Boredom Buster: Decoupage

There are many projects you can do with decoupage.  You can cover a lot of things with little scraps of paper, or small pieces of cloth and decoupage glue.  Some examples are dressers, tables, hat boxes, tissue boxes, wooden trays, lamp shades, decorative plates, journals, vases, big chunky jewellery, sneakers, wooden chairs and barstools. The possibilities are almost endless.
I had never decoupaged before today.  We were working on our theater and our project was a simple introduction to how it works.  But I am on the hunt for making things do-able and affordable.
I found the recipes for the glue online:

1. I made the school glue.  I let it cool for about 2 hours.
   
2. I made the decoupage glue by replacing their “white glue” with the school glue I made earlier.

Items needed for this project:

• Decoupage Glue
  
• Paint brush
  
• The pictures you would like to cut out, (we wanted letters to apply to title our theater, so we had fun choosing a font and color, then printed it out on the computer.)
  
• X-Acto knives
  
• Cutting Mat
  
• And the object that you are putting your fabric/paper onto.

Using the cutting mat, cut your picture out with the exact knives.

Since we weren’t so experienced with the X-acto knife, the pattern in the picture above isn’t the one we ended up using.  It was too hard to do to cut out all of the curly accents.
Then we applied the glue to our box where we wanted the lettering to go.  We then applied the letters and let the glue dry.

Next we applied another coat, over the lettering. then to the entire box.

This gave our flat cardboard have the appearance of wood, because it added roughness from the brush strokes.  Wasn’t expecting that, but it was a nice surprise.

Overall It turned out very nice.

Check back for more ideas.