How to Make Faux Rice Paper with Napkins
Use pretty napkins and glue to create beautiful faux rice paper for all your specialty handmade paper projects.
Equipment
- Freezer Paper
- Wide Paint Brush
- Pen
- Paper or Plastic cup
- Skewer or Plastic Spoon to Mix
- Tape to hold down the freezer paper if needed
Materials
- Paper Napkins
- Glue (Mod Podge or White Glue) or Clear Glue
Instructions
- Tape a piece of freezer paper that's much larger than your napkin, shiny side up, on a table.
- Place your napkin in the center of the freezer paper and place a dot at the corners with a pen.
- Remove the top layer of the
- Mix some glue and water in a plastic cup with a skewer or spoon in a 2 to 1 ratio. Two parts glue to one part water.
- Brush a layer of the glue and water mixture on the freezer paper just outside the dots and cover the entire area.
- Prepare the napkin by removing the top printed layer from the two bottom layers.
- Place the napkin on the glue, starting at the top edge and gently setting the rest on the glue.
- Gently press out any wrinkles if desired.
- Brush more of the glue and water mixture all over the top of the napkin, being sure to cover outside the edges.
- Let the napkin sit for 24 hours.
- Gently pick at one corner and slowly lift the napkin from the freezer paper.
- Cut off any excess glue from the edges.
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