Napkin Rings

I needed napkin rings as a table accessory for my business (tinyelegance.com). My business partner and I did searching online and created these from scrap materials. 

  

Materials needed:

1. Paper towel rolls. Don't use toilet rolls....they are much more flimsy!
2. Felt cut into 1 1/2- 2 inch strips (amount depends on your ring width)
3. Ribbon (Ribbon pictured above is satin with a silver trim)
4. Clear strand of beads
5. Glue gun/glue sticks. For such fine work, my mini glue-gun conquered this project like a boss!
6. Flower heads (Just buy flowers from the dollar store. You will pay much more otherwise)

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Directions

1. Cut the paper towel into about 2 inch circles. I suggest discarding any that are creased. You will regret it later
2. After cutting the felt into a matching length, use the hot glue gun to glue it around the paper towel roll. Just doing a few lines of hot glue lengthwise is plenty. I did about 4 evenly spaced. Make sure the felt is long enough to overlap just a bit. Use the overlapping felt as the back of your napkin ring.  
3. Next, cut the satin ribbon so that it is just long enough to fit around the felt-covered paper towel ring. Use tiny dots of hot glue to glue it around as well with the ends on the front half. 
4. Repeat step 3 using beads. 
5. Cut off a flower head of your choosing. You'll want the back of the head to be as flat as possible with very minimal stem but enough of the green stemming so you don't have to glue the petals at all. 
6. Glue the flower head on with a medium sized dot of glue and press the flower on for about 5 seconds. 
7. You'll want to wait for the glue to set and then pull off those annoying hot glue strands. :) 

If you are careful and don't have a huge glue gun, this can actually be a burn-free glue gun project!