 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to show you how to make this really beautiful Christmas lantern. I just love how this has turned out. It is so nice and it's huge. It's six by six by nine I believe. So I've made this one. I'm going to make another one with you and the two of them are going to sit by my sliding patio doors and they yeah I put this one by there and it looked so nice and my husband really liked them too. So these hold these little battery operated lights and I'll turn the light off in a minute just so you can see. Ideally I want to get the flickering ones. These ones are just plain from IKEA but I am going to go and get the flickering ones but basically if I hold it up there you can see inside and then on the back here is this opening where you can put your candles. So let's pop all three in. Now it's not quite dark outside but even with this light you can see just how much that lights up and it looks so good and I think once I've got the flickering candles inside it's going to look so pretty and you can just see it starts to bring out that beautiful detail in the vellum that I've used there as well. So let me just pop my light back on. Okay so I just want to stress again that this is battery operated candles only. Do not put a naked flame inside these so if you're any you know minors watching this, any young children go and ask mum and dad for some battery operated candles and then you can obviously use this and they just look lovely during the day as well when the candles aren't lit. I think they're just going to be so so pretty. Okay so to make this one let's just turn them off. So I've got everything here. I've done lots of pieces already. Don't need that that's for something else. I've got lots going on at the moment. Okay so I have already created this beautiful like topper so this is my decoration here. So all of this foliage dye kind of effect here is from this stamping up this one here tropical. So I just used this one and it's been brilliant for doing Christmas kind of wreath detail so that's the one I've used there. You just there's a frame around it but it's just the inside piece that I've used. Okay so that piece I've got already and I've just put a lovely big ribbon bow on there. This ribbon was from the range 12 meters brilliant and then I've just with my hot glue stuck three of the bells. You can hear them there. Okay so for the base you need a piece of cardstock that is 10 and 1 eighth of an inch squared. Okay then you need some vellum so you're going to need three pieces actually. I'm just going to say four but your back one is not yeah just the four three pieces of vellum five and a half by five and a half and again I've got this really nice star detail. Now I shared this vellum months ago. I found a pack of about this much. It was so thick full of just beautiful different printed vellums but there was no maker's name on it so I was unable to share and I did ask at that point if anybody recognised it but to this day I think it's just something that's been maybe in someone's craft stash many many years and then they donated it to a charity shop and I was lucky enough to grab it so it's from there but any beautiful vellum and even plain vellum will be nice as well. Okay next you're going to need four pieces of six and a half by whatever your A4 length is. Now you can have 12 as well but I've got A4 which is 11 and three quarters 11 and five eighths okay so it's the default A4 size so like I said four pieces of six and a half by whatever length it is that you're using and I will talk you through that so even if you've got 12 you can still use it. Okay I think that's it oh and this piece here so there isn't much to it it's just it does use a bit more card so this is a piece of 12 by half an inch and this is going to be the handle on top and you'll also need another piece of 12 by half an inch because I've just remembered to just decorate like this here okay so in terms of cardstock you need a heavy weight this is 300 gsm craft card so if you want something to last I mean these will go in my big plastic storage tubs at the end of Christmas and I will bring them out again next year and they're solid so if you're using anything I'd say weaker than 250 weaker than 110 pound I don't think it's going to last you forever I just I don't know I just don't think you need that real rigid cardstock for this one okay so first of all with our base so you want to score they're all the four sides are the same but you want to score at one inch and two inches and then I've just got a piece of cardstock here that I use folded in half pop that in the top corner and then put your cardstock up to it and then you want to score at eight and one eighth of an inch and nine and one eighth of an inch because remember this was 10 and one eighth of an inch so basically now you'll have one inch one inch and then one inch and one inch rotate your cardstock and do one two and then again put your card in pop your cardstock back up and score at eight and one eighth of an inch and nine and one eighth of an inch okay then burnish all of those score lines okay and you'll have this here so now just pop that to one side because that's already okay so you'll have four pieces of this six and a half by whatever length that is that you're using along the six and a half inch side you want to score at six okay then rotate your cardstock so this half inch tab is facing the top and you want to score at two and four and a half okay now because some people might be using 12 inches some people might be using 11 and some people are using a four what's best to do now is just rotate the whole thing around pop it in here and score at one inch okay that way it's easy for me to just teach you all no matter what length you're using all it will mean is some of you are going to have a different width between this score line and this score line okay then you want to pop it back into the original orientation so along the six and a half inch side with the half inch tab on the right hand side and you are going to score at one and a half inches just down to the first score line then two inches down to the first score line then four inches down to the first score line and that's it i'm talking like i'm about to carry on and tell you lots