Lampshade with Yellow Roses

The lampshade craft can be learned very quickly and easily. Even those who are beginners can master this hand made crafts easily. It really adds beauty to your room. When decorating a room you might find it necessary to change your lampshades to match the new decor so that it looks attractive both during the day and night.

Materials Required: 

• Fabric Lampshade (your choice of size and shape)
• Tracing Paper
• Yellow and green textured paper (Use thin paper so that it allows some light to pass through)
• Fevicol
• Matt Water-based Acrylic Varnish
• Soft and Sharp pencils
• Fine black felt-tipped pen
• Scissors
• Paintbrush

Procedure to make lampshade:

Trace the design of a rose flower or any other flower and darken the lines with a black pen. Remember, your flower shapes should be relatively small, so as not to overwhelm the lamp.

Place the yellow paper over this design and trace again with a sharp pencil. Trace the whole picture using the respective colours. After you have traced the shapes cut them carefully along the lines. Smooth out any wrinkles on the paper.

Apply glue on the cut out pieces and stick it on the lampshade properly. Stick appropriate number of roses on the lampshade.

Glue the calyx and stem under each rose and when it is dry, paint the lampshade with two coats of varnish.