When Turquoise meets Pink

Turquoise is a blue-green color that takes its name from the gemstone.

The word turquoise is derived from the French turquois, meaning 'Turkish', because the mineral was first brought to Europe by the Turkish from the mines of Persia. The first records of it dates from the 17th century. The gemstone was considered a holy stone and it was used as a talisman in Ancient Egypt. Even today, people are wearing this cheerful stone to help enhance the communication and expression or for healing purposes.

To bring a little bit more cheerfulness to the color, I folded a kusudama decoration combined with pink quilling flowers and accessorized with birds and a dog. The centerpiece is a sonobe variation folded from 30 origami modules linked to 12 modular quilling flowers. 

Model: Dog
Designer: Muneji Fuchimoto
Video-tutorial: youtube
No of modules: 1
Paper size: 15cm x 15cm

Model: Mandarin
Designer: Simon Anderson
Tutorial: https://www.paperkawaii.com/origami-bird-tutorial-mandarin-or-seagull-simon-anderson/
Paper size: 7.5cm x 7.5cm

Model: Dinara flower
Designer: Marcia Moura
Diagram: http://www.origamichile.cl/gui/diagramas/pdf/dinara.pdf
No of modules: 5
Paper size: 4cm x 4cm

Model: Igel 2
Designer: Ekaterina Lukasheva
Tutorial: http://cridiana-origami.blogspot.ro/2013/10/tutorial-igel-2.html
No. of modules: 3
Paper size: 7.5cm x 7.5cm