 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm really really excited to share this lantern with you. Now those of you that were with me last year would have made last year's lanterns or seen last year's lanterns and lots of you are making them again this year but I've had the idea to do this taller version for a while. My mum actually has a glass version of this hers is wooden with like gold but I've seen a few of my friends have these ones where they're metal on the sides here and then all glass and they've got candles and all kinds of things inside them and I thought it'd be really nice to do but I just never really got round to doing it and then Trimcraft sent me the most amazing brand new double-sided glitter cardstock. It's just absolutely phenomenal stuff and when something new comes onto the market it then kind of opens up your mind and you start to think of new things to create and I thought it's going to work perfectly for this lantern so I was able to make it and it is very easy and very quick to make so I know we're getting close to Christmas now. This wasn't something I was going to add into this year's series. I've just slipped this one in with all the others that are already done so it is something that you can quickly do. This didn't take me very long to do at all so as soon as I received the paper the cardstock a few days ago I've made this one. I'll show you all the cardstock in a moment but the idea for this is that it's not all necessarily just for Christmas. This piece here I have stuck on this because I will put this away with my Christmas decorations and bring it out each year for Christmas however if you find a way that you can just maybe attach this you can then take it off and you could keep this as a nice home decor piece throughout the year. You know it looks nice on your windowsill it's lovely in the hall. The idea is that there's no base on this so that you can put anything underneath it so you can change it up you know so I've got some really nice big pillar candles that I'm going to put in this with the lights wrapped around and then the battery pack here can kind of just hang out behind you know be hidden away so all you see is that but this is very tall this is 12 plus then it's got another six inches with the roof and you'll recognize the roof here it's kind of my go-to roof now really that I do. I used it on the Christmas cottage I've used it on the Santa's workshop and I've also used it on the bird box it's just really easy to do so you can also go in the top there but what I'm going to do is I'm going to tack my rice light up on the side here probably on both sides just so that the lights stay up the top and then kind of fall down it's just so so pretty it's five and a half by five and a half by then 12 plus some more and I've also added in this lovely piece there I wouldn't hold it with that but it just looks nice and kind of it's how those others look but I love that you can just put anything you want underneath this and I just think it looks really really pretty so okay so here are the glitter cards that I've got so I have a five premium adhesive glitter card okay so I've got some nice ideas for that one and I'll be sharing those and you get 12 sheets 130 gsm and it's all non-shed so you're not going to be covered in glitter which is always good and it's also acid and lingon free so if you are doing any kind of scrapbooking or albums and you're using photos then it's going to be friendly towards those things so that's that one and then here I've got the three 12 by 12s so this is double-sided 350 gsm and here you have red yellow green blue purple and pink and it also does say that it cuts on all major electronic cutting machines okay so those of you that do use your digital machines this is going to be perfect and then I have sorry two 12 by 12 this is the a4 so this is the Christmas I guess your colors you've got your red your green and white the white's lovely you can see there really really is very nice and then again 350 12 sheets non-shed and then this is the one I'm using I've just quickly taken it out the packaging so this one here you get gold silver I'm going to say rose gold and then a darker silver so maybe this is the dark one this is the one I'm using it's beautiful it's so nice you get you must get three sheets of each and there you can see lovely then there's your rose gold yeah three sheets of each isn't that stunning it's just like the dovecraft rose gold that I used a lot earlier in the year but obviously now this is double-sided but it's just beautiful cardstock so there is your yes it's more of a whiter silver that's more I guess like a black silver and then you can see that and then there's that gorgeous gold oh my gosh it's lovely so yeah I'm glad I've been able to get something Christmassy in using this cardstock it's going to be used a lot throughout the year now so you're going to see it feature but um it's nice to make something like this so let me just get that to one side so first of all I'm going to show you how to make the actual case okay so I've got I've done three already and two of them are actually already stuck together so we start to get the shape there and then there's the second one which we're going to stick this one too in a moment so what you need is a what you want four pieces that are six by 12 but don't worry if you don't have 12 okay so whatever it is that you're using whether you've you choose to get this card the glitter card or not you can have it shorter okay so the the the 12 inches is the height of this so you can reduce that down by whatever you want but the width I'm going for is six now along the six inch side you do want to score at five and a half and I'm using my metal stylus now because it's a 350 gsm and it's double sided you do want to you know add some pressure to that just to really kind of squash the fibers with the glitter and then just burnish and it's really nice you don't get any cracking and this is a real textured cardstock but there's there's no cracking at all with that which is wonderful and then you'll also want four pieces of acetate so I'm using the let me grab it this one here so it's the paper mania it's my go to acetate and it's um it's just a heavyweight one 10 pack and it's by do cross paper mania so I used two sheets and from that I got four pieces so these are five and a quarter and then I've kept that whole length of 12 so whatever you do decide to reduce if you do make sure you do the same for your acetate we're just going to do that for the minute now I want to show you how to cut the inside because I don't need any dies for this one so I'm just going to grab my cutting