Origami Kusudama Ornament Tutorial

I am super excited to share this darling ornament today! My friend Elizabeth taught me how to do this.  It is a time consuming project, but it is super cute!  My dad saw it and said "I would hang that on my Christmas tree".  That's when I knew that this was a pretty good project.  Here's a close up:

Ok, now on to the tutorial.  The first step is to cut 60 1 1/2" x 1 1/2" squares.  The square in the pictures that will follow is 3x3, because I really wanted you to be able to see each fold.  Here's what the paper looks like that I chose:

The next step is to fold this piece of paper in half:

Next you will fold the two corners up to the top:

The next step is kind of tricky.  You will take one of the wings that you have created and open it up and then fold it down.  Repeat on the other wing, so that it looks like this:

Then you will fold down the tops of the outside triangles:

Then you fold the two side triangles in half:

Then you'll hot glue the two sides together to make these cone shapes:

Then you will need to glue 5 petals together to make a flower.  It'll look like this:

  You will need to make 12 flowers total.

The next step is to glue the flower in groups of four like the picture above.  You will have three flower clumps.  The next step is to hot glue the three clumps together.  Here is one more view of my ornament: