Napkin Decoupage

Afternoon lovely peeps :)

Kinda been missing on blogger for a while - have been busy with new projects & not blogging about them - until now!  Here is one of the new projects I have tried - and I must say, although it's not a quick project, I thoroughly enjoyed putting it all together. 

 It's a plain memory type box with window in which I have sanded back and then painted with Gesso (sp?) - it took three coats until I was happy with it.  I then painted the inside with green acrylic paint - I didn't want it looking too perfect, so used my paint dabber to sponge the paint over and leaving some of the underneath white paint to come through - kinda distressed but not quite, if you know what I mean! Once dry I then took my chosen napkin & cut out the flowers that I wanted & then arranged it over the front & side of the box until I was happy with the design.  Then came the messy/tricky/sticky bit...I painted slap-it-on over the box & placed  each one layer of napkin down & then brushed slap-it-on again.  Well, the result is below for  you to see...let me tell you, I wasn't totally happy with the end result as when I varnished over the whole of the box (inside too) I noticed when dried that I'd got a few 'bumpy' bits of varnish.  I had to let it dry completely before sanding back again & re-varnishing. Whilst waiting for that to dry I then stamped out the letters to spell out Mum, painted them with the same acrylic  green paint (as used in the inside) & waited for them to dry before applying them to the dry varnished box.

So, What do you think, not bad for a first attempt? I can definitely see room for improvement and that will come with experience! I plan on making another one very soon for my Sister's birthday.

 I made some small cards for the inside of the box & then wrapped it all up for a gift for my Mother's birthday & I am so happy to say she was thrilled with her gift! She kept stroking her hand over the box & shaking her head, saying she couldn't believe I had made it!  She also loved all the cards inside.  I was so chuffed!!

So, that's all for now.  I'm glad to say I have got around to visiting blogs but seriously, you guys blog so much LOL I can't keep up with you all!

I'd like to enter my project into the following challenges:

Brown sugar challenge.blog - #77 - Anything goes

Until next time,