Saturday, July 17, 2010

Paper Pinwheel Tutorial


I will start by saying I am by no means a paper pinwheel expert! I know there are various ways to make them, but I'm going to show you the funky ones I made here:

Cut your patterned paper into 2 squares. The smaller of which should be half an inch smaller than the big one. Here they are cut 2.5 and 2 inches.

Cut from the outside corner to the middle of the square, stopping just short of the center. Do this on all four corners.

You should be able to fold it up like this:

Fold each section of each side into a triangle. Make sure all your triangles are going the same direction. This is what it will look like from the front:

Backside:

I use some mini glue dots to fold the triangles together. Layer them and you have your pinwheel!!

You could leave them as is or put any number of things in the center. Here I chose some pretty brads.


If you have any questions PLEASE leave me a comment and a way to contact you and I will do my best to help! And if you do create some, link me up. I would love to see :)
And remember in my last post I mentioned Paxton took a nose dive...

Wipe out.

15 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing this. I like that your pinwheels are quite flat and layered, trying to put a 'regular' pinwheel on a card into the post is a nightmare!

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  2. wow Lexi fantastic pinwheel Tutorial im off to have a play.....hugs Anita

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  3. thanks so much for sharing. :D ... Paxton is just adorable :)

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  4. Waouh!! I love your tuto and Paxton nose!! Thanks

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  5. I love your take on them .. that is all I make these past couple of months are pin wheels I had to take a break they are ADDICTING .. haha

    keep it up girl .. your work rocks

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  6. poor little guy! It probably hurts a bit, butit will get better. Thanks for the tutorial, I am going to try these, will let you know if I need tips!

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  7. ouchie, No it wasnt his day at all....but it sure was Ro's, thanks for allowing A to bring his treasure over for playtime over here while you took sweet P to Dr visit! Glad it wasnt strep! Ro is still begging 2 go to Avens house! Love your pinwheels and reading about the fishing area, will have to tell G about it!! He has taken Ro once and got all the gear now:)

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  8. OUCH! Thank you for the tutorial-I'm going to give it a try.

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  9. Thank you so much for the tutorial! Atleast he is still smiling after his nosedive!

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  10. hai there, it looks éasy', I'll try it, but don't know if I succeed. :)) but thanking for showing this ans explaning, good luck to you sun with his nose dive :)) best wishes from Janine from Jeanys Brunnen.

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  11. Thank you for the tutorial! I love you card.
    Your son Paxton is cute even with his damaged nose ;o)
    Kind regards, Nora

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  12. Oh wow! Awesome page! Love the pinwheels! :)

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  13. Thanks for the great tutorial! These pinwheels are fantastic!

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  14. Thanks for the great tutorial...you did a great job with the pinwheels...

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