A dream is a wish your heart makes, and, today, your wishes are coming true! The newest addition to my Disney Paper Lanterns series is here, and I think you’re going to love it! When I sent out a survey earlier this year to see what Disney film I should base my next paper lantern design on, this one was a SUPER close second. So, without further adieu, I give you the lovely, the enchanting, Cinderella paper lantern!
There are so many iconic scenes from Cinderella—I had the hardest time ever trying to figure out exactly what I wanted to include and how to include it. In the end, I knew I needed at least: (1) adorable mice, (2) a standout glass slipper, (3) a pumpkin carriage, and (4) the Fairy Godmother working her magic to make Cinderella the perfect dress for the ball.
In the end I got almost everything I wanted. You guys have no idea how hard I tried to work Cinderella’s iconic castle into the design. I wanted it to work, I tried every scale/perspective imaginable; but, in the end, it just wasn’t meant to be. But maybe it’s ok to not to include a castle for once (10 points if you can name the other three paper lantern designs I’ve created that feature a castle).
To learn how to assemble my paper lanterns, see this tutorial.
I use a Cricut Explore to do my die cut designs, and I absolutely love it! For tips on creating this delicate paper cut, see the FAQ section on my website.
Like most all my paper lanterns, removing the final design from your cutting mat is as much of an art as the cut itself. With this one, make sure to take particular care in the “mouse making a dress” scene—that book outline is quite fragile.
I hope this Cinderella paper lantern is everything you hoped it would be, and that you find it as exquisite as I do! Oh, and remember: if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true!
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**All Disney-inspired designs on this site are unofficial, fan creations and not associated with the Disney corporation.
Mandee is a professional graphic designer, amateur bird watcher, and rollercoaster enthusiast. She is a wife to hardworking high school teacher and mommy to three adorable little humans. She fell in love with graphic design when she started working on a comedy website with a guy she met her freshman year of college. Design wasn’t the only thing she fell in love with, and they were married a year and a half later. She created Designs By Miss Mandee to be a place where she could merge her passion for design with her lifelong love of crafting. 36 Comments on Cinderella Paper Lantern
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Jennifer stewart
February 16, 2017 at 7:00 am (7 years ago)Omg these are so perfect!!! I’m throwing my daughter a huge princess party in November and each table will be a different princess! These will be perfect on the table centerpieces❤️ Thank you for taking the time to make these!!!!
Mandee
February 16, 2017 at 8:59 am (7 years ago)How sweet! She is totally going to love it!! You’re very welcome. Have fun putting these beauties together. ^_^
Juanita Williams
February 16, 2017 at 7:02 am (7 years ago)This is beautiful. Thank you some much for all the hard work you did for us.
Mandee
February 16, 2017 at 9:00 am (7 years ago)You’re welcome Juanita! These lanterns are definitely a lot of work to design, but they are very close to my heart. 😀
Priscilla
February 16, 2017 at 8:06 am (7 years ago)The paper lanterns are beautiful. I just found them yesterday and am so excited to try it hopefully tonight! I was wondering if there was anyway you can do a snow white one? My sister loves snow white so I know she would flip if she had one!
Mandee
February 16, 2017 at 9:02 am (7 years ago)Thanks Priscilla! I’m so happy that you like my Disney Paper Lanterns! There are so many designs and ideas I have in the works. I can’t make any promises right now, but stay tuned, because Snow White is definitely on the list. ^_^
gofrogs
February 16, 2017 at 6:39 pm (7 years ago)amazing work, once again! Just love these!
Julie marson
February 16, 2017 at 9:53 pm (7 years ago)Thank you again for sharing your beautiful lanterns. I love each and every one of them. Looking forward to a Princess party for my grand-daughters. i love your work and your designs show how much you love making them. Thanks again.
Mandee
February 17, 2017 at 11:20 am (7 years ago)Aww, thank you Julie! I’m glad you like them. ^_^ Have fun creating a magical party for your granddaughters!!
diane
February 17, 2017 at 4:20 am (7 years ago)Just found you and your beautiful lanterns, can’t wait to make them. Thank you so much for your time and generosity.
Mandee
February 17, 2017 at 11:21 am (7 years ago)Yay! Have fun making them. Thanks for your kind words. 😀
CyndiM
February 17, 2017 at 5:39 am (7 years ago)SOOO beautiful!! I love this series, and will look forward to the next one! Some of us never outgrow our love for princesses!!
Mandee
February 17, 2017 at 11:22 am (7 years ago)Glad I’m not the only one who hasn’t grown out of the princess phase. 😉 So glad you like my lanterns Cyndi!
Missy
February 22, 2017 at 4:50 am (7 years ago)wow just wow!! please please do lady and the tramp!! love that one and can never find things in that theme. May I ask what brand cardstock you are using? thank you so much!!
Mandee
February 25, 2017 at 1:14 pm (7 years ago)Thanks Missy! You aren’t the first to request Lady and the Tramp. I would stay tuned if I were you: I plan to do plenty more of these in the future. 🙂
I almost always use Recollections Cardstock packs. Sometimes I buy it online, but most of the time I either wait for a sale at Michaels or use one of their coupons (makes it easy to build up a stash quick)!
titidesiles
March 6, 2017 at 9:59 am (7 years ago)J’adore, fan de Disney et de créations papier, je suis fan
Bravo à vous
Mandee
March 6, 2017 at 2:07 pm (7 years ago)Thank you! I’m a big Disney fan as well. ^_^
jessica
March 17, 2017 at 10:30 pm (7 years ago)Hi have you ever made them to sell?
