Fairy lights with self-made umbrellas
From strong transparent paper you can tinker great umbrellas for the fairy lights. Or you take the paper from broken lampshades.
Material:
- LED Christmas Lights
- Transparent paper colored and white / extra strong (glassine)
- Staples for sample bags
- cutter scalpel
- sharp craft scissors
- carton
- graph paper
- copy paper
- felt-tip pen
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10 LED mini fairy lights, battery operated with switch, lit in a warm white 0,20 ?
This is how it's done:
- For the lampshade, a stencil made of solid cardboard is made first (see photo). The shape is transferred to graph paper. This original is transferred to solid cardboard with copy paper.
- Then the template is cut exactly and placed on the back of the tracing paper. With felt-tip pen you can trace the contours, several times, depending on how many lampshades you need for the fairy lights (there are small ones with 10 light bulbs and bigger ones). Then cut out all marked lampshades with sharp scissors. Cut curves very carefully!
- To get the umbrella in the round shape, you have to cut small slits. Place both sides over each other in such a way that a cone is created with an 8 mm long opening at the top. Carefully cut the slits with the scalpel cutter. The position is slightly above the middle. Then a sample bag clamp is pushed through both slots and bent inside.
- Finally, carefully insert the socket with the light bulb into the upper, narrow opening of the lampshade. When all the umbrellas are attached to the light bulbs, the fairy lights come to the wall or to the window and to the power outlet. Looks great!
