Let's Make a Luminary Box

1. Let's Make a Luminary Box - Introduction: Hello and welcome. In this class, I'm going to show you how to make your very own luminary box, just like this one. We'll go step by step from sketching your design to decorating it with colors and details to assembling it into a glowing piece of art. You don't need any special experience, just some paper, some basic supplies, and your imagination. By the end, you'll have a beautiful handmade luminary box that will light up your space with creativity and warmth. Let's get started. 2. Materials Needed: For this class, you innate a pencil, scissors, a utility knife, some paper. Three by three, three by five, you will need four pieces of three by five paper and one piece of three by three and some extra three by fives if you would like to make some extra inserts for the luminary. Some markers or color pencils, glue or tape, and any embellishments that you would like to put on your luminary, but that's optional. 3. Luminary Front Panel: The first thing I am going to do is draw the image for the front of the luminary. You can either draw a similar one to mine or you could completely create your own design. I'm going to draw a heart that is going to get cut out. So that's where you're going to be able to see the light of the electric battery operated candle. I use this type of candle, so I want to be sure that the heart is higher than the height of the candle so that when you put the box over the candle, you won't be able to actually see the candle, you'll just see the light from it. I'm going to make this a rather nature based theme. So I'm going to put some leaves at the bottom, maybe some at the top. Now I'm just going to lighten the lines because I'm going to use marker to color the image. You could also use color pencil or whatever medium you would like to use to color the image for the front of your luminary. Once you have an image drawn and colored for the front of your luminary, you can use the utility knife to cut out the shape that you chose. Now, the shape, like I said, you could use a drawing similar to the one I'm creating and use a heart shape, or you could use a circle, a square, a star, whichever shape you would like to use. So we will cut this out very carefully, like so. There you have the front panel of de luminary with the desired shape cut out where the light will shine through. Next, we're going to create the inside back panel. 4. Inside Back Panel: I think a galaxy type background for the inside back panel will look really cute. I'm going to make that. I'm using alcohol art markers which are blendable If you would like me to teach a class about how to utilize these and maybe how to make a drawing similar to this, let me know in the comments and I will gladly make a class for how to use and create things with blendable alcohol markers. Now I have a solid starry night, dark sky background. I'm going to get a little fancy and I'm going to use some silver glitter glue and I'm just going to put a few stars in the background here. This is totally optional. You could use rhinstones. You could use a white marker to make the stars, one of those chalk markers, gel pen, whatever you have to make the stars is totally up to you, but I'm going to use this glitter glue if you choose to make a starry background. Like I said, you could choose to make any number of backgrounds. You could do plants, fire water, any type of background, you could even use that type of paper that is preprinted. Let's see. I have some here. This type of paper, if you have that would look nice in the background. You could draw, paint, whatever you like. That's the thing. You create what you would like. This is an indication of how that is going to look in the background for the inside of the background. 5. Side Panels: Now for the sides, you could either leave them white or again, you could draw some plants completely up to you. I think I'm going to do that. I think that would look nice. And you could even I know marker tends to soak through sometimes depending if you use color pencil or marker, you might want to cover that with another piece of paper for the back of the luminary or again, you could use the preprinted type and cut it out and use that for the back. But this is the inside back, and this is the front of the luminary. Now I will make the sides. I went with the leaves and sky theme because I think it will match nicely with the front and now we have the front of the luminary. We have the two sides and we have the inside back panel. 6. Top Panel: Now we will create the artwork for the top panel, which is the square panel, in this case, approximately three by three. I think I'm going to go with the leaves and sky theme in order to match the sides and the front. This is the top that I created. Now we have all five pieces and we can assemble the luminary in the next section of the video. 7. Assembly: Now we will assemble the luminary. You want to be sure that the back panel, the design is facing inward. The other panels, the design will be facing outward. Like so. You can either use clear tape to join the panels together. I personally like using a glue gun, so I am going to attach all of the panels together using the glue gun. And I will show you what it looks like when I am all finished, gluing all of the panels together. Here is what the luminary box looks like after it's assembled. Next, I am going to create some different designs on this size of paper so that it can be used as different background designs inside the luminary. A 8. Inserts: I have created two more inserts that fit this particular luminary. One has a fire theme and the other more of an oceanic water theme. That way, aside from your original background, you can insert a different background that can go in your luminary, you don't have to create so you don't have to create an entirely new one. You can just create multiple inserts. That way you can have a variety. Let's see what these look like when they're lit up. 9. Assignment: Your assignment, should you choose to accept it is to make your very own luminary box. Now you can either follow along and make the same shape and size and idea as this one, or you can create your own and come up with your own shape and size and design for a luminary box. Be sure to share your project in the project section. I would love to see it. And if you would like more ideas or to follow me on social media, YouTube, Instagram, you can find me at the mystic Bard. Until then, let's make a luminary box.