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Tutorial – Winter Wonderlantern

December 8, 2010 by Michele

The snow has fallen. Christmas is just around the corner. Craftblogland is alight with the spirit of the season. Today I thought I’d add to the glow by sharing a very simple but pretty lantern…
Tutorial: Winter Wonderlantern
For this project, you will need:
  • A small lampshade
  • White tissue paper
  • White wrapping paper
  • Mod Podge
  • Plastic wrap/cling film
  • Paintbrush
  • Pencil
  • Scissors
  • Exacto knife
1. Wrap your small lampshade with plastic wrap. Be sure it is well covered, but NOT too tightly. Tuck the plastic wrap ends inside the lampshade.
2. Water down some Mod Podge in a bowl you care nothing about. The Mod Podge should have the consistency of maple syrup (yummm, maple…). Slather the Mod Podge all over your plastic covered lampshade using a paintbrush.
3. Take a piece of white tissue paper and cover the lampshade.
4. Make sure there aren’t any gaps or holes. If there are, cover those too. Using your paintbrush, smooth the tissue paper down onto the lampshade. There will be creasing and crinkling of the tissue paper, but that adds to the charm of the lantern.

5. Using the white wrapping paper, cut out a ton of snowflakes. You will be covering the shade with the snowflakes, so you’ll have to estimate how many your particular lampshade will require. I cut out approximately 20 – 3 inch (7.5 cm) snowflakes for my lampshade.
6. Apply the runny Mod Podge on the tissue layer. Apply the snowflakes on the shade, going over the snowflakes with your Mod Podgy paintbrush.
7. Cover the entire shade with snowflakes. Give the shade a few minutes to dry out a little.
8. Apply another coat of Mod Podge over the entire snowflake layer. Take a second layer of tissue paper and place it over the snowflake layer. Once again, using your paintbrush, smooth the tissue paper down onto the lampshade. Allow the whole thing to dry well.
9. Once it is dry, remove the paper lantern from the lampshade. To do this, make a slit down one side of your lantern with an exacto knife. Don’t cut through the lampshade. Untuck the plastic wrap ends. Gently remove the paper lantern. Carefully peal away the plastic wrap from the paper lantern. The plastic wrap should come off fairly easily. No struggle required. Trim the top and bottom edges of your lantern as in #9.
10. For a calla lily look, cut away the top corners of the lantern along a curve.
11. Your lantern should look as mine does in #11.
12. Gently curl the sides in by rolling them inward with your hands.
You are done! And you have your very own Winter Wonderlantern!!!

Now, enjoy enjoy!

Please be SAFE! Always put your candles in glass votives or jars before placing them in the lanterns.
Now if you like this snowflake craft, you will be awestruck when you see this Wonderland by Aunt Peaches, one of my favourite bloggy voices and crafters!
And if you haven’t seen it yet, get a load of Lupin’s Snowflake Curtain. Isn’t it spectacular? If I had the time, I’d put one in every window! So so pretty!
And with that, I wish you a fantastic day and some happy crafting! โ™ฅ

Filed Under: Christmas crafts, Christmas crafts, paper crafts, paper crafts, Tutorials Tagged With: lantern, Mod Podge, recycling, snowflakes, tutorial

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  1. KJ@letsgoflyakite says

    December 8, 2010 at 11:51 am

    Absolutely gorgeous.

  2. CandaceAshley says

    December 8, 2010 at 1:19 pm

    These are gorgeous! And seems pretty simple, I will have to try this one ; )

  3. StepThruCrazy says

    December 8, 2010 at 1:22 pm

    These are so pretty! And I love that I have everything on hand right now to make them!!!

  4. zeshuregi says

    December 8, 2010 at 3:32 pm

    How smart..looking so nice…

  5. the cape on the corner says

    December 8, 2010 at 4:22 pm

    gorgeous, and super creative title! love that!

    http://www.thecapeonthecorner.blogspot.com

  6. PEACHES says

    December 8, 2010 at 4:35 pm

    !!!!BAH!!!! You done it again! I never ever would have thought of mixing the snowflakes on tissue…sheer genius! No pun intended ๐Ÿ™‚

    Would love to use this technique on a full out, year-round lamp shade. A big one too! Maybe the snowflakes are watercolored yellow/orange first. Tangent –One time I saw snowflakes cut from little kid's marker/scribble drawings…they were sooooooo cool. Can you imagine a bunch of those with your tissue glaze binding them together all translucent and fabulous and then the water based markers would run their colors down all drippy and marvelous and….OH MICHELE…here I go, you got me thinking out loud again!
    Sure sign of an inspiring artist ๐Ÿ™‚

    Thanks for the shout out! And I just popped over to Bugs and Fishes….the first of many visits ๐Ÿ™‚

  7. Ariane says

    December 8, 2010 at 5:15 pm

    I love these!! They are just gorgeous!!!

