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Easy Origami Twisty Rose (Omuta Rose)

Most realistic-looking origami roses are difficult to fold. But this origami twisty rose (or Omuta rose) is actually fairly easy to fold and you do get a pretty and convincing origami rose at the end!

 

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 1: Start by folding the origami waterbomb base. This is a commonly used base in origami and we've created a separate page of instructions for it.

Or you can follow the video instructions below.

Origami Waterbomb Base

 

You should then have the following to start with.

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 2: Fold both the left and right tips to the top, upper layer only.

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 3: Fold both tips down to the bottom. Crease well and unfold.

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 4: Now pry paper open. We're going to make a squash fold by pressing the paper flat to make a square shape.

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Repeat the squash fold for the left side.

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 5: Flip paper over.

Repeat Steps 2 to 4 on this side.

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 6: Make 2 diagonal folds for the upper layer.

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 7: Flip paper over.

We're going to repeat the diagonal folds on Step 6 on this side.

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 8: Make a horizontal valley fold where indicated below. Crease well and unfold.

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 9: Now fold back the bottom layers.

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 10: Use your finger to pry the paper open on both sides as shown by the arrows below.

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Make a squash fold on each side by pressing the paper flat to form a triangle shape.

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 11: Flip paper over.

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 12: Lift up the bottom "triangle".

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 13: Make a diagonal fold as shown below. Note that we're folding the upper layer only.

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 14: Rotate paper 180 degrees.

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 15: Make a diagonal fold again like we did in Step 13.

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Easy Origami Twisty Rose Step 16: Here comes the fun part! Watch the video to see how you can twist and shape this paper into a pretty origami rose!

Easy Origami Twisty Rose Video

 

 

 

And your easy origami twisty rose is complete!

 

And here's a red twisty rose...

 

Here's the red rose on a dark background...

 

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