Decoupage Guest Towel Tutorial

Howdy Crafters ~ I have watched several tutorials this weekend on creating Decoupage Napkins for crafting.  One tutorial, use a glue stick, another use Mod Podge, and another was using sandwich plastic wrap with an ironing technique [which did not work for me].  

I first learned about Decoupage Napkins from Ellie-  A Bunk of Junk Design Team - in which I am a Design Team Member.

For me - the glue stick was the winner - but I added extra steps - using my DRY High Heat Iron.

I have Step by Step Photo's and written direction in this post if you wish to create some tags, pages, Journal covers, etc. for crafting using Decorative Paper Napkins. 

 I purchased Decorative napkins/Guest Towels at the Dollar Tree & Party Dollar Stores[ $1 - $1.50 for 12 or more in package].

This is my finished Decoupage Paper Guest Towel Tag
Stamping: TH Bee, Verve Sentiment
Misti - Versafine Black Ink

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Here is my Paper Guest Towel/Napkin Tutorial

Supplies:

1.High Setting Dry Iron [make sure you have NO water in your iron]

2.Parchment Paper - 2 pieces

3. Elmer's Disappearing Purple Glue Stick

[I highly recommend using the purple-color glue stick to help you visually see the application of the glue]

4. Decorative Paper Napkin/Guest Towel - top layer only [you have to separate the top decorative layer from any other added layers - this Guest Towel had 3 layers - I purchased from Dollar Party 16 in package]

5. Cardstock - I used 110 lb I purchased from Sam's Club for this tag, but colors work great if they will show through - with this Guest Towel colors show through. I used blue, and pink so far.

6. Stamp[s] - Optional

7. Tag Die - Optional [you can fussy cut] - make large decoupage and use for journal covers, pages, card fronts.

8. Craft Scissors

This is the Decorative Guest Towel I am using - taken out of the package - 

then I separated the top layer from the other 2 layers

Here is the top layer of the Guest Towel separated & trimmed to the size I wanted

I decided to Iron my Paper Guest Towel first since it was wrinkled

 I have it laying on a piece of Parchment paper on my ironing board

Place another piece of parchment paper on top of the Guest Towel - now I have a sandwich - 

Parchment Paper - The Guest Towel - Parchment Paper

Using a High Setting DRY Iron - iron the sandwich to get wrinkles out of paper napkin

Note: I laid my Trimmed Guest Towel in the lower right corner of white cardstock first [no photo] and used a pencil to trace around it so I could see what area I needed to put my glue. 

This PHOTO above:  Showing how I covered the area with my glue stick -
 get the edges and also the inside area

I started from the bottom of the cardstock - to lay my Guest Towel over the glued area and gently smoothed it - being careful not to tear the Guest Towel - it worked well - no tears.

Do you see I have some portion of the Guest Towel at the top that I did not glue down? 

That is Okay to do that - and a bit of the Guest Towel hangs over the bottom edge as well. 

No rhyme nor reason for this - I just did it that way! he he

Off to the ironing board with this Guest Towel glued to the cardstock

I laid the cardstock on top of the Parchment Paper on my ironing board

Lay the next layer of parchment paper on top of the glued Guest Towel

So there are 3 layers - Parchment Paper, Cardstock with the glue Guest Towel, Parchment Paper
Same Sandwich that was used for ironing the paper Guest Towel before the gluing step.

Use a High Heat DRY Iron to iron your glued Guest Towel - it only takes a few seconds -

 I probably ironed over it 3 - 6 times

This Photo shows that I Fussy Cut around the Ironed Glued Guest Towel

It is now ready to use as a Journal Page, or Journal Insert - or cut some Tags!! 

See my next Photo for the tag prep I did before cutting

I laid the Decoupage completed Guest Towel on my Cuttlebug Plates
 and then positioned my Tag Die in the area I wanted the design to show

I then Trimmed the Napkin before running it through the Cuttlebug

Here it is: The Finished STITCHED Decoupage Tag die cut

Below is the tag I am entering in challenges. I used  Blue Cardstock as the background

Doesn't it look fabulous with a blue background as well?

I stamped on this one after die cutting - it works wonderfully!
Loving this decoupage technique!
More Photos:

Here are 2 Pumpkins I fussy cut from cardstock after using Heat and Bond scraps

to seal the Napkin first- this could be costly -
 I only had a couple scraps of Heat and Bond... these pumpkins turned out fabulous

More Decoupage I did and more to come:

I put tags in my Junk Journals, so these will be added

Love, Love doing this - Fun, Quick and EASY! We like EASY, YES??

Thanks for stopping by - have a blessed day 

[some day I hope to learn how to do video and place them on You Tube - it is on my Bucket List]