Fall Acorn Napkin Rings

Last week, Tonya Gibbs posted a tip at Flamingo Scraps about how to keep Glossy Accents unclogged. In the comments, I said that I needed a post telling me how to use Glossy Accents, since I never use mine! She responded on Friday with a new post which showed 5 projects using Glossy Accents and Crackle Accents. At the end, she challenged me to use Glossy Accents on my next project.

Well, there's something about being called out by name in front of hundreds that motivates a person to accept a challenge! I was most inspired by Tonya's use of Glossy Accents to make a 'dewdrop' on a flower. I was thinking about that as I was walking to pick Trevor up from kindergarten, my feet crunching the zillions of acorns on the sidewalk. I gathered a large handful of acorns and decided to experiment with Glossy Accents on them.

Of course, the second Trevor saw me he noticed that I had a huge handful of acorns. He was instantly curious about what project I had planned for us to do together. I told him we'd be making napkin rings. He said, "Great! What are napkin rings?" I love his enthusiasm. Affiliate links below.

  

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Fall Acorn Napkin Rings

Materials:

• cardboard tube
• paint
• leaf stamp
• Staz-On brown ink
• acorns
• Glossy Accents
• twine / ribbon
• glue gun

Steps:

Cut rings from a cardboard tube, then paint them with fall colors. While they are drying, stamp oak leaves using Staz-On, then do a color wash over that. Cut out the leaves, then coat them and the acorns with Glossy Accents.

When everything is dry, tie twine or ribbon around the rings and use Glossy Accents to attach the leaves. I used a glue gun to attach the acorns.

Here's a closer look at one of my napkin rings:

Here are the ones Trevor made:

What a fun project!  Not only did the Glossy Accents work well as an adhesive, but I love the shine that it provides. How have you used Glossy Accents? Leave a link in the comments- I'd love to get other project ideas!