How To Decorate A Paper Lantern

Do you want to learn how to Decorate a Newspaper Lantern for your abode? This pretty lantern is so cute hanging outdoor or in a fun bedchamber. Customize it with any newspaper that matches your habitation decor.

These unique lanterns are one of a kind and look like something you bought from a expensive boutique store. Yous don't even accept to be crafty. If yous accept a newspaper lantern and a pair of pair of scissors and some gum, that'southward all you need for this project.

Today'south arts and crafts is a part of a blog hop of newspaper projects. My friends are joining me and yous can find their fun projects at the bottom of this mail.

I honey any paper project.

As you know, I've made many newspaper flowers, paper wreaths, newspaper banners, and more. But, the cheap newspaper lanterns have always intrigued me. I bought a ton of them terminal summer, and my encephalon has been busy trying to figure out how to decorate them.

Well, I came up with a fun paper projection and I'one thousand pretty happy how information technology turned out.

The possibilities are endless when it comes to decorating newspaper lanterns.

How to Decorate a Paper Lantern

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Supplies:

Paper Lanterns (bombardment operated lights comes with lanterns)

7 Watt Solar Light Bulb (utilize an LED low-cal bulb with this paper lantern)

Newspaper ( I bought two large sheets of paper at The Paper Source – Wildflower)

Scissors

Glue (Modge Podge or Elmers)

Paint Brush

Instructions:

Stride 1 – Expand the Lantern

Use the metallic expander and carefully insert through the larger opening. The top of the expander comes to two points on each corner. Place those points in the eyelets of the lantern opening. The bottom of the expander will line up with the smaller opening. Your expander should bend when installed correctly.

Step 2 – Cut Newspaper

Determine the images you lot want to identify on your lantern. I used about six-inch pieces. The bigger swatches, the harder it will be to attach to the lantern. Yous may get some creases. You lot can too cutting the design to allow for overlap. You practice this by cutting slits in your newspaper. Check out my Easter Decoupage Egg project.

Footstep 3 – Paste the Paper on the Lantern

Using a small paintbrush apply either Elmer'due south glue or Modge Podge to the dorsum of the paper and identify it onto the lantern.

Step four – Encompass the Whole Lantern with Your Newspaper

This is the part that is most fourth dimension consuming. Take all the papers that you cutting out and begin pasting them to your lantern. It's ok to overlap the papers. Like I mentioned above, I cut out pieces that were about six inches in length. Plainly, if you have a smaller lantern cutting out smaller pieces. I used the biggest lantern in the package that I bought from Amazon.

Footstep 5 – Make a 2d Layer

Cut out a few pieces and paste them on summit of your lantern. Don't glue downwards all of it and allow some of the parts to hang freely. This gives your lantern and blueprint an organic feel. It is optional if you similar that look.

Pace six – Lite the Lantern

You lot tin identify a bombardment operated light inside your lantern or place an outdoor solar lite in it. See the notes beneath. The little bombardment operated lights pictured above came with my lanterns. They are chip touchy to plough on. They demand to exist tightened only perfectly for the light to plow on, just otherwise they glow nicely. We ended upwards using 2 lights per lantern.

These battery lights are simply for decoration and not for illuminating a meaning amount of low-cal.

Step 7 – Hang the Lantern

Adhere a string, ribbon or angling line to the top hook of the lantern. So adhere the other stop to whatever you want to hang it from. We placed mine on our patio, so I attached it to a slat on our pergola.

What Kind of Light Should You Place in Your Lantern?

Use the battery light provided in the paper lantern package. For our outdoor summer table we used about two or 3 to get a glow.

If you want to use a light bulb inside your lantern only apply LED lights. Here is the wattage chart for the paper lanterns:

8″ – 25W

x″ – 40W

12″ – 60W

14″ – 60W

16″ – 60W

18″ – 100W

It'south pretty obvious that you don't want to employ a real flame candle or a high watt incandescent light bulb in the newspaper lantern.

Paper lanterns are and then magical on a warm summer evening. Hither we used them to design an easy summer table.

I promise you have a chance to decorate a paper lantern in your choice of pretty papers.

It does take a while to cover the whole lantern so maybe exercise this project in sections. For example, cut out all your pieces of paper for the offset layer so cut out a few for the 2d layer. Or to salvage time, don't even style with the second layer.

If you aren't into covering the whole lantern, then advisedly cut out pieces and randomly place them on the paper. I started off that way, and place flowers in a staggered pattern.

Nevertheless you like to decorate a lantern, you'll honey the results.

Happy Crafting!

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