Make this Easy DIY Sharpie French Label Towel with a Vintage French Advertisement Label Pattern. Beautiful way to decorate your kitchen! Great gift idea too!
Love French decor? You’ll love making this and adding it to your tea towel collection!
I never have enough tea towels! I love displaying beautiful tea towels in my kitchen to add a little pop of pattern and style! This black and white monochromatic look will fit into any kitchen style or color palette. I love building my collection of tea towels. I usually hang one on my stove handle and have one laying on the counter beside the sink for quick drying wet hands!
These vintage French label tea towels are so easy to make – make a few up for yourself and some for friends and family! They make the perfect Mother’s Day gift, teacher gift and hostess gift.
See this Easy DIY Hostess Gift – Mason Jar of Flowers in a Tea Towel Wrapper for a beautiful housewarming or hostess gift idea!
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DIY SHARPIE French Label Towel
Supplies:
– This black marker that is permanent.
– Photocopy of French Chocolate label – I used this ‘Cacao Payraud’ label .
Tutorial:
Wash and dry the towel according to package instructions. Iron if needed.
Place photocopy paper of the French graphic under the towel on a flat surface.
Trace the words onto the towel using the marker.
You can see the lines right through the towel when you press down on it.
The towel is thin enough to see the lettering from the photocopy.
You’re done!
See my washing and care instructions here.
You can also see another DIY Kid’s Art Towel version: Thanksgiving DIY Kids Art Tea Towel.
See 20 Fun Sharpie Crafts – The Ultimate List!
Heather is a Designer, True Color Expert® and proud military wife at 
So easy!!! I’m pinning this! Thanks for sharing!
Seriously awesome!!! It turned out beautifully! Now I’m thinking of bikes, and music notes and everything else I’ve wanted on a hand towel!
–Katie
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Oh my! This is such an amazing project. So glad to have found your blog. New follower C:
That is crazy (great!) You are amazing. It looks great – super impressive!
This is genius! Looks great in your kitchen.
Kathleen
Beautiful. I am not sure why I am still surprised to see you have come up with yet another stylish and hip project. Love it!
Wow, what a simple way to transfer an image! Sometimes we make it more difficult than it needs to be.
Thanks for sharing the source for your grain sack towels. I’ve been looking for these but the only ones I’ve found have a stripe on them already.
Your kitchen looks lovely – have you shared other photos of it in old posts?
I love this! So creative and fab colors! I think I will try this! Thanks for sharing!
I love this! Found you at Tip Junkie tonight… this is such a simple, beautiful project. I think I might have to try a version with a colored marker and see what it looks like. The black is just classic though. Thanks for sharing this!!
Love this and thank you for testing its washability (is that a word?) 😉
Fantastic idea! I’ll have to give this a try, although I don’t have a very steady hand, hope mine comes out half as good as yours! I’m now folloing
Seriously, cute idea!! Thanks for sharing. Adding this to my list of things to do. lol. Wishing you a grand evening. Toodles, Kathryn
That is pretty neat! I’m too shaky to do this myself but I love the idea.
I love this idea! I can’t wait to try it! I would have thought the marker would bleed. I saw you at Someday Crafts and I’m impressed, inspired and a new follower. I’m also thankful for your spouses service.
What a super cute idea!!!!!
Thanks for sharing this at The DIY Dreamer.. From Dream To Reality!!
Wowzers! I don’t know that I could get that beautiful of a result with my own hands. =D Did the marker bleed at all as you were drawing? This is so simple I can’t believe I’ve never seen it before. Great Job!
That looks really great! I would love to try that!Stacey
Cool! I love my sharpies I have but I can never seem to find enough fun projects for them.. Thanks for the idea!
Oh my gosh I love this! I am going to make this for my mother-in-law for Mothers day!
Wow this is a great idea! It turned out so pretty. Thanks for sharing over at The Winthrop Chronicles!
wow, i have never tried this! You did a great job!
I had been wondering if this could be a way to transfer an image to a piece of material I want to use as a pillow. Thanks so much for sharing how to do it and doing the ground-breaking testing! I’m pinning this so I won’t forget how to do it.
It looks fab – I’ve used this graphic before on a table, but that’s a great and easy way to put it on a tea towel, lovely !
What a terrifically simple way to make a cute accessory! I am definitely going to try this!
Wow!!! LOVE IT! I must try this. You did a fantastic job!
What a great idea! you really could do just about anything!
No way this is great thankyou so much for linking up xxx
Awesome! My MIL is French-Canadian. How well-timed.
Oh I love this! So going to try this soon 🙂
Also, what is the fabric you use in the background (the white, grey, & yellow)? its so cute! and I’m looking for something like that to make curtains for my kitchen – thanks!
Love love love these towels. Did you have to ‘fill’ any of the lines in. I would love to make these and am going to try my hand at it. Thanks for sharing the details how. I came over from Sunday Par.tay and so glad I did. I really like your blog. And now I’m following you.
Nann
I loooovee this!!!!
THANKS for sharing!!!!
