Playing card origami

Do you have a few playing cards missing from the deck, or is it just time to get rid of them? Don't throw them away! Here are 10 ways you can reuse cards.

A few weeks ago I promised I would do a tutorial on the playing card boxes I have posted to my blog recently. As I had friends over yesterday and we decided to make one of the boxes it was a perfect time to be able to take photos to help explain the construction of these .... they really are very easy to do ..... thanks to my friend Gai for being the model for the majority of the photo's ;) 1. To start you need to select 21 playing cards, keep in mind when you are selecting these what you…

Now, some of them have been built. patterns can be found in this set : www.flickr.com/photos/fdecomite/sets/72157622365424793 1. Disdyakis dodecahedron, 2. Kite hexecontahedron, 3. Kite hexecontahedron, 4. Kite hexecontahedron, 5. Icosidodecahedron, 6. Pentakis dodecahedron, 7. Pentakis dodecahedron virtual slide-together, 8. Pentakis dodecahedron slide-together (virtual), 9. Icosidodecahedron, 10. Truncated dodecahedron, 11. Truncated dodecahedron, 12. Snub cuboctahedron, 13. Snub…

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Dealing a hand of poker recently, we realized the deck of cards was short. (I wondered why that ace never came up.) My husband got up ...

What happens when you have access to the internet, shortened daylight hours, a craft-and-math loving kid, and a deck of old playing cards? Well, if you're me... you rally everyone together to do a STEAM activity! Yeah! Tired of bouncing off the walls one night, our family tried our hands at making these nifty 3D Card Sculptures. They came out pretty cool and I thought I'd share them today with you! Let's Make Beautiful 3D Card Sculptures So I totally cannot take credit for the design of this…

playing card books made for a friend. I backed the playing cards with cardstock to make them a bit more sturdy. each book has six signatures of six folios each for 72 pages (144 front and back.) Coptic stitch so that they can lay flat. the queen has plain, unlined paper and the Ace has lined notebook paper.

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Last weekend I had a go at something else I’d wanted to have a bash at for a while... making a set of platonic solids out of playing ...