I think I'll "pass" on the paper, Flame....Hehehehe! The cube is fabulous!!!!! Are they hard? Love the wire and bead embellishments...they really "make" the cubes, don't they!? Thanx for sharing!!!
Tiger

It really turned out great!! Love the curly swirly at the top! Definitely the worst part is cutting the paper. I use a cheap Boston papercutter that is not properly squared, and have to fudge my folding a little.
When I did these with my 4th grade students, all we had was the plain foil paper in blue, red, green, gold & orange. They looked awesome! We covered a whole tree in them for the school lobby. Then I got scolded cause the teachers would catch kids folding cubes in class...ruh-roh!
Actually that paper looks cool...like I need to go buy any more wrapping paper than I already own, lol!

Thanks,Tiger. These are not hard to do at all. I did them in an assembly line fashion, and when I had 150 parallelagrams (sp) I assembled them into the cubes. It was great that I could do them while I was at work, and the bone folder really saved my fingers, since each piece of paper has about 9 folds to it....

Thanks Karen, I was really pleased with how they turned out, too. I couldn't have done it without you!

Great job! They are impressive looking! Are these the same thing as "water balloons"? My boys were hooked on making those at one time. I need to do some paper Christmas ornaments; I think I have everything else on the tree!
Maybe Karen will host an ornament swap for us here for next Christmas??? (hint, hint, hint!)

Lia, these are different from water balloons. These are made up of 6 pieces of paper to a cube. They are folded seperately and then tucked together to make the cube. That way using 3 different papers makes it very attractive.

That said, I think a tree loaded with the little water balloons in pretty paper with beads and tassels would be adorable! Another good idea!

I went to a friend's house two weeks ago and we made a bunch of stellated octahedra and waterbombs out of wrapping paper, and hung 'em on her ficus in the living room that drops leaves every winter. They look pretty good; I actually liked the waterbombs on the tree more than the octahedra.

Those tiny mass-market wire ornament hangers came in really handy, and a needle for poking the ornament to put the wire through. It took about an hour or so to make 50 of 'em. Even her picky 16-year-old niece deigns to call them "cool." Which is saying a lot. :-)