How to make an origami heart bookmark (corner pocket)
Origami Heart Bookmark (Corner Pocket): try all 16 steps in the 3D player. Turn and replay every move. Print the complete diagram sheet or save it as PDF.
An Origami Tutor corner bookmark with a heart on its front: a small pink pocket folds over the corner of a page, and a red heart folded from a smaller square is glued on top.
- You need
- One 6 × 6 in square of pink paper, colored on one side, one 3 × 3 in square of red paper, and a little glue.
- Start
- Use a pink square for the bookmark, colored side up with a corner pointing up, and a smaller red square, half as wide, for the heart. Start the heart square white side up, with its edges straight up and across.
- Tips
- Fold the pocket first, then the heart, so the squares stay clean.
- Glue only the heart's back, never the pocket, so a page corner still slides in.
Your model is ready
Glue the heart in place. Slip the pocket over the corner of a page, so the heart sits on the front of the page. The finished heart bookmark, with the heart on its pocket.
Step-by-step diagrams
Steps 1–6
- 1
Make a triangle
Bring the bottom point up to the top point. Match the corners.
- 2
Crease the right corner
Bring the right corner up to the top point, press, and open it again.
- 3
Crease the left corner
Do the same with the left corner, then open it.
- 4
Make the pocket
Fold only the top layer of the top point down to the middle of the bottom edge.
- 5
Lift the right corner
Fold the right corner back up along its crease, over the pocket.
- 6
Fold its tip down
Fold the tip of that corner down along the top edge of the pocket.
Steps 7–12
- 7
Tuck it in
Lift the pocket flap and slide the folded corner underneath it.
- 8
Lift the left corner
Fold the left corner up along its crease, over the pocket.
- 9
Fold its tip down
Fold its tip down along the top edge of the pocket.
- 10
Tuck it in
Slide the second corner under the pocket flap too.
- 11
Fold the heart square in half
Take the small red square. Fold the top edge down to the bottom edge. You have a long rectangle.
- 12
Fold up the left half
Fold the left half up along a slanted line from the middle of the bottom edge to a spot a fifth of the way in from the left along the top edge. Its top corner sticks up as a lobe.
Steps 13–16
- 13
Fold up the right half
Fold the right half up the same way, over the left half. The two corners stand side by side as the heart's lobes.
- 14
Round the left lobe
Fold the square tip of the left lobe behind.
- 15
Round the right lobe
Fold the tip of the right lobe behind the same way.
- 16
Set the heart on the pocket
Lay the heart on the front of the bookmark, over its upper half, with the heart's point on the crease across the middle.
- ✓
Finish
Glue the heart in place. Slip the pocket over the corner of a page, so the heart sits on the front of the page. The finished heart bookmark, with the heart on its pocket.
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