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Introduction

This kit offers creative and unusual ways to send messages of love and friendship. It combines the techniques of origami—which means folding paper without cutting or gluing—with hearts, flowers and other symbols of love to help you create fun and meaningful handmade cards. Some of them are simple enough that they can be quickly prepared for a whole class or office, or sent to a number of friends or family members. One or two, such as the Folded Money Heart, are more of a challenge, but the results will be well worth the effort.

It’s fun to create handmade cards, and doing so will give you a great feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment as well as another way of telling the recipient that you care.

About Origami Love Notes

With origami, a piece of paper is transformed in your hands into all kinds of things: animals, boxes, airplanes, toys, decorations and letterfolds.

Letterfolding allows you to fold a sheet of paper on the spur of the moment as an alternative to a greeting card, or to highlight a page in a scrapbook with a hidden message. Many people enjoy the creative fun of folding a note into an unusual shape, knowing that the recipient will experience a pleasant surprise when it is opened.

Most letterfolds in Origami Love Notes are self-closing and do not need an envelope for passing by hand. Before the nineteenth century most mail was sent in this way, folded and secured with sealing wax rather than being enclosed in an envelope.

The sending of cards and notes has been an important worldwide tradition for centuries. The custom of sending valentines on February fourteenth was popular in Victorian England.

In Japan, elaborate cards are usually attached to gifts and may be shaped into appropriate symbols—for example; a graceful, broad-winged crane representing wishes for long life. The elaborateness of a design is a sign of respect afforded the recipient.

You can use the projects in this kit as a springboard for your own note card embellishments. Personalize your note cards by adding bits of doilies, lace, hearts, ribbons, stars and any other small oddments. Your imagination is the essential ingredient!