Origami Flowers

I love my little origami flowers, so I figured I would let you guys in on the secret to my little post it note babies!

Get 5 post-its in a pretty color.

Put a piece of tape over the sticky part
(this helps you later on...the sticky makes it pretty difficult to fold and flip and squish and pull)

see? no more sticky part.

Now. Fold your square into a triangle.

Pull the corner of the triangle into the point.

Do the same on the other side.

Now...fold one of the halves back and line up the edges up...

see?

Repeat on the other side.

Put your finger into the part you just folded back and pop it out, and flatten it.

Flattening...

Ta-da!

Repeat on both sides.

This is just a different view to show the way it is flattened out.

Now, take the corner of the flattened out part and fold it into its own pocket. It should lay flat up against the edge of the diamond shape...(you will see in a sec.)

Folded under.

See? It is flat against the diamond shape

Do that on both sides.

Now, take the outer flap and fold it over onto its mirror image part. (haha- this is tough to explain!)

got it.

Both sides.

Now, glue one of the flaps.

Roll it over to make a cone.

You can either sit there for 10 mins holding it, or do this:

Paper clip it with a small clip and let it sit while you're working on your other petals.

All 5 made.

Now, to construct:

glue up on edge and stick another petal onto it, repeat until all 5 are on.

Yay! I keep my clips on for about an hour to make sure it doesn't start falling apart. It keeps it good and strong.

You can also add outer petals in another color (as I did here)

This is a good way to get rid of a ton of post-its that are left in your strorageclosetforanoffice at the end of the year :)

Happy folding :D