When things get really serious and heavy to carry, this is how I digress – either I write, do arts, or play music and just recently, make crafts. 

It became a newest past time for me and my sister.  She made the really difficult butterfly origami (see photo below). Very pretty they are, aren’t they? I believe I’ll learn this another time as it is far too intricate for me. 😀

Swallowtail Butterfly Origami by my sister Ate Abeden

Before starting, I first practiced making a lily origami using a colored art paper through a Youtube tutorial – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWylGb8EyQw.

There are thousands of tutorials to choose from on origami-making uploaded in Youtube and I must admit I really had a hard time choosing which one should I do first as I wanted to learn all of them.  I first made the single petal lily and the multiple petal next. It took me a whole lot dozen of them before I finally memorized the procedure without referring to the video.

Patience is a virtue, indeed. 😉

Lily Origami in Art Paper

After making them, my sister and I thought we wanted to make our origami crafts more “personalized” so we have decided to use a white paper instead of the regular colored art paper and painted them using poster color.

White paper and Poster Color

We allowed it to dry for a couple of minutes before starting to fold.

Two-tone

I used pink for the primary color of my lily and lavender as an undertone brushing with left to right strokes. Of course, a flower cannot stand alone so I made the stem origami using a color green art paper and a flower box origami using a black special paper. 

This is the final result. Do make your own personalized origami as well. I assure you, it is so much fun. Enjoy! 🙂

Multi Petal Lily Origami and Flower Box Origami