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How to Make an Origami Heart Corner Bookmark

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This origami heart corner bookmark is so pretty and surprisingly easy to make. They look great in many different papers including origami paper, wrapping paper, old book pages and old music scores. You can write a personalised message on one or add decorations from your craft supplies.

Fabulous gift idea for Valentine’s Day, Mothers Day or indeed any celebration for a bookworm.

If you would like a handmade Valentine’s Day card to go with your heart bookmark then take a look at these 3d cards.

Don’t worry if you have never done Origami before. You do not need any experience. This step by step tutorial is all you need.

Origami is simply the Japanese art of folding squares of paper into representational shapes. You can create many different items and it can be an addictive craft so you have been warned.

General Origami Tips

  • Ensure all folds are accurate
  • Press all folds firmly
  • Running your fingernail along a crease makes it a sharp crease
  • Upon completion press under a book if not sitting flat
  • Ensure your paper is the same way round as mine at every step
  • If you want to learn some basic origami folds take a look at The Beginner’s Guide to Origami

You will need

A square of paper, I made mine using 4″ by 4″ (10cm by 10cm)

Origami Square of Paper

Video Instructions

This video is also available on my YouTube channel

First Diagonal Folds

Fold your square of paper in half from one corner to the other. Open it back up and fold the other 2 corners together. Open it back up and you should have a cross on your paper.

origami first folds result

Fold Paper in Half Again

Turn your paper over so that the back of the folds face up. Now fold your square in half again but taking one edge to the other so that the resulting shape is a rectangle. Open it back up again.

Origami Third Fold

Make a Water Bomb Base

That is the Origami term for what you are about to do. Turn your square over. The fold you just made will make the sides of the square want to fold inwards. Encourage them and use your first diagonal folds to form a triangle. Hopefully the pictures will help you with this.

Origami water bomb fold

This triangle is the corner that forms your bookmark.

origami water bomb fold

Preparatory Folds

These fold are ones you will make and then open up so that the following steps are possible.

Take the bottom right hand point, just the top one, and fold it up to the point at the top of your triangle.

First point up fold

Repeat for the left hand bottom corner and then release them both.

Take the top point and fold it down so that it just touches the bottom of the triangle. Then open it up again.

Top pint folded down

Make the Heart

Take the top layer of paper at the bottom of the triangle and pull it up to the top of the triangle. It will fold along the horizontal fold that you have already made and it will pull the two points from either side up away from the triangle. This is fine!

In turn pull each point up to the top of the triangle in the centre. If it is tricky poke your finger into the pocket to make it lie flat once you squash it.

Tricky squash fold

Now fold the whole top section that you just made down to the bottom of the triangle. This will form the rounded top part of your heart.

Top rectangle folded down

Fold that top layer that you just folded down back up but only as far as the fold across the centre of the triangle.

bottom folded up

You are now going to do another squash fold! Open up that small left hand rectangle fold that you can see. Slide your finger in the pocket and then squash it flat.

squash fold small
small squash fold

Repeat for the right hand side

small squash folds completed

In turn take the small squares at the bottom of the shape and fold them in half so that the points fold out towards the pockets that you just made.

small corner fold left hand side
small corner fold right hand side

Fold both of the small points that you have just made up to the centre of the overlapped section as shown in this picture.

small points folded up

Finally fold the whole top section up to reveal your completed heart and Origami heart corner bookmark.

completed Origami heart corner bookmark

Summary and Further Crafts

I hope that you have enjoyed making your heart corner bookmark using Origami techniques. You can now use it, gift it or decorate it further.

Let me know your ideas for embellishments in the comments below.

If you enjoy crafting with paper then take a look at some of my other tutorials:

Origami Crane with Flapping Wings

How to make a 5 pointed star – Origami tutorial

Origami Lotus Flower

Simple Origami Rose

Origami Seed Packets

Easy Origami Star Box

Christmas Folded Book Angel

Gorgeous Flowers from old Magazines

Tried and Tested Paper Flower Tutorials

Cute Origami Envelopes

origami heart corner bookmark

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