Posts tagged: decoupage
How to Decoupage a Notebook
By DIY Maven
Grave Violet makes those inexpensive composition notebooks look like a million bucks! She assures us it's very easy to do, which makes it ever better.
Curbly Video: Using Paper Napkins to Make Decorative Tile Coasters
By DIY Maven
With the help of some 4" square ceramic tiles, turning decorative paper napkins into a set of very polished-looking coasters is easy.
To make a set of 4 coasters, you’ll need:
- 4-4" square ceramic tiles (you can find these at your big box store for about 15 cents a piece)
- Mod Podge (I used the Matte-Mat)
- small paint brush
- polyurethane (I used Aqua-Zar in satin, but glossy would look great too)
- decorative paper napkins
- Squares of thin » READ MORE
How To: Decoupage Your Ceiling.
By Chrisjob
One boring weekend, Mr. Peacock decided to collage. And oh, what a collage he collaged. Using some library books, photocopies, and some handy scissor work, Mr. Peacock decoupaged the nonsense out of his ceiling. And with his handy how-to, you can too!
1. Pick your pattern
2. Find the images
3. Xerox
4. Cut
5. Clean your surface
6. Glue
7.Decoupage
8.Voila!
Give your IKEA the wow factor
By Grippiks
If you love IKEA, you'll love this new product.
Grippiks Surface Accents let you create your own look for IKEA using colour and pattern.
They're easy to use, because they're printed on a clever new film that grips to surfaces with micro-suction, not sticky adhesive. So positioning, repositioning, and removing them is easy.
Grippiks are pre-cut to fit a range of IKEA's most popular series - BILLY, BENNO, EXPEDIT, EFFEKTIV, LACK, and MALM.
No » READ MORE
Sixteen Recycled Handmade Gift Ideas
By ModHomeEcTeacher 
If you're condsidering handmade gifts this holiday season, you most likely have some creative genes already in place. For that reason, this is a quick "off the top of my head" list of found objects you could artistically and lovingly incorporate into your own sweet handmade offerings. Feel free to expand this as the ideas start flowing. Don't be tempted to buy used and re-give in the same condition. Your family and friends will treasure » READ MORE
Ikea Hack: The Postage Stamp Table
By DIY MavenA hundred postage stamps or so, an Ikea table and some Modge Podge and you too could have a charming creation much like this:
Its creator, Volcano, seems to have used the mid-sized Klubbo, but the Lack would work great.
Amy Sedaris and Todd Oldham do Decoupage
By DIY Maven
Todd Oldham manages to keep his cool while making a decoupage table with the always effervescent Amy Sedaris. Note to Bravo, give this woman her own decorating/how-to show already, will ya?
Decoupage bookshelf
By jcarracherIt's been a VERY long time since I contributed something, so I thought I'd share a bookshelf refurbishing I completed over the weekend. Sometime last month, I went home to my parents' house and my mom had this bookshelf sitting in the driveway, which she had purchased at a junk shop. She wanted me to do something with it RIGHT THEN! Well, I needed time to think about it, and it sat in my car's trunk for weeks.
Finally, on Saturday afternoon I wa » READ MORE
New Crush:Matthew Mead
By beccajoOH Matthew Mead, where have you been all my life?
First, you pimp an IKEA lantern.
Then, you make a delish salad (perfect for my poker/taco night Thursdays).
But Matthew, you had me at 'hello' with these, genius, ruffled skirts for ice cream cones.
Be sure to check out his archives too.
Along with Tracy Porter, I'm loving the trend towards more maximalist living.
Not quite shabby Chic, not quite Martha.....what would we call this?
So here are some of the things I have done so far...
By elaraopheliaThis table I found at one of my father's rental properties. We had to clean the place out after the last owner moved out, because they left stuff behind and someone had bought the house off of my father and if we didn't at least pick out the saveable stuff, we wouldn't have the chance to later. This table is wooden and was a natural wood tone. It was in pretty good shape structurally. It initially was very dirty and scratched and had casters on i » READ MORE
Recycling Killer Ornaments
By EmilyJayneOkay. So I had a billion of these glass ornaments laying around, that I inherited. Sure, they're great. But I have large dogs that have even seemingly larger tails that bring the fragile orbs to their demise. Not to mention little hands pulling on and bumping or spinning wildly into them. It brought me to thinking about how to recycle them, since I'm an advid advocate for Mother Earth.
I found these ornaments from Pier One.
In an effort t » READ MORE
