Thumbelina's Flower

Mui-Ling Teh

Thumbelina's Flower

The biggest challenge came in the smallest size, and it doesn’t take size to love and treasure something. Folded this one out of a 3×3mm piece of trace paper.

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Thumbelina's Flower by Mui-Ling Teh
Thumbelina's Flower by Mui-Ling Teh
  • Paul Compton

    Paul Compton

    Oh, oh oh oh oh. Absolutely incredibly beautiful. Truly magical.

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    Thanks Paul. Now that I got this shot over with I can finally sleep; way past my bedtime here. Goodnight (or goodmorning…. way past midnight here lol). Well hey it’s a long weekend :P

  • Lori Peters

    Lori Peters

    I don’t know how you can create something so small with precision. Very nice.

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    Thanks Lori. It really did take a lot of patience. I had to redo it several times because this is really easy to loose :P.

  • hilarydougill

    hilarydougill

    Fantastic work, beautifully done. sore fingers and eyes?

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    No not really :P. Thanks!

  • Irene  Burdell

    Irene Burdell

    Just amazing ,really beautiful.

  • Karin  Taylor

    Karin Taylorcommunity helper

    that’s unbelievable…!!! Mui=Ling, I’m gobsmacked!!! are you kidding me????...that is incredible, how on earth!!!! You amazing, amazing artist you!!! WOW!!! wonderful… (can you tell how impressed I am:)

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    lol. Thanks Karin :D So glad you like it ^ _ ^

  • Dawnsky2

    Dawnsky2

    goodness Mui-Ling, thats teeny weeny,, i thought it was a real flower til i read your discription…well done indeed….x

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    I wonder if it was the trace paper’s translucency which makes it look more real. I wasn’t really thinking about it when I chose that paper; I just knew that I needed a thinner paper to fold that small. Thanks for the comment Dawnsky!

  • Paul Suryawinata

    Paul Suryawinata

    Very sensitively captured, Mui-Ling.. i really like your style.

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    Thanks Paul!

  • cherylc1

    cherylc1

    just incredible!!! lovely!

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    Thanks cheryl :)

  • blamo

    blamo

    Amazing

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    Thank you blamo!

  • Lam Tran

    Lam Tran

    Wow! You blown me away my friend! Outstanding patient and determination, great talent my friend! Smallest paper flower ever seen, well done my friend! People would buy that a gift shop! Well done my friend!

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    Thank you my friend. This would need a good encasing to be sold in a gift shot; it can get lost VERY easily. I had to recut the paper several times myself because I’d accidently drop it in the process of folding, and it’d be hard to find because for one it is small, and another it’s trace paper. Talk about searching for a grain of sand in a desert :P

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    whoops made a mistake in my last reply. Ofcourse grains of sand can be found everywhere :P I was going to say a grain of rice!

  • jdmphotography

    jdmphotography

    Wow you are so clever awesome work all round brilliant ! (-;

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    Thank you very much my friend :)

  • Lam Tran

    Lam Tran

    Lol, that’s Ok my friend, I understood what you meant! Like find a needle in a haystack! Right my friend!

  • BlueKnot

    BlueKnot

    (jaw drops to floor)

    such delicacy!

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    lol. Don’t you mean your samurai sword ;) your mouth doesn’t look like it can open :P

  • KEITH  R. WILLIAMS

    KEITH R. WILL...

    nice work

  • Nikki Trexel

    Nikki Trexel

    WOW. it’s incredible that anyone would be able to meticulously fold something so small! lovely work with the origami and the photo.

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    Thank you! I’m glad you took notice of this one because sadly, although this is tiniest thing I folded it isn’t getting as much attention as my other mini creations. It occured to me that people are mistaking this shot for a real flower as opposed to one I made, that’s why it doesn’t seem like anything special until the description is read. It was even rejected by the Fine Arts group at first, and I had to bubblemail the moderator to explain that this was not just a photo, but a presentation of something I made.

  • funkyfacestudio

    funkyfacestudio

    This is incredible, it must take a lot of patience, excellent work !

  • Greta  McLaughlin

    Greta McLaughlin

    Wow! I too thought it was a real flower. I thought it was an amazing capture of a very teeny tiny flower. I then read your comment and now I find that not only is it a wonderful photograph, but also an amazing piece of art. Beautifully created and presented.

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    Thank you! Glad it caught your eye.

  • Cathy Middleton

    Cathy Middleton

    Exquisite work. You must be an extremely patient person. Beautifully titled too.

  • Christopher Birtwistle-Smith

    Christopher Bi...

    sensational! love how youve done this, must take ages…..c xx

  • bubbleblue

    bubbleblue

    great work

  • Euan  Thorburn

    Euan Thorburn

    have just voted for this
    in the challenge
    love it
    xxxxxxx

  • Mui-Ling Teh replied

    Many thanks!

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