Something a little bit different for you today. Now I made this and showed on my facebook page and had a request from a lovely lady called Sarah Carlyon to do a tutorial for it, now for those of you that know me you can imagine the panic that set in 😓 lol......... I can't do a video, I'm just not confident enough, so I thought how about a blog post with lots of pics on, and here we are, just for you Sarah!!!
You start off with a piece of vellum cardstock that measures 11.5cm x 21.2cm this is wrapped into a tube and glued together using double sided tape, the tear & tape is good you just need to cut it in half so the strip you use is very thin.
This seam of glue will be at the back of your finished lantern and once decorated you will hardly notice it.
You will now need to die cut yourself 2 circles these are the 2nd and 3rd largest dies in the set - the largest of the two will become the base of your lantern and the other one will act like a shelf inside for the battery operated tea light to stand on.
Cut yourself a piece of basic white cardstock that measures 3.6cm x 21.5cm score along the short edge at 0.5cm, fold and burnish and then cut the 0.5cm section into small tabs.
Along the scored edge you will apply tear & tape, this is then attached to the base of the vellum tube, having the tabs so they tuck over the end, this will allow, when ready the base circle to be attached by placing glue onto the tabs. Make sure that all of your joins meet at the back, so that all the joins don't show.
Cut yourself 2 pieces of basic white cardstock that measure 1cm x 8.5cm and score both ends of the long side at 1cm. These now need to be glued together to form a cross shape.
This is now glued inside the lantern, you will need to go in from the bottom end, which is the end with the white card section with all the tabs on, and it needs to go in the way it is in the picture above. Place glue onto the 4 tabs and attach them to the inside of the vellum, so that they are level with the top of the card, this way they won't show through the vellum from the outside.
This is what it will look like from the bottom once glued in place.
This is what it will look like from the top, you now need to glue the smaller of the 2 die cut circles onto the cross like shelf, I applied glue onto the circle in a cross shape and then attached it.
The large die cut circle can now be glued into place at the base of your lantern, by glueing the tabs and then attaching the circle to it. You might need to fiddle around a bit to get it to sit centrally.
You will now need to cut yourself a border of the Evergreen trees and attach them to outside of the lantern, just above the white card that is attached all the way around, I used glue dots to attach mine, only on a few of the trees you don't need to glue all of them, but you do need to remember to have the ends meeting at the back!
Now you can tie a length of the organdy white ribbon around the lantern, this covers up where the trees meet the top of the white card section, tie in a knot, having this at the front opposite the back seam of the lantern. Tie a seperate bow and attach it to the knot part using glue dots and glue.
All that remains to be done then is to decorate your lantern, I've used die cut snowflakes in white and silver, these are attached with glue dots or glue and then on the silver ones I added some of the gorgeous Garden gems, I then put some more of the gems straight onto the lantern.
Place a battery operated tea light, NEVER a real candle, inside your lantern and voila! See how pretty it looks when lit up!
Hope these instructions were ok for you Sarah and hopefully you and everyone else will have lots of fun making some of these cute little lights for christmas!
Until next time everyone
Huge crafty Hugs
Natalie x
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Stunning project Natalie, very many thanks for sharing how to make it! It is a beautiful Christmas decor project.
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