I love it, so easy, so pretty, so frenchy! I will be trying this for sure. I always shy away from doing transfer projects, just won’t do them, but I will do this one. It’s too easy to fail. I really love it.
Love this! Pinning now 🙂
What a great idea! This would make a great gift too.
xoxo
Heather
This is such a fantastic idea. I would have never thought to do this. Adding to my do list. Oh, this would be a fun addition to my mom’s mothers day present. Thanks so much for the idea and great tutorial. Pinning!
Have a happy Tuesday!
♥Tausha
Great idea!!! Its gorgeous!
wow. this is such a great idea. I’m super excited to try it! Thank you for sharing.
Wow, I never would have thought of that but it is so easy! I will be trying this for sure!
This is awesome! I love how simple it is.. but it came out so great! Love it!
I like it, but I think that would take forever to make
Are you kidding?? You never cease to amaze me Heather! Thanks for partying on SOS!!
I’m LOVING this…featuring you tomorrow! XO, Aimee
So clever! LOVE IT
This is such a great idea! I love my flour sack towels and have been brainstorming ideas to make them a bit more fun. I can’t wait to put my own spin on this brilliant idea! Thanks for the inspiration!
Wow! What a clever idea! I love it! 🙂 XO! Vanessa
I love sharpie crafts! This towel is fabulous – I have a tea towel just waiting for this project. Thanks for linking up. I’m going to feature this at the next Show & Tell!
Beautiful, I have bad penmanship, wonder if I could trace this as beautifully as you did.
Love! Bisous,
Isabelle
This tea towel is awesome–great job!
So adorable!! Thanks for sharing!
That is beautiful!!!
I’ve used paint markers many times – so why not a sharpie?! Brilliant!
xo,
Shannon
I love this and will try it when I have time.
Found this project on Pinterest, Oh my goodness, have to try!
Love this! Thanks for sharing!
XO
Love this!!
You would never know that was a Sharpie, it turned out really pretty! 🙂
Tanya
You’re so stinkin’ smart! I’m driving my kids to walmart today just to pick up some of these towels! Love it! ~Lori
Wow!! So pretty… can’t wait to try it! ~Danielle
I bought the towels today, will try this in the next couple of days 😀
What a great idea…this looks amazing!
What a great idea- it looks fabulous!
That is such a good idea! I’m following you now, and you can link up at Wow Us Wednesday at Family Home and Life.
This is awesome! I don’t know how I missed this tutorial before. I must try this! Need to go get myself some flour sack towels!
Just saw this on Pinterest! LOVE it! I never thought of using Sharpies like this. I’m new to your blog and love all your ideas!
Susie
I ADORE this! You smartie pants! I cannot believe you made this awesome towel by tracing! It looks perfect, I will be trying this one for sure.
I am also loving the video reel. I looks super awesome- and I think it’s great advertisement for your projects.
xox Becca
Your towel is so chic! tell me, can these be washed and dried? Thanks
Thanks for your sweet comments Judy! Just copying some info from the post here for you:
Because this project uses permanent marker – it won’t disappear in the wash! I have washed mine and the printing didn’t wash out or ‘bleed’ at all.
I wash mine in cold water and hang to dry (since they dry very quickly, there is no need to put in the dryer!).
I have put them on the dryer on low heat to dry, the towels are cotton so some shrinkage will occur, but I prewash and predry them before I put the sharpie graphic on them.
Hope this helps! Thanks for visiting my blog!!
I have made similar projects (pillows) and I tape my fabric and my design to the patio doors ans that way I get a nice flat hard surface with lots of light shining through for tracing!
Great tip Jill!! I’ll have to remember to do that! You are very clever to think of tracing your design that way!
Beyond fabulous – my kind of project and what a great gift! Pinning this – I see some gifts in my future!
Kelly
Thanks Kelly!! It is a fantastic gift idea!
I have a question…. You said you “trace” the image into the towel… How? What steps do you specifically do? Lay some graphite paper between your fabric and the image, trace it out then go back over it with the sharpie?
Carrie if you feel confident in your drawing skills you could draw it right on to the towel otherwise you could try tracing it.
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Hi ! I so Love this!
It’s from a vintage graphic…not sure about the translation though! 😀
Hello Heather – I’ve always thought your tea towels were just beautiful, very well done! I’ve got this linked to my tea towels roundup post too today, for inspiration.
So cute Heather!!
I know this comment is long after your post, but what type of marker do you use? Is it a permanent Sharpie marker or some other brand? I love The Graphics Fairy and use her graphics alot.. usually print them onto iron-on fabric and then sew it onto my project, but I love the idea of just tracing it, but I’m sure the right kind of marker is very important!
I just used a regular Sharpie marker – yes it’s permanent ink!
LOVE this!
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Hello,
thank you for sharing such a nice idea!
Please tell me what kind of marker it should be? Kind of very specific?
Cheers,
IEVA
I updated the supply list with a link that shows the marker I used! I hope that helps!
just learned flour sack towels are not delivered in Canada.
Any other suggestions as to what towels are equivalent we could use ?
Hi Jody – these will deliver to Canada (affiliate link) http://amzn.to/2pn9l7G Have fun making this project!