Tiny Origami Stars Made From Paper Strips

Introducing my latest crafting obsession: tiny origami stars, also known as lucky stars. I think they are lucky stars because anyone who makes them just wants to make more and more, and that kind of craft obsession is truly a gift, generally speaking, especially if you are on a long car trip or an airplane or stuck waiting somewhere or in quarantine, or any number of situations wherein a little injection of joy is truly welcome! I’ll admit, despite my love for origami these stars somehow passed under my radar and it wasn’t until I was ordering some stationary supplies that I glimpsed some quilling paper strips photographed together with these stars and had a huge ah hah moment. Wow, I thought, I can order that rainbow colored hank of little strips that I’ve used in the past for quilling, but instead make a bunch of too adorable for words stars? And the fact that the paper was only 9 shekels ($2.50) sealed the deal. My only regret now is that I didn’t order more paper, though truthfully I do have a bunch more in the box with my quilling supplies in the basement, so I may just have to raid that, because my friends these little stars are just one of the best things ever, and I can’t wait to use them to make garlands and mobiles and cake decorations and who knows what else, for the coming Jewish holiday season! Okay, let’s get some more details about how you can make these stars a part of your life…….

Just too lovely really, I almost can’t believe something like this lives in my house!

Okay, are you convinced? The great thing is that you can make stars in any size you desire, not sure up to what size this works, but at least widths of 1″ I would think, so that means you could make projects that combine several star sizes in a gazillion colors. There are so many ways to go with this, I was thinking of filling an acrylic shadow box frame with them, of course I don’t have a frame like that at the moment, but will be looking for one! One could also glue them onto a piece of cardboard and slip that into a deep frame, oh my!

How To:

I was going to try and put together my own tutorial, but that seems a bit silly when blogland and is full of them, as is You tube and time is precious.

For my tiny stars I used 1cm wide quilling paper strips, that came in a huge rainbow selection…..I’ll admit, I didn’t stop until I finished all the paper, which I believe was hundreds of strips, I’ll have to count the stars I guess!

Check out the tutorial at the spruce, it seems to be quite good.

My main advice is practice and while at first the stars seem a bit wonky, everything will fall into place and when you get the right pinch that forms the stars, you know it, and ahhhh, a wonderful little star is born! Not every star will be perfect, and that is fine. If a certain strip of paper just won’t cooperate, move on and make more, tossing the one that didn’t work out.

Also, their instructions say 10 minutes? What? Once I’d gotten the hang of it I’d make a star in one minute, so yes it does go quickly, and you will likely find yourself wanting to make these every spare minute!

Let me know if these become your latest obsession, and be sure to share this with all the crafty folks in your life…. they will love you even more for it!