Wooden tray: decoupage decoration method

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

The wooden tray decorated using decoupage technique is extremely convenient and will surely come in handy for everyone who likes to drink tea or coffee in front of the monitor. The practical benefits that this item brings are especially valuable, because not all needlework objects can boast of such an advantage.

What do you need for work?

Depending on the desire of the craftswoman and the materials at her disposal, a wooden tray can be decorated using 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, decoupage glue.
• Putty and spatula (palette knife, plasticine stack).
• Sandpaper (320 for sanding wood surfaces and finer for sanding varnish).
• Regular acrylic lacquer.
• Craquelure for the formation of decorative cracks.

Getting Started:preparatory stage

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

The next step is to sand the wooden tray very well. Particular attention should be paid to those areas where the fibers do not lie, but bristle. If they are left in this form, then they will greatly interfere with further work.

Primer and product background formation

Next, you need to impregnate the wood with a primer coat of paint or a solution of varnish and water.

This will save colored paint, since the fibers will no longer absorb it intensively. After that, apply a layer of gray paint. This color will show through a light background.

To artificially age the tray, you need to wipe with a paraffin candle those places where scuffs should subsequently form. The ink will not adhere to the paraffin, giving the item a scratched appearance.

Then you need to use a wide brush to apply white paint rather casually to the bottom and sides of the tray. To make the strokes rough and distinct, the brush must 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 sanded well. To make the napkin slide better, you can apply a layer of varnish. You need to stick the decor after the blank has completely dried.

Fixing the decoupage napkin

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

• Then you need to prepare a mixture of water with glue (1: 1), put a napkin on the file face down and pour the solution. Use a wide hard brush to straighten all the wrinkles and air bubbles.
• Next, you need to quickly overlay the file along with the pattern on the decorated area of the product. It is very easy to smooth out wrinkles through plastic. In this case, you can not be afraid to damage or tear the napkin.
• When everything is straightened, the file is removed and, if necessary, the alignment is completed. Sometimes you can not do without folds. Don't worry, they can be removed later.

Shutting down

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

Applying diluted brown paint over the design will help make "antique" wooden trays (photos illustrate this process).

Two-component will help to get decorative crackscraquelure varnish. First, one layer should be applied, and after it has dried, the second. The depth of the cracks depends on the thickness of the applied layers.

This varnish dries for a long time - the whole day. It is extremely important to sustain this period completely. Cracks can be touched up with dark oil paint (brown or gray) applied to the fabric and rubbed well over the surface.

After everything dries, it is necessary to cover the entire surface of the tray with several layers of varnish.

As a decorative effect, the handles can be wrapped with twine, this technique completes the decoupage of a wooden tray.

The master class describes the general direction of work, but craftswomen can choose another way of decorating, apply a fragment of a napkin or finish some element on their own.