Been playing around with Fujimoto's Clover Fold:

( Ziggurats Ahoy! )

I've just finished unpacking all my origami stuff (moving house = complete nightmare!) and have just found my basket of paper cast-offs and was wondering if anyone can recommend anything I can do with them.

As a lot of origami uses square paper I tend to buy cheap colored pads of A4 and A5 paper and then cut them into squares and I've always kept the negative, long rectangular bit of paper that I didn't need for the model and now have hundreds of them in all different sizes and would like to make something with them - I just use them mostly as bookmarks and for cardmaking atm.

A lot of origami-ers (uh... folders? Origamers? :s) probably have the same shape of paper and I hate seeing good paper go to waste. Any ideas? What do you do with your rectangular left-overs?

I don't usually post my origami even if I'm dying to, beacuse I don't have a digital camera and my cell phone camera is horrible. :P
But I'm so proud of these ones that I had to show them!

 

The main crane and the little ones coming out from its wings are all made with the same piece of paper. I had to be very careful because each square was joined to the other only by 1mm. :P But the result was worth it! I even made two of them. ^^

necrostopheles posted his "Last Waltz", and in doing so linked to Sara Adams's YouTube channel, with lots of wonderful stuff on it.

( Ziggurats follow ...  )

So I finally managed to get hold of some instructions for Neal Elias' The Last Waltz. I folded a rough version first (which is the tiny model at his feet). Then I went out and purchased some thin black paper and white paper and some paper cement to glue them together. That measuring, cutting, and gluing took about an hour in itself. This is the result.

( The Last Waltz )

Continuing my work on my business card web site, I folded the business card dragon that I found diagrams for on flickr. It's an interesting model. Not too complicated, although it does use box pleating and the card thickness can get a little unwieldy in some places. It also takes 5 cards that have to be glued together.
( dragon photo )

I also folded the pig with diagrams by the same author as the dragon. This one requires some judgment folds and gets very thick. I was only partly happy with my fourth try.
( pig photo )

I tried folding the Penta Flinger model from Wings and Things: Origami That Flies out of light card stock business cards. It worked out okay, but I ended up gluing it for stability, and regular thickness business cards wouldn't work well.
( penta flinger photos )

I also folded another six card orb then revisited the 4 card orb design.
( orb photos )

This is a tessellation based on Nick Robinson's Green Man model, folded from an 11 inch square of Thai mulberry paper with "3-D" dye.
( green man tessellation photos )

And finally a few small Tomoko Fuse boxes.
( box photos )

My bro was sending his old animation paper from college to be recycled so I thought I'd make use of it before it goes. This took sooo long to make the pieces and over an hour to assemble. The total pieces of paper used was around 1140 sheets of the animation paper.

This weekend I created a flickr pool for business card origami. If you are on flickr and have any pictures of business card models, please consider joining the group and adding them to the pool. I know there are already a ton of origami flickr groups, but I couldn't find any dedicated to business card models.

I also updated my business card origami page to add some models that I recently became aware of and to embed the images of models I have folded into the page as thumbnails.

Since I originally created my page (has it really been over five years?), a new business card origami page has appeared. It has some good information that I didn't have before, and it also covers a lot of the same ground (and uses my site as a reference some, although they misspelled my name).

This past week I finally got around to making some business card orbs. They are made from six cards scored with 2 inch circles. I didn't want to buy a $5 template and I couldn't track down a compass, so I just sort of eyeballed one and then cut it to use as a template.
( pictures )

Anyone know if these are new? They're so simple to fold that it seems almost impossible that nobody has found it before, but I don't recall ever seeing them anywhere.

I made these with A4 proportions, but other rectangles would work too. They're pretty easy to fold and assemble. I have diagrams if anyone wants them.

( 6 units, 24 units, 30 units )
Edited to add a ( Crease pattern )