Wooden tray, decorated in technologydecoupage, extremely convenient and certainly useful to anyone who loves to drink tea or coffee at the monitor. Especially valuable are the practical benefits that this item brings, because not all needlework objects can boast such an advantage.
Depending on the desire of the craftswoman and the materials that are at her disposal, the wooden tray can be decorated with a printout, decoupage card, rice paper or napkin.
Materials and tools:
First of all it is necessary to study woodentray and identify all cracks, chips and other defects. If they are, they must be filled with putty. For this you should use a previously prepared flat item. In order to slightly reduce further cleaning, you need to carefully remove all excess putty from the surface.
In the next step, the wooden tray should bevery well treated with sandpaper. Particular attention should be paid to those areas where the fibers are not lying, but bristling. If you leave them in this form, then they will be great to interfere in further work.
Next, you need to impregnate the wood with a primer coat of paint or a solution of varnish and water.
This will save color paint, since the fibers will no longer intensively absorb it. After that we put a layer of gray paint. This color will be visible through the light background.
To artificially age the tray, you needwipe with a paraffin candle those places where rubbing should later form. The paint will not go over the paraffin wax, which will give the product the look of scratched.
Then you need a wide brush rather casuallyapply white paint on the bottom and sides of the tray. For the strokes to be 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.
Ready background should be well sanding. To make the napkin slip better, you can apply a coat of varnish. It is necessary to glue a decor after full drying of the workpiece.
There are various sticking techniques.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 be sodden in water, it can be treated with ordinary hairspray.
The dried pattern should be covered with several layers of varnish, and then clean the folds. If the torn edges of the napkin look ugly, they should be tinted and shaded with foam rubber.
Applying diluted brown paint on top of the drawing will help to make “antique” wooden trays (the photos illustrate this process).
A two-component craquelure varnish will help to get decorative cracks. At first it is necessary to put one layer, and after it is dried - the second. The depth of the cracks depends on the thickness of the applied layers.
Dries such a varnish for a long time - the whole day.It is extremely important to sustain this period completely. Cracks can be tinted with a dark oil paint (brown or gray), applied to the fabric and well pounded on the surface.
After everything is dry, 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 piece of a napkin, or finish drawing an element on their own.
