Lantern Lampshade Luminaries: Cricut Maker Knife Blade Diy

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Lantern Lampshade Luminaries: Cricut Maker Knife Blade DIY

I honey the novel Knife Blade for the Cricut Maker. This was my start projection as well as I honey how it turned out. Make a fabulous lampshade or luminary alongside newspaper as well as chipboard. Makes a unique slice of habitation decor or centerpiece for a fancy event.

My luminary was designed to fit over an existing light that I made (post here).

But this same pattern makes a corking candle lantern also as well as the glow is perfection.

Check it out! This is a fun projection that tin live on made inward an afternoon as well as tin live on enjoyed all evening.

You volition need:
Cricut Maker
The Cricut Maker is dissimilar whatever other cutting machine. It's powerful, it has the ultimate cutting mightiness as well as has incredible versatility!

I honey the novel Knife Blade for the Cricut Maker Lantern Lampshade Luminaries: Cricut Maker Knife Blade DIY

Knife Blade (compatible to cutting materials equally thick equally 2.4mm)
Cricut Chipboard
Cricut Metallic Posterboard
Hot Glue/Gun
Candle or Lamp alongside less than iv inch diameter

If you lot haven't used the knife blade before, start out past times inserting your knife blade into the Maker as well as calibrate your blade inward Cricut Design Space.
Then stick your chipboard downwardly to the Strong Grip majestic mat as well as record downwardly the edges.

You volition necessitate this Cricut Design Space projection file.
You volition necessitate to cutting 8 of these frames, they cause got almost xx passes. Be patient, this takes some time.

Remove from the mat as well as record downwardly some other chipboard to cutting again.

Then role the Metallic posterboard as well as cutting (with the fine indicate blade) the lattice work.

Run some hot gum roughly the dorsum of the frame.

Place the lattice operate on top alongside the colored side up. Use pair of scissors to cut down off whatever over hanging paper.

Then add together hot gum to a minute frame.

Then identify it correct on top of the lattice operate as well as press downwardly all the edges. Dust the chipboard alongside some aureate eyeshadow to give it a piffling shimmer.

Repeat the procedure to a higher identify for all iv lattice panels.

Then role the hot gum gun to gum the iv pieces together inward a box.

Make certain the backside of the newspaper is within the framework.

I honey the metallic element blueish shining on the outside.

That's it!

Now your lampshade is create to lay roughly a light or add together a candle inside.

It is nice as well as frail as well as volition non final forever, simply it makes a fun slice of Autumn habitation decor or the perfect tabular array centerpiece for a political party or event. Make it inward colors to gibe the event. Even add together a battery powered candle for the same trial equally a existent flame.