How To Make Faux Leather Thanksgiving Napkin-Rings From Kraft Paper

Today, we show you how to make Faux Leather Thanksgiving Napkin-Rings from ordinary brown Kraft cardstock paper and a surprising ingredient mixed with plain water!

I know, it sounds silly.

However, in this post we have a tutorial for creating faux embossed leather from Kraft paper.

Which looks quite convincing, if we do say so ourselves.

Today’s project uses the same technique, but instead of a greeting card, we’ll make our Thanksgiving Napkin Rings. (To use with our thrifted genuine linen napkins.)

Faux Leather Thanksgiving Napkin Rings DIY

Supplies:

• brown kraft card stock
• glycerin
• water
• 2 oz spray bottle
• Tim Holtz ink pads in sepia, orange and brown
• sponge for highlighting the creases and embossed design
• spray sealer with shine, such as Krylon Crystal Clear Acrylic Coating. 
• embossing folder, Darice Deer in Forest 
• embossing machine such as Cuttlebug

Directions:

1. Create an 8.5″ x 11″ piece of faux leather using directions 1 to 10 from this post. Before using the embossing folder, decide how wide and long you want your “leather” for the napkin rings to be. We cut ours 1.5″ x 5.5″ which we did by first cutting the whole sheet in half the long way. We cut our 2 pieces of 5.5″ x 8.5″ into 1.5″ strips.
2. Center a strip along the top of the embossing folder, so the tops of the trees will emboss onto the napkin ring strip. Run each napkin ring strip through the embossing machine one at a time.
3. Take the embossed strips to a safe spray area out of the wind and glaze with Krylon mist. This enhances the creases and embossing to another level of leather-look. Let dry completely.
4. Cut a sheet of plain brown Kraft cardstock paper into the same size strips as in number 2, and glue the faux leather strips to the plain kraft. This way any glycerin grease or ink stamping will not transfer to the beautiful linen napkins. Glue or staple the strips into rings.

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