Iris Folding

Iris Folding is a Paper Crafting Technique that originated in Holland. Most often used as a card making technique to decorate the fronts of greeting cards, this paper crafting technique is simple and quick, yet produces an elegant and stunning design.

The technique involves folding strips of colored paper in such a way to form a design.

Starting from the outside of the design, strips of 3 or 4 colors of paper will be applied around the design to ultimately end up with the the center of the design looking like an iris -- the iris of an eye or of a camera lens.

Originally, the patterned or colored papers used were cut from the inside of envelopes, but the craft has now evolved to using strips of any type of light weight paper, such as origami paper, wrapping paper, scrapbook paper and even foils. So, if you are into recycling those beautiful foil papers from the inside of your holiday cards, this is the perfect craft.

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