Bright Beginnings

[KittenNoir]

Happy Lunar New Year

 

[Snowesque]

 

[JellyLu]

Happy Lunar New Year! May the year of the dragon be a good one for all! I tried to make the rolls look a bit like bamboo and the character is that for dragon.

Excuse my calligraphy skills and the images if they're too big! I didn't know which lighting I liked more so I posted both: one outside and one in front of the mural in my room that my mom painted.

Spoiler: My "helper"

 

[LadyDestani]

Happy Lunar New Year! May the year of the dragon be a good one for all! I tried to make the rolls look a bit like bamboo and the character is that for dragon.

Excuse my calligraphy skills and the images if they're too big! I didn't know which lighting I liked more so I posted both: one outside and one in front of the mural in my room that my mom painted.

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Spoiler: My "helper"

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Your helper did a great job. Look at them holding the paper down for you. Thank you for sharing!

 

[JellyLu]

Your helper did a great job. Look at them holding the paper down for you. Thank you for sharing!

She also did a great job shredding the tassels I'll let her know you gave her a good review, thanks!

 

[Asarena]

Here's mine!

 

[Aniko]

Are will allowed to use those mini perforatrices?

 

[Snek]

Here is my entry! The water bottle is because its windy today. Mine is based on the Pokemon Lampent

 

[LadyDestani]

Are will allowed to use those mini perforatrices?
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That would be fine!

I had no idea there were so many cute designs. I think I've only seen stars and hearts before.

 

[digimon]

 THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON  

used this as an opportunity to celebrate the best alligator dragon villager ever!​

 materials used:
✩ cardstock
✩ coloured paper
✩ coloured tissue paper
✩ washi tape
✩ xacto blade
✩ tape/glue

 

[DaCoSim]

Question @LadyDestani ! On our decorating, may we use beads, i.e. for the tassel?

 

[LadyDestani]

Question @LadyDestani ! On our decorating, may we use beads, i.e. for the tassel?

I think that should be fine.

 

[Aquilla]

Happy lunar new year!

The center characters (hopefully) read “happy Chinese new year”. Except for two thin yarn strings everything else is made of paper ^^

Spoiler: username, closeup

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[Rosch]

Here's a tabletop pagoda twin dragon shrine lantern.

 

[Princess Mipha]

Quick question!
So are the cutted lines obligatory? Or is it okay to do something like this (as example) ?

 

[BetsySundrop]

Paper crafting is not as easy as it seems, even just cutting lines and gluing it together! But it's still fun.

 

[LadyDestani]

Quick question!
So are the cutted lines obligatory? Or is it okay to do something like this (as example) ?

Yes, that would be fine! The cutting lines are not obligatory. I'll be accepting pretty much any type of lantern that can be found in an online search.

 

[jadetine]

My box lantern featuring Tom Nook as the Chinese God of Wealth Caishen:

Spoiler: Other photos and commentary:

I nabbed a cleaner photo of the lantern's back without the cereal boxes nearby, lol. My children were stalking me and I couldn't set up an aesthetic photo, so pantry photoshoot it is.

This is the main part of the template. It was the 5th version after much trial and error.

Caishen is often invoked during Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year)-- he has a funky hat that has sticks coming out the sides or something. My childhood home has a little shrine with a lucky red light over a statue of him. I broke the sticks off of his ceramic hat by accident, and shoved them back in... shhhh, don't tell my parents!
I have Tom Nook holding an orange instead of a gold ingot. It seemed more festive. His robe is decorated with turnips and there are 5 stars on his figure representing the 5 element cycle of the Chinese zodiac (the normal lucky 8 was just not going to fit).

The first lantern model I made was hexagonal, but I could not get it to hold its shape and I wasted all of my red cardstock on it.

The final lantern had 5 materials: cardstock, tissue paper, washi tape, glue, twine. I did attempt to write calligraphy with glitter glue on the side of my final entry, but there was no place to dry it safely and I was so DONE. XD
Happy lunar new year!

 

[Azzy]

No handle because this was hard enough with the only scissors in my house missing...

And then I accidentally drew my dragon sideways.

It works though.

 

[amemome]

the only crafting materials i have are post-its so here are some post-it note lanterns!