To make it pleasant for us to pick up our decorative egg, first of all we sand it with sandpaper.
The second stage is to use a sponge to cover our workpiece with acrylic paint, always white. To ensure the background is even, cover it several times. After each application of paint, in order to get the result faster, we dry our workpiece with a hairdryer. We make sure not to overheat our product, otherwise there may be unevenness due to uneven drying of the paint. But if this happens, it doesn’t matter. We take sandpaper in our hands and carefully remove the unevenness.
When the white background is ready, we proceed to the napkin. Carefully tear out the fragment we need. We just tear it out so that the edges of the napkin are not noticeable after gluing.In order not to accidentally tear or tear off excess, hold the napkin with your fingers close to the edge where the tear line should go. You can fix the edge with your fingernail. Then we apply the torn element to the workpiece - this is how we determine where it is better to glue the motif.
Now we proceed directly to gluing the motif. This can be done in two ways: the dry method using a brush and glue, and the wet method - by first soaking our fragment in water. In this MK the second method will be used.
We take a file with which we will glue the napkin (I use very soft and stretchy cellophane, I find it very comfortable). We place the torn element of the napkin face down, wet it with a spray bottle, carefully smooth out the folds, be sure to drain the excess water, take the file in our hands and apply the wet fragment to our workpiece. We straighten the fragment of the napkin through the cellophane, expel all the bubbles and carefully, very carefully remove the file from the workpiece. We make sure that the fragment of the napkin remains on the workpiece and not on the file. After this, we carefully blot our product from excess water, then cover the fragment on the workpiece with decoupage glue. Let's dry it.
The next stage, if we finish painting our egg and sanding, for this we cover the product with the first layer of varnish. When sanding folds, it will protect our decor from accidental damage. I take construction varnish. The main work is finished. Now - a flight of fancy. We complete the elements that are either missing or damaged during gluing. We focus on something, use contours, putties, stencils - who likes what in decoupage. We make sure to varnish our work at least three times.I cover my work with five layers, the appearance of the product is like covered with glass.
Good luck in your creativity, my dears.
