Hearts for V-Day

origamimasterjared · February 14th, 2009, 9:15 pm

Hi folks,

The latest installment of Origami Weekly is all about origami hearts. It features three designs of mine: First is my answer to the challenge of creating an origami heart without a seam on the face, Pureland Diamond with Seamless Heart. Then we have a Heart I designed back in 2003, with a nice paper-to-heart area ratio. Finally, we have my Heart Card. A heart-shaped card, that opens. It's based on the same heart.

As always instructions are available at either of these links:

http://origamiweekly.blogspot.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/origamiweekly

Enjoy, and have a happy Valentine's Day!!

--Jared

Post by **origami_8** » February 14th, 2009, 10:21 pm

Following the hype, I decided to design a heart for Valentines day as well (although we do not celebrate it here).

Take a square sheet of paper and fold the top tip down as shown:

Mountain fold the top in half only a little bit:

Valley fold as shown:

Open the top flap up. Make the vertical crease a mountain fold on the lower and a valley fold on the upper part while valley folding the two diagonal creases on the left. The model will become three dimensional:

Valley fold the sides inwards to shape the heart:

Valley fold the lower tip twice to form the lower part of the heart:

Turn the model over to see the finished heart:

Happy folding!

PS: You can fold the Heart so that the middle part is going inwards or outwards. If you decide to take the inwards version (like shown above), you can use it like Jeremy Shafer's magic cube: Put it in front of you, close your eyes and imagine it would be pointing outwards. Then open one eye and see it popping outwards. If you turn your head around a bit focusing the heart, it will follow your movements. This works especially well if you lean it against something on one side.

qtrollip · Post by **qtrollip** » February 15th, 2009, 12:55 am

Anna, I designed that exact same heart in April 2001! Just the "outwards" one.
I guess many people have probably done a heart like that!

Post by **TheRealChris** » February 15th, 2009, 1:15 am

I designed three hearts in the last years

[img]http://freenet-homepage.de/origamichris/bilder/034.jpg[/img]
http://freenet-homepage.de/origamichris ... s_herz.pdf

[img]http://freenet-homepage.de/origamichris/bilder/041.jpg[/img]
http://freenet-homepage.de/origamichris ... ldherz.pdf

and my personal favorite

[img]http://freenet-homepage.de/origamichris/bilder/103.jpg[/img]
http://freenet-homepage.de/origamichris ... reisen.pdf

Post by **origami_8** » February 15th, 2009, 10:22 am

Well Quentin, I guess it's not hard to come up with it due to it's simplicity

saki · Post by **saki** » January 14th, 2010, 3:28 am

origami_8 wrote:Following the hype, I decided to design a heart for Valentines day as well (although we do not celebrate it here).

hi, help. i don't quite get step 3 - Open the top flap up. Make the vertical crease a mountain fold on the lower and a valley fold on the upper part while valley folding the two diagonal creases on the left. The model will become three dimensional.

while valley folding the two diagonal creases on the left???

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saki · Post by **saki** » January 15th, 2010, 7:11 am

ops sorry.. anyway i figure it out alr... cheers