more if i just bring it up there there you can see so that was the one and a half that was the two and that was the four yep all right so that is what you should have so you're going to have that one that one that one and the big one and six six oh we do and then you have that one that one and then this one inch one at the bottom you need to do that on all four pieces now the next part you one of the pieces you need to have as your kind of back your your kind of opening where you can pop your candles in now for that piece you need to choose whatever circle you want to go in there that's going to fit whatever candle it is that you're putting in there you may not have candles you might want to use some maybe fragrances or something inside like a you know pup puree or something like that but the circle i'm using the rough diameter is three and three quarters okay now this is six and a half inches wide and my big shot is only six but if you just fold your tab under it will not affect it okay you can then just pop that under pop your die on top pop it on the plate let me just bring it bring it in here just so you know what i'm saying so here's my plate here if you've got the big shot plus then you will have the a4 plate so it won't matter but you can see now look my fits perfectly on my plate by folding that in all right so that's all you need to do there then to do that on one piece then on the other pieces you need to do a square die cut so let me grab my ruler again so my square is four and five eighths of an inch okay you can see there on that side there and then we're going to die cut this again it's entirely up to you what size you want to do i wouldn't go any bigger than that because it means this is going to be thinner and that will make your whole kind of sides weaker i've got a nice three quarters of an inch there on that side and then obviously round to the back but across those two sides there's an inch and a half there so it's nice and strong so i wouldn't go any bigger than that but you can certainly go smaller if you need to and then what you're going to do is i would furnish the score line of that long one first i won't worry about the others because most of those are cut lines okay like so and then i've got my die here let's get rid of this scoreboard okay and then you just want to sit your die so it's nice and centered within this square here so above the so not you know ignore that one inch piece here it's that score line that you want to be within that one and that score line there and that's where you want your die to sit so i'm just going to use some washi tape here because i don't want this moving okay i'm happy with that so let me just bring in my big shot okay so i'm just going to sit that on there doesn't matter about the wrist hanging out because i'm just going to reverse my plates so pop that one in okay so just reverse that one back take that out okay so now i can just remove that leave that to one side and obviously it hasn't damaged my side tab there at all but now i've got that nice window okay so you need to do that on the other three pieces so you will now have i'm going to go through all the cutting and a little bit more scoring in a second but you should have three that will have these pieces so there's my three and then you'll have your one piece there with your back okay then you'll have your vellum so you're five and a half by five and a half and i'm going to use some of my red tape and you just want to go around the edges okay like so i like using the red tape because it's just very very strong and it sticks well to everything so wet glue will work but i just prefer using the red tape when i'm making especially when i'm making stuff that i like home decor pieces that i want to last obviously time and time again so okay just take your backing off and then i've got my one here flip it over and just pop that over making sure you kind of get an equal overhang on each of the sides and again just use your bone folder and can you see you really start to see the red tape coming through you want that to become really dark and then you know that that red tape stuck down if it still looks quite pale and cloudy then it's not stuck down properly okay flip that over and there we go so now you will have three of those next what we want to do is some cutting and then we will do some final scoring so you just want to burnish these score lines here and then the ones at the very top we're going to just do a little bit of cutting so you want to cut down so you'll have your half inch tab here i've got mine on the left hand side so you're going to cut all the way down that one and then all the way across and we're going to remove remove that piece i'm trying to take out the score line like so okay so that piece has been removed and you can still see my half inch tab then you've got two score lines you've got this one and then this one the outer one so this one here this is the next one we're going to cut down because this is actually going to be a little tab for us to be able to connect the very top of the lantern okay and then just cut into it like that and just burnish it you can see what i've done there so now we've got that if you just take a little wedge off again just so you're forming that tab so that's what you should have okay next we need to do a little bit of scoring remember you're going to do all of this on all of those three pieces that you've got so now i'm just going to grab my metal ruler keeping it upside down like this you're going to score so you've got this square if i just fold the tab in you can just see the square there from the bottom or it's the top the top left and right of this square you're going to score down to the top left and right of again ignore the tab fold the tab in fold the tab in there you're just going to score from the top left to the bottom left i guess top left it depends it's upside down but you know what i mean you're going from here to here so if i just grab my stylus like so you can just see that score line so again and then on this side pop your stylus down first and then the ruler okay so then you can just burnish those ones and just fold them like so all right and do that on the other three pieces so now um oh no you need to cut down that bit it's okay so this bit here actually sorry you want to oh yeah because you're sticking that bit silly me you're gonna remove that piece as well there we go so that's how it should now look so you're just cutting down keeping that tab there and i'm actually just going to take a little wedge off of that one and off of the bottom there all right so that is what you should have so now i've got my three pieces one two three okay and then that back piece there leave those now to one side and let's go back to our base which we've got here and we've burnished all of our score lines so now all we're doing is making a reinforced tray really so again if you you're familiar with the reinforcements then you'll know what to do so start from any side facing you it doesn't matter which one and basically you just want to cut down pass that first score line down to the second one here and then again cut all the way down like so so you've got these two rotate it and remove those two and then remove that one so now you're just left with this and then just tidy up all those sides so i've just taken a wedge off of there then i'm going to take a little wedge off of there and a wedge off of that one okay so that's what you should have and then you want to do the same again so you've got the four squares you're just cutting down the score lines through both of them like so turn it on its side remove the outer two and then remove that one and then again just tidy up all of the sides like so then rotate the whole thing so that's now facing away from you and repeat exactly the same again okay so that is what you should have for your base then we just need to stick it together so i've just got some of my wet glue here and with it facing so that's the inside you want to trip it over so you've got the outside and you're going to pop glue on these tabs here so and then you're going to bring it down and bring up a side and just stick that down okay then go around to the next one again pop glue on the outside bring the tab down and bring up outside that and just repeat that on all of your corners just a quick one as well when you do your corners because we've got what we've made going inside this so all of this goes inside this kind of tray if you come in too much so when i fold that in if i bring that down too much and see then that's kind of overhanging like so you won't get that in there so you have to make sure that this is completely lined up and it's a perfect right angle if you've gone in a bit or even too loose so you haven't stuck this bit right up to the edge there that piece that we're going to stick in at the end won't kind of sit perfectly and it's the same with when you kind of make drawers and stuff like that you know i read sometimes people saying oh theirs didn't quite fit or theirs was too loose it's more than likely because you've done this and not realized so yeah just this is i always say kind of spend time with this so you can see again i'm going in and getting that perfectly lined up there okay so that's that bit done now because it's reinforced we've got all these pieces hanging so what you want to do don't want that bit it's just inside it's just pop some glue i never put a lot just enough for it to kind of tack in place see there fold that one over pop it on its side and then just kind of re-burnish the score line and spread out that glue like so and see how nice and straight that is and you've got those really good right angles so again just do that on all of your sides okay so now i've got that really nice tray which is not much at the minute but once everything else has been put into it it will strengthen it as well so pop that to one side and now we go back to these pieces and you want to put all of your sides together so you're going to have two like that and oh well it doesn't actually it makes no difference whatsoever ignore me right let's get these stuck down so you can use double sided tape if you want but i've got my wet glue here so i'm just going to continue using this so just cover your tab like so and then i'm going to grab this one here and you just want to line up your one inch score line at the bottom and then the rest should all marry up nicely and just fold it onto you know a corner like you know a right angle just so you can see because that's how it's obviously going to look if i just flip it over and just use my bone folder there squeezing out any glue just make sure you get a really nice seal okay so that's the first one done then go along to the next one i'm going to get another one and then again line up my half inch and then the rest will all meet up nicely flip it over and just do that until you stuck them all down okay so that's them all together then if you fold this one over and that one can you see they will perfectly sit over the top it's the same as doing a gift bag gift box it's just we've you know it's a different shape so again i'm just going to put my glue on that tab and stick that down okay so now you will have what is starting to resemble a lantern but now we need to do the tops so every one of these kind of triangles here is going to go in side inwards okay and it's going to stick together that will go on its side it's going to stick it does work like so okay in fact yeah fold it flat like that it's much easier fold them in and then they're going to stick together so if you just open up one and again add some glue like so fold it in fold the whole thing flat again this is when you know that you've done your score lines and everything correctly because it will lie completely flush can you see nothing's kind of coming out the side there you can't see any overhang or anything so just and i'm just using my bone folder there and again this is where i love using craft card because it's so forgiving it really is great so now when you fold that up you see there you start to get a really nice corner to your lantern so then i'm going to go around to the next one keeping it flat is easiest just pop your glue on another triangle like so keep them both folded in because now it's starting to take shape you won't be able to fold it flat if you come in from inside can you see them there together you just pinch them together like so you just keep them folded upwards you get more control okay just hold them there together