New Spring Crafts – Painted Napkins

I love this spring craft! I made these painted napkins (and table runner) with my favorite spring colors and a paint roller. This is such an Easy DIY and fun spring crafts.

You might remember the dish towels I made with this paint roller. They are pink and they were so popular! I decided I need to make another spring craft so I made some very pretty green napkins and a table runner.

I am having so much fun making spring crafts. Especially when they are easy and really inexpensive to make. These painted napkins cost less than $2.00 to make. And I think they took less than five minutes to make each one!

I first started painting with paint rollers whan I bought these vintage French paint rollers at the Rose Bowl Flea Market.

But then I found this paint roller from Amazon and it is actually my favorite. Although the roller comes in many designs, I like this one the best. In fact, I used this roller for both the dish towels, napkins, and table roller.

How to Make Spring Crafts Painted Napkins

Don’t these napkins look great on our dining room table?

I love the green and I love the napkins.

I use my sterling silver every day. I love to mix and match and I never have to polish it!

Technically, I suppose you could say the greens don’t match perfectly. But who cares!

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What You Need to Make These Painted Napkins Spring Crafts

• Bueer 7″ DIY Patterned Paint Roller Decorative Rubber Roller with Plastic Handle (Model EG110)
• Acrylic Paint – shades of green
• Cotton Dinner Cloth Napkins or Flax Cloth Dinner Napkins

I own a lot of acrylic paint. And I always mix my colors. I used a combination of these three green acrylic paints from my craft storage room.

You can use fabric paint if you are worried about wearability. I use acrylic paint and iron it afterward and the paint has lasted very well. It’s up to you.

Normally I would iron the fabric first. But since I wanted to use the fold lines to help me paint straight on the napkins, I did not iron these napkins first. I do, however, always iron them when I am done to help adhere the paint to the fabric.

Be sure to make sure you are painting the napkins inthe right direction of how they are folded. I made note of the placement of the tag and copied the location of the tag on every napkin before painting.

I put my paint in a cookie sheet, lined with foil. You need a flat surface that will fit the roller.

I centered the roller on the opened napkin and just rolled it, pressing harder as I go so that the amount of paint would be even.

Watch the video to see exactly how I made these.

Because of the width of the napkin, I used the paint roller twice. I actually used the outside edge of the napkin seam as a guide for both.

Watch the Video Here

How to Make a Paint Roller Table Runner

I had a lot of paint leftover, so I searched my butler’s pantry for something else to paint.

I found an old burlap paint roller that I knew needed some sprucing up.

I used the same paint and just eyeballed it to keep it in the center.

I am sure you are wondering how I did this and didn’t run out of paint on my roller.

I would have but I figured out a system to reload the paint roller. Pick a unique design on the roller on the far right side. I picked a rose flower that was one-of-a-kind. I stopped rolling when I was getting low on paint, and as soon as I had rolled on the flower. Then I removed the roller and added more paint. I then carefully lined up the rose flower on the roller and continued painting until I needed more paint.

If you look closely, you can see the rose on the right side. That was the flower I used as my “marker”. You can’t even tell that stopped and started.

I love using both the napkin and table runner together.

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