It's Met Monday again! Thank you to Susan for hosting. Check out all the other metamorphosis at the porch!
http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/I have a "sneak peek" project for this week.
I was in the
Maxx and spied these beautiful placemats in the clearance area...4 mats for $7.99 is not bad, but 4 mats for $2.00!?! Yeah!
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The blue was a little funny, not quite aqua,
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not quite gray, but I decided I could find napkins to coordinate somewhere in my excursions...
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After some searching, I could not find any napkins that coordinated, nothing was just the right shade or just didn't coordinate at all. I settled for white napkins...white goes with everything!
I really love the pattern and I started looking at it a little closer. It dawned on me that I could reproduce a part of the pattern on the white napkins!
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I considered doing the entire pattern, but I decided to do the little corner flourish instead, the entire pattern would be
too much, I just wanted to coordinate not match! :) So I drew out a pattern on Kraft paper and cut it out.
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I placed the pattern on a corner of the white napkin and used a colored pencil to sketch out the pattern.
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I mixed some paint until I felt it was a close match to the placemat...I used light blue, green, gray, even black.
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I painted all four corners of all four napkins. It was a little tedious, but it didn't have to be perfect because I wanted the hand-painted, batik look.
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Here is the finished napkin, I really like how it turned out! I think it coordinates great! I was excited about how close I got the blues to match...after so many attempts @ finding the perfect napkin- hand-painting was the way to go!
I hope to feature these placemat and napkins on Tablescape Thursday...I can't wait!
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I hope you have enjoyed this project and hope it inspires you to paint your own napkins!
Thank you for stopping by
Michelle