Let heaven and nature sing
Posted: November 27, 2025 Filed under: Penny Black, Spellbinders | Tags: Penny Black stamps, Spellbinders 8 Comments
This is the second collection of napkin/serviette Christmas cards I’ve made, this time with sweet birds and foliage featured. As I mentioned in an earlier post I have had success with a glue stick or double sided adhesive to adhere the single layer of napkin to cardstock, but there are other methods which several of you were kind enough to share with me.
Thank you to everyone who got in touch to let me know about the following options: spray adhesive, modpodge, freezer wrap adhered with a hot dry iron and a full sheet of Avery sticker paper. Some involve wet adhesive, some dry and the freezer wrap uses the melted wax in the paper so I imagine each method produces a slightly different thickness and flexibility. I will report back again if I try some of these approaches.
As is often the case it is hard to see the texture in the background panels and card bases. I have used the Spellbinders ‘in the pines’ embossing folder on both the white and the dark green panels and it does look nice and co-ordinates with the pine sprigs on the napkins.
The sentiments are a mix of Penny Black sentiments, the favourites I pull out every year.
Heather Telford 
Beautiful cards!
When do we get to learn how to do this Heather?
Thank you, nice to hear from you.
(maybe next year a class…)
Cute cards, but no tutorial… 😦
What are the ‘other’ methods people sent you to use too?
Hi there, glad you like the cards.
I list the other methods in the second paragraph of this post. If I try some of those methods I will provide more information based on my experience.
Must have missed that! Thanks for the heads up and will look forward to seeing more about it!
Thanks!
I love this pretty bird, foliage and berry design on these napkins Heather and the background embossing looks very pretty as a background and the green used on some of the backgrounds as well as the green ink for the sentiments coordinates perfectly. x
These are just as beautiful (maybe more so) than the last ones you used! Thanks for sharing the different suggestions of how to mount them.
Gorgeous cards Heather. LOVE those sweet birds. xx