DIY Stamped Napkins For the Easter Table

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Let’s make DIY stamped napkins for a festive Easter table. Homemade Easter decorations like stamped napkins are a lovely seasonal craft that adds a thoughtful cheer to a handmade holiday.

Let’s decorate our Easter table with beautiful handmade napkins, shall we! It’s a fun and easy DIY. All you need are some plain cloth napkins, a small Easter stamp, and some ink. I think this cute little DIY turned out so good!

These napkins started as an unexpected DIY. It even has a sentimental touch. The other day, I came across some old white napkins from my childhood home. Glued in a corner of the napkins is my dad’s name. He used these napkins in his last years in the nursing home when everything he owned had to be tagged for the laundromat.

I think these napkins resurfaced after a purging spree, I probably had used them to store something safely and dust free in the attic. I was about to donate them when this little project sprung to my mind.

I have resolved to make our Easter get-together a bit extra special this year. There is always a reason to celebrate life after all. We Dutch folk have a saying “life is a party, but you have to hang the decorations yourself”. I am making it my motto this year.

No time to waste to make memories and create special moments with a little extra. Personal and custom made napkins for our Easter breakfast table are just the thing for that.

How to Make Stamped Napkins

Okay, on to the napkins. My napkins are plain white cloth with a little pattern weaved in. They are also a bit weathered and not as sparkly white as they once were. I think that makes them even more perfect for a little stamping action. Adding a pattern to the plain white napkins will spruce them up, give them some interest, and hide any imperfections.

I didn’t have time anymore for shopping for crafting supplies, so I was determined to use what I already owned.

First I looked for a stamp that had an Easter theme. As luck would have it, I had these ‘birds and nests’ stamp set. I have had them so long already that I completely forgot about them. But I thought the little nest with eggs would be perfect for Easter. I love all the little details on these stamps.

While virtual shopping online I found some other stamp sets that would be perfect for a little stamped napkin DIY project for Easter.

I also had a cobalt blue colored ink pad that was perfect for the color scheme I had in mind.. It’s Archival Ink which means it is waterproof and good quality. A quick online search told me that oil-based inks will also hold up in the laundry. However, I didn’t think it was that important for my creative napkin project because I am already so happy to get this extra use out of them.

And then I got to stamping…

and stamping…

and stamp fabric some more.

This was not a complicated DIY, in fact it was very easy and much fun to do.

If you want to make your own hand-stamped napkins, let me share some tips…

Tips for Making DIY Stamped Napkins

1. Practice stamping on a scrap piece of fabric.
2. Ink up your stamp thoroughly, but keep it straight while doing it! You don’t want to ink up the edges, just the raised stamp part.
3. Nevertheless, with a repeating pattern like mine, the edges and corners will get inked up after a while. Clean them after each row.
4. To clean a stamp while using an oil-based ink, you can use baby wipes if you have them. Or do as I did, and use a permanent makeup remover on some cloth.
5. Press the stamp firmly on the fabric in one go. Don’t wiggle or move it!
6. When creating a repeating pattern like mine, measure and note the rows at the edges of the napkin. No need for perfectionism but getting it at least a little straight will look best.
7. Have fun!

When I was done stamping, I let the ink on the napkins dry thoroughly.

I used a hot iron on the back of the stamped cloth napkins to heat-set the ink.

And then I got to style the Easter table with my new DIY stamped napkins.

Homemade Easter Decorations for the Easter Table

Now that I have some lovely homemade stamped linen napkins, I needed a fitting napkin ring too.

I whipped up some DIY napkin rings made with fresh thyme and some old curtain rings.

I love these mini wreath napkin rings, and they add a lovely whiff of herby goodness to the table.

These are really easy to make. Just make tiny bunches of your thyme and attach them to the curtain ring with a bit of thin wire. Nothing to it. really.

See. How simple that looks at the back.

Now look at how cute these mini wreaths are as napkin rings.

Hmm. I am getting in the mood for our Easter dinner. Now that I have my Easter table setting figured out.

I have put together a list of my favorite Easter table decorations for those of you who love this blue and white Easter table decor too.

Don’t you think those napkins turned out lovely?

As you can see I even stamped some raw wood Easter mini eggs. That was so much harder than stamping the fabric napkins. it involved wiggling while waggling and rolling while pressing and not smudging or hesitating. The ink bled into the raw wood, but I still think they are pretty nice and complement my DIY stamped napkins.

Really happy with this little project.

If you want to remember the instructions for stamping cloth napkins, don’t forget to pin this post to your favorite craft board on Pinterest!

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