knife and my ruler and really simple cutting so I'm using my grid I'm just going to line it up with one of the squares it doesn't matter which one but because these are all one inch squares it's obviously works well for me because I work in inches so what I'm going to do is first of all grab I don't want a pen I'm just going to use a pencil so I'm going to pop my ruler so it lines up with the half inch you want to come down half an inch basically so I can see mine is there and then you want to come in half an inch so I can see just by eyeballing there's half an inch here so if I come down to there there is come down half an inch and come in half an inch you just want to mark so I'm just leaving like an an indents it does show up on this and then again this side here so you want to come in half an inch actually you want to come in from you've got your school line you want to come in half an inch from the school line so ignore the half inch scored piece here because this is your tab so you want to come in from that school line you want to come in half an inch so I'm just going to follow this line here okay if I just bring in one here in case you're kind of unsure what I mean come down half an inch come in half an inch and marked there and then I've done just done the same there so I've ignored that fold you want to come in from the score line come down half an inch come in and we're going to then cut to meet all of these points so should have now yeah I can just see as long as you can see them I'm using a pencil because it's gray so you know I'm going to cut most of this away but I can also feel it it is it is strange getting used to working with a I'm just going to actually pierce through there and a double-sided glitter it's wonderful it's really really nice okay so I can see mine there and then I'm going to come down again just line this up so everything's nice and straight and so I'm just going to come in I can use my ruler for this just keep everything straight so I'm going to come in half an inch and again from that score line come in half an inch so again I'm just going to pierce it through there because that's all going to get cut away there we go next with your cutting knife you want to join your holes or your markers so try and keep it in one kind of cut you'll see now we've cut this away so there is you know you get this great big panel that you don't need but then you know obviously I'm definitely not wasting that I'll be keeping every single piece of this I have so many amazing ideas it's funny when something new comes onto the market it just my mind goes and I just start thinking right what can I do with this because it's been quite a few times when I've made things and I've thought I wished it was double sided or you know it's and now it's here so thank you so let's just do this one here okay so you see now and then I've just got this last piece to do so there we go and because there's so much glitter on it if you've cut over slightly don't worry you're really not going to see it so it's another good project for kind of it's a forgiving project that's what I like to use especially so you want to make sure you've got your tab on the left hand side now I'm using red tape for this I just find it works very well with any kind of textured card stocks and you want to run it along so it's hogging the inner side you know the frame and this is it's three no it's not well yeah it's just under it must come out it must be like three eighths of an inch and then it's it's just under one centimetre so you don't want it to cover the whole area because this is only five and a quarter I didn't want to do five and a half because this will come up and I just didn't want it to cause any kind of pressure like buckling or anything but when I stick this down I can see that the acetate just covers that red and again the same side so just yeah you just don't want any stickiness kind of hanging out the sides because um well nothing's going to stick to it so it won't harm it but yeah just try and a quarter each one will be fine like a thinner one just show you one of those ones that'll be fine you can use that if you want but make sure you you stick it so it's hugging the inner frame not the outer edges so I'm just going to run it along here so I'm just taking all of the backing off and then you just want to because it's the full length it's 12 inches so you can go right to the very top then you just want to make sure you've got it kind of sitting equally within that piece so I think about there and then just let that kind of roll down and it is just like there is no adhesive it is fantastic because the red glue or tape sorry when you push it down hard enough and you get all the air bubbles out it should just disappear and you it's you know it's not too visible even when you use a normal card stop but you look on that now and you can't see it so it is just looking so nice when you now look through this so this one here you know look you can see the glitter on the inside it just makes it look like a really lovely finished piece you know people will look at it and be like well where did you join it where's because you just can't see it so what you want to do now is stick so turn it back over so the tab is on the right hand side we've got a bit of a tinsel there and you want to run some double sided tape again along that but you want to hug the fold not right up to it but just be more over to that side so I'm just going to run that all the way down I'm going to take the backing off and you want to stick one over the top so just again make sure the top and bottom line up so then let's see in there just how nice it all looks and now so you'll do that so you have two pieces like this so I just need to run another bit of my tape along this side here and grab the other ones and just stick that just as you did before flip that over just make sure that's really stuck down and then just as you were making any kind of gift box fold those both over and pop the one that you've just taken the sticky tape off of and then this one should just fold down but what I don't want is you to be able to see so I'm just going to pull that out just a little bit okay because the tabs half an inch and this is half an inch so that you want them to just line up perfectly can you see now so look at that how awesome does that look absolutely love it so it's it's almost ready we just need to do the the roof and then it's all about the decoration so let's pop that to one side and start doing the roof it's very similar to the roof that I've used for the Christmas cottage for the Santa's workshop for the bird box so it's just a really handy one and it's