Lantern: The one where the glue wouldn't stick!!

Today's share is a Lantern that I made using Jeanine's Art "Welcome Spring" Flowers and Leaf Borders, with Precious Marieke "Beautiful Garden" Leaf Frame. I have put the link to the video on the first picture. To be honest, it was a bit of a disaster as none of the glue wanted to stick, so if nothing, it'll give you a laugh! 

The template is here as a JPG. Feel free to copy it. Printing it on full page will give you the biggest possible size. 

You will need two of these to complete your lantern. If your printer will take card, I suggest printing it straight onto the card. 

Cut the two pieces out as shown in the picture above.

Score down the middle between the two sides, and on the tab.

Then turn and score along the two "roof" parts. Don't forget the little tabs on the roof. 

Burnish all the folds, and it should end up looking like the photo above. Do not stick anything at this point. 

To cover the windows of the lantern, I cut the Leaf Frame die out of a piece of hessian printed paper from Crafter's Companion Sew Homemade paper pad. This was cut to size, and adhered to a piece of vellum, before attaching to each of the windows. 

Now you can assemble the lantern pieced. Stick the roof tabs on each. Attach a piece of twine to the inside of one piece before joining the two halves together. 

For all the sides, I cut two of the leaf borders in green.  For two of the sides, I cut the leaf in pink. The other two sides you need to cut the flowers from both the green and pink. The pink flower heads are cut and paper-pieced onto the green.

You can then arrange them on the sides of the lantern. This is the bit that just didn't want to work on the demo. It had all worked fine when prepping at home, but neither my tacky glue or my spray glue wanted to play ball. Hopefully, though, there is enough information, both in the video and here, for you to see how to do it. 

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Cxxxx