Thursday, February 3, 2011

Heart Doilies

I am making these heart doilies for coasters for our Bunco night next week.  They are made from simple, paper napkins & would look cute under cupcakes on your dessert table too!  I am also thinking they would make a cute skirt for bottled drinks or cute garland idea if made out of cardstock.



Directions:
1. Position a prefolded square paper napkin so that the closed corner faces you.
2. Fold right corner toward left corner and flatten, forming a triangle.
3. Fold left corner toward triangle's longest side and flatten, forming a narrower triangle.
4. Using scissors, cut a convex arc from triangle to create top of half a heart.
5. Cut off bottom of triangle from left to right to create lower heart half, leaving at least 1/4 inch intact on right edge. (Left side of triangle will be center of a heart.) Unfold.
6. Repeat with napkins in several colors, varying position of cuts to create doilies in different sizes


(photos from Martha Stewart)
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4 comments:

Sweet Batik said...

So lovely! I stopped by from DID :)

Greetings from Indonesia,
Dina @ http://blog.sweetbatik.com

Kathleen said...

I like these. You could even layer sizes and it would look sorta ruffly.

Bellenza Wedding Bistro said...

Don't you love how the simplest things are often the prettiest?! Thanks for sharing this great DIY idea.

Melissa said...

I love these! It may be overkill for Avi's birthday party (hee hee) so I will have to make a bigger deal for Valentine's Day.