Wooden tray: a way of decorating in the technique of "decoupage"

A wooden tray, decorated in the technique of decoupage, is extremely convenient and certainly useful to all who like to drink tea or coffee behind the monitor. Particularly valuable is the practical benefit that this object brings, because not all objects of needlework can boast such an advantage.

What do you need to work?

Depending on the desire of the master and the materials that are available, a wooden tray can be decorated with a printout, a decoupage card, rice paper or a napkin.

Materials and tools:

• The product itself (tray).
• Acrylic paints (white, gray, brown).
• Candle.
• Water, brushes, glue for decoupage.
• Putty and spatula (palette knife, stack for plasticine).
• Sandpaper (No. 320 for processing the wooden surface and smaller to sand the varnish).
• Usual acrylic lacquer.
• Craquelure for the formation of decorative cracks.

Beginning of work: preparatory phase

First of all, you should study the wooden tray and identify all cracks, chips and other defects. If they are, they must be filled with putty. To do this, use a pre-prepared flat object. In order to slightly reduce the further cleaning, you need to carefully remove all excess shpatlevku from the surface.

At the next stage, the wooden tray must be very well treated with sandpaper. Particular attention should be paid to those areas on which the fibers do not lie, but spumble. If they are left in this form, they will be a great hindrance in further work.

Priming and background formation of the product

Further, it is necessary to impregnate the wood with a primer coat of paint or a solution of varnish and water.

This will save the color paint, since the fibers will not absorb it intensively. After that, we apply a layer of gray paint. This color will be viewed through a light background.

To artificially age the tray, you need to wipe with a paraffin candle those places where later the scuffs will have to be formed. The paint will not lay on the paraffin, which will give the product a look of scratched.

Then you need a wide brush rather carelessly apply white paint on the bottom and sides of the tray. To ensure that the brush strokes are coarse and distinct, the brush should be dry. In those places where the background should be thick and even, it is applied with a foam sponge.

The finished background should be well sanded. To allow the napkin to slip better, you can apply a coat of varnish. Decorate the decor after the workpiece is completely dry.

Fixing decoupage napkins

There are different methods of gluing napkins. In many ways the technique depends on the strength and quality of this element. If there is a suspicion that the napkin will get wet in the water, it can be treated with ordinary hair spray.

• Then you need to prepare a mixture of water with glue (1: 1), put the napkin on the file face down and pour the solution. With a wide, hard brush, straighten all wrinkles and air bubbles.
• Next, you need to quickly overlay the file along with the drawing on the decorated area of the product. Through plastic, leveling folds is very easy. Thus it is possible not to be afraid to damage or tear a napkin.
• When everything is expanded, the file is removed and, if necessary, completes the alignment. Sometimes you can not do without folds. Do not worry, because they can be removed after.

Shutdown

The dried out picture needs to be covered with several layers of varnish, and then clean the folds. If the lacerated edges of the napkin look ugly, they should be tinted and shaded with foam rubber.

The application of diluted brown paint over the pattern will help to make "old" wooden trays (photos illustrate this process).

Get a decorative crack will help two-component craquelure varnish. First, apply one layer, and after drying, the second layer. The depth of cracks depends on the thickness of the applied layers.

Drying such a varnish for a long time - the whole day. It is extremely important to sustain this period completely. Cracks can be tinted with a dark oil paint (brown or gray), applied to the fabric and well rubbed on the surface.

After all has dried out, it is necessary to cover the whole surface of the tray with several layers of varnish.

As a decorative effect, the handle can be wrapped in twine, this method is completed by decoupling the wooden tray.

The master class describes the general direction of the work, but the masters can choose another way of decorating, apply a piece of napkin, or draw an item on their own.