What do you get when you combine a lamp that has seen better days, a sheet of colored wrapping paper, and some decorative trimmings? A renewed lamp, of course.!
Antique lamp with a paper shade.
fabric to cover the screen
hot glue
iron
scissors
Gift Wrap
permanent marker
painter's tape
decorative tape
decorative ornaments
1. Spread a long piece of wrapping paper on your work surface. Align the edge of the paper with the seam on the screen and use a piece of tape to secure it in place.
2. Roll the screen on the paper until it reaches the taped edge. Cut off any extra paper. If you're working with a large screen, you may need to gather up the wrapping paper to make a larger piece.
3. When you get to the taped edge, fold the extra paper back so the two edges meet and use the painter's tape to secure it in place.
4. Working at the top and bottom of the screen, fold the paper to the inside of the screen. Using a permanent marker, trace the top and bottom edge of the screen onto the wrapping paper. Remove the wrapping paper from the screen. Use scissors to cut along the fold lines on the sides and the marker lines on the top and bottom. This is the screen template..
5. Roll out a new sheet of wrapping paper and tape the template to the paper with painter's tape. Working on the rolled paper, use a marker and ruler to add 1" to the top, bottom, and side edges of the template. This will create the pattern. Cut out the pattern from the unrolled paper.
6. Iron the fabric and fix the pattern on it. Make sure the fabric is going in the right direction. Cut the fabric in the shape of the pattern and remove pattern. Fold one side edge over 1" and iron in place.
7. Hot glue the non-scored edge of the fabric along the existing seam on the screen. Make sure you have 1" of fabric on the top and bottom edge. Roll the fabric around the shade. Hot glue the ironed edge over the glued edge. Pull the fabric to make it smooth.
8. Working across the top, apply hot glue to the top inside edge and fold the fabric over to create a finished edge. Repeat for the bottom. Trim off any excess fabric.
9. Hot glue decorative tape to the inside of the shade, covering the top and bottom raw fabric edges. Hot glue decorative embellishments on outside bottom edge.
