I’m pretty excited about the patriotic projects I’ve made this week. On Monday I was part of the red white blue series at Sugar Bee Crafts… Today I’m sharing another Fourth of July Craft… red, white and blue tea lights… the perfect topper to my braided place-mat…. These tea lights are easy and adorable…
here’s the whole table…
Today we are going to talk about the tea lights and ruffled napkin rings.
I just used sharpie markers…I knew these didn’t need to be washed, so I didn’t worry about the permanence of this project. You can read about my experience with sharpies and other glass markers here.
The first one is just dots…. two shades of blue and red… varying sizes and locations.
And another is horizontal stripes… again I had the same two blues and red. I put blue around the bottom at the base, then some wider stripes near the top.
and finally, I used glue and glitter to create vertical glitter stripes on the third light.
Now, I didn’t want the silver candle to show, so I painted the outside of the candles blue and red. They look great inside the decorated holders.
and finally, have you ever ruffled streamers? I LOVE this… I originally got the idea from made.com. Basically you use your sewing machine to ruffle the garland into tight ruffles. You set your stitch length to the longest {mine is 5} and your tension to the tightest {mine is 9}. You can see more details for machine settings here.
so, now its a beautiful centerpiece for a picnic…
I love the colors and the way they go together. You can check out the tutorial for my July Fourth Craft Patriotic Braided Centerpiece here. What are you crafting for the 4th?
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Alyssa says
Super cute! May have to make some for the 4th 🙂 Stopping by and following you from Catch a Glimpse Thursday 🙂
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Christy @ Creating A Beautiful Life says
Cute idea. Wouldn’t have thought to use a sharpie. I’m visiting from the Just Us Four link party.
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