Diy Flowering Chandelier + Majority Giveaway!
from Sweet Paper Crafts past times Mollie Greene
Today we're excited to part a DIY courtesy of Chronicle Books from i of their newest arts and crafts books, Sweet Paper Crafts, 25 Simple Projects to Brighten Your Life past times Mollie Greene. The majority is filled alongside fun too clever projects similar star garlands to string over the mantel to fragile bloom wreaths for the front end door. Mollie Green founded Royal Buffet, i of our favorite etsy shops too has an amazing talent for unique operate using paper. Today we're featuring i of the many amazing DIYs inwards her book, a flowering chandelier. To boot off the launch of the book, Chronicle Books is likewise offering i of our readers a gamble to win a copy! To enter, catch our Instagram post featuring a motion painting of this DIY too leave of absence a comment past times 6pm Wed., June 26/13. We'll denote a winner Thursday. Our instagram is @poppytalk! Good luck! Here's the tutorial. Jan
DIY Flowering Chandelier
Adding the perfect glow to whatever nighttime corner of your house, this chandelier, created from a novel or used light shade, is encircled alongside clusters of pretty paper flowers too leaves. It is best made alongside a two-tiered shade that has a universal fitting—where the plumbing equipment for the calorie-free bulb is inwards the centre of the shade. You volition likewise require a hanging lantern cord too a low-wattage bulb. If yous like, yous tin vary the flowers past times using 3 layers of sewing designing tissue, 3 layers of colored tissue paper, or a combination of the two.
Supplies
Two-tiered light shade alongside a universal plumbing equipment
Scissors for cardboard
Glue remover such every bit Goo Gone (optional)
Newspapers (optional)
Multipurpose spray pigment inwards a coordinating color
Hanging lantern cord
Low-wattage lightbulb
20-lb/9-kg loving cup claw
Scissors for paper
Ruler
Silver metallic element thread
Liquid gum
Flowering Chandelier template
Tissue paper for petals
Pencil
Tissue paper or sewing designing pieces inwards a contrasting color for leaves
Iron (optional)
Instructions
1. If your light shade is covered alongside textile or paper, utilization the cardboard pair of scissors to take all the roofing material. If necessary, eliminate whatever sometime dried gum alongside gum remover. You desire the shade to move every bit build clean every bit possible thence it volition accept the spray pigment evenly.
2. (I recommend spreading newspapers over your operate expanse earlier starting this step.) Following the manufacturer’s instructions too using a calorie-free hand, comprehend the light shade frame alongside 2 coats of spray paint, allowing the pigment to dry out betwixt coats. After yous apply the minute coat, allow the frame to dry out completely, at to the lowest degree an hour.
3. Turn the frame thence the widest business office is facing up. Run the cord through the centre too screw inwards the calorie-free bulb. Install the loving cup claw from the ceiling next the manufacturer’s instructions, too hang the shade from the cord.
4. Using the paper scissors, cutting pieces of metallic element thread close 12 in/30.5 cm long (or longer or shorter depending on the size of your frame). Starting at the bottom tier of the frame, necktie the pieces of thread to the frame, spacing them close 3 in/7.5 cm apart. Place a tiny point of liquid gum on each knot to move out along the thread inwards place.
5. Download the Flowering Chandelier template at www.chroniclebooks.com/sweetpaper. Stack 3 pieces of tissue paper. Use the pencil to describe the template on the transcend piece, thence cutting out through all 3 layers. Be careful to cutting within the pencil line of piece of job thence yous don’t lead keep to erase it later. Separate the 3 layers of petals. Place a point of liquid gum along the direct border of i petal, inwards the center. This volition move your bottom layer. Place a minute petal on top, adhering the 2 together. This volition move your middle layer. Apply some other point of gum inwards the centre of the middle petal, along the direct edge, too identify the terminal petal on top. Fold the stack gently inwards half, too identify a small-scale point of gum on the transcend layer within the fold. Place this gum point on a slice of the metallic element thread, really closed to where the thread meets the frame. Pinch the bloom roughly the thread until it adheres to the thread. Make to a greater extent than flowers inwards the same agency too gum them to the thread, overlapping them too occasionally leaving infinite for leaves.
6. If yous are using sewing designing pieces for the leaves, yous may require to Fe the pieces on a depression setting to polish out folds too wrinkles. For each leaf, cutting a slice of tissue paper close four past times 1 in/10 cm past times 2.5 cm. Fold inwards one-half lengthwise. Cut fringe inwards each narrow end. Apply a point of gum to the within of the fold. Pinch the glue-dotted leafage on the thread underneath the bloom that yous glued to the chandelier. Continue to cutting too get together flowers too gum them to the threads, adding leaves hither too at that spot every bit yous like.
7. Trim whatever excess hanging thread. Allow the gum to dry out for close an hour. Then gently spread opened upward the petals of each bloom past times carefully pulling the layers upward too away from each other.
8. For the transcend tier of the frame, repeat steps four to seven to consummate the chandelier.
9. Take assist to move out along the petals too leaves away from the calorie-free bulb. Always utilization a small, low-wattage bulb too plough off the calorie-free when yous leave of absence the house.
Sweet Paper Crafts
25 Simple Projects to Brighten Your Life
By Mollie Greene • Photographs past times J. Aaron Greene
Available June 25, 2013 at Chronicle Books
Update: Congrats to @mrs_merriman - yous lead keep won the book! Please contact us for details!
