“Using a Napkin to Create your own Designer
Cardstock and Embellishments”
Supplies needed:
Napkins
Plastic wrap- (I used
Glad Wrap, but the cheap stuff works
fine)
White cardstock
Large paper bag cut
open and folded in half
Iron on hottest
setting before steam setting. (I did not put water in my iron)
Choose dies and
punches to use. These are what we used.
Die cuts –
Spellbinders
Nestabilities-circles, ovals, squares and rectangles
Sizzix- Easter eggs,
cracked egg, ladybug, rectangle frame, Gelly frame, scallop frame, ivy border, leaf
stem, Easter basket, bunny, scallop tags- 3 sizes, butterfly #1
Cheery Lynn Designs-
Mini Fanciful Flourish,
Punches-
Martha Stewart- 3 hydrangea punch, large
hydrangea punch, sitting
bunny, standing bunny, sheep, butterfly, 3 butterflies, confetti hearts, border punches- pansy –( I
also tried it on the small ribbon threader and traditional scallop), Small
layering daisy, Punch all over the page square scallop, eyelet heart,
Recollections-Mini
Daisy,
McGill- 6 petal
flower medium, 6 petal flower small, Floriano flower 2 1/8”,
EK Success- Paper
Shapers wave flourish, medium retro flower, small retro flower,
Marianne Creatables- flowers- five
petal
Cardstock for base of
cards
Scissors, paper
trimmer, Scotch quick dry glue, ATG adhesive runner, ruler, scoreboard, pencil,
pearls-( I used iridescent pearls from Miriam’s Crafting Supplies), Copics,
Gelly Roll pens, Glitter glue, White flocking
Set up your work
station. It is best to use a kitchen counter or smooth board. Place your folded bag on the counter. Select
your napkins. Plug in your iron and set the temperature to the hottest
setting on the iron before the steam setting. It is best to use a dry iron.
Turn the iron away from you.
Open the folded paper
bag. Place your cardstock inside the folded paper bag.
Place your plastic
wrap on the cardstock covering it completely. If using 12” x 12” cardstock, you
will need to tear a small piece and overlap it with the other piece by just a
little.
Separate your napkin.
Pull back gently, making sure you get down to the colored section of your
napkin.
Continue to pull
gently until you have the white layers removed.
You can either throw the white layers away or save to make tissue
flowers another time.
This shows the 3
layers of the napkin.
Here is the colored
layer of the napkin showing the backside of it.
Place the napkin with
the brightest side facing up on the plastic wrap. Make sure the plastic stays in place.
Slowly
cover the napkin, plastic wrap, and cardstock layer with the other half
of the bag. Hold down the napkin as you gently lay it down. Make sure the
corners of the napkin do not come up.
Now you are ready to
iron the napkin and cardstock.
Start in the right
corner at the top and work over. Return to the right slightly, over lapping the section
already done and go across again.
Keep doing this as
you go down the page. I found it helps
if you count to 5 each time you place your iron in a spot. Once you have
covered the whole page, iron over it all about 3
times like ironing a shirt. (Depending
on your iron it may take less or more time to iron the layers.)
Gently peel back the
paper bag. If the napkin and cardstock
are not stuck together, then iron it a little more. If the napkin tears a little
re-iron that spot and try taking the bag off again.
Now that the top
layer of the bag is removed, you can lift a corner of the bottom. Gently pull up.
Here is how it will
look. All excess will be trimmed off before using. You can do this with scissors or a guillotine
paper trimmer.
Before you iron another
piece, pull up any leftover plastic wrap. It
comes up really easy. Make sure the bag is clean. It will ruin your napkin
cardstock if you leave it. These photos show it is easy to do.
Here are several
napkin cardstock sheets trimmed and ready to use.
Now decide what card
bases and tag shapes you want to use and cut and fold them. These are some of
the tag and card base shapes I am using.
Cut out the napkin
cardstock to cover your cards and tags. Adhere the napkin cardstock using ATG
adhesive runner to the card and tag base.
Now punch out your
embellishments using dies
or punches.
These 2 photos show
all the die cuts and punched items made with the napkin cardstock. It is best
to make sure the metal cutting part of the die or punch goes against the white
cardstock backing. If your napkin tears, keep it. You will find a
use for it. You can remove the
rest of the napkin from it and color the die cut or punched item.
Now choose and print
your digis. Here are all the Robyn’s Fetish Easter digis I printed off to use.
I flipped the lily so I could use it facing both ways. The digi above is the
flipped one.
Chose a medium or mixed
media to color your digis.
Here are the Copic
makers and Gelly Roll pens I am using to color the digis.
Gelly Roll Pens-
Stardust- clear, purple, yellow, and rose, Metallics- pink, green, blue,
silver, gold, Gelly Roll purple.
Copics –Reds- R20,
R22, R24, R29, R56, R89, Yellows- Y06, Y15, Y17, Y21, Y23,YR21, YR23, YR24,
Oranges- YR01, YR02, YR04, YR07, YR09, Greens- G03, G05, G07, G94, G99, YG000,
YG01, YG03, YG05, YG06, YG61, YG63, YG67, YG91, YG93, YG95, YG97, YG99, Blues-
B000, B01, B02, B04, B05, B21, B23, B24, B26, B28, BG000, BG01, BG03, BG05,
BG10, BG11, BG13, BG15, purples- V01, V04, V06, V09, BV01, BV02, BV04, BV08,
Pinks- RV000, RV00, RV02, RV04, RV06, RV09, RV10, RV11, RV13, RV21, RV23,
Browns- E000, E00, E01, E02, E04, E13, E15, E17, E31, E33, E37, E41, E43, E44,
E47, E49, E57, E59, E95, W1, W3, W5, W7, W10, grays/blacks- C1, C3, C5, C7,
C10.
Add flocking and
glitter. Let dry while cutting out the other digis. Now that they are colored, cut out your digis.
These are the ones I
added flocking and glitter to. Now you
are ready to assemble your cards.
Here are some cards
using the Napkin cardstock, die cuts and punched out embellishments.
The purple rectangle
is ribbon. It is a bookmark with napkin die cuts. The rest are tags.
These 2 cards show
that you can make very special cards with the napkin cardstock. The card on the
left is a double gatefold card and the one on the right is a tri-shutter card.
Notes:
Any embellishment
will work. Glues need to be thicker and
quick dry. The Zig pens do not work with this technique.
The guillotine cutter
is best. If you have a paper trimmer with the tiny blade, turn the paper over
so the cardstock back is facing you. It will cut fine then. If the napkin is facing up, it will tear.
When using punches
and dies, make sure the design is not too
complicated or delicate.
It will tear the napkin. I found Nestabilities and Sizzix work great and so do Martha Steward and
Recollections. If the design is simple it should punch out just fine. Put the
metal cutting part against the cardstock backing.
Using Cricut does not
work. It tears the napkin.
I hope you feel
inspired to make your own Napkin cardstock and embellishments.
Thank you for joining me for this
tutorial.
Edwina
