DestinybyDefinition's photos » Paper Flower Lamp

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This was inspired by a post I saw here on Curbly. Unfortunately I can't remember who posted it or the name of the guy who made the lamps like these, and the tags under which I assumed the post would be found turned up nothing. A while back I made a similar shade by cutting flowers out of old white DVD cases, but it lives in my shed now, haggared and lonely. I made this one by wrapping chickenwire around a couple of those dryer-hose-clamps, the ones with the little screw with which to tighten. Once the wire was secured, I loosened the clamps a little to tighten the wire. Then, I hot-glued the flowers all around. I made the flowers by cutting out a template and then using it to cut out literally hundreds of petals from scrapbook paper, or cardstock. Then, I folded them in such a way that they sort of popped, and then glued five together per flower. Once the flowers were glued all around the shade, I made some smaller ones and glued each to a short length of metal clotheshanger (my hubby has awesome clippers that get through anything). The flowers popping out farthest are glued to the clotheshangers, which are wrapped around the chickenwire. In hindsight, it would have been loads easier to have attached those first, then glued the larger flowers directly to the shade. You learn as you go! Anyways, the only thing I had to pay for was the swag lamp kit, which I got from Canadian Tire for 20 bucks. You can get them at any hardware store. Everything else was hiding in drawers or behind doors around the house! I have to start gifting my lampshades, I have at least one or two in each room of my house now lol.

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swag lamp light hanging flower paper diy