okay then i'm around to my next one so just try and keep them facing inwards it does get a bit fiddly it's not hard it's just you know you just have to take some time with it it's all about getting those lines or score all your score lines all meeting up so again put your hand inside and then you can kind of bring them down and they join nicely and that's what you want to get see i've got nice joins on all of the corners there and then once we put all this together in a minute i mean you can stick that as you go but i think just working stages will kind of work your way up and then with the last one just you know it might be hard for you to get your glue right the way in but if you just kind of put a bead of it at least on that end bit on the sorry on the join see i've just put it there that'll be enough to stick them together like so okay so that's now what you should have and then this bit here like the little chimney again keep one of your hands inside it makes it much much easier but if you just kind of pull them all out and make sure the tabs are all folded inwards so all my tabs you can see there they're all inside and again just stick them down so just pull it out add your glue and then just slide that one in and again it should all perfectly line up like so all right so just go around get them all stuck down okay so now you can see gorgeous lantern we've got coming together now it's entirely up to you whether you want to add glue onto this piece or glue onto this piece i'm going to add it on my tray but it doesn't really matter but this one inch score line is really kind of a guideline because that whole piece so if we just bring it up bring your tray in and if you kind of just pinch see like pinch the sides like that pop in one side pinch in those and pop it in and you should have a really nice snug fit don't worry if it's bowing slightly because once you glue there see that's going to stick and each of those is a perfect fit okay so i'm going to grab my glue and again you don't need loads but because i'm not going to be carrying it with the by the handle or anything it's but you obviously don't want it coming out but you can see there but just go around and pop your glue on all of the four sides because you need to do this all in one go okay so that's all my glue and like i said pinch one side if you've got a preference to it that you know you might have i don't know just made a mistake or something might not look the right way make sure because obviously this is the front that's the back you've got whatever bit it is facing the right way and just go along and just stick it all down okay so there it is and that now has made that really really strong solid solid structure so now just the final detail so the little bits of decorations so like i said i've already done this and this is going to stick on the front right there oh it looks so pretty this this is what does it this is as soon as i made this and put it on i was there going oh my god i love it i love so i'm going to run a bead of hot glue i don't want this coming off just sit that on there make sure it's nice and straight obviously you might want to put a little message on this you might want to you know to it to read merry christmas it's entirely up to you how you want to decorate but we have my mum actually has the one that i we've got my granddads and then my mum and dad have an antique one we've got two antique oil lanterns and one was my grandfather's that he used to use to walk to work when he was a young boy and it's so heavy for me to bring out to china what i keep saying i will one day but it looks really nice by my mum's fireplace and i don't have a fireplace so um yeah i wanted a lantern so i've made these and there we go how pretty does that look then i've got this piece here and then i've got another half by 12 and this is going to go and decorate the top so all you want to do first of all we're going to do this strips i'm just going to put some glue just no more than half an inch on all four sides so and then where's my little lid and then starting from the back because that's where i want the join to be just gonna stick it like so and then just wrap it around each of your corners hugging the top you want it to stay nice and flush with the top of the little kind of chimney there the funnel and then when you get back around to the join let it overlap and then just trim it like so and then i can pop some more glue on there and i'll pop it on there then again you don't need to worry about scoring it like so you might want to put cover these complete squares all black so the whole piece is a little black kind of chimney but i quite like just the top then this is that other 12 by half an inch that i mentioned and i've finished the ends here i've had these for ages they are stamping up they're heavy they're metal embellishments but they look like little bolts you've got little screws here and that's what i've used so i've put a screw on the end of each of these you can see they're just little stickers of brads metal brads would look just just as nice but i liked the thought of a little bit of hardware on this so i'm just going to then cover about half inch by half inch there is of glue and then just stick it in the middle of one of the sides just like that okay let's just do that again on the other side there you go there's those finished how lovely does that look so like i said you can't hold it with that but you know i'm not going to be doing it it's just purely there for you know decorative reasons but i absolutely adore this you've seen how it works so i'm not going to pop the candles back in that one but i'm so excited i've only got a month to wait and then i can put this all up i'm not allowed to put the tree up any earlier than the 1st of december so there you go i hope you've enjoyed this tutorial i have had so much fun making these and i really hope you do too and as always if you do please share your versions over on mixed up crafters facebook group because i would love to see different variations of this design i think it would look wicked and i absolutely love these so thank you for stopping by i hope you've enjoyed today please give it a thumbs up if you have and i'll be back again soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye