Another sets of lucky star paper strips

Here is another quick look of my new sets of paper strips for my lucky star paper folding. My husband bought these for me (actually I asked him to**LOL). I almost ran out of stock here in my cabinet so I terribly requested for these.

So now I have more than 20 packs of these paper strips in different designs and colors. I am so crazy about these strips not only because I love making lucky stars but also because the designs are amazingly cute and so attractive.

I have these two huge transparent feeding bottles (not the real baby bottles**) which the finished lucky stars are kept. These bottles gave to me by one of our church friends here...actually these are candy jars. They are almost overflowing and I am now looking for another jars which can accommodate my upcoming more stars.

This is my fourth time that I make a post about my lucky stars. You can check my labels, "lucky stars" to check my other posts. I have some instructions there on how to make such. Also, I shared a video which I grab from a source.

I am quite busy now reconstructing my Dress Up Your Blogs (because I moved it to a self-hosted site) that is why I cannot give much time to these hobby for now. I just want to share to you my new sets. Thank you for looking and hope you give yourself a try for lucky stars. This is fun, I swear.

Doraemon - The Lucky Stars

Last weekend, I tried to look for another paper strips for my lucky stars. I was totally run out and I have to look again for another packs. And for the first time, I saw some sets of Doraemon paper strips and I was jumping for excitement because I love Doraemon so much and I want him to be my lucky stars.

I am pretty confident, everybody knows Doraemon. He is a friend and servant robotic cat of Nobita Nobi in a Japanese anime series. I have known and started following Doraemon since in my elementary years. I remember there was a local TV series translated into a Tagalog version of this anime cartoon and I watched it every afternoon. (Image above courtesy of Wallpaper Nephco.com)

I wanted to buy a dozen of this pack but unfortunately three design colors are available; blue, violet, and yellow. I bought three packs for a while and just get back to that store (even with the same colors) if I run out again (but hoping to have another design colors when I get back). These sets differ from my previous paper strips because they are little bit larger in width. They are more floppy than my usual paper strips but still they are so cute and very attractive. This is the first time I bought this kind of paper strip size for my lucky stars. I am more comfortable folding the smaller paper strips but this size is not that bad, as a matter of fact, lucky stars are even look bumpy and visible.

Here are three samples of the stars I made from these packs. I will start folding again during my free time. I love the colors and the texture of this pack so I am looking for more colors of this pack. My big transparent feeding jar is almost overflowing so I have to look for another jar for my lucky stars. Next time, I will show you my jar and imagine how many lucky stars I already made.

If you want to see how to make these origami lucky stars, please visit my post How to Make Origami Lucky Stars. And if you want to read more about my lucky stars, you can visit The Beginning of my Lucky Stars blog post.

Hope you like my another set of lucky stars. Hopefully, I can make some tips or tutorial on how to make or create paper strips of your own out of your colored magazine pages to be used as a start for your lucky star folding. Just get back to this page and I will try to make such for you.

Happy folding everybody!

How to Make Origami Lucky Star

Okay, like what I have promised in my previous post that I will tell you the instructions on how to make those lucky stars. I scanned the actual instructions in each pack of these paper strips I bought but unluckily only sketch pictures are being shown, no word instructions. This is how the instructions look like:

I don’t know why there are no instructions in words. Perhaps for some, these are clear but frankly the first time I saw the instructions, I did not understand them; probably because that time I was new to origami. To make things clear for some who do not also understand the picture instructions, I will provide my own steps in reference to the scanned instructions above. I hope you can understand the steps I will be giving you.

1. Get single paper strip, usually with a size of 258mm by 10mm. This is the size of the paper strip I used but I guess these papers come in different sizes. Tie it like a knot at the end of the paper.

2. Fold the excess or cut it off. But you can estimate the length of the strip in tying like a knot just enough to hide the other end of the strip.

3. Holding the longer part of the strip, fold it and wrap facing the printed part (the back of the strip is plain white) following the sides of a pentagon-like you are forming.

4. Turn it over to fold and wrap again just like in step 3.

5. Repeat the step 4 over and over again until you reach the end of the paper strip.

6. To close the folding, tuck the last tip of the strip into the pouch. If in case the excess is too much, you can fold it to hide or cut.

7. Then you will end up having a flat pentagon shape-like.

8. Hold firm but not too tight, make a gently pinch pushing inward on the five center of the pentagon edge.

9. From a flat folded pentagon shape-like, you will get a fatty star which they call “lucky”.

I have scanned also the instructions in the other pack I have. This could be another steps you can refer in relation to the first set of instructions.

But here is the best tutorial I could give you. I found this video tutorial online from 5min.com and for me this is the best and clear picture of the instructions.

There you have it. Now it’s time for you to practice making one. I advise you to make use of recyclable colored magazine page or anything if this is your first time to try, otherwise you will ended like me during my first try.

Here are some of my paper strip collection:


which turned into these lovely lucky stars:

Anyway, each pack does not cost more, as a matter of fact it only costs Taiwan Dollar NT$10 (USD$0.30) per 100 pieces of strips with ten different designs. Not bad, right? I don’t have to design, print, and cut because these strips are extremely affordable. I am still planning to buy and collect more of these paper strips for my lucky star collection. Have fun!

The Beginning of my Lucky Stars

The very first time I visited a bookshop in Taipei called Kingston, I saw some bunch of colorful paper strips which caught my attention and curiosity. At first glance, I never had an idea to what these papers were intended for. And I discovered that they were used for paper folding like origami or something because each pack has instructions which I did not understand exactly how to follow. What I knew was these were used to make stars, bumpy and fatty colorful stars. Believe it or not, I was being impulsive that time to buy dozens of these tiny pieces of paper strips which in fact I did not know yet how to work with. When I got home, I could not wait to give myself a try following the picture instructions at the back of each pack. And you know what, I almost wasted one whole pack but I still could not get and see the real star. My patience then almost gone and I ended up my day very disappointing.

Two days after that day, a friend of ours who lived in Taipei for almost 10 years came over to our apartment and I mentioned to her about these paper strips I bought. She almost laughed at me when she saw my wasted paper strips and the finished deformed stars I made. That day she invited me to her apartment to see her collection. I was amazed when she let me see her big transparent plastic jar with full of stars made out of those paper strips which almost ruined my day in trying to learn even just one piece of star. I got so excited more to learn seriously about this paper folding. And I did learn. I actually did. Since then I kept on folding here, folding there. It's been almost two years since I started making my own lucky stars and I let this passion pass to some of my friends who are enjoying now more than I do. They are so cute, aren’t they? Try for yourself also. It is fun and another useful and creative way of “killing time”.

Please come back to my blog for in my next post I will tell you the instructions how to make such lucky stars. I will also show you some samples of the paper strip designs I have bought couple of weeks ago. I have bunch of these paper strip collection and I am willing to share my works to you.

Before I end up, if you will ask me why they are called "Lucky Stars", well, me either do not know. I will try to find out.

P.S. I used captured images of my actual lucky stars so far I have in my jar. For two years in the making, I already made thousands of lucky stars, I guess but I gave some of them to my friends.

If you are in this kind of hobby, I would appreciate if you let me see your works too. I would love to visit your blog...cheers:)