How to make decoupage from a napkin?

Nowadays, items made by one's own hands are highly appreciated, whether it be clothes, gifts or interior elements. As a rule, they are much more expensive than factory-made products. There are a huge number of techniques and schemes with which these things are made. Today we will tell you how to make decoupage from a napkin at home. As a result, you get an original and sophisticated thing.

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Decoupage ceramic flower pot

Resisting the charm of Provence is quite difficult. If you like it too, then the decoupage technique will help you realize the most interesting ideas. Any household item will really change.

Do you have a beautiful flower pot at home, but it lacks some zest? Then try to do it decoupage with your own hands at home in Provencal style napkins.

Prepare such tools and improvised materials:

1. Ceramic flower pot.
2. Acrylic paint of white color.
3. Normal kitchen sponge.
4. Napkins for decoupage.
5. PVA glue.
6. Acrylic lacquer.
7. A ceramic or glass contour in bronze, gold or green.
8. Flat brush for coloring.

Decoupage in the style of Provence is carried out according to this instruction:

• First coat the ceramic pot in three layers with white paint. Apply the first two layers with a brush, the third with a sponge.
• Take a three-layer napkin. Tear out a piece with a picture, carefully separate the two layers that you do not need.
• Stick the picture on the pot with diluted glue, while trying to remove all the air bubbles that form under the napkin.

Important! If there are few bubbles left, do not be discouraged, because the Provence style allows the presence of minor defects.

• Stick all the pieces with drawings, add a little purple dye to the paint and mix thoroughly.
• Cover the rim of the pot and the dish with the resulting pale purple paint. Draw green monograms on the bottom edge with green paint, then bronze and gold paint between them.
• Coat the pot with two layers of acrylic varnish.

Now you just have to admire such wonderful creations created by your own hands.

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Decoupage in a provencal style wooden casket

The refined and ancient style of Provence has already inspired not a single needlewoman to create original things with which you can update or decorate the interior. Items decorated in this style fill the house with warmth and coziness. This style is characterized by warm lilac and violet shades, grace and simplicity of design. Decoupage with do-it-yourself napkins for beginners will help to decorate an ordinary wooden box, making it magnificent and antique.

Prepare the following required materials:

1. Wooden box.
2. Acrylic paints in several colors.
3. Napkins for decoupage.
4. Sandpaper.
5. PVA glue.
6. Kitchen sponge.
7. Paint brush.
8. Acrylic varnish.

You found all the materials, prepared for work, it is time to familiarize yourself with the master class on how to make decoupage from a napkin with your own hands:

• First remove all old stickers. Clean the surface as carefully as possible so as not to damage it.

Important! If there are chips or cracks on the casket, then do not touch them, as they will only add antiquity to the product.

• Apply white acrylic paint to the surface. Painting is necessary with a thin layer.

Important! Only after the final drying of the first layer can the second one be applied, it is better to make it beige.

• Cut or tear out a picture from a napkin. This style is characterized by bouquets of lavender, lilacs, grapes, all kinds of herbariums.
• Stick the fragments of the picture onto the cover and the side surfaces of the box with glue. Use as little glue as possible so that the napkin does not tear and does not become wet. After laying the napkin on the glue base, wipe the picture thoroughly with a sponge to remove excess glue.
• Using sandpaper, treat the base in places where there is no cloth. Thanks to this manipulation, the surface is perfectly aged.
• Coat the box with acrylic clear varnish.

Now you know how to make decoupage from napkins, and you can safely create, delight your loved ones with original gifts and decorate the house with charming interior items.

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Decoupage with metal napkins

Working with metal surfaces is as easy as working with ceramics and wood. If you want to decorate a festive table somehow unusual, then take a chance and make a decoupage of a napkin holder. The master class proposed for study below will help to do all the work efficiently and accurately.

To get started, check the list if you have everything you need to work:

• Metal napkin holder.
• Three-layer napkins for decoupage.
• Acrylic paint.
• Decoupage varnish or craquelure.
• PVA glue.
• Polyethylene film.
• Sponge or flat brush.
• Sandpaper.

Decoupage takes place according to the following scheme:

1. Start by sanding the surface of the napkin holder. This is done in order to improve the adhesion of its surface to varnish and paint.
2. Apply one step on it with a sponge, then a second layer of brown acrylic paint.
3. After drying, paint again go through all the convex places of the product with sandpaper.
4. Apply a coat of acrylic white paint.
5. Tear out the motifs of the pictures from the napkin, separate the top layer and lay it on a plastic film.
6. Spray some water on the picture, transfer it carefully to the surface of the napkin holder face up.
7. In several layers, varnish the surface of the picture.

As a result, you get not just a napkin holder for the dining table, but a real work of art.

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Remember that in many ways the beauty of decoupage from napkins with your own hands depends on you, that is, on your perseverance, accuracy, imagination, concentration. With this technique, you can create huge paintings with interesting stories. You can decorate in this way things from textiles, wood, plastic, metal, ceramics, cardboard. In general, everything that your enthusiasm and interest will tell you can be decorated with taste and seasoned style.