Today we're excited to part a DIY courtesy of Chronicle Books from i of their newest arts and crafts books, Sweet Paper Crafts, 25 Simple Projects to Brighten Your Life past times Mollie Greene. The majority is filled alongside fun too clever projects similar star garlands to string over the mantel to fragile bloom wreaths for the front end door. Mollie Green founded Royal Buffet, i of our favorite etsy shops too has an amazing talent for unique operate using paper. Today we're featuring i of the many amazing DIYs inwards her book, a flowering chandelier. To boot off the launch of the book, Chronicle Books is likewise offering i of our readers a gamble to win a copy! To enter, catch our Instagram post featuring a motion painting of this DIY too leave of absence a comment past times 6pm Wed., June 26/13. We'll denote a winner Thursday. Our instagram is @poppytalk! Good luck! Here's the tutorial. Jan
DIY Flowering Chandelier
Adding the perfect glow to whatever nighttime corner of your house, this chandelier, created from a novel or used light shade, is encircled alongside clusters of pretty paper flowers too leaves. It is best made alongside a two-tiered shade that has a universal fitting—where the plumbing equipment for the calorie-free bulb is inwards the centre of the shade. You volition likewise require a hanging lantern cord too a low-wattage bulb. If yous like, yous tin vary the flowers past times using 3 layers of sewing designing tissue, 3 layers of colored tissue paper, or a combination of the two.
Supplies
Two-tiered light shade alongside a universal plumbing equipment
Scissors for cardboard
Glue remover such every bit Goo Gone (optional)
Newspapers (optional)
Multipurpose spray pigment inwards a coordinating color
Hanging lantern cord
Low-wattage lightbulb
20-lb/9-kg loving cup claw
Scissors for paper
Ruler
Silver metallic element thread
Liquid gum
Flowering Chandelier template
Tissue paper for petals
Pencil
Tissue paper or sewing designing pieces inwards a contrasting color for leaves
Iron (optional)
Instructions
1. If your light shade is covered alongside textile or paper, utilization the cardboard pair of scissors to take all the roofing material. If necessary, eliminate whatever sometime dried gum alongside gum remover. You desire the shade to move every bit build clean every bit possible thence it volition accept the spray pigment evenly.
2. (I recommend spreading newspapers over your operate expanse earlier starting this step.) Following the manufacturer’s instructions too using a calorie-free hand, comprehend the light shade frame alongside 2 coats of spray paint, allowing the pigment to dry out betwixt coats. After yous apply the minute coat, allow the frame to dry out completely, at to the lowest degree an hour.
3. Turn the frame thence the widest business office is facing up. Run the cord through the centre too screw inwards the calorie-free bulb. Install the loving cup claw from the ceiling next the manufacturer’s instructions, too hang the shade from the cord.
4. Using the paper scissors, cutting pieces of metallic element thread close 12 in/30.5 cm long (or longer or shorter depending on the size of your frame). Starting at the bottom tier of the frame, necktie the pieces of thread to the frame, spacing them close 3 in/7.5 cm apart. Place a tiny point of liquid gum on each knot to move out along the thread inwards place.
5. Download the Flowering Chandelier template at www.chroniclebooks.com/sweetpaper. Stack 3 pieces of tissue paper. Use the pencil to describe the template on the transcend piece, thence cutting out through all 3 layers. Be careful to cutting within the pencil line of piece of job thence yous don’t lead keep to erase it later. Separate the 3 layers of petals. Place a point of liquid gum along the direct border of i petal, inwards the center. This volition move your bottom layer. Place a minute petal on top, adhering the 2 together. This volition move your middle layer. Apply some other point of gum inwards the centre of the middle petal, along the direct edge, too identify the terminal petal on top. Fold the stack gently inwards half, too identify a small-scale point of gum on the transcend layer within the fold. Place this gum point on a slice of the metallic element thread, really closed to where the thread meets the frame. Pinch the bloom roughly the thread until it adheres to the thread. Make to a greater extent than flowers inwards the same agency too gum them to the thread, overlapping them too occasionally leaving infinite for leaves.
6. If yous are using sewing designing pieces for the leaves, yous may require to Fe the pieces on a depression setting to polish out folds too wrinkles. For each leaf, cutting a slice of tissue paper close four past times 1 in/10 cm past times 2.5 cm. Fold inwards one-half lengthwise. Cut fringe inwards each narrow end. Apply a point of gum to the within of the fold. Pinch the glue-dotted leafage on the thread underneath the bloom that yous glued to the chandelier. Continue to cutting too get together flowers too gum them to the threads, adding leaves hither too at that spot every bit yous like.
7. Trim whatever excess hanging thread. Allow the gum to dry out for close an hour. Then gently spread opened upward the petals of each bloom past times carefully pulling the layers upward too away from each other.
8. For the transcend tier of the frame, repeat steps four to seven to consummate the chandelier.
9. Take assist to move out along the petals too leaves away from the calorie-free bulb. Always utilization a small, low-wattage bulb too plough off the calorie-free when yous leave of absence the house.
Sweet Paper Crafts
25 Simple Projects to Brighten Your Life
By Mollie Greene • Photographs past times J. Aaron Greene
Available June 25, 2013 at Chronicle Books
Update: Congrats to @mrs_merriman - yous lead keep won the book! Please contact us for details!