really easy to do because it's deconstructed now so because I've used the full width of the cardstock 12 inches I have to add a hinge in if you're coming down shorter or um yeah if you're using a shorter length you could incorporate this hinge into the top of this because if you'll see what I'm doing there I'm just going to stick that in behind this piece so that we have this here to stick you know the roof onto so if you are what you would do is just on one of your sides as you would score at the top here so you have this half inch piece so there are ways around it but I mean if you're a little bit unsure then just do it like this it's not the end of the world but again because it's all that same double sided you're not going to see you know from the inside it's still going to look really really nice so these pieces here are one inch by five and a half okay so it's the full width of each piece that we've made and then I've just got a half piece overhang so on one half of it I've just added double sided tape so this is when you want to decide on the front so if you've got somewhere you know one that you particularly like more than others so I'm going to go for this one here okay so I'm going to just pop it in make sure the score line lines up with the top of the box like that okay and then just look inside there and it should all be nice and neat obviously you don't want it coming down into this section here just a little bit let's just stick that out a little bit yeah that's better and then the opposite side take your other one and again take my backing off and that one I'm just going to stick okay so now we've got these hinges also probably I should have said actually add some tape to the both sides because you need to add tape to them now so it's not otherwise it's not going to be able to stick so yeah I mean it's easy to do this still but whilst you're doing the tape when before you stuck it on you want to stick your double sided tape again again just flip this one around okay so you should have your tape on the top there all right no you can light it down flat actually and do that as well so it's not that hard to do okay next you've got your roof pieces here don't give the measurements no I don't think I did so these are six by six and a half along the six inch side you want to score it five and a half and then you want to pop double sided tape onto one of them don't need to do it on both but you want two pieces and you're going to take the backing off lay that one down and then this same hinge piece we're going to stick on top so just line up the bottom first because you want to make sure that it's all nice and even like so and then you can just lie that down so now you have that piece I just thought actually if I do want to have a little handle then maybe oh it's fine I don't know what I'm going to do yeah actually then what we're going to do is stick it onto those hinges like so and it's up to you now how much overhang you want because you can have it quite low down and it just gives it a different look see I'm going to have mine quite high up once we stick this in it will this will become obviously you know square shape so it won't kind of move around like that but you want to make sure that you have an even overhang so I would do one side first so I'm going to take the backing off of this one here so and I'm going to do probably about an inch I tend to always do that but you want to make sure that you've got even overhang you should have half an inch overhanging on each side so I'm just going to kind of hover it down maybe lie it flat do you want to lie it flat yeah you can lie it flat I guess so I'm going to make sure that I line up if you line up if you lie it flat you might help you a bit better if you line up this side with the half inch on the next piece then you know you've got it overhanging by half an inch and then like I said whatever you come down by you just want to make sure you do it the same on both of them so and that it stays nice and straight so I think I'm just looking in my monitor there yeah so I've got a nice even overhang there and then this one here it's quite easy to line up because you just want to make sure that you've got it this piece runs in the center so let if you're not if it comes up there because it's off so just bring it down until it kind of sits there then you know it's in the right place so I'm just going to take the backing off of this one here again just going to look at it sideways I think that's okay and just make sure you've got a nice even overhang like so and because it's going to be facing this way it doesn't really matter if one's lower than the other but if I do go onto the side can you see it's fine it's you know I'm happy with that so there it is there's your lantern it's cool now we need to decorate it okay so I've just got some green sprigs that I had lying around I've got this lovely red bow that I put together and I've just got my hot glue gun on glue gun on so I'm going to keep my decoration I think quite simple this time which is not like me but I am and as I mentioned at the beginning the idea is that maybe depending on how you end up connecting this I am going to stick mine down because it's something I'll just put away with my Christmas decorations and then I'll bring it out but if it is something that you want to keep out because this is very fashionable kind of decor at the moment lots of grey lots of my friends have got grey decor everywhere and you'll see a lot of these metal lantern kind of things so it might be something that you want to keep out so just bear that in mind but like I said I am going to stick mine down so I've got my hot glue on here and I'm just going to build up these behind this bow just so they're all sticking out and I can curl them because this is like a metal so you know I'm not too worried how it looks initially but I'm just going to start kind of making a bit of a spray really of all this green around now I've got I have a glittery green glue sticking I've had them for ages and it's one of those things I'm always forgetting to use but I started getting them out a bit more purely because I ran out of the clear ones so it prompted me to start using these ones and then I thought you know what they are such a good idea but you know match them more to your crafts because you often see glue sometimes sticking out whereas if this does it doesn't matter because you won't see it it just blends in so it's a glittery green it's really nice so let's pop some on this side so I'm just going to start building this up behind the bow okay that's that stuck it's still drawing a bit there's quite a lot of layers to that but