Origami ornament

I was so impressed by the ornament on Shelly's blog that I wanted to make one of my own.  I had my Christmas stamps and papers out from all the cards I had been making, but I just wanted to do something that wasn't a card.  I found this pattern for making an origami ornament, so I grabbed some Christmas glitter cardstock and gave it a go.
I couldn't get the focus right for anything, but I think you can make out the glitter strips, and I thought that the embossed and popped out sentiment  looked very fun on the bare sides.  I used striped paper mostly because I was curious about how the stripes would end up, but I have some patterns that I think would be really fun used this way.

Challenges:
SweetStamps - Christmas ornament
Ruby's Rainbow - anything but a card
Clear It Out - Christmas in July
Juliet Arrighi




9 comments:

Sandy Trefger said...

How fun! I always love seeing different crafted paper Christmas ornaments! Thanks for joining us at the Clear It Out Challenge!
~Sandy

sandy's crafty creations

coldwaters2 said...

What a fabulous ornament loving the stripes and shape these would be perfect for the Christmas tree, thank you for joining our challenge at The Paper Shelter this week.
Hugs
Lorraine x

Laura W said...

Thanks for entering this into the Clear it Out Challenge. It's always to fun to see what people make other than traditional cards. I cannot for the life of me do origami but I'm off to see the tutorial...who knows maybe one day I'll get it-lol

Sandy Fredrick said...

What a unique ornament. Love the shape and the various patterns of the stripes. Thank you for joining us for this weeks blog challenge at SweetStamps.com.

Myrna said...

Juliet
That is a rather cool ornament. The stripes look great.
Myrna

Basslady said...

a gorgeous folding-idea!

thanks so much for playing along with us at Ruby’s Rainbow Challenges!

hugs and kisses from germany,
silvi xoxo

Sharron aka Sharrahug said...

Great use of your striped glittery cardstock, Juliet! It came out beautiful.
Thanks so much for joining us at Clear It Out. I hope we see you again next time.
Huggies ~
Sharron♥

Shelly Schmidt said...

An awesome ornament- I love the visual look of the stripes- and will be anxious to see the other versions/ideas you have for ornaments. I love that you played in the challenge at Sweet Stamps- cause I know if you do win, you will do amazing things.... : )

Ang C said...

What a brilliant idea


Thankyou for joining us at Ruby's Rainbow for our Anything but a card challenge

Hope to see you again soon

Ang x