Decoupage - master class caskets own hands

In arranging a children's room for a girl, it is very important that all dolls of your little princess have their place - this can be a cot for dolls, a chair, a box or a box. This master class describes the steps of creating a stunning box-box with your own hands for a doll that can become not only a favorite toy, but also a magnificent object of the decor of a children's room for a girl.

Author master class on decoupage Elena( Zanzibar) step by step described all the actions, repeating which, you just as easily can create this casket with your own hands.

Describes Elena( Zanzibar)
I had a box-packing from cognac, and I remembered a film based on a fairy tale by Yuri Olesha "Three Fat Men", as a beautiful gymnast girl Suok under the guise of a doll lived for a time in a beautiful box. I decided to translate this idea into a gift for a girl who is engaged in dancing.

Especially for this case was associated ballerina( in the technique of amigurumi), it remains only to make a decent little box-house for her. This is how the given master class on decoupage boxes.

So, I took an ordinary wooden box, varnished.(photo1)

Box-box with your own hands. Photo 1

Very well sanded the surface( sandpaper No. 1, then No. 0), this was done in order to better lay the primer. It is very important - you need to fry along the natural fibers of the tree, and not across - that they do not "climb", but "smooth".(photo 2)

Casket-box with your own hands. Picture 2

Box-box with your own hands. Photo 2

I primed the box on all sides with a special primer( in this case Fondo opaco all'acqua per decoupage of the Italian company FERRARIO).Soil is a prerequisite for work, because the tree has a porous structure and in order to then lay down the paint exactly, these pores in the tree need to be "closed".It is the primer that performs these functions. If there is no primer - you can carefully walk through the surface with several layers of acrylic paint( it can also be used as a primer).(photo 3)

Casket-box with your own hands. Picture 3

Box-box with your own hands. Photo 3

This is how a well-grounded surface looks.(photo 4)

Casket-box with your own hands. Picture 4

Box-box with your own hands. Photo 4

Then, painted with white acrylic paint Polycolor Italian company MAIMERI - this will be my main color.(photo5)

Box-box with your own hands. Photo 5

I picked up a suitable 3-layer kitchen napkin with a small pattern( beginning decoupage with small parts to work easier - they are easier to stick, do not tear, it is easier to avoid folds and you can train your hand well).(фото 6)

Napkins for decoupage. Photo 6

Then the most time consuming in this product: the 2 lower white layers are detached from the napkin, in the work we need only the top layer with the pattern. Carefully snatched each fragment with flowers( total counted 66 fragments).(photo7)

Napkins for decoupage. Photo 7

Since my box inside was already with blue velvet, I took the same color and napkin and decided to make the aging effect( with the help of a one-component craquelure) on the same background. .. For this I picked up a matching blue matte acrylic paint for artisticworks( Deco of the French firm Lefranc & Bourgeois) and randomly applied contrast stains.(photo 8)

Casket-box with your own hands. Picture 8

Box-box with your own hands. Photo 8

Wait until the paint dries well.(photo 9)

Casket-box with your own hands. Picture 9

Box-box with your own hands. Photo 9

With the means for one-component craquel Hobby Line of the German firm C.Kreul I covered exactly the places of contrasting blue paint. Brush applied in one direction( photo 10) I like the medium crackel of this manufacturer( Craquelle Medium), because when it dries, beautiful, medium-sized fissures are formed.

Casket-box with your own hands. Photo 10

Box-box with your own hands. A photo of

When the cracelure agent is not sticky( you need to check with your finger - if your finger does not stick, but you feel that the product has not dried up yet) - immediately applied a layer of the main background paint - white.

It is very important to apply top paint on top of the application direction of Crackel!(photo 11).

Casket-box with your own hands. Picture 11

Box-box with your own hands. Photo 11

Box with your own hands

You can immediately notice how craquelure "tears" the top layer of white acrylic paint and the contrasting blue cracks appear, the effect of "antiquity" is created on your eyes.(photo 12)

Box-box with your own hands. Photo 12

Box with your own hands

After complete drying of all layers( craquelure and topcoat) - this can take from one to several hours, it depends on the temperature of the air in the room - I attached my fragments from the napkin and tried to place them in whatin a certain order so that during the gluing you can see exactly the place of each fragment.(photo 13)

Decoupage master class. Photo 13

For gluing fragments I used glue-varnish for decoupage Vernis Colle of French firm Lefranc & Bourgeois. Each piece was gently stitched with a soft brush with synthetic bristles, made sure that no creases were formed on the fragments.(photo 14)

Decoupage master class. Photo 14

Leave for 20 minutes until the decoction adhesive is completely dry. Here's the end, what a box turned out.(photo 15, 16)

Casket-box with your own hands. Picture 15

Box-box with your own hands. Photo 15

Casket-box with your own hands. Picture 16

Box-box with your own hands. Photo 16

On closer examination of decoupage areas on the surface with craquelure can be seen, due to the fact that the napkin layer is very thin, the picture as it would crack too, and this even more creates the effect of an old cracked surface.(photo 17)

Decoupage master class. Photo 17

After covering the dried box with parquet varnish, the effect of antiquity intensified due to the fact that the varnish has a natural amber color and a yellowish layer appeared on the white background of the box.(photo 18)