Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Scripture/Quote Stars (Food For Thought)

I made these as a birthday gift for a friend of mine.  They are little 3D origami stars.  I wrote a scripture or a quote on each one before I folded it.  For this gift I made 60 stars (about 30 church quotes and 30 scriptures), I figured that way he had one for each week of the year (52) plus 8 extra for the weeks when he needed an extra spiritual lift!






This was a last minute project so I just scrounged around for what I already had at the house.  The container is a rinsed out container that had almonds in it!




Here he is with it!








P.S. - 
I got the idea for these stars here :  http://blog.creativekismet.com/2011/01/06/little-guiding-stars/ 
And here is a YouTube video of how to make the stars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6MS4SAKOR0&feature=related

I used scrapbook paper and construction paper and cut it myself instead of buying the paper and I made mine smaller in size than the ones on the blog (closer in size to the ones on the video).  
If you're making a lot it can start to bruise your fingers.  Instead of using your fingers to do the last part (pinching the corners to make the star), I found it was easier to press them against a sharp hard 90 degree corner (I used the corner of my kitchen cabinet).  

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