Decorating interior items using technology decoupage is gaining more and more popularity among the fair sex. You can decorate this way not only cutting boards, photo frames and other small things, but also bottles, for example, with champagne. These works will decorate the table, refresh it, and make it special. Even if you haven’t had time to master a new creative technique all year in the hustle and bustle, you can do this just on New Year’s days.
In this master class, we will consider the technique of direct decoupage from a file, in which we will apply the design on the bottle in a circle, overlapping edge to edge. When decorated directly with a napkin, the champagne will stand and not lie on its side, as when gluing a small motif.
Here it will be useful to define the terms used by the masters of this technique.
A motif is a drawing from a napkin or decoupage card that will be placed on the surface. Primer is acrylic paint or a mixture of paint with PVA glue, which is applied to the glass in the first and second layers.
For decoupage, PVA glue, slightly diluted with water, is usually used. It is also important to remember that when wet, the size of the napkin increases by approximately 0.5 cm on each side, which is very noticeable if you first apply a dry napkin to the surface to determine the boundaries where the motif will lie.
Materials and tools
The craftswoman should always have toothpicks, cotton swabs, sheets of paper or newspaper, and cotton wool on hand. All this can be found in every home. Pay attention to the reasonable arrangement of the workplace, to protecting your hands and face (especially eyes) from exposure to varnishes and paints. Therefore, it would be a good idea to purchase gloves, masks, etc. In addition to the above, prepare:
- acrylic paints: white and pearlescent;
- regular brushes, like those for watercolor paints;
- a sponge sponge or a piece of dry dishwashing sponge attached to a clothespin;
- acrylic lacquer;
- the finest sandpaper;
- acrylate putty for decorative work;
- napkins of a suitable theme, I took New Year's ones;
- artificial Christmas tree branches, real cones;
- for artificial snow, foam balls;
- PVA glue for paper and cardboard or construction glue;
- scissors;
- stationery file, preferably dense.
Inspiration, a creative message and free time, as well as a good mood, will also come in handy. The work may take several days, since each layer must be thoroughly dried, but using a hairdryer it can be sped up to several hours.
Beginning of work
Buy good quality champagne.
As in the case of remaking the old furniture, before applying any type of coating, you need to remove old decorative layers. When decorating a bottle, these are labels and excise stamps. First I soak the glass in water, then remove the label with a brush. Remains of paper and glue can be easily removed using vegetable oil and sandpaper, vigorously rubbing the bottle.
Choose a napkin in advance.
Before you start priming the glass, degrease it with window cleaner or alcohol.
Add PVA glue to the paint and prepare a foam sponge.
Apply the primer to the surface using small, dotted movements.
Two or three layers are enough. Let the bottle dry or dry it thoroughly with a hairdryer on all sides.
Now take some fine sandpaper and sand the surface.
During the sanding process, you will realize that the grain is not completely removed. In order to prepare the surface for decoupage from a file, take acrylate putty.
Apply the thinnest layer of paste to the bottle. To do this, take a plastic card from any bank instead of a spatula or just use your finger. You can also remove excess with a thread. The bottle should lie on its side.
Let's use the hairdryer again. The paste dries very quickly.
Cover the bottom of the bottle with it as well.
If necessary, brush the surface again. This is how smooth the bottle turned out in the end. Now she is ready to apply the motive.
Decoupage
The easiest way to decoupage for beginners is decoupage from a file. I chose a motif depicting New Year's balls, cinnamon, and fir branches. The pattern does not end on a quarter of the napkin, as usual, but is located on half, as shown in the figure.
If you wrap a napkin around a bottle, it becomes clear that you will have to turn it down a little.But let's not rush.
Make the edges of the motif uneven by cutting them off. Layer the napkin.
You may need to iron the motif from the reverse side using the “silk” setting.
Place the colorful layer of the napkin on the file with the pattern down and start dripping water on top of it, from the middle to the edges. You want the entire napkin to be submerged in water. Essentially, when you straighten it, you will not touch the paper with the brush, you will touch the water, and the napkin will straighten itself.
Flatten the motif, expel the air from under it, the folds will straighten out. However, do not keep the napkin in the water for too long! The edges of the motif can be safely removed, since the paper has increased in size..
The motif on the file can be raised in this way, as shown in the figure.
Lubricate the bottle thickly with PVA glue; there is no need to dilute it in this case.
Now begins the most interesting and most difficult part of the work. Starting from the middle of the motif, lean the file against the bottle, but not all at once, but only the middle, and stroke the file with your hands up and down, and also slightly to the sides.
Next, you need to place one edge of the napkin on the glue and slowly separate it from the file. If necessary, straighten with a wide brush with water, but it is better to glue straight away evenly.
In the photo below you can clearly see that one part of the napkin is still on the file, and the other is already on the bottle.
Now overlap the rest of the napkin, adding a little glue. This whole process requires skill, attention and concentration. If necessary, carefully tear off the excess part of the image too.
Pay attention to the following photo. It shows that the last part of the napkin did not stick very smoothly, and when trying to smooth it out, the motif began to tear. At this stage, if this happens to you, it is best to exhale. Let the napkin dry naturally; a hairdryer will only do damage here.
Now glue the top of the napkin, which previously remained just in the air. If creases form, they can be removed later with sandpaper.
Select a color and complete the background using the same sponge.
While the paint is drying, prepare the artificial snow. To do this, mix white paint, PVA glue and semolina or such foam balls as in the photo.
Apply two coats of varnish to the bottle and let it dry. Before this, it was possible to depict patterns on the surface.
Cover the lid with foil and apply fake snow to it.
Finally, hide the bumps and seam of the napkin with a few branches of an artificial Christmas tree or tinsel. I also glued real pine cones and covered the branches with fake snow. You can attach this to a glue gun, which you can buy at the Fix Price store for no more than 100 rubles.
That's all, beautiful present ready!
