What fun it is to discover what you can make with the Cricut Maker—and especially when it comes to Halloween decorations! Our mini paper lanterns for Halloween are cut from one sheet of 8.5×11 black metallic paper. And we used a half sheet of white vellum to make the frosted windows.
You can find both of these papers from PaperPapers.com. Members can download the SVG cut file or printable template and have these beauties cut and assembled in an afternoon!
Haunted Halloween Decorations to Make at Home
With the Cricut Maker score tool creasing the corners, it is easy to assemble our paper lanterns for Halloween in just a few minutes. Once made, you have spooky but oh, so pretty decorations that are perfect for your mantel, your dinner table, or your bookshelf. Just scroll down to download your SVG cut file. Or, you can download our printable template and cut these lanterns by hand.
Safety First!
Remember, that you will want to use battery tea lights for these lanterns, which you can find at your craft store or most drugstores this time of year. My battery candles actually flicker, so they look very real behind the frosty windows of these lanterns. If you plan on making these paper lanterns for Halloween, you’ll probably like our papercut village!
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70 Comments
I have designated score lines and attached them to the cut but they are coming out too low. Are they supposed to be low so the top is more rounded?
No, they are supposed to align. It is a Cricut error and hopefully, they will adjust it soon. In the meantime, you can hand-score the top.
Has anyone else had a really hard time with the cricut cuts on this? I love it so much and want to make a bunch. But it takes 3 or so hours to weed. Any tips for settings etc?
Oh no! This should not take you anytime at all, the papercut lantern should lift off the mat without any trouble. You can try it with a fresh, sharp blade and adjust your settings to cut deeper. Another trick– when the design is done cutting, don’t press the arrow button to unload right away. Lift up one corner of the paper on the mat while it’s in the Cricut, and see if it has cut through the paper. If not, press the flashing Cricut button and it will cut the design again perfectly. If you unload the mat and try to cut again, it will not be lined up exact.
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these are so adorable, i am trying to make for my mantel and when i upload the SVG file the score lines are showing as cut lines and also on a second mat. i have the air explore 2, any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you!!
Hi Michelle! You’ll need to change those lines to “SCORE”, then select the design and those lines and select “ATTACH”, that way they won’t go to a second mat. Hope that helps!
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what cricut cartridge did you use for the Halloween lanterns?
Hi Cheryl, it’s actually not a cartridge– the SVG file is included in the post for members to download 🙂
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do this svg file only work on cricut explore? I have the cricut expression 2.
Yes unfortunately the Cricut Expression only takes Cricut’s own cartridges:(
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I am in love with these beautiful lanterns and am including them in my Top 10 Halloween Lantern Round-up that goes live 9/20/15. I will be using one photo with a link back to this post and may also use the same photo in a pin collage. Please let me know if this is not okay. Thank you!!
That is so sweet, thank you:-)
Love Halloween and will love adding these to my collection of decorations.
Thank You for sharing these files!!
It has quickly become one of our favorite. In fact we liked it so much we made another one for Winter and one for Spring. https://liagriffith.com/winter-paper-lanterns/ https://liagriffith.com/spring-in-bloom-paper-lanterns/
Thank you
Thank you. Looking forward to trying this.
Hope you will love it:)
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Dear Lia, thank you for this great design! I did it by hand and although it was quite a lot of work, it turned out really nice <3
I am impressed by all of you cutting by hand, there will be another lantern for the Holidays as well:)
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Besides changing them to scoring lines, you will need to “attach” the scoring lines to the image. That way the scoring and the cutting happens on the same mat.
I made one last night and it turned out beautiful! The only problem was the scoring didn’t work so I had to do that by hand. This was my very first cut using my new Explore so I was probably doing something wrong. Thank you so much for sharing this! I got so many “likes” and comments when I shared my finished product on Facebook. I’ll be watching for more of your beautiful projects :-)!
Hi Rhonda. When you are in the Cricut software makes sure you take the lines in the group and change them to score. If that doesn’t work Cricut’s customer service team can probably help! Happy to hear they turned out beautiful anyway!! Send a picture our way, we would love to share it on Facebook as well:)
These are awesome! Thanks for sharing your lovely creation!
Thank you Tara!
Thank you cant wait to try it out. Got To Smile !!!!
Yay! Hope you have fun!
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Love them! – anxious to cut them out.
They will look darling:)
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Thank you so much! Just learning, so you are a blessing to me!
I have 3 foster grand daughters and 2 other grand daughters, i thought we would try these tomorrow~
Hope you have fun making them and Happy Halloween!
I have a new explore Orchid, and I was wondering how I get this to cut on it? I tried saving it to my desktop, but when I imported it, it said not supported. I would love to make these for my grand darlings to enjoy. Love your work! And inspiration!
Use the SVG file and import it as the vector upload. You will want to make sure and select all and attach once you are on the Design Space with your image on the board. This will make sure your score lines are on the same mat.
These are gorgeous. Thank you so much for sharing them with us.
My pleasure:)
These are wonderful! Thank you for sharing!
You are welcome:)
These are incredible! I’ll have to keep this in mind for a crafting with the girl I babysit for 🙂
What a great idea, I am sure she will love it!
Thank you Lia, they are just wonderful! I can’t wait to make many of them for myself and family.
Have fun, sure your family will love them;-)
Thank you so much for sharing all your great ideas.
I love these spooky little lanterns. 🙂
Can you tell that I love Halloween;-) Just cannot stop making all these cute decorations:)
as always you are so generous with us. thank you for svg 🙂
This project is great. I would love to see you more often in video tutorials. Any chance for this?
Hi Eliza, I really hope so! I live by Inspire, Teach and Reignite Creativity and what better way to reach a big audience by video. All I need is money;-)
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Thank you Lia amazing again.
You are welcome! Have fun creating:)
Simply and beautiful!!! Halloween is my favorite season of the year, and every year I do some new decorations. I would definitely do this project for this year. Thanks for sharing!!
How fun! It is my favorite season too, at least until Thanksgiving;-)
Everything you are making is beautiful!!!
Thank you:)
Love them. I have never been that excited about Halloween until YOU introduced me the cricut explore and your STUNNING designs. Hugs
Awe…. you are too sweet! So happy you are in love with both your Cricut Explore and Halloween! I am too;-) Hugs!