Cardboard lamp-lantern

I wanted to do this thing for a long time.
So my manager went to vacation and I had some time for this :)

Step 1:

Now what we need:
cardboard
cutter
A4 paper (5 sheets)
paper glue
ruler
pencil
and something to light up, I had a Blue LED

Comments

[pomeegranate]

this is awesome and totally cute!

[lemonie]

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[silverrowan]

"onion" or tracing paper would make these even more transparent (at the cost of some durability) If your coating layer gives some strength to the paper it might be somthing to try :) If you cant get the onionskin paper to go through the printer, try lightly taping it to a regular piece of paper

[vaxenzi]

thing is that I was making it sitting at my workplace. and at telecoms company it's a bit hard to find something special, all the things I used are office supplies as you can see (maybe excluding LEDs, but even they are used for several tasks) :) I have some other ideas with cardboard but unfortunately my manager is back from his vacation :D:D

[silverrowan]

gottya :)

[vaxenzi]

agree, i will fix this for sure :-)

[lemonie]

Yes, it does look good - thanks. L

[vaxenzi]

thanks :)

[ChrysN]

This looks really cool lit up, especially with a coloured LED.