  8. The Answer Is Chocolate says

    December 8, 2010 at 5:21 pm

    Oh Michele these are simply amazing!

  9. Poppyprint says

    December 8, 2010 at 5:38 pm

    This project is gorgeous and one I think I might be able to achieve (I'm not very good with an x-acto…shakey hands, so I'm intimidated by a lot of the precise cutting paper crafts). When you say 'white wrapping paper' do you mean glossy paper, or is regular printer paper ok?

  10. Erin says

    December 8, 2010 at 5:49 pm

    OMG…this is fantastic!!! ๐Ÿ™‚

  11. Suz says

    December 8, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    Stunning…love them so much x

  12. Robin says

    December 8, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    Love it!
    Thank you for linking up to http://www.thetshirtdiaries.com

  13. Michelle L. says

    December 8, 2010 at 6:10 pm

    Crazy amazing. I can't believe how cool it looks WITH and WITHOUT a light inside. Two totally separate beautiful things! Never would have come up with this, it's wonderful, I'm borrowing this idea soon. The things you do with white. The calla lillies are in bloom!

  14. Melissa says

    December 8, 2010 at 6:58 pm

    I really love how the light shines through in the first photo – magical.

  15. Sewing Daisies says

    December 8, 2010 at 11:07 pm

    oooo they would look fantastic in the garden at night (it's now BBQ time in Oz)…stunning work as ever Michele!

    xxh

  16. Chantal says

    December 9, 2010 at 2:42 am

    these are so beautiful. One of the best Christmas crafts I've seen this year.

  17. Amy says

    December 9, 2010 at 12:19 pm

    These snowflake lanterns are just spectacular! They set such a magical mood.

  18. Dresden Quilter says

    December 9, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    Fabulous as always! I was hoping to see you last night. 500 followers! Time for a giveaway! ๐Ÿ˜‰

  19. Anji* says

    December 9, 2010 at 2:48 pm

    Wow! Love it Michele, stunning! I have all the materials at home too, and I was going to make some snowflakes with the kids at the weekend anyway so may just have to have a go at this ๐Ÿ™‚

  20. kim c says

    December 11, 2010 at 3:09 am

    very cool

  21. Shannon @ The House Creative says

    December 11, 2010 at 4:32 am

    These are amazing!! So pretty, and they could be used anytime during the year. ๐Ÿ™‚

  22. Kimberly says

    December 11, 2010 at 7:44 am

    These are gorgeous! I may have to take a stab at it… they're so pretty and simple.

  23. LambAround says

    December 11, 2010 at 3:39 pm

    WOW! These look store-bought and are so pretty! You did an amazing job ๐Ÿ™‚

    If you get a chance later today, I'd love for you to stop by to link up to my Not "Baaad" blog hop!

  24. Valerie says

    December 13, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    These are really pretty! Great idea!

  25. Elizabeth says

    December 13, 2010 at 10:51 pm

    Beautiful! I wish I had time to make some! Would love for you to visit me at Sew Chatty and link up to Made with Love Monday! The party will be open until Friday if you want to link up multiple projects. Hope you have a great day! http://sewcahtty.blogspot.com

  26. Emily {WhipperBerry} says

    December 14, 2010 at 4:18 pm

    I absolutely ADORE these! I want to make them so bad! I was wondering if you would be so kind as to link them up to our 12 Dyas of Christmas Show-Off?
    http://www.whipperberry.com/2010/12/12-days-of-christmas-show-off-linky.html
    Kisses!
    Emily
    WhipperBerry

  27. patricia says

    December 16, 2010 at 2:52 pm

    Love how these look Michelle! Awesome.

  28. Esther@fleurcottage says

    December 17, 2010 at 2:09 pm

    ab-so-lute cool-ness!! ๐Ÿ™‚

  29. Mod Podge Amy says

    December 29, 2010 at 9:22 pm

    You did such a fantastic job. I love these and they are so pretty!

  30. Voolina says

    December 19, 2011 at 10:14 pm

    Wonderful and awesome, like all of your ideas :).

  31. Crafts2Cherish says

    February 23, 2012 at 12:20 am

    Oh,what a brilliant lantern!!!THANKS A MILLION MICHELE!!!

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