Beautiful napkin rings with your own hands: manufacturing methods

Often the vanity of modern life does not allow you to allocate enough time for a beautiful table setting, but at least for holidays it is always done. To decorate the celebration, create a unique atmosphere of romance, coziness or just a good mood, make napkin rings with your own hands. They will be an excellent decor, they will give both the hostess and the guests positive emotions.

How to make napkin rings

The simplest variant of serving is to go and buy finished products. However, not always you can find exactly what you want to see on your holiday table. If you are a creative person and like to engage in artistic design, make napkin rings with your own hands. You can make them in several ways:

• Decorate the purchased base;
• Decorate the workpiece made of cardboard;
• Weave from beads or beads on wire;
• Sew from fabric;
• to tie.

Modify in your own way is easy for any option, but it is worth saying that it is better to make or buy a solid foundation, so that your ring keeps in shape. Already this workpiece is tied, braided, wrapped, pasted with all sorts of decor of any style and theme.

Materials and Tools

To make napkin rings with your own hands, prepare the following:

• Wooden, plastic, cardboard blank or sheet of cardboard;
• Pencil and ruler;
• scissors;
• Adhesive or stapler for joining edges of the workpiece into a ring;
• the cloth;
• satin ribbons;
• Thread;
• Decorations for the surface of the product.
  

If you do not have a purchased base, you can use a cardboard tube from paper towels, food film, foil. It should be cut into equal parts in width (approximately 4 cm). If there is no such blank, just cut a sheet of cardboard into strips of the necessary length and width, and then, having fastened the edges with a stapler and pasting them, proceed to the design of the object.

Variants of decor

The material of the base, in fact, is not so important. Equally beautifully it is possible to issue wooden, plastic, cardboard and paper rings for napkins. For each solemn occasion, they will approach their ornaments. Use everything that fantasy tells you. If the creative thought works badly, use the list below. To decorate the rings use the following:

• Satin ribbons and elements of them (bows, flowers);
• Thread, braid, laces, twine (for example, for marine subjects);
• Decorative paper and details from it (flowers, butterflies, dragonflies, figurines);
• lace;
• frill;
• beads;
• Beads;
• Buttons;
• Seashells and pebbles;
• Sticks;
• Cones.

In a word, everything that seems beautiful and suitable in style and theme, you can use as a decor.

Rings of paper or paperboard

So, let's consider the sequence of work on the example of the manufacturing of rings from a cardboard tube. Step-by-step instructions are:

1. Take your workpiece and measure on it an equal distance of about 4 cm. Focus on the resulting proportions. Products should look beautiful and harmonious on napkins.
2. Cut the long workpiece into rings by marking.
3. Take the satin ribbon of the right color. Secure the beginning with a thermal gun or regular glue.
4. Wrap the surface of the workpiece gently with a tape, flipping the material through the sides of the ring.
5. Fasten the end of the tape. It is better, when the fixing points will be covered with a decor, so they will become invisible.
6. Glue on top of the beautiful lace.
7. Fasten on it a pair of thin (5 mm) satin ribbons along the top and bottom edge of the ring a short distance from the edge.
8. Place the prepared decor (bow, flowers, etc.) in the center of the ring.
9. Decorate the surface of the beads at the same distance.

Done. You can prepare for serving a festive table. Decorate the product, of course, at will. Clearly follow the description of the decoration process in the instructions is not necessary. This is just an example.

Napkin rings: New Year's ideas

If you want to make unusual elements of serving for the New Year's Eve, this ring will be perfectly handled by rings with thematic design. One of the options can be the execution of a set in the decoupage technique, when on an existing substrate primed with a white compound, for example acrylic, the images are pasted, and then, after drying, the surface is varnished. This method is especially interesting for decorating the New Year's table, as you can decorate in one technique rings for napkins, wine glasses, and a bottle of champagne. The festive table will look very stylish and beautiful.

In addition to the above option, on the rings of napkins paste such a decor:

• In the form of a Santa Claus costume;
• With thematic figures;
• Snowflakes;
• Asterisks;
• Red and white bows;
• Cones;
• Sprigs of artificial Christmas trees.

It is interesting enough to combine both decoupage and additional decor. The work is done like this:

1. Prepare the base (buy a wooden or plastic ring or make of cardboard).
2. Cover with a white primer (suitable acrylic white).
3. Cut out or accurately "pull out" the desired images from a single-layer paper napkin or a decoupage map.
4. Stick the workpiece onto the ring.
5. Dorisuyte background, patterns, make the effect of frost, snow.
6. Cover with a clear varnish in one or more layers.
7. Glue, if you want, thematic decor (cone, spruce twigs, snowflakes).

Remember that each subsequent operation is performed after drying the previous layer (soil, glue, etc.).

So, you saw how you can make napkin rings with your own hands. Choose your favorite ideas. Create your own options for every family celebration. Let not only the festive feast, but also its preparation bring you joy and enable self-realization.