Candles are beautiful and give an evening such a unique atmosphere. To ensure you don't have to go without them outside in the garden, you can make these romantic lanterns yourself.
Homemade romantic lanterns
What you’ll need:
- Glasses (that a tea light fits into)
- Tracing paper printed with flowers
- Spray adhesive (removable)
- Newspaper
- Scissors
- utility knife
- hot glue
- Ruler
- Optional: Artificial flower heads and/or flower garlands (roses, daisies, marguerites, etc.), or pearl or seed bead wires
Instructions for DIY romantic lanterns
First, cut the tracing paper to the dimensions of the glasses so that the entire glass is covered. Depending on your taste, you can make it flush with the rim of the glass or let it stick out a little. Then place the cut-out tracing paper on a newspaper and spray it lightly with spray adhesive. Immediately apply the paper to the glass and adjust it so that it lies nicely against the glass and let it dry.
When it comes to decoration, there are no limits to your imagination; you can either glue flower heads to the glass with hot glue or wrap it with flower garlands, pearl or seed bead wires (also fix the ends to the lantern with hot glue). Of course, you can also leave it as it is without the decorations!
Now the balmy summer evenings can finally come!
Extra tip:You can quickly make pearl or seed bead wires yourself; all you need is a bead wire and beautiful beads (available in craft shops or special bead stores). Cut the wire to the desired length and tie a knot at the bottom end. Now thread the beads in the desired color and size and knot it again at the end. If you don't want the beads to be continuous, you can also buy crimp beads. You thread these small crimp beads before and after a bead and fix them with small pliers (hardware stores have very small pliers; these should not have strong grooves, otherwise you will damage the crimp bead and it won't look very nice). This way, you can leave nice gaps between the beads.
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Photo by Sabine, meinhaushalt.at
