Napkin cards

You’ve seen decoupage napkins on coasters, canvas, furniture and mixed media art…but what about making stunning and show-stopping cards that have no pesky wrinkles? This technique will leave you with beautiful results that make the napkin design appear to be designer paper! Head over to my YouTube channel for the tutorial. #napkinart

Here is a fun tried and true old fashioned card making technique. Long before we had all these sumptuous patterned papers we had gorgeous napkins! For depth of color and interesting texture, you can't beat them especially for the money! Most you you may have done these so this will be an ‘Oh Yeah’ moment! Have fun! You can start with any size paper napkin - I like to pick min up at Tuesday Morning, they have a wonderful selection and are usually marked down Separate the printed surface from…

I went a little nuts last night with glitter and napkins! When I first started seeing these glitter napkin cards, I poo-poo’d them thinking cards made of napkins take no talent, no effort, no…

In today's video, I'm going to show you how EASY it is to make stunning cards using your stash of paper napkins and patterned paper! I've seen a lot of tutor...

Applying napkin to card with plastic wrap and iron

I tried my first napkin card. I’ve seen many over the years but this is my first time trying them. On Saturday, I played with a few ways to do this and I’ll post other cards later this …

Why, hello there! I’m glad you’ve stopped back by! Today I have some fun cards to share with you. Seeing one of Janis’s projects over at HerPeacefulGarden reminded me that I had d…

Floral Frame Napkin Card – with Tutorial Recently, I had created a few cards with panels I made where I adhered napkins to card stock with cling wrap. It was suggested that freezer paper als…

It's always so fun to find a new technique, try it out and fall in love. Wow that's how I've felt using the napkins Whitney Kosters and I exchanged. I came out on the good end though because she really had a bunch to share! I've seen YouTubers using napkins on tags, mats, cards, journal pages lots of stuff but I really hadn't given it a good shot. Boy am I sold. How easy fun and wow what fantastic results. Here are the four cards I've made so far. I used some Anna Griffin Mix and Match…

Some friends and I were shopping at a local gift shop and found these gorgeous holiday napkins. Instead of wanting them for our holiday tables, we knew we were going to make cards with them:) A few months ago, we re-discovered an older technique for attaching napkins to cardstock for cardmaking. Here is a link to a tutorial that explains how to do that. The keys are to remove all layers of the napkin except the very top colored one, and use an iron to melt cling wrap to hold the napkin to…

This card is for a "Napkin Card" swap. You use just the top layer of the napkin and glue it to card. I then ran it through an embossing folder. I did a second napkin and cut out the butterfly and a couple of the flowers and raised them. I added st

Here is a fun tried and true old fashioned card making technique. Long before we had all these sumptuous patterned papers we had gorgeous napkins! For depth of color and interesting texture, you can't beat them especially for the money! Most you you may have done these so this will be an ‘Oh Yeah’ moment! Have fun! You can start with any size paper napkin - I like to pick min up at Tuesday Morning, they have a wonderful selection and are usually marked down Separate the printed surface from…

Napkin card

I haven't used this technique in a long, long time, but I'm participating in another swap that requires us to adhere a dinner napking to a piece of cardstock and use this as a background for a card. There are some very interesting dinner napkins out there. I was very lucky to have this napkin as it was the last one I had that had a design on it. I'll show you my card and then explain the technique. Stamp: Word Play Ink: Basic black, Bravo Burgundy Papers: Bravo Burgundy (retired), Whisper…

I have been saving beautiful fall colored napkins and brought them all out for a play session for my newest video showing this inexpensive alternative to designer patterned paper. Check your dollar stores and other local craft or gift stores this time of year and you can find autumn and holiday napkins that can be made into gorgeous cards. The card above features the Condensed Alpha dies from Kat Scrappiness in the eclipse look with a die from Karen Burniston. The napkins are "skinned" down…

This napkin card was made by adhering a napkin to sheet music and then onto card stock.

Made using a serviette!

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Sheila Weaver made these 6 cards from one napkin