Glittered Walnut Place Card Holders

Glittered Walnut Place Card Holders

Posted by Posh Little Designs

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Dressing up walnuts and giving them an extra sparkly makeover. When finished they transform into beautiful place card holders, sure to add a lovely touch to your hosted dinner parties and celebrations.

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You Will Need (9 things)

  • Serrated Knife or similar
  • Gold Glitter
  • 1 Bag of walnuts in the shell
  • Masking Tape
  • Glitter Glue or Craft Glue

  • Printer Paper or plain business card stock
  • Paint Brush

Steps (7 steps, 30 minutes)

  1. 1

    Setup a workspace made from newspaper, or scrap paper that you can do this craft on.
    Open the bag of walnuts and place them right side up to make sure they can stand up on their own.

  2. 2

    (The most difficult part) Take a serrated knife and in a sawing motion, cut into the very top center of the walnut-shell. Hold the walnut sturdy and continue to saw through until there’s about 1/8 – 1 1/6 of an inch slit, deep enough to insert each place card. Please be careful not to cut yourself while completing this step. It helps to curve your fingers down away from the blade of the serrated knife. You could also try using a mini saw, or any other equivalent for the same result.

  3. 3

    Once the walnuts have been prepped for the place cards, begin taping each one-off, only leaving exposed the areas that you want covered in glitter. As you can see below, I chose a variety of different ways to tape off the walnuts so each one had a different look and design.

  4. 4

    Once all of your walnuts have been taped, begin painting on the craft glue in the untaped areas. Apply glitter by shaking over the top of the subject. Or you can pour glitter into a dish and dip the glue covered walnut until fully coated.

  5. 5

    Set aside and allow at least 2 hrs to dry (overnight preferred).
    Repeat these steps until all walnuts have been covered in as much glitter as your heart desires.
    After the walnuts have dried, shake off any loose glitter and begin removing the masking tape.

  6. 6

    Now they’re ready for the place cards.

    My handwriting skills are not star quality…just being honest, so instead of hand writing the place cards, I simply typed up the names on my desktop and printed them off. This worked like a charm for me and you could do this for your cards as well, but if you happen to have lovely printing, then by all means display the cards with handwritten names.

  7. 7

    Voila! An easy and affordable DIY for the hostess. Complete with the sparkle that looks beautiful displayed against simplistic dinnerware.