Friday, November 18, 2011

How to Decoupage the holidays


Looking for a cheap way to show your holiday spirit without breaking the bank? Here's some ideas on how to decoupage your holiday.

Thanksgiving plates with a picture of the pilgrims as the centerpiece decoupage can really bring the joy and the tradition of the holiday. Swoosh only soapy water, rinse them under your record via the crane and after a towel dry they are ready to get dressed in their holiday finery. Set the round cut-outs of Plymouth pilgrims and Native Americans share their meal, place them on the bottom of the glass plates so that the image you up through the tinted glass look. Snip, Snip, Snip that then with a useless doilies latticework frame, complete with Thistles become a lacy and hold autumn leaves, creating a textured border around your sepia toned portal to yesteryear.

As autumn winter grows, there's nothing like the soft glow of a candle light to the wavering heart warm. Take from last year unused holiday gift candles (or buy some cheap thick ones) and print or find some inspirational Christmas words or phrases such as "peace" or "Love" and cut them out. Perhaps with a snowflake design or a picture of St. Nick, test your cutouts against the candle wax surface. Coverage of the sections you want to left uncolored with paper and sticky tape. With fine sandpaper, sand and wipe the excess space of art to your space was ready. Paint the surface to make it a background color than two layers of varnish of application. After you apply the word and image cut outs are you ready to a couple of layers of the gesso painted background picture on your application set. If you have set up your pigments you must up to 5 layers of varnish, with a light sanding in between the last two apply.

As for years the world rejuvenates, its time to get new life to an old tradition; instead of painting Easter eggs this year, why not decoupage Easter rabbits on them? Take a pin and enter a hole to the Crown and the bottom of the egg and then blow out the slimy inside (if the thought of this makes you reel in disgust, trying to flush out the contents with a syringe). A quick rinse and several seconds of microwave drying (or in an oven at 300 degrees celsius for 10 minutes.) and then you're ready to fill with sand and seal the egg was the top and bottom. Dye of the egg or the paint as you usually would. Now, are you ready to the Easter bunny image using decoupage. The delicate egg carefully to mount on a toothpick for ease of grip and work the image on the surface.

Think of all the other holiday you could decoupage: the logos of the teams fight on the dish guacamole on your Super Bowl party, spiders on the webby surface of Halloween Candy baskets, photographs of your child on his birthday invitations. If you are looking for a cheap gift idea, some just coasters from your local craft shop to buy some, print it out and copy personal photos and then, with the magic of decoupage, you now have great personalized gifts for friends and colleagues. Just finish them by a layer of felt to glue the bottom and you're ready to wrap them up.

As you see you can decoupage is a craft for all seasons!




Karen

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