Folded stars

January is over ... and I have not even posted ONE 

repurposing project! 

Bad!!!

So here it comes ...

I actually made these already a while ago. But somehow finding the time to type up posts becomes harder and harder.

Well, just shortly before Christmas ... and during Christmas actually ... I learned how to make these folded stars. 

They are made out of square papers and are just folded - and stuck together. 

You have to fold 30 pieces of paper. 

In Germany they are called Bascetta-stars. 

Anyone can tell me whether that is the same in the rest of the world?

This one is a star made out of special paper that has different prints/ colors on both sides. 

It looks really pretty, don't you think?

After I had made this one I was out of the pretty paper ... and I figured I could ge a bit inventive ...

So I ended up using this:

This is a rather old book with musical notes.

I love musical sheets. 

So I had to try whether it would look good. And this is how it turned out:

I totally adore it!

And as you have to cut the pages to squares there is always a paper strip left over. So what did I do?

I cut squares out of the left over bits ... and made a tiny star:

Here you can see both together:

This was so much fun!

I am actually working on another recycled star. 

No musical sheets though ... curious? ;-)

But it might take a bit until it is done ...

The folding and the putting together is really relaxing ... but the cutting of the squares is simply booooooring! :-)