craft.When one thinks of origami, you may think about the crane, star, cup, lion, or other easier creations.Stephanie has created totally 3 D bees, butterflies, cupcakes, crabs, owls, farm animals, zoo animals, flowers, fruits, and more.The author's directions are clear and the included photographs are extremely helpful in performing the project. She gives the reader specific directions on the weight of the paper to buy, how to cut the paper, and the basic fold used.In my opinion even though there are projects that are labeled "easy", they are still challenging. Yes, you can finish a project but they are , to me, more difficult than the 2 dimensional origami I have done in the past.The only addition the author could have made to this book, would have been to include some precut paper for one of the easy projects. I feel this would be an incentive to use the book right away without locating the paper needed.*I received this for review - all opinions are my own*

This is origami like I have never seen before. These paper sculptures consist of many small folded individual pieces of paper tucked together to form dimensional cute objects. Once you master the simple folded section you can make everything in the book. This would be the kind of thing you could make in a small space and a lot of time to keep your hands busy.

Instructions for folding/cutting paper are wrong. I cut out many pieces before realising this, so much paper was wasted.

It is amazing to look through this book and think that these awesome creations were made with paper! I love the step-by-step photo instructions so that it's nearly fool-proof. With a bit of patience almost anyone can make these!

Size A paper directions are wrong. They do not give you the right size paper after cutting.

This type of origami is not at all well known here in Britain. The author, Stephanie Martyn, is American and her book is geared towards the American market. This does make a big difference.The paper is a different weight and a slightly different size. Stephanie uses US Letter size paper, which is equivalent to British A4 but the weight she recommends is 24 pound. As far as I can determine from an internet search this is equivalent to 35.5 gsm (grams per square metre) British weight. Unfortunately it's not possible, as far as I'm aware, to buy 35 gsm in Britain, the lowest is 80gsm which is copier paper. Copier paper works just fine, comes in different colours, is readily available and is not expensive. I have made models out of cheap wrapping paper which only comes in width and length measurements and to be fair to the author she does point out that any old paper will do.The trouble is, the size of the pieces she uses for triangles. Stephanie advises 24 pieces per US letter size, which divides the paper into 24 equal pieces - size A. Stephanie shows very clearly how to cut the pieces and what tools to use. Again, this is all for the American market. Stephanie advises using a paper cutter to cut the paper and has very clear photographs and instructions for every step of the way. She also advises a smaller piece - size B - 48 pieces per US Letter size. In my opinion the 24 pieces, which are easily translated into A4 size paper with no waste, are far too small for the complete beginner to fold. My small female hands got crampy folding them so I have no idea how a man's average size hands would cope with this.I did, however, continue to fold the 24 size paper pieces until I had all of the required triangles and then set about building the first model, a strawberry. Stephanie advises gluing these pieces together and she is right, I still haven't managed to build the full model using 24s, even although I glued the first two rows together. When I ripped the first row trying to mould the model into the correct shape I gave up. I did, however, create the same model using 16s (16 identical pieces from an A4 sheet of copier paper) and this worked fine. I just got a bigger model. This is before I even attempted the 48s, which will be half the size of the 24s. Not going to try that.I like this boook and will build the other models. However, I will be building them using 16s not 24s. The book has plenty of colour photographs and the instructions that go with them are very clear. Stephanie also includes a graph showing where the triangles should go in the build, which is something new that I have learned from her. She also does the right thing by making the first few models with a relatively small amount of triangles. The strawberry has less than 100 triangles for example, and this approach is ideal for the complete beginner.I am not impressed with her advice to glue triangles in place. For a small model like the strawberry this might be acceptable but as you move through the book to the more complicated models and thus more triangles gluing could become very tedious indeed and if you should glue a triangle on the wrong way round, which is surprisingly easy to do, your model is ruined. The advantage of 16s is that once you have your base secured (and you don't necessarily need to glue that either) the model stays togetter without the use of glue. Also, I learned from a certain video focussed internet site how to fold and tear my pieces from an A4 sheet thus negating the need for a paper trimmer. Stephanie doesn't mention the fold and tear technique nor does she mention putting the freshly folded triangles into 'rods' or sticks (basically string them together, this helps to keep the back pockets open when building - I did that with the 24s and couldn't keep them in the one rod). She also doesn't appear to be aware that there are different sizes for triangles like 16s and 32s that can be used for the triangles.All in all a good enough book with pretty models that you want to make and graphs should you come across one whilst browsing the internet. Something can be learned here, if the folder is determined enough but in my opinion the folder would need a little experience before taking on this book.

Not what I really wanted. I didn't find it very easy to do and I didn't find it to be fun.

Il libro contiene origami di piccole dimensioni ed è ben fatto. Non ho ancora provato a realizzare qualcosa quindi non so se le istruzioni saranno facili da seguire.

Ein schönes Buch,die Anleitungen sind gut .Für Anfänger in dieser Technik geeignet,da die Figuren nicht so klein sind.Das buch hat eine schöne Auswahl.Aus diesem Buch kann man auch mit Kindern figuren herstellen.

Il libro mi è piaciuto molto e fare il lavoro con tanti oggetti meravigliosi con la carta.Tagliare tanti pezzi di carta

Il único problema per me e la lingua ,si magari ci sea la versione italiana