Papercut Greenhouse Luminary
I beg your garden?
It has been a while since we’ve designed a new paper lantern or luminary! For our garden theme this month, Krista has created a papercut greenhouse luminary in two sizes — small and large. The small one fits on a letter-sized paper and the large one is broken into two parts so that it can be scaled up easily for larger paper sizes.
This is a very easy paper craft, though we do recommend using a cutting machine because of all the tiny cuts. Otherwise, you can use a detail knife and scoring tool if cutting by hand. When you’re ready to assemble your papercut greenhouse luminary, just follow our simple instructions below.
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Our papercut greenhouse luminary has so many beautiful and intricate details. For example, behind the vellum windows is a papercut layer depicting a bunch of houseplants in the greenhouse. Once you assemble this project, you can use it as home decor. Or it would also be fun to craft for an outdoor celebration or a garden-themed party this spring.
Skill level: Beginner
Crafting tips: We recommend using medium-weight cardstock paper due to the delicate design. This way, your papercut greenhouse luminary will be more sturdy. Also, a glue dot roller works well to adhere to the vellum smoothly.
How to Make a Papercut Greenhouse Luminary
- Gather your craft tools and materials. Then download the pattern below.
- Cut out and score paper and vellum according to the template using a cutting machine (recommended) or by hand with a detail knife and scoring tool.
- Fold your paper along the score lines.
- Glue vellum windows to the inside of the cardstock greenhouse pieces.
Full tutorial available for members to download below.
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If you are crafting these papercut luminaries as party decor, some other fun ideas for your table are our frosted paper herbs, paper string of hearts, and some paper succulents — all of which are pictured here for inspiration!
Tools
- Cricut Maker (recommended, with a newer blade and cutting mat)
- Detail Knife, Cutting Mat, Ruler, and Scoring Tool (if cutting by hand)
- Tombow – Adhesive Dots Dispenser
Materials
- Medium Weight Cardstock Paper – Holiday Green, and Pure Whites
- Clear Vellum Paper
- Turbo Tacky Glue
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Leave a CommentI would love to try this in wood or metallic paper as a greenhouse for a series of miniatures. Any advice?
You can make it from metallic paper for sure! The wood is a bit trickier since the thickness would change things. You could try to cut rather than score then glue the sides together.
Thank you. I’ll play with it!
Hi Lia,
The score lines on the svg seem to be in the wrong place ☹️.
I’ve already ruined two pieces. Is it just me ? 🤔
This is a Cricut issue. Sometimes it moves layers, so you will need to line them up before you attach the cut lines and the score lines. This doesn’t happen every time but comes and goes. A bit frustrating, yes.
Sorry Lia, just saw your reply. Thank you 😊
Hi. I’m interested in the paper greenhouse for the Cricut machine. Is there any way to purchase just that svg. I don’t want to purchase a member. I just don’t Cricut that much. Thank you for your time.
You can purchase one month and get the download. We would charge at least $15 for this if we were to sell it. 🙂
How do I load the SVG onto Cricut
We have a video tutorial for that. https://liagriffith.com/craft-academy/how-to-use-files-cricut/
So excited to get creating again! This is a perfect little piece for spring/summer! Thanks !
I LOVE this one. 🙂
Hello team, unfortunately the tutorial is missing. A greenhouse as luminary: such a nice idea
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Kerstin
Hello! I can see it at the bottom of the post with the rest of the downloads. It says “PDF instructions.” We don’t usually do photo tutorials for the luminaries and lanterns since they are pretty simple.
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