Lamp Shade Make-Over

Covering a Plain Jane Lamp Shade with Fabric!

Hello! This blog will be a tutorial on covering a lamp shade with fabric.

The supplies needed are:

A plain lamp shade
Spray Glue
Scissors
Pencil
Fabric of your choice

1. Lay the fabric on a flat surface. This is so when making the line of the outer rim of the lamp the surface is smooth, and won’t allow for any errors.

2. Put the seam of the lamp shade on the edge of the fabric. This is so the amount of fabric used to cover the lamp will be enough.


3. Take a Pencil, and lightly start drawing a line using the top and bottom rim of the lamp as a guide. Roll the shade slowly in the opposite direction, and continue to lightly draw the lines. Once you have reached the seam of the lamp again you have completed the full circumrence of the lamp.

^ you can just barely see the outline of my lampshade ^

Once the outline of the lampshade is complete it is important to trace another outline over this one. Make sure the outline is about a half of an inch to a complete inch. This is because there must be enough fabric to fold over the top and bottom.

4. Spray the lamp shade with the spray glue, and place the fabric onto the shade. It helps to use the outline as a guide line of placing the fabric on the shade. This is so the fabric completely wraps around the shade.

5. After the shade has been completely covered with the fabic use the scissors to cut off excuss fabric from the top and bottom. Once this has been done the fabric can be folded over and glued down.

Here is the final outcome of the lampshade:

Burlap Covered Flamless Candles

OOO EMMM GEEEE!!!! It's been for-ev-ah since I've posted. I'm sorry :( Last semester almost killed me. Between working M-F 8:30-5:30, driving to and from the city (Elgin-Chicago) and taking 3D and Color and Preception I had very little time to do much of anything.

Alright, so I'm back. I have a few blogs to post. I will have them posted by Sunday :)

Moving on........

Sometime last year I was discussing with a classmate my idea to paint, and decorate a piece of furniture with fabric. He informed me not to use ModPodge to adhere the fabric, because it would cost the fabric to discolor. He told me to use a spray adhesive glue.

I have covered lampshades using spray glue (a blog entry that will be posted soon :)..... ), and used the spray glue to put burlap on the back wall of a shelf.

Supplies needed for this project are:

Scissors
Burlap, or fabric of your choice
Spray Glue
A LED Flamess Candle ( I got mine at Dollar Tree for a 1.00 a piece)

Cut a long piece of Fabric about 6". Place the candle on its side over the fabric, and determine how much fabric you want to cover your candle. I decided that I wanted most of the candle covered, so I left less than half an inch of the candle uncovered. Cut the piece to desired size. Spray the candle with the Spray Adhesive Glue. Lay the fabric onto the candle and slowing start pressing/wrapping it around the candle. Cut the fabric once you have reached the other end of the fabric. This way you don't accidently cut your long piece too short, but instead cut it where the other end meets.

Here is my finished Project. I bought four of these candles, and covered them in burlap. In the picture you will also see that I used a small piece of burlap on the 1 LT bottles. I used Spray Adhesive glue to this that as well ;)

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed todays post. More to come within the next few days.