Calling all curious creatives, crafty dabblers and make-aholics! Join The Craft Club for the chance to win a free subscription to oh comely. 

We’ve created the Oh Comely Craft Club for a chance to showcase your talent. It’s a club for creating, sharing and downright showing off to one another. 

Here’s how it works: 

1. We feature a craft in each issue of oh comely, and the current issue's craft will be the starting point for inventing something fabulous of your own. 
2. Once you’ve had chance to get your hands on the issue, we’ll post a call-out like this one, including a brief, and extra details and competition criteria, a.k.a. the small print, on our blog. 
3. Then, it’s over to you to get crafty! Our instructions will give you the basics but as club members we implore you to throw buckets of imagination at the brief to make it your own.
4. Post your finished creations and interpretations to Twitter using #OCcraftclub or the oh comely Facebook page. Alternatively, you can e-mail us at [email protected], including your name and blog/website. We’ll gather all your posts and pop them in an album online for all and sundry to marvel at.
5. If you’re the competitve type or just plain enjoy receiving prizes, you’ll be pleased to know that the submission that impresses us most will win an oh comely year subscription.
6. We’ll also post a selection of our favourites alongside their creators on our blog.

Craft Club Brief No 1: Origami Flower Arrangement

We thought that the origami tulip featured in our latest issue, would make for a beautiful beginning. We talked to origami teacher Sam Tsang, who certainly knows a thing or two about the Japanese craft, and currently runs monthly origami workshops at the Queen of Hoxton in London.

We couldn’t agree more with his sentiment: ‘Real flowers anyone can buy, but to fold one is personal’ – which is why, having felt a huge sense of achievement creating our own mini garden of tulips (currently assembled on our desk), we’d really like to see some of yours too.

Your mission should you choose to accept: Make a paper flower bouquet that’ll last a lifetime. That is if you don’t accidentally sit on it. Email your finished entry to [email protected] by Monday 20th May or tweet it with #OCcraftclub. 

Brief: a bouquet of origami blooms
Inspiration: Sam's tulip pattern
Closing date: Monday 20th May

Find Sam’s instructional video below, and visit his site here for other flower templates.

How To: Making Paper Flowers