Thanks! I was surprised to find that the LED did such a great job coloring them despite the color of vellum used...they have either pink, orange or white vellum but you'd never know it in the dark.
I don't mind at all!These are exactly like what i was looking for this year. Great job. For those craft challenged people, for which i am famous, how did you make them, if you don't mind sharing.
I found some cutouts online, some I had already in my files.I was wondering where you got the templates for the cut outs. For anyone wanting to make these, Amazon has 12 of the color change LED tea lights for 8 dollars and free super saver shipping. Best price by far i found, but i will let ya'll know how well they work.
Thank you! And as Jules17 said, paperandmore.com has the best prices I've found so far for vellum. You can buy it by the sheet there, too, as a sample. Or, local craft stores have some, usually between $0.59-$0.99 a sheet in my area, so it's cheaper to buy in bulk if you only want a lot of one color.Where do you buy vellum? Never seen or heard of it before.
Thanks for sharing. Love the idea and what you made.
Great idea with the tissue paper, hadn't even thought of that!You know, 100 years ago, these are what they referred to with "witch lantern," rather than the goopy jars Pumpkinrot has inspired. They were especially popular in the 1920's, which is when most of my vintage ones were produced, apparently with most originating from Germany.
If vellum is too expensive and you've got a pattern that can be cut from cardstock easily, consider using orange gift wrap tissue paper which is fairly common in the dollar stores this time of year. Red works too. At least 1 in 4 of my vintage ones use red instead of orange. Green, white and purple make up a minority that together add up to maybe 10% of my vintage witch lanterns.