To decorate a wooden chest of drawers using the fashionable decoupage technique, you need to choose the most beautiful napkins and remember kindergarten applique classes.
As a child, almost all of us did applique work. This means that we can easily master the basics of the decoupage technique (from the French decouper – to cut).
DIY napkins
- To work you need a chest of drawers, glue varnish, water-based varnish, paper napkins, blue and orange paints, a roller, a brush. If the dresser is new, it will not require preparation. If the thing was in use, the old paint or varnish is removed, the surface is sanded.
- Using a roller, all external and internal surfaces of the chest of drawers, including the drawers, are coated with blue acrylic paint. The brush is used to work in hard-to-reach places. The painted chest of drawers is left to dry.
- The upper, variegated layer of the napkin is carefully separated from the inner, white one. This is necessary so that the paper is well saturated with glue-varnish.
- Napkins are placed on the fronts of the drawers, creating the desired pattern. Then, using a damp sponge, the surface is slightly moistened with water. The napkins adhere more tightly to the product and do not deform during the subsequent application of glue-varnish.
- Three layers of glue-varnish are successively applied to the napkins with a brush. Each of them must completely saturate the paper.
- Artistic drips are created by gently pouring orange paint onto the top of the dresser. Then the product is coated in two layers with water-based varnish.
Marina Shvechkova, Anna Turovskaya