Easter Printable for DIY Napkin Rings

Hey there crafters! Today we are going to make these adorable bunny napkin ring holders for our Easter table setting. You can get the SVG file and the free printable from geniseecreats.com. I am going to show you how to make it with your Cricut and use the print and cut feature, but if you don't have a cutting machine I also include the printable PDF file. You can just print it out and cut it with your scissors. I have instructions at the top and it comes in brown, white, and a pink bunny. So once you have my file downloaded you will find it in your downloads folder. We're going to right click and hit extract all and save it to the same location. Inside you'll find the SVG, PNG, EPS, and DFX and also my printable PDF file and then along with my free license. It just lets you know the terms and conditions to use my files and we are going to open up the SVG file in Cricut Design Space and if you are on a Windows PC it might display with a internet icon and say HTML file. After it's uploaded we're going to make sure that it uploaded the correct size and if it didn't please change the width to 6.5 inches and that is how big we need our napkin ring to be. Then I'm just going to copy and paste or hit duplicate so I can make more than one and I'm just going to make three so I can show you how to change the different colors so it can match whatever cloth napkins you may have or it can match your table setting. So we are going to ungroup all of these SVGs that we just copied and we are going to select the bottom layer and you can see over in the right layers panel the different shapes and I'm going to select the whole napkin ring except the cut lines and then I'm going to hit flatten so this will make my whole napkin ring printable and I am going to bring it under my cut lines. So I brought my cut lines back to the top so my flattened image can be underneath and then I select both layers and I attach so that is ready for a print and cut. So my second one I'm just going to select the whole napkin ring shape underneath and change the color to pink and then I can change the little nose to a different color pink just so it can stand out when it's printing because these shapes if they're the same color on top of the same color it's not going to show. So I'm just changing each of my features so it can stand out from the pink that it already has and next I am going to select all the layers like I did with the first one except for the cut lines and hit flatten and then I'm going to drag those cut lines back over the top because each action you do sends it automatically to the top so that's why we got to get our cut lines back on top of our image and then we attach it and then I'm going to do the same thing with the bottom one but I'm just going to make it white so I'm just going to select my colors and get it to my liking so I'm just going to change this nose to a lighter pink for my white bunny and then we're going to select each layer except for those cut lines and hit flatten and then we are going to attach those cut lines to the flattened image so now I have all these three napkin rings ready to print and then cut and I don't recommend cutting out each layer with vinyl or cardstock because the facial features of the bunny like the detail in the eyes or the whiskers can be hard to cut and it might just be too difficult to adhere it to the cardstock so it's definitely up to you if you want to give it a try but I think this SVG design is better as a print and cut and it's a lot easier and faster and it will give you the same result as if you layered it on with cardstock or vinyl so just make sure you use the bleed and you turn on system dialog so you can change your printer settings to high you can leave it on plain white paper for cardstock and then just change your quality print to high and then you are going to load it into your Cricut machine and it will read your registration mark and I'm cutting on cardstock plus and then once they're done cutting we could just take them off of our mat I like to flip my mat over and bend it back and now we have our cute little bunny napkin ring holders and then really quick I want to show you how to use my pdf file you just print it out straight from the document on a high quality print and then you're going to cut it out with your scissors and you're just going to trim as close to the edge of the napkin ring as possible and then there is dotted lines that you also need to cut slits into and for around the face there's also dotted lines and we are going to use a exacto blade or a box cutter to cut the slits because we are not cutting all the way through we're just going to cut along the dotted line so just make sure you're on a cutting mat and do the slits around the bunny's face and then to close up our rings we just curl them around and match up the slits and they will stay closed and then I am using a 14 by 14 linen napkin this one is a blush pink that I got off of Amazon and I am just going to fold it in half diagonally and then I'm going to start at the long end with the two points and roll it until it is complete and then I am going to grab it in the and cross it over so it can make an X and where it meets you just grab your napkin ring and wrap it around and close it and then you can flip it over and now you have a cute little bunny to put on your place settings and here is how adorable they came out you can change the colors to match your linen napkins and if you want the option of having a name tag you can use a sharpie marker on an artificial egg and write out your name in cursive and now you have cute little name tags attached to your easter bunny. I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial let me know what you guys think down in the comments.