DIY LAMP SHADE
Materials needed
Lamp Shade, any size
Ribbon Fabric (More than 4 yards) Example below
Lamp Shade, any size
Ribbon Fabric (More than 4 yards) Example below
And finally a Glue gun, because lazy people with no sewing skills love them! :)
How i did it:
Well first of all i needed a lamp shade and didn't want to pay a lot for something i was going to potentially ruin. SO i went to ROSS and found the perfect round lamp shade for $3.00 yea super cheap, i bought 2 of them!
Next i went to Walmart, picked up glue gun glue sticks and the lamp stands, both were $10 bucks!
Then I went to Hobby Lobby where i found the ribbon, it's over in the fabric section on the stands with the ribbon and it's on a spool, kind of a flowy ribbon works best but you can do this with any type of material as long as it overlaps well like the one i used did! Fabric was about $2.00 a yard, since your overlapping the ribbon you will need at least 4 yards for smaller lamp shades, if your doing a large shade i would get 8-10 yards to be safe, running out of ribbon would be bad since you want it to have a continuous look! :)
So now that you have all of your materials, what i did was find the back of the shade and start from the top, hot glue the end of your ribbon to the top of the shade, then go around the top with your glue and ribbon. Once you get to the back glue the ribbon close to the end you started with and cut it so that its a clean stop. now just go half way under your first ribbon and do the same thing, go around with glue gun and cut in the back...example below.
How i did it:
Well first of all i needed a lamp shade and didn't want to pay a lot for something i was going to potentially ruin. SO i went to ROSS and found the perfect round lamp shade for $3.00 yea super cheap, i bought 2 of them!
Next i went to Walmart, picked up glue gun glue sticks and the lamp stands, both were $10 bucks!
Then I went to Hobby Lobby where i found the ribbon, it's over in the fabric section on the stands with the ribbon and it's on a spool, kind of a flowy ribbon works best but you can do this with any type of material as long as it overlaps well like the one i used did! Fabric was about $2.00 a yard, since your overlapping the ribbon you will need at least 4 yards for smaller lamp shades, if your doing a large shade i would get 8-10 yards to be safe, running out of ribbon would be bad since you want it to have a continuous look! :)
So now that you have all of your materials, what i did was find the back of the shade and start from the top, hot glue the end of your ribbon to the top of the shade, then go around the top with your glue and ribbon. Once you get to the back glue the ribbon close to the end you started with and cut it so that its a clean stop. now just go half way under your first ribbon and do the same thing, go around with glue gun and cut in the back...example below.
you want to go half way under the first ribbon so the straight line won't show when its overlapping. then just repeat those steps all the way down the shade until you reach the bottom. now your probably realizing the back of the shade isn't going to look as pretty, well not to worry just make sure your cutting lines up each time so at the end there is a straight line down the back. The go buy something to cover it up, for example i'm using buttons like you would find on the back of a wedding dress...just to complete the look. You can find those at hobby lobby as well!
Overall a simple project that took me maybe 30 minutes and i ended up with amazing results. Hope this tutorial helped those of you interested!! :)
-Em
Overall a simple project that took me maybe 30 minutes and i ended up with amazing results. Hope this tutorial helped those of you interested!! :)
-Em