Today’s feature is on How to Fold an Origami Paper Heart Bookmark, for Valentines, Mothers Day, or any day!
Wonder what Mother’s Day gift idea to present to you today, when I spotted a gold-colored chocolate bar wrapper on my desk. Mmm…. an origami heart bookmark to go with a nice gift? Mom’s large golden heart needs to be acknowledged, right?!
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Materials
Use a nice & new square piece of quality paper (rather than a choco covered bar wrap!!), that is about 1/2 the width of a chocolate bar, or a ‘normal’-sized bookmark heart. For a little gift for mom/oma/a woman friend, you can of course, give her a nice chocolate bar, and an origami (bookmark) heart.
How to Fold an Origami Heart Bookmark
Super easy and fast to make!
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Collect Materials
Get yourself a nice piece of paper. The nicer the better.
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Square your paper
Ensure you have a square piece of paper (Do NOT fold over diagonally like I did here!! Instead: just check that your paper is square. If you have a beautiful piece of paper, then use a ruler to ensure that it’s square. Don’t mess with the paper).
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Fold your paper for heart
Open the paper back up.
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Four-fold your paper
Fold the bottom half of the paper in half.
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Fold Heart Bottom
Make 2 diagonal fold, up to the top 1/4 line. You’ll see this at the back of the paper.
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Fold Heart Bottom
Fold the paper in half.
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Fold Heart Top
Turn it over, and tuck in the two corner.
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Fold Heart Top
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Fold Heart Top
Fold over the two pointy bits again (= top of the heart).
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Voilà Heart!
Turn over the paper and voila: there is your heart.
(sorry, stuffed up the numbering on the images)
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Cut to Size
Cut off the sides, to make it into a tidy bookmark.
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Heart as Bookmark
Place the bookmark on the book, for a fun gift.
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Heart as hint
Better still, place it at a page with ‘a clue’.
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Golden Origami Heart
Then show up with a surprise gift that she will truly love. (I would like these kind of surprises….)
Origami Hearts Decorations
See how the heart actually can stand up (picture 14)? Well, you can make different sized hearts and have them stand around in your living room, or bedroom on your night stand. Put them in your Feng Shui ‘Relationship’ Corner. Then, good things are bound to happen.
There you have it. This was my idea #2 in Mothers Day Week. Find 2 different type of Mothers day bookmarks here. Tomorrow, a new kind of Mothersday project.
MOTHERS DAY WEEK
- Day 1: Swirly Scarf, easy knit project (1 skein wonder)
- Day 2: How to Fold an Origami Heart Bookmark (today)
- Day 3: .. surprise, come back tomorrow.
btw. last week was OWL CRAFT – WEEK. Did you see it?
First published April 24, 2012; updated January 16, 2022