Mandee
March 18, 2017 at 2:25 pm (7 years ago)Hi Jessica! At this time, I haven’t made any to sell; I just offer the design files for people to download. 🙂
Hana
March 19, 2017 at 10:52 pm (7 years ago)Mandee, These are absolutely beautiful. I found them through another cricut user and I will have to try these out sometime this week! can’t wait to see Lady and the Tramp or Lion King in the future (:
Mandee
March 20, 2017 at 4:58 pm (7 years ago)Thank you Hana! You’re not the first one to request Lady and the Tramp and Lion King. So, definitely stay tuned!
Erin Campbell
March 27, 2017 at 1:52 pm (7 years ago)Mandee, I think these are adorable. I want to make the Cinderella one for my BFF for her birthday. I feel stupid asking this…. How do I go about sizing? how many sheets of paper will I need? It looks like you’ve used more than 1. I use the 8.5 x 11 as well…. I looked in your faqs and didn’t see anything there. Can you give me some advice please??
Mandee
March 27, 2017 at 7:08 pm (7 years ago)Hi Erin! I just use one sheet of 8.5″x11″ card stock (along with about half a sheet of vellum for the liner) to make one lantern. The file is sized to fit an 8.5″x11″ sheet of paper already, so you shouldn’t need to do any adjusting beforehand. 🙂
Erin
March 28, 2017 at 7:22 pm (7 years ago)Hi it’s me again . So I’m attempting to make my lantern. I think it’s a disaster. Is going to be a test run. Anyway, are there sposed to be score lines for where you fold them?? Cuz I don’t have any. Just wondering if I did something wrong.
Thanks. 🙂
Mandee
March 28, 2017 at 10:02 pm (7 years ago)Hi Erin,
You didn’t do anything wrong. I don’t include score lines in my SVG files most of the time just because (with custom files like this) it adds an extra step in the set-up process that makes it a little complicated for the average user (plus, it would require you to have the Cricut scoring tool). If you know how to, though, it isn’t hard to add the score lines right in Design Space.
If you line up your folds with the bottom flap, you can tell where to make the creases without too much trouble. 🙂
Mandee
Adan
March 29, 2017 at 12:48 pm (7 years ago)Your lanterns are INCREDIBLE! I can’t wait to try them out. My daughter wants a Tangled party for her 5th birthday in September so I will definitely use that one. I may just make all of them though, just for the heck of it 🙂
I was wondering though, if you have a Mickey Mouse themed lantern or had any plans to do one? My son’s bedroom is Mickey Mouse and I’m planning his first birthday with the same theme and would love to have some lanterns for that, maybe as center pieces as someone else said they were going to do. Beautiful designs.
Mandee
March 29, 2017 at 10:13 pm (7 years ago)Thank you Adan! I’m so happy you like my lanterns!! I don’t have plans for a Mickey Mouse-themed lantern in the immediate future unfortunately. I am toying with the idea of potentially doing some Disneyland Park-themed lanterns later on though, and I know Mickey would definitely make appearance in at least one of those. 🙂
Gwen
June 10, 2017 at 7:58 pm (7 years ago)I absolutely love these! Are you planning on doing any other Disney princesses? I am throwing a princess first birthday party for my daughter and would love one of each princess! I already know I am using the ones you already have done for the party. Thank you for sharing them!
Mandee
June 12, 2017 at 10:42 am (7 years ago)Hi Gwen! Thanks so much—I’m glad you like my Disney lanterns. ^_^
I do hope to eventually have one for all the princesses! There are so many fun movies to choose from, though, and these do take me quite a bit of time to design; so I can’t say exactly when I will have them all. Be sure to stay tuned, though! I try to do a new one each month. 🙂
JoEy
June 22, 2018 at 5:08 pm (6 years ago)Thank you so much for all of your hard work! These are so beautiful. I made my hubby the Jafar lantern and it was a big hit at his job. His supervisor wants this Cinderella one. I’ve hit a snag, however… Is there supposed to be a liner on this one? I downloaded it and it doesn’t seem to have one in Design Space. Thanks again for the beautiful designs!
Mandee
June 25, 2018 at 9:56 am (6 years ago)Hi There,
That’s awesome! I’m so glad to hear that you’ve been enjoying my paper lantern designs. Some of my earlier lantern design don’t include a liner just because the tops of the lantern weren’t as complex. For this one, though, I actually did have a liner designed, but didn’t include it, so nice catch! I’ve updated the download to include the liner file now, so enjoy! 🙂
Mandee
Sara
June 30, 2018 at 8:47 pm (6 years ago)These are so stunning!! I use a Silhouette Portrait instead of a Cricut, and I don’t have the professional version of the software, so I can’t use a PDF or SVG file. Do you by any chance have them as JPEGs? Thank you for all your beautiful work!!
Mandee
July 2, 2018 at 9:57 am (6 years ago)Hi Sara,
I don’t offer png or jpg versions of my cut files, but feel free to check out this article on how to use SVG files in the free version of your Silhouette program.
Mandee
Adeline
August 2, 2018 at 8:13 am (6 years ago)Hello,
Thank you for your amazing work!! Just one question: when I get the SVG file for cuting it with my Scanncut BROTHER, it’s not clear, there is lines which are not OK… I’m sorry for my english, I’m french…. So I think it won’t cut as I want, do you have a solution for me?…. Thank you again!
Mandee
August 2, 2018 at 9:18 am (6 years ago)Hi Adeline. I apologize, but I don’t have any experience with the Brother Scan ‘N Cut, so I don’t think I can help.
justpaste.it
February 29, 2020 at 2:31 am (4 years ago)Very interesting!