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It's the last TLC challenge of 2016! I hope you all had a lovely day yesterday. Thank you from all the team for playing along with the TLC challenges throughout the year.
For those with time to stamp today, this is a quick and easy challenge, suitable for celebrating the New Year or for a summer garden party or festive birthday. These have been on my possible challenge list for quite a long time now - festive paper lanterns, Chinese style.
If you have a crimper, these are super-easy. If you don't, you can simply score with a stylus, which is what I did.
1: Punch or die-cut suitable shapes. Circles and ovals work well, and I think perhaps some of the simple label shapes might also work.
Use a light card or paper. My Celebrate card uses vellum, the Little Geisha is printed red paper. If you like to stamp on your paper, go ahead.
2: Crimp or score the lantern. I scored at 1/8" intervals.
3: Depending on the shape you have used, and how wide the strip of card you use to make the top and bottom is, you may need to trim a tiny bit off each end of your lantern piece. Then add a strip of card-stock to each end.
4: Trim the ends of the little strips of card as shown below. Be careful not to cut into the lantern.Editing to add that seeing Pat's lovely card reminded me that I had meant to suggest adding tassels as an optional extra: you could add a little tassel dangling from the bottom strip, in the same colour. Thanks for jogging my memory,. Pat.
5: Hang your lanterns and you're done. You can pierce a hole in the card strip and thread cord through, or just stick it underneath for a quick fix.
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oh you mean there is a reason I kept my crimper after all? ( I can hardly do straight across anything with it, it feeds crooked) but, cutting it small is such a cool idea Sabrina.
oh you mean there is a reason I kept my crimper after all? ( I can hardly do straight across anything with it, it feeds crooked) but, cutting it small is such a cool idea Sabrina.
( I will have to think about this)
Mine doesn't just feed crooked, it barely even crimps the lightest copy paper. I'll be saying a big thanks to everyone who contributed to Moddy Christmas because a decent crimper is sitting in my Amazon basket :mrgreen:.
Oh such a Fun Challenge - especially since My son, who I adopted while living in Japan and his wife (born in China) and her entire family do a BIG Chinese new year celebration every year! Here is my lantern card:
I have LOTS of Asian themed stamps which I haven't pulled out in forever so I just HAD to make a 2nd card for today's challenge. This depicts a long standing Chinese tradition ( as explained by my Chinese DIL):
Sabrina this was fun, I tried it your way and flopped! Then I saw Jane's card and decided to case hers!
TLC618 Deer Lanterns
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Sabrina,This was fun! Thanks so much. Here's my card.
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Super fun making this card. Although I did make two backgrounds. I got Brushos for Christmas so I wanted to try them. The background was just too busy, thus this is the second one. Maybe I can come up with something to use the other one for.
Here's my card. Light on a string by pvilbaum - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers
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Took me awhile to get to it, but I loved your technique for making paper lanterns for cards, Sabrina. I have a crimper so it made easy work of it. Thanks.
TLC618 ~ Festive Paper Lanterns ~ {12/26/2016}