once I start curling it up it's going to look nice but I've also just thought I'm going to put some bells so I've just got my tray of them there I've just got some of this twine pop that back over in its little stand and just start kind of threading them through let's see how this is going to work first of all just tied it around there because I'm not sure how I'm going to have this I just bring it up so it's going to cover a lot of that roof I need to just see I want them dangling down separately what do you think I'm just going to stick them straight on because I'm not worried that if they don't rattle or not it's more purely for decorative reasons so this is all set nicely now so I just want to start kind of just playing around with them really just uh just so they're not so straight I'll show you there how that looks pretty love it so then I'm just going to pop quite a bit of hot glue now on the back of this because obviously this has got a stick onto that glitter glue and over time if it does come off you can just glue it back on again I've done that with many Christmas presents you know and decorations you get them out of the box and you know depending on whether they've been in a too colder environment or too hot sometimes things fall off so it doesn't bother me but now I'm just going to hold that there for a second until that grips okay and now I'm just going to add some hot glue onto these and just kind of sit them on some of those green sprigs okay so that's what I've gotten out the top I just is looking beautiful and it just sparkles so much but I've been thinking I do want to have a handle so I'm going to do a circular one so with one of this the kind of pieces that we cut out from inside one of the panels I've got loads of hot glue there that I need to take off but I've got a large one and then I've got this smaller one from another project and I'm just going to sit them inside if you flip them over you'll see the cut lines you've got to see how big so I'm looking at a ring that's going to be three eighths of an inch just over a quarter really in diameter so I'm going to sit those two they should go inside I don't think they're the same oh no I've got two separate ones right let's get the right ones from the this is the circle stitch dies from the works bought these a while ago so you want to sit one inside I'm just going to say this seems quite tight but now if you bring them out you can see yeah it's still about the same because the cut lines on them are right in the inner ring on the other one so it's still the same so about quarter of an inch to three eighths of an inch sit one inside I'm just going to cut because I like I said I'm going to be saving every single bit of this card stock so I'm just going to grab some washi tape and you want to create a ring now the good thing again with this being double-sided is usually I would have to cut two and stick them back to back but because it's obviously already got that beautiful glitter on both sides we only need to run this through once so I'm just going to sit the inner ring so you've got a nice even border and just kind of make sure it's all there stuck nice and neat okay so you can just see that frame I got so I'm going to run that through my die machine okay so I've run it through and it does cut so it doesn't look like it has but you can see it does all come apart and now I've got that lovely ring I'm just going to pop all that to one side and then now this is when I said oh you might not want to stick this bit together if you want to do a handle it looks beautiful without you can see there okay so don't you know think that you have to but because I've done that the idea is now that that is going to go like that yeah I do like it because although don't want it even see I like it when it's actually quite high up so it almost looks like one of those you know like a big metal hoop or ring so what I'm actually going to do is I'm just going to put some hot glue and I want hot glue no I'm going to use the red tape for the minute because I can always change it if I feel it's not going to hold it in place I'm just going to put some right along the bottom because it's 350 gsm it does it doesn't you know like bend over so it does stay up nice and straight but I'll just take the backing off of that I'm going to keep this in short I can't even see where the tape is now although we go I want to get it in the middle I just need to look myself just so I can check that this is centered yeah just bring it down there you see and then it looks like it's one of those you know handles and when I look at my granddad's lantern that I've got I think I'm sure I've shared that in the lantern tutorials that I made last year but um he has well we've got two we've got a gold one and a silver one but they have these on there I don't know I just think that's a nice little touch so it's completely optional the actual diameter of that circle if you're doing something similar is three and a half for the outer ring and three for the inner yeah so it's a quarter of an inch ring so yeah there you have it how cool does that look now I've just got my rice lights I'm just popping them all inside once they're around something like I said I've got like my Christmas trees that I'm going to pop in here and because it's open on the sides here you can always pin like the top light you could pin it on the side there with something but how pretty does that look and then the battery pack will be hidden with whatever's going to be in here or if not I will take it out because it's got a long piece before the actual start of the rice lights which is like there so I could hook that out and that piece can be hidden somewhere else so all you see inside are all those gorgeous rice lights I love this oh my gosh I really really do this glitter card is amazing because it's got that strength it allows you to make these things and because it's double sided just look at the lovely detail inside it there it just it looks really finished it's just a lovely lovely project and it's really easy to do it would look really nice in craft card do a really nice vintage one and distress it and all that kind of lovely stuff so there's lots of ways to recreate this but I'm going to keep it on its side like that just so you can see it so I hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial as always all the links to everything I've used will be shared below and along with all the measurements and everything will always be over on my blog so yeah thank you for watching please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today and consider subscribing so you get to see more thanks for watching bye