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Published: 2010-09-30 00:27:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 11865; Favourites: 281; Downloads: 180
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IT'S OVER! Star-popping tutorial, I've given it a buttload of proofreads, but feel free to point out grammaticals or nonsensicals you find.
The lovely Blackheartqueen reminded me of an extremely useful tip:
You can use fake nails as an EXTREMELY strong popping-device, with the ease of using your own real nails, but without the discomfort of breaking/killing them
This is an excellent in-depth folding tutorial by the wonderful CandidCandy, [link] (who makes really gorgeous star papers in addition to having an awesome username. XD) It should answer and questions about the in-between steps of the folding that I glazed over. And while you're there, notice how perfect the points of her pentagons are!
Now, look at the cute icon!
And, That's it!
Happy Folding everyone!
Oh, and a happy happy day it is indeed when I no longer have to watch Rick Sanchez' smug face in his smug suits smiling his smug smiles while Just-Got-Home-From-Work-So-It's-CNN-Don't-Piss-Me-Off-Boy-Mama condemns me to Glenn Beck's featureless face, news of 12 year olds not understanding what they're seeing, and Pedobear being a symbol for pedophiles for an hour while I cook dinner. Oh, A happy day indeed. Sayonara, Sanchez, you bumhug. My turn to look smug.
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I can't afford to buy the precut strips, but I'm kinda glad I can't. There is a MASSIVE amount of gorgeous paper available through DA, check out [link] Huuuuuuuuuuge collection there, and lots of related groups too.
Usually I'll print my paper and photocopy it a bunch at school, but I design my own paper and love to take requests (wink wink) as well as finding them through DA. [link] that thread has a lot of my personal favorites. Don't be frightened by the 4chan link, its the good non-scary part of 4chan lol
Also if you want to print really HQ stars and have a few extra dollars to drop on niiiice paper, get 27 lb paper instead of 22 lb. the lb being the paper density... but now i'm rambling about crazy ocd specifics. I'll show myself out.
lol hope your folding is fabulous ;D
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This is great help! Thank you!
I have been making paper stars for a couple months now and some would turn out great while others would be a little... weird looking. I will have to try some of these tips out next time I am making them.
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Ahahaha, Oh I remember trying to deduce the differences between the wonkers and the beautiful stars. I hope I might be able to save a couple from eternal wonkiness :3 Thanks :]
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I can't make it.I guess I'm stupid. -.-
But I love these stars so much!
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You are in no way whatsoever stupid, I PROMISE. YOU ARE AWESOME. Stars are just real hard to start on doing, especially if you're learning off the internet. I used to keep two different jars, one for stars that got bent and ruined and one for the 'perfect' stars. I swear the ruined-star jar was always full lol. Eventually you notice you're not messing up as much, and then its just muscle-memory. KEEP TRYING! 
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I did a lot of practise and i can say,I GOT IT FINALLY!If you can,take a look in my gallery,I have 2 photos with the paper stars
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SAW EM, LOVED EM! So glad you didn't give up, I forsee many beautiful stars and photos in your future :]
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I can't do it! I always end up with it still flat, but bent on the edges!
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make sure you're folding it REALLY tightly and not getting it too moist from hand-sweat. My preferred method of popping the really tricky ones is using the flat side of an exacto knife or any thin sharp instrument. Keep it horizontal, and press down slowly and you should get a popped star :]
Half the fun is fighting through the frustration and seeing yourself improve
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Thanks so much! I'll definately keep that in mind.
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I love these things! My friend taught me and gave me a jar of them ^^
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They are soooo fun to make! I love just dumping a huge jar of stars all over myself haha, thanks
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You're welcome! I bought some lucky star paper to make some so I can decorate my room with them xD. If I screw up I'll just look at your tutorial again.
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haha, there's always lots of messing up (at least for me) but all the special wonky stars are still cute in their own way! Good luck, I hope the decoration went well
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Thanks! I'm glad you find it useful
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Thank you for sharing how to make these starts. I was looking for it. :3
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No problem
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lucky paper stars are soo awesome ^.^
I only used the first way to pop it because my nails are very long so its easy to do it that way.
(love your nail polish 
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Ouuu, Jeaall-ous, I'm always trying new things to try to get my nails to grow lol. And thank you for the nail polish compliment 
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this is a good tutorial with methods i never thought of, wonderful job! i also find that using the blunt end of an exacto-knife does a good job popping the edges and is easy to control c:
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Oh yeah! The Exacto was always a good friend lol, I found that after a while I'd end up with a hurt finger though XD
Thanks for the note, I'll definitely include it in my update
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haha true. awesome thanks
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wow i never knew there were somany ways to pop a star O.o great tut though ^^
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There's a few more I didn't include lol, Thanks much
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No problem
If you have any lingering questions feel free to ask
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Wow, this is really helpful and adorable! :3
And thanks for linking me and for the compliments X3
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No problem, I really do love your tut for the amount of pictures and excellent step-by steps, it's perfect for anyone that's starting or has questions <3
And thanks!
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I just use my long fake ass nails to do the job
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Ahh, I love the long ass fake nails approach
I used to keep one on my index for stars, though fairly short, until a stranger on the subway asked if I could get him a deal on coke. lol
Excellent point though, I will make a note of it in an edit soon
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Awesome! thanks so much for making this. I know a few people asked about the "popping" part. It also looks realy nice as a design perspective. Oh and cute nails!
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Thank you
I'd say the popping is the hardest part
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damn. i wanna start folding these now. i wasn't aware that they could actually look, well... like stars. i've never seen anything but ones that look like pointy bubbles. beautiful nails by the way.
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Do eeet.
Do eeeeeet.
I have stars I made special for your art show, all folded in a little bag and happy, but I had misplaced them a few days prior and found them like a week ago. So, craftwar.
Dooo eeeeeeeet.
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ah yes. how i've missed the craft wars.
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Let the littered corpses of glue and fabric snips lie in their barbed-thread caskets, to remind us of the years of anguish... the years of the craft wars.
Oh how I long for my bloodied fingertips in all their dexterous glory
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i thoroughly appreciated all of that.
we should plan a good day for it... and document it, and send it in to the history channel.
also- i'm kind of rocking the whole deadbeat artist shtick right now with my not having a job and whatnot, so my days are relatively free.
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Shit, got an influx of comments and yours got pushed back 
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sorta. i need to do some serious work in the next little while to get my application in to this animation studio i want to work at... but yeah, i'm free most of the time during the day.
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you silly girl! I might just dig your polky nails up there! 
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Haha, I know my mom thought I was a little nutty when I started filling her jam jars with stars XD
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