DIY Holiday Cordless Lamp Shade

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I was introduced to this idea by something I saw in a store and I knew I wanted to recreate it for our cordless lamp. We bought this lamp a couple of years ago because we love the idea of being able to move it around to places where we need it without it needing to be plugged in. If you can make sure to charge it every few days, it'll work great for you! Anyway, this cordless lamp shade is easy and almost free to make and can be changed out every season or holiday.

All you need to gather for this project is the stencil, scrapbook paper of your choosing, scissors and some tape. You may prefer double sided, but I'll get into that a little later.

This is the exact stencil I used for our lamp shade and you can just download it/ save it. The square should measure 1" x 1" when printed and it should print across two sheets.

First you will need to cut out your stencil. This is the time you will want to make sure the stencil fits around your lamp. You can create your own new stencil based on this one if you need to make it bigger. But if your lamp is smaller, it can just be overlapped.

Once your stencil is correct, trace it onto your scrapbook paper. If you can get the thicker kind of scrapbook paper that would work better, but any will do. You can even use wrapping paper as I did for a Christmas themed one.

It should look something like that.

When you roll up the paper and meet the top edges and the bottom edges it should look like a lamp shade.

Wrap the paper around your lamp shade and tape the edges together. They will overlap a little and that is how it is supposed to be. Just overlap as much as you need to and tape it together. I used a gift wrapping tape that disappears and as you can see, it's almost indistinguishable. I like this over double sided tape because I can cut the tape at the seam and store the shade flat when I want to put it away. If you use double sided tape it would be hard to separate the edges without ripping the paper, but it is possible! Up to you.

And you have an adorable lamp adding a nice little touch to each season.

Because we taped the lamp shade to itself, it will lift off very easily from the lamp.

I decided to make a few of these at the same time so I can have them ready for the next few seasons without having to go into DIY mode every time I want to change the lamp shade.

And here is the Christmas plaid one- I love it! 

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