Saturday 16 January 2016

The making of “Ball Lanterns”. Il making of delle “Palline lanterna”.


These are the decorations we used to celebrate our Happy New Year, we think that can be used for many occasions as you can obtain very different looks just choosing different papers to build them.
Here the pictures showing how to build one of them.

Queste sono le decorazioni che abbiamo usato per il nostro “Buon Anno Nuovo”, pensiamo che possano essere usate in molte altre occasioni visto che assumono aspetti diversi cambiando la carta con cui si costruiscono.

Queste foto mostrano il procedimento per farne una.


You will have to cut six of the patterns for each lantern, the 3 pieces in this picture will make an half ball.
Bisogna tagliare sei pezzi per ogni lanterna, in foto il necessario per costruirne metà.



In this picture you see how to form one sector of the ball.
Nella foto si vede come si forma uno dei settori della pallina.



If you use an interesting paper for the stucture itself you can keep the holes open like e lace decoration, keeping in mind that that closing the sector you will turn the long strips and so you will see the back side of your paper in the horizontal trimmings running all around.
Se si usa della carta interessante per la stuttura ( può essere un effetto decorativo se si sceglie una carta con due diverse fantasie sui due lati ricordando che il retro della carta si vedrà in tutto il bordo orizzontale delle palline) può essere un'idea lasciare vuoti I buchi per un effetto merletto.



Here you can see the effect inserting a decorative paper to be seen through the holes.
Qui invece viene inserita una carta decorativa che si veda attraverso I fori.



This is the half lantern.
Metà lanterna.



Here the complete lantern waiting for the led tea light.
La lanterna finita in attesa della sua led tea light.


The bigger lantern measures : 13 by13 by14 (h) centimeters circa the intermediate measures : 12 by12 by13 (h) centimeters circa and the smallest measures : 11 by11 by12 (h) centimeters circa.
Le lanterne misurano circa 13 x13 x 14 centimetri la più grande, 12 x12 x 13 centimetri l'intermedia e 11 x11 x 12 centimetri la più piccola.

4 comments:

  1. deseo adquirir ese archivo en studio, informacion , gracias ,saludos de Peru

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    1. Gracias!Todos nuestros archivos tambien estan en studio.El link a la tienda en Etsy esta' en la parte superior derecha del blog.

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  2. It was not easy to assembly the lanterns. Some of the parts that should have been scored were cut instead and therefore made it difficult to attach each part together. I finally assembled the large ball and didn't even attempt the smaller ones. It would have also helped to see a video on how to assemble it.

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  3. Dear Vivian, I am sorry that you had troubles cutting the lanterns, I am a designer and not not an expert of all and any software for cutting machines, it is not my job or my passion! But in the past the solutions regarding software use I suggested worked well. You can be assured that the dotted lines are really dotted and grouped properly. The file is ok, and has been used by a large number of makers around the world so I suggest next time just follow the following step one by one.


    First of all you go on the mat and unlock the design. On the right side of the screen appears greysh column with a list of all the pieces with a thumb image of the shape and of the lines (the folds) of each shape.
    select the lines and the area will get darker, then move a little on the left and under "layers" there are the icons with the scissor, the pen, the punch and the printer, select the scring sign and the lines that looked continuous became dotted on the mat.

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