How to make a moon lamp out of paper with your own hands
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What do you need
- Paper napkins, towels or toilet paper;
- PVA glue;
- water;
- brush;
- plastic ball;
- White paint;
- black paint;
- sponge;
- lamp base;
- plastic bucket with lid;
- glue gun;
- knife;
- bulb;
- pencil;
- wire.
How to do
Separate napkins, towels or toilet paper into single-layer pieces. Start gluing them to the ball by coating it with glue lightly mixed with water. Place the pieces of paper on top of each other and also coat the top with glue.
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Thus, glue the entire ball in several layers. Dry the paper completely.
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Cover the figure with white paint and let dry. Mix white paint with a little black to create a gray color. Use a sponge to make gray spots on the ball.
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Glue the lamp base to the back of the cover using hot glue. Cut a large hole in the bottom of the bucket. Connect the lid and bucket and screw in the light bulb.
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Draw a circle on the ball with a pencil. You can circle a glass or some other object. Cut along the marked line and remove the plastic.
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Place the ball on the light bulb. For reliability, you can glue the figure to the base.
How to make a chandelier (master class!)
The main lighting fixture of the house is the chandelier. You can make it from an ordinary glass bottle. The main thing is that it will be exclusive.
To create such beauty you will need:
- bottles (size and quantity depends on the preferences of the owners);
- protective equipment (goggles, mask and gloves);
- glass cutter and sandpaper;
- screwdriver and wire.
Necessary materials
Having the necessary tools and materials at hand, you can begin the actual production of the chandelier:
1. Soak the bottle in water . This will make it easy to remove labels and debris. After cleaning, the container must be thoroughly dried.
We wash bottles and remove labels
2. Make a cut of the bottle . The glass cutter is installed at the required level. Cutting is carried out slowly, which will allow you to get an even cut line. When working with a cutter, you must wear protective clothing only. If you don’t have the necessary tool at hand, cutting a glass bottle can easily be done with thread. The video below clearly demonstrates this.
We cut the bottle
3. Now the bottle is placed under the tap . Turn on the hot water and keep the workpiece under it. Hot water is alternated with cold. As a result of sudden temperature changes, the unnecessary piece will fall off exactly along the cut line.
Processing glass under water
4. The cut area is treated with sandpaper. The cut should be even and smooth.
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Sand the edges with sandpaper
5. Use a screwdriver to disassemble the lamp. The wire must be carefully pulled out and passed through the neck, put the lamp back together and check its operation.
We stretch the wire through the bottle
6. All that remains is to decorate the lighting fixture. For this, ordinary wire is used. Starting from the neck, we wrap it around the bottle. Any material is used for this. This can be regular black or colored wire.
Decorating the bottle
The chandelier pendant is ready. All that remains is to install it. If desired, the product can be painted and given any design. The main thing is that it blends organically with the interior of the room.
Chandelier made from glass bottles is ready
A good solution would be to use glass stone. It should be taken into account that the light transmittance of the product will decrease slightly. Stones of various shades are used for decoration. You can combine several shades. The main thing is that the lamp looks organic.
Bottle decor with glass stones
The stones are attached to the glass using glue. The lamp can only be used after it has completely dried. This will take no more than a day. Complete drying of the glue will ensure reliable adhesion of the stone to the surface. It is better to use an adhesive composition that can withstand temperature changes.
Video: how to cut a glass bottle with thread
How to make a lamp from cotton wool in the shape of a cloud
Shot: @TiffyQuake / YouTube
What do you need
- Several paper lanterns of different sizes;
- glue gun;
- cotton wool;
- fishing line;
- wooden stick;
- hooks;
- garland.
How to do
Cover one lantern with a large amount of cotton wool.
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Hang a wooden stick from hooks in the ceiling. This can be done using fishing line or thin rope. Tie another piece of fishing line to the base of the flashlight.
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Hang the flashlight by a fishing line from a stick.
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Cover the rest of the lanterns with cotton. Hang them from a stick to form a cloud. Fasten the parts together with glue.
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Insert a garland into the lanterns. You can make it hang down from the cloud.
What other options are there?
You can also use cotton wool to cover plastic bottles with garlands:
Or balloons:
Pendant lamps made from bottles - remove the bottom
Such chandeliers will fit perfectly into the interior of a kitchen, living room, bar, country house or cafe.
To make them, you first need to cut off the bottom of the bottle:
- Take wool thread, solvent, bottle, lighter, sandpaper, bowl of ice water.
- Cut a long piece of thread and soak it in solvent.
- Around the bottle, in the place that needs to be cut, tie several circles of woolen thread.
- Hold the bottle so that it is parallel to the ground and light the thread.
- The bottle must be carefully rotated around its axis for several minutes.
- When the fire goes out, immediately plunge the bottle into ice water.
- Carefully remove the bottom.
- Grind down the edges of the bottle using sandpaper.
How to make a lamp from cardboard with your own hands
Shot: @Sunny Lin / YouTube
What do you need
- Thick cardboard;
- ruler;
- pencil or marker;
- scissors;
- gold paint;
- brush;
- garland;
- glue gun.
How to do
Draw a large five-pointed star on the cardboard. Cut out the shape along the contour.
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From each corner, draw a line with scissors using a ruler to the center. Do not cut all the way through the cardboard.
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Bend the figure inward along the marked lines.
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Turn the star over and bend the edges towards the center as shown in the picture.
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Use dots to mark the corners of the folded figure on another sheet of cardboard.
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Then connect these points with straight lines and cut out the second star.
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Make many holes in the large star with scissors, equal to the number of almost all the bulbs on the garland. Paint the outside of the figure gold.
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Insert one light bulb into each hole from the inside.
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Glue the second star to the back of the bent star, smearing the edges of the figure with glue.
What other options are there?
Here's how to make a similar lamp in the shape of a unicorn:
Interesting lamp with stars:
Another unusual cardboard lamp:
You can even make a table lamp from cardboard that looks just like an ordinary one:
And a beautiful lantern:
How to make a lamp from a can
Shot: @5‑Minute Crafts PLAY / YouTube
What do you need
- Glass jar;
- glass stones (they can be found, for example, in aquarium supply departments);
- glue gun;
- electric candle or garland.
How to do
Glue one pebble to the jar.
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Continue gluing the remaining stones in rows in a circle.
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Decorate the entire jar in this manner.
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Glue a candle to the inside of the lid. If using a garland, place it in a jar.
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Close the jar.
What other options are there?
This is the kind of non-standard glass lamp you can get if you glue a jar with a garland onto a high base:
