| Tabletop Pagoda Lantern |
From "DIY Crafts"
episode DIC-226 |
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Materials: 5 graduated-size papier-mache hexagon-shaped boxes with lids
Pencil
Ruler
DecoArt Americana acrylic paint (ebony black)
DecoArt Americana sealer/finisher gloss
4 sheets heavyweight clear vellum
Dowel
String of 50 miniature clear Christmas tree lights (for best results, use a strand with a white cord)
Mat knife
Asian letters/characters (look in magazines or other types of reference materials to find these)
4 sheets 8-1/2" x 11" gold paper
3 sheets 8-1/2" x 11" natural kraft paper
8-1/2" x 11" sheet of Keep a Memory mounting adhesive
Crafters' Pick The Ultimate Tacky glue
Emagination scissors (wave #51005 or Victorian #51001)
Emagination punches (Treviso Heritage Square #61017, Colonial #41003 -- corner lacing punches, large butterfly #31000, small 5/8" circle, 1/4" circle and 1/8" circle)
Walnut Hollow 1-1/2" unfinished wooden ball knobs #18029 (use a ball for each side of the bottom box)
Walnut Hollow unfinished 3" wide embossed wood disk #16203
4-1/2" unfinished decorative finial - Select 5 boxes with the tops in graduated sizes (figure A). Remove the lid from the smallest box. Place the lid from the next larger-size box on top of the smallest box. Do this for each of the boxes, then stack them on top of one another from the largest size to the smallest. Discard the smallest top and the largest bottom.
- Remove the boxes from the stack, then draw a rectangle shape on every other side of each box. Leave a 3/8" margin or border around each rectangle. This should make three windows in each of the hexagon box bottoms. Cut out each window, then stack the boxes with the window holes staggered, so that you have an opening, then a closed space directly below it.
- Cut a hole approximately 3" in diameter in the top of all boxes except the top box.
- Cut a hole approximately 3" in the diameter in all of the box bottoms, except for the bottom box (figure B).
- Paint the box bottoms, box tops, ball feet, finial and wooden disk with ebony black paint. Let dry, then apply gloss finish to all parts.
- Copy Asian characters onto vellum in sizes to fit in each of the windows (figure C). Cut the vellum and glue inside each window (figure D).
- Wrap a string of Christmas lights around a dowel (figure E) that has been cut to fit the lantern's full height. Leave the string loose at the bottom.
- Cut a hole in the bottom of the bottom box a little off center (figure F) so there is just room for the light plug. Pull the plug out through the bottom and the cord up to the first light.
- Start gluing the lantern together, including the dowel with the lights.
- Decorate the solid sides of each box with gold and kraft paper that have been punched on the corners (figure G). Glue on circles and butterfly punched-out pieces.
- Use scissors to cut out paper backed with mounting adhesive to go around the outside of each box top. Cut the top of the strip with the wave scissors and the bottom strip with the Victorian scissors. Make the strips approximately 1/2" wide.
- Top the lantern with the wooden disk and finial.
RESOURCES :
The Paper Shade Book: Simple Techniques for Making Beautiful Lampshades
Model: 1564967530
Author: Maryellen Driscoll
(April, 2001)
Rockport Publishers
Designs for Lamps II: Patterns for 22 Small to Medium Shades
Model: 0919985238
Author: Charles Knapp
Wardell Publications, Inc.
December, 1998
Designs for Lamps: Patterns for 18 Small to Medium Shades
Model: 0919985068
Author: Charles Knapp
GUESTS :
Vivian Peritts
Author/Designer
Vivian's Originals
763 Dover St.
Marietta, GA 30066
E-mail: vperitts@earthlink.net
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