Sommerliche Lichterkette mit bunten Schirmchen

A cheerful lighting for your next garden party: The little umbrellas are made of Acrylic balls and pasted with colourful Straw silk paper stickers. This is very easy and you can also use your favourite colours, because they are available Straw silk paper in many bright colours.

Prepare suspension

From the Acrylic balls remove the suspensions with a side cutter and melt a hole with the hot glue gun in the middle of each ball half and cutting disc. This must be large enough so that two fairy lights fit through each half of the ball and one aluminium wire each for the cutting discs. All holes are now deburred with the side cutter (cut the edge cleanly).

Gluing and decorating

The straw silk is now torn into pieces and glued to the ball halves and separating discs with a slight overlap using napkin varnish. Once everything is dry, use the liner to paint the struts of the umbrellas onto the acrylic balls.

Now a second layer Straw silk paper is glued on the hemispheres. Then decorate the shades with small dots and lines with a white liner. The umbrella struts can be additionally emphasized with the silver Ink Pads .

Fine tuning

The cutting discs and ball halves are glued together with super glue

From aluminium wire 10 cm long pieces are cut to size for the umbrella poles and then at one end to the handle

Now the small umbrella poles are put into the separating discs and two lamps of the light chain are put through into the balls. If necessary fix further with hot glue.

The chain of lights can be decorated with small bows between the individual shades further .