I did a project with children. We used assorted tin cans to make pencil holders and planters using watered down craft glue to paste the pictures and also to seal. There is a product called mod podge but I haven't used it. It was easy and fun.

Yes I've decoupaged...I use modpodge.

I made this vase for my mom for Mother's Day decades ago. I used bits of magazines I'd cut out. Use the modpodge to glue them on and then when done, paint over it all again with modpodge.

Recognize that if the paper gets too soaked initially, it can stretch which can be a good or bad thing. Then after it dried, I used rub n buff to get the gold rim and some gold touches on the vase.

To do something this layered, you start at the top and work your way down so each image overlaps the one above.

Its been a long time but all you do is use the mod podge over the picture. how to

Annie that is AMAZING!

Also decades ago, I got a wooden recipe box which I painted dark green, then cut a small square of compressed sponge and then wet it and used it like a stamp to make the squares around the edge, then decoupaged the box. Gave it to Dad for father's day as I recall filled with seed packets for his garden. He was a big gardener. Now I use it for recipes. As I recall, some of the images I got from gift wrap.

I think it's gone now, but I also made Mom a plate once ... clear glass plate where I modpodged on the image, face up against the back side of the plate, then used copper foil behind it and modpodged the whole thing. The plate was decorative only of course, but it became alike a reverse painting on glass.

I've not done it, but I have seen some amazing things done by a woman who saved onion skins and decoupaged them onto objects..quite delicate work but with a great pay off!

I did it a lot when I was in my 20's. I still have two glass plates hanging on my wall that I did about 30 years ago.

Yes, they're gone now, but I had a pair of small lamp shades with decoupaged pictures on them.

That piece is beautiful, Flamingo, I like the crackle finish. And it looks like it has held up well to years of use.

Beautiful projects! I've never done decoupage but enjoyed seeing yours.

I want to try this one of these days. There's a bottle of mod podge in my studio just begging me to decoupage something. I'm thinking it could be used to make some cool jewelry designs.

The examples shown in this thread are wonderful!

Annie and Flamingo, those projects are beautiful!

I don't have a pic. of my DD's dinning room table, (sits 10) but it was very marked up from 75 or 80 years of use. She took a dictionary from the 1800's and did the whole table. When she has guests they love to read the pages.

Way back in the 70's I did quite a bit of decoupage, but only onto wood. And nothing ever as pretty as the examples shown here. They make me want to get back into it! !

Lucille, I hope you will show us your vases when you finish them.

ETA: 'Before' and 'After' pictures would be really nice! :^)

Rusty

In 6th grade I learned. We all did pictures. I did President Kennedy on a piece of distressed wood. The picture was from Life magazine. I don't know what the shellac was we used. This past spring I did cardboard letters with modge podge and pictures of my students.

Have no pictures, but it is fun to do and rewarding. Give it a try!

Was reading Greenshoekitty's post about her daughter's dining table. I have some white plastic TV tables, do you think if I started with a coat of primer, then covered the decoupage with polyurethane, that it would stand up to the abuse that TV tables take?

More than likely it will. Not sure you even need the primer first unless you want to change the color or cover something up.

I know my DD used a primer on the table, but it was wood and had a shine on the top. she also used a coat (or 2) of shellac over the top. I would also think with the poly it should hold up.

FlamingO, your wastebasket is lovely! Since I have a wooden one waiting, plus all the cutouts, I would love to know what kind of paint you used, and how you achieved the two-tone. Any details would be helpful if you don't mind sharing. If you've any other decoupages I would love to see them as your touch is special.

Dandyrandylou, I used Delta Ceramcoat acrylics, I probably painted the whole thing blue and then sponged on shades of greens on the top. Sea sponges are great for muddling colors together. Then after that’s dry, decoupage the paper on. Then more coats, crackle medium, stain and then varnish. Simple really, just sounds like a lot.

Thanks the compliments!

Well deserved. Thanks for your help. Hope I can find all the necessaries.