9. Pressed Botanical Paper Lantern Covers

Pressed real garden flora permanently laminated between sheets of Japanese unryu or mulberry paper creates glowing rustic covers for LED pillar candles.

  • What This Idea Means: Nature-infused translucent luminaries that highlight the delicate venation of pressed leaves and petals when illuminated.
  • Materials Needed: Mulberry or rice paper, pressed dried flowers and foliage, matte decoupage medium (Mod Podge), cylindrical glass hurricane vases, LED pillar candles.
  • How to Make It:
    1. Arrange dried pressed leaves and wild blossoms in an organic pattern on the reverse of cut mulberry paper.
    2. Brush a thin layer of decoupage medium over the paper to seal the botanicals in place.
    3. Wrap the finished paper tightly around the outside of a cylindrical glass hurricane and secure the seam.
    4. Drop an LED pillar candle inside to illuminate the botanical silhouettes.
  • Tips & Variations: Use fern fronds, cosmos petals, and ginkgo leaves for clean silhouettes that glow distinctly through backlighting.