Season-Inspired Lantern

  Fall

   Fall actually isn't my favorite season; spring is. BUT, Autumn is my second favorite, for all the cliche reasons. Not super cold (perfect for tea), pretty colors, nice smells from those cute people who have potpourri everywhere around their house, cute, cuddly clothing, and over-dramatic scenes of dead leaves flying around people in sad movies.
   We were to create a cut-paper lantern inspired by a season! I thought of those sad-movie scenes with the leaves whipping around in the breeze, and decided to base my lantern's design around that scene.

This is probably 1/3rd of the way in! Some people asked me if it was difficult to make the lines smooth, but for some reason it was really easy and actually felt therapeutic to make nice, rounded lines with the Exacto-knife (fun fact..?).

Here are some pictures of the finished product, after all the pieces were cut out, and the paper was glued to thinner tissue-like paper!

  When the lights are out and a candle's inside, it looks super cool, but unfortunately I don't have a picture of that :\
    This would probably be a really fun project to do at home though, and since you'd have more time, one could get some wack detail and do something awesome.