Illustration of how to fold a simple and beautiful origami four-corner heart carton. This box is much simpler. Use your hands and your brain will be smarter.
Materials and tools required for DIY: a square piece of paper
DIY detailed step-by-step illustration:
Take a square piece of paper and divide it into three equal parts. You can use a ruler to measure it. Divide it into three equal parts horizontally and vertically to form a 3*3 grid.
Take the small squares at the four corners of the square, fold the small square in the lower right corner along the right diagonal, and make creases. Do the same with the other four small squares in the corners.
Illustrated tutorial on how to fold a four-corner heart carton
Put the middle part of the paper upright, with the four corners facing down, flip it over, take one of the corners, and fold it vertically.
Handmade paper box four-corner love paper box
Lay the corner horizontally, fold the hypotenuse horizontally, press out the crease, unfold this part, and fold the paper in.
Illustrated tutorial on how to fold a four-corner heart carton
After folding, fold the upper quadrilateral part of the paper and both sides toward the middle. After folding, open it and fold the paper inward along the crease, as shown in the picture.
Handmade paper box four-corner love paper box
Put it upright, fold the sharp corners outwards and downwards, do this for all four corners, and fold as shown. Turn the edges outward and all four sides.
Pinch up the corners and the edge that you just turned down so that they overlap, and do the same on the left and right sides to form a heart shape. Do the same for the four corners. Then fold the top two sharp corners of the heart down a little.
Handmade paper box four-corner love paper box
Turn the upper triangular part of the heart up, fold the upper triangular part along the dotted line, fold it left and right, and pinch up the left and right sides.
Handmade paper box four-corner love paper box
Handmade paper box four-corner love paper box
Press the remaining part inside and press it down to form a small quadrilateral. After the same operation on the four corners, turn it down. Form a small heart shape.
Handmade paper box four-corner love paper box
Illustrated tutorial on how to fold a love carton