Hee hee hee! I hope no one out there has to drink the cheap wine this Thanksgiving! May you have a wonderful, fun, and blessed day today.
I have a little crafty project to share. Quick and easy napkin rings!
These are fun to make, come together quickly and the supplies are inexpensive.
To make this napkin ring you'll need: Fruit Fusion:Grape Stamp set and the Fruit Fusion:Grapes Die from papertrey ink; a purple and a green ink pad; a die cut machine like the cuttlebug; an acrylic block; glue; foam tape; and a piece of patterned paper or colored paper of your choice cut into a 1.5X6 inch rectangle (when I was putting together the tutorial, I wasn't sure which piece of paper I'd like best, so I just photographed them both. As it turned out the one on the right was too busy for the napkin I had on hand, so I went with the green paper on the left.).
Accordian pleat the napkin and lay it down in a stack like so:
Then just wrap your paper piece around the napkin and glue the paper ends together to make a ring. Now turn your napkin and fluff to your liking. Next, die cut three grapes using the grape die and your cutting machine. Stamp the grape image of your choice and the stem onto the die cut pieces using the purple and green inks.
Finally, glue two of the stamped die cuts directly to the paper band. Apply foam adhesive to the back of the third die cut and then apply that to the band, just above the other two grapes.
I stamped the grapes before I grabbed a napkin, and as it turned out, the only napkin I had nearby was this busy one. If I had realized that this was the napkin I was going to use for the tutorial, I probably would have gone with a red ink instead of purple to make everything matchy-matchy. But that would actually be completely unlike me - being matchy matchy (and planning ahead) - so I didn't try to redo it. I hope you don't mind.
If you are a better planner than me, take a look at the napkins you plan to use and match your ink & paper colors accordingly. Have fun with this easy little project though - no one will actually care if your grapes don't match your napkins.
Right? Right? Anyone? Let me know if you try your hand at this fun little project!
Ah well, hopefully my guests will be too busy eating turkey to worry about the color match here.
Happy Trills and Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Katie
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