For this we need:
- wooden blank,
- napkin,
- artistic acrylic primer
- acrylic paints for creativity (white, ivory, green (green foliage),
- bitumen,
- stationery PVA glue (or acrylic varnish),
- paraffin candle,
- varnish for one-step craquelure,
- acrylic varnish for finishing the product,
- brushes, foam sponges, sandpaper.
Before you start decorating, you need to sand all the unevenness and roughness with sandpaper until smooth. We cover our workpiece with soil and after complete drying, sand it again, remove excess soil, leveling the surface.
Paint the surfaces in the color “Green Foliage” using a wide brush.
After drying (you can speed up the process by using an ordinary hair dryer in the “warm blowing” mode), in order to further give our product abrasions, we rub some places with an ordinary wax candle.
The shabby chic style assumes the presence of certain “traces of time” on decorative items - abrasions, chips, cracks. To simulate cracks we will use one-step craquelure varnish. We evenly apply craquelure varnish to the outer corners of our box.
When the varnish dries, but remains sticky and does not stain your fingers (after about 20-30 minutes), we paint the surfaces with beige paint. Important! To create cracks, apply paint to the craquelure in one direction with one stroke.
After complete drying, sand all surfaces. In order for abrasions to appear especially actively in the three places with sandpaper that we rubbed with a candle.
To decorate our product, we chose an ordinary three-layer napkin. We select the element we need by tearing off the edges of the napkin.
We remove the lower white layers of the napkin and place the design on the workpiece.
In our work, household acrylic varnish purchased at a hardware store was used to glue the napkin. Apply the varnish with a wide, well-moistened brush, using quick movements without strong pressure. We put a dot in the center of the picture and, as if drawing a snowflake, from the center to the periphery we glue our napkin. If folds appear, you can carefully lift the edge of the napkin and use a brush to “drive” air bubbles from the center to the periphery.
If small wrinkles still remain, we will remove them with sandpaper after the napkin has completely dried.
To smooth out the color transition between the napkin and the general background, “beat” (“smacking” movements) the edges of the design with a foam sponge soaked in beige paint.
To give “traces of time”, the edges of our box are “beaten” with bitumen.
The last step in our work is to cover the box with several layers of acrylic varnish (4-5 layers).
