DIY Home — February 26, 2024

Paper Garden Lanterns

Tags Fall Project, svg paper, SVG Paper Craft

DIY Home — February 26, 2024

Paper Garden Lanterns

Tags Fall Project, svg paper, SVG Paper Craft

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Light Up Your Life

These paper garden lanterns exude such craftsmanship and yet they’ll take you hardly any time and effort to create! We’ve made it simple for you to craft — simply download, print, cut, and assemble. We’ve included two types of files for you to choose from. If you are using a cutting machine, use our SVG cut files. If you plan to cut by hand, use our PDF templates. There are two sizes of lanterns for you to choose from… Why not make a few of each? To assemble, use a straightedge for folding and glue dots, a glue roller or hot glue to adhere. Once complete, light up your lanterns with LED candles and enjoy! Who knew it could be so simple to bring such light to your life?

Tools & Materials

Scissors or Cutting Machine
Glue Roller or Low-Temp Hot Glue Gun
Straightedge
Mini Antique Metal Brads
Metallic Text Weight Paper- Copper, Bronze, and Ionised
Lia Griffith Vellum Paper Pack

Sources and More

We used Paper Paper’s metallic text weight paper in Copper, Bronze, and Ionised, but feel free to try other colors as well! For our vellum windows, we used Lia Griffith Vellum Paper Pack. We used brads to dress up the handles of our lanterns. Remember to use an LED candle and not a real candle — it’s easy to forget that these lanterns are made entirely of paper, but they are and they will burn easily!

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Papercut Garden Lantern SVG Cut Files

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Discussion

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22 Comments

Sharon July 21, 2021 at 3:39pm

Lia,

FYI, I just cut the small lantern and there is still an issue. In the first panel (very left when opened), one of the windows above the “X” is not sliced out as the others appear. The rectangle is there and so it does cut it, but it also has a a cut that comes off the corner of that rectangle. This leaves the bar under the windows (top of the X) with an extra cut (sort of like the bar tore) I didn’t notice it when I uploaded it, but did as I put the lantern together. I went back and enlarged the pattern and could see the issue that way. Pattern is fine other than that and it is very cute.

Sharon

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1. Lia July 21, 2021 at 4:30pm
  
  @Sharon
  
  Thank you for letting us know! We have fixed the SVG file.
  
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Kathy March 9, 2019 at 2:33pm

Just did this with gold foil vellum.

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1. Lia March 11, 2019 at 1:50pm
  
  @Kathy
  
  Lovely!
  
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Lisa August 8, 2018 at 8:58am

I would like to know how to download this with the code that is in the book I purchased.
Thanks, Lisa

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1. Lia August 8, 2018 at 9:47am
  
  @Lisa
  
  Hi Lisa! The URL and code is located on page 12 of the Cutting Machine Crafts book. The SVG cut files for the paper lantern from the book will be part of that download.
  
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Linda February 19, 2018 at 8:37am

I cut the small lantern this morning, and the SVG has some extra cut lines that ruin the lantern. These extra cut lines don’t appear until the SVG is uploaded into Cricut Design Space. On the first panel, there is an extra cut line just below the three little windows on the right. On the third and fourth panels, there are extra cut lines that cut down through the center cross bars on the upper right side. Could this be fixed?
The extra cut lines do not appear on the larger lantern when the SVG is uploaded.

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1. Lia February 19, 2018 at 2:44pm
  
  @Linda
  
  Thanks for pointing this out, Linda! For some reason we’re seeing this in some of our projects since Design Space was updated recently. The file has been fixed 🙂
  
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  1. Bambi November 19, 2018 at 5:26pm
    
    @Lia
    
    Hi There
    
    Just downloaded the small lantern svg file and noticed the extra cut lines mentioned above are still there. Is there another place I can download the small lantern file?
    
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    1. Lia November 20, 2018 at 8:32am
      
      @Bambi
      
      The file was updated and I’m not seeing any issues– can you send a screenshot of what you’re seeing to hello@liagriffith.com? Thank you!
      
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Tori December 12, 2017 at 5:41pm

These were super quick and easy to make. Used them as centerpieces for holiday party and everyone loved them. Thank you!

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1. Lia December 12, 2017 at 5:52pm
  
  @Tori
  
  So glad to hear it!!
  
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Kellie September 22, 2017 at 8:30am

These are beautiful!!
I don’t suppose you are ever planning on releasing your projects with a silhouette cut file option? I just can’t seem to ever get clean edges from the PDF 🙁

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1. Lia September 22, 2017 at 10:33am
  
  @Kellie
  
  Thank you Kellie! You should be able to convert our SVG files to .Studio files– I think you need the designer version of the software, or you may be able to find an online converter site.
  
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Abi August 12, 2017 at 10:16am

So classy! Perfect for out on the patio on a summer evening. Thanks for all the value we get for our membership dollars.

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1. Lia August 14, 2017 at 8:38am
  
  @Abi
  
  Thank you Abi, so glad you love it!
  
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Christina August 12, 2017 at 12:21am

Incredible! just a few days ago i was looking for a large paper lantern pattern! So happy I renewed my sub. <3 <3

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1. Lia August 14, 2017 at 8:37am
  
  @Christina
  
  Yay! So happy to hear it 🙂
  
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Kerstin August 10, 2017 at 11:57pm

Thank you so much for the large one. Wonderful to have two sizes now.
Hugs and kisses to everybody
Kerstin

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1. Lia August 11, 2017 at 8:20am
  
  @Kerstin
  
  You’re so welcome, thanks for the love 🙂
  
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  1. Laura January 3, 2020 at 9:19am
    
    @Lia
    
    Hello!
    
    Iis it best to use 8.5X11 size paper for the cut out of the larger lanterns? Thank you!
    
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    1. Lia January 3, 2020 at 1:46pm
      
      @Laura
      
      Hi Laura,
      
      We used 8.5×11 paper for our lanterns, but you can use 12×12 if thats what you have available!
      
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