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Beautiful Paper Snowflake

How To Make The Most Beautiful Paper Snowflake Ever! a spectacular - origami like - snowflake deco
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Last year, my friend Vero found an online tutorial to make this beautiful winter//Christmas decoration. This year we tried to find the instructions again and they were gone :(

So we decided to do our own “How to” for this project. Note that in the end the snowflake is pretty big.

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This is the material you will need for this how to :)The momiji doll is not mandatory but she really did enjoy watching us!
Fold the sheet of paper into a triangle

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Cut the exceeding piece of paper to make a perfect triangle
Fold the triangle again to make a smaller triangle

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With a pencil, mark four equal points to guide you with your cut.
Make a cut following the length of the triangle and stop a little bit before the edge.
Make the second cut in the same direction, stopping just a few millimeters before the first cut.
Make all your cuts.
Put the triangle on the table.
Unfold it. You now have a square.
Fold the two center cuts and glue them together. Use your finger as shown in the picture, holding the pieces together for a few seconds and allowing them to dry a bit.
Turn over the square. Fold the two second cuts and glue them together. Use your finger as shown in the picture, holding the pieces together for a few seconds and allowing them to dry a bit.
Turn over the square. Fold the third cuts and glue them together. Turn over the square. Fold the fourth cuts and glue them together. Turn over the square. Fold the fifth cuts of the cut paper and glue them together.
Voilà! You have the first point of your snowflake.
Repeat those 13 steps 5 more times, making in total the 6 points required to complete your snowflake.
Glue together the side part of each point to build your snowflake
Hold the paper together with you finger for a few seconds to allow the glue to dry a bit.
Glue the last side to side point.
You can use a paperclip to hold the final part. Allow the glue to dry at least one hour.
Glue the sides of three of the points and then glue the three ends together. Repeat this for the other three points. Then glue these two halves together.
Your snowflake is done.
Use a nice ribbon to hang the snowflake.

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Amyers

December 3rd, 2008 13:41

Love it!!! This is a great project to do with the 5 yr old that I babysit, we're going to try it today.

michelle G.

December 3rd, 2008 15:10

great job. I am going to try it

>_< I'm so dumb. I saw this how-to before but it wasn't in english and it only showed some of the steps... Pretty much stop with the pics at step 11 and I was like O_O that doesn't look like a smowflake!!

KMOM14

December 3rd, 2008 22:43

What a wonderful Christmas craft! It is very pretty.

Ezme

December 4th, 2008 08:10

o wow! that is beautiful! the tut is so clear! thank you soooo much! xo

mangolicious

December 4th, 2008 13:37

its the ultimate!!!!!i love it!!!...great job..

tara m.

December 4th, 2008 18:52

Awsome. Yay Christmas!!!

Gabby.

December 5th, 2008 00:15

i love this!
I want to try to make some for my room :)

Glenda A.

December 5th, 2008 15:31

The snowflake is just beautiful and the instructions are clear-cut. Thanks!

Martha

December 5th, 2008 16:24

It's so cute me and ezme have done tonnes. We've even done mini ones to hang in the window!

Tami

December 5th, 2008 17:54

I just made two for my dorm room. Thanks for the tutorial (:

crystal leigh

December 5th, 2008 22:48

beautiful!
I'll be attempting this tomorrow :)

Carotte & Lychee

December 6th, 2008 01:22

Thank you all for you comments :) BTW, one of my friend tried this tutorial with her 3 years girl and was able to made it. Really, I love this project :)

Carotte & Lychee

December 9th, 2008 02:02

I just want to thank the user "Rocky" for making me remind to change the instructions on step #20. Its really easier to do it that way instead of trying to glue the six points together!

Lizzy/

December 15th, 2008 20:39

This is so nice!!! ♥ :D

Carotte & Lychee

December 16th, 2008 02:46

One of my collegue saw 3 of those snowflakes hanging in from a window in my hometown of Montreal. If the person that made this version took the tutorial here, I would be very curious to see his or her version :)

dawnofdolls

December 16th, 2008 15:35

Aw, pretty snowflake. My mister was trying to make a snowflake out of a napkin last night. It didn't work out. haha Gotta love him for trying. :) Maybe I'll give him your tutorial. heehee

Mrs T

December 16th, 2008 20:43

wow - i'll give this a go!

Angeliiii

December 16th, 2008 22:03

This is so cool!
when i first saw it, it looked to professional that i thought i would never be able to do it, but after reading through the tutorial, it looks do-able! thanks for this