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Illustrated Craft Tutorial - How to Make a Table Lantern for the Holidays
This lantern looks really great when a candle is lit inside of it. The light shines through the design leaving a beautiful pattern around it.
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1. You need 6 evenly sized pieces of cardstock, a quilter’s ruler, a stylus and a sharp cutting knife. See project for example of size.
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2. To connect the 6 pieces when finished, you will need a side flap on each strip. Decide how wide the connecting flaps should be (about 0.75 mm -1 cm) and use your ruler and stylus to score a line down the long side edge.
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3. Lay your template in the center of each piece, secure it with masking tape and use your knife to cut into each groove of the template. You will notice alternating large and small triangles. One of each forms a “set”.
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4. Once your pattern is cut into the paper, use the stylus and ruler to score the folding lines of each now formed set.
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5. The scored lines help you bend the “sets” easier.
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6. Bend each triangle in the opposite direction and tuck under the triangle before it. This will hold it down.
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7. When finished, this is how one piece looks. On the outer side flap, adhere double sided adhesive.
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8. Turn the piece over and adhere transparent paper behind the cut areas.
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9. Repeat the above steps for each of the 5 remaining pieces. Adhere each one to the other over the flaps. Adhere then the last flap to the first piece to close the lantern off.
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10. Create the floor of the lantern by measure the sides and creating an octagon form on cardstock. Add 1 centimeter on all sides and then cut out.
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11. Score the inside lines and cut at an angle to each point to make folding easier. Fold each side flap now up and add double sided adhesive to the outside of the flap. Adhere to the inside of the lantern bottom.
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12. This is how the inside of the lantern looks.
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