Corrugated Napkin Ring Place Card

Corrugated Napkin Ring Place Card

Corrugated papers lend an understated style to your table settings the perfect casual look for the modern bride who wants to express her own one of a kind point of view. The natural white and soft brown shades of the papers tie in beautifully with an assortment of dried flowers and stems to create, dramatic, earthy style. Simple flowers like calla lilies work nicely, too.

Add a dash of color by swapping the natural raffia tie for a bright cord or ribbon. Corrugated paper and raffia come in large rolls, so you will probably have enough to decorate many tables. The tags come in packages of 8 to 50, so be sure to buy the correct amount for your needs.

Here are the materials you will need to make one corrugated napkin ring place card and to cover one vase and one votive:

• one roll of brown corrugated paper
• one roll of white corrugated paper one napkin
• one spool of natural-colored raffia
• one oval-shaped tag
• one tall, cylindrical glass vase
• one small glass votive
• scissors
• double-stick tape
• tape measure

STEP 1. Cut one 31/2” x 8” (9 x 20.5 cm) piece of brown corrugated paper. Cut one 5” x 5” (12.5 x 12.5 cm) piece of white corrugated paper.
STEP 2. Cut a 1 3/4” (4.5 cm)-long slit in the brown paper, 1 1/2” (4 cm) in from each end.
STEP 3. Wrap the white corrugated paper around the middle of the napkin. Then wrap the brown corrugated paper around the center of the white paper.
STEP 4. Slide the two slits together to join the ends of the brown paper.
STEP 5. Wrap the raffia two or three times around the napkin, leaving a long tail. Cut the strand from the spool, leaving another long tail.
STEP 6. Feed one end of the raffia strand through a name tag. Tie a knot to secure the tag.

STEP 7. Fray both ends of the raffia by splitting the fibers of the tails.
STEP 8. Measure the diameter of your vase and votive with a tape measure. Cut out a piece of white paper, as wide as the diameter of the vase, allowing a little extra for overlap at the ends. Cut another piece of white paper, as wide as the diameter of the votive, allowing a little extra for overlap at the ends.
STEP 9. Secure the white paper to the vase with double-sided tape. Secure the white paper to the votive the same way.
STEP 10. Cut out pieces of brown paper as you did for the white paper ¡n step 8, making the pieces slightly narrower than the white paper.
STEP 11. Repeat step 9 with the brown paper.
STEP 12. Wrap the raffia two or three times around the vase, leaving a long tail. Cut the strand from the spool, leaving another long tail. Tie a knot and then fray the ends as you did in step 7.