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any great diy content today i have five different methods of decoupaging now decoupaging is a whole
world of crafting you can do it on so many different surfaces glass wood canvas and you
can use so many different things to decoupage with you can use napkins and papers and wrapping paper
and fabric it kind of the possibilities are endless but today i'm going to show you how
you can decoupage using napkins onto wood five different methods it just kind of is just gonna
brush the surface of this whole decoupage stuff but um maybe it'll help you out with some of
your crafting projects you can pick out which one you like the best and then implement it into your
crafting projects so let's get started today i'm going to show you five different ways that you can
decoupage there are so many different ways and so many different techniques um you kind of just have
to play around with it and see what works best for you but the first step to any decoupage project
is to only work with one ply of napkin so you want to make sure that you take whether it's two-ply or
a 3 ply napkin you want to make sure that you take them apart and only decoupage with the top piece
now another little trick that i like to do with my napkins is these ones are three ply the
middle ply has a little bit of the color leeched through um so i'm not able to really use that one
for another craft project but i save these for because they're great for cleaning up messes
and if you're regular around my channel messes are always happening around here so i always set those
aside in a pile but with this one i always save these because i custom make my own napkins i have
a full tutorial on how to do that i'll put a link down below in the description you can check it
out because it's really cool if you find designs that you can if you can't find designs for napkins
you can always make your own so i always save these and i tuck them away in a pile to use them
so today i'm going to show you how to decoupage on wood i've got some wooden pieces um wooden
signs that i've made these are just painted with chalk paint i find it's best to decoupage on top
of a light colored paint if these were painted black and you put them it would probably be
okay on these napkins but if you were to have the background black with these the black would
show through because the napkins become a little bit transparent when you decoupage with them so
i always a little tip i always like to paint my project in a light colored paint before i
decoupage the other thing that i always like to do is i always like to press my napkins with an
iron before i decoupage them they always have these creases in them and i always like to get
rid of those because it makes it a lot easier to work with i've picked these napkins up at
home sense um i love the the graphics on them and that's what i'm going to use today for um
for today's project when i'm pressing my napkins you want to do it under a towel or a heat pad
and i always like to put parchment paper on top of the napkin before i press it not wax paper make
sure it's parchment paper and then just take the iron and just get all of those little wrinkles out
the first method that i'm going to show you is the iron-on method and all of these i'm showing you on
wood today they will work on other surfaces too but i just wanted to kind of focus on decoupaging
on wood so you're just going to put a liberal amount over your whole project set it aside
and let the mod podge completely dry so that's all covered i'm going to set it aside
now that first coat is dried and my preference is to put two coats on before i do the iron on
i just put a really light coat of that second coat of mod podge on before i do the iron
on transfer this is kind of just optional i just find that it works the best for me
having the two coats of the mod podge on again set it aside and we're going to let that dry
the mod podge is completely dry i'm going to place the napkin exactly where i want it
and then you're going to place some parchment paper over top of it and you want your iron set at
the highest setting with no steam you don't want any steam coming out of your iron and then you're
just going to make sure that napkin doesn't move and i like just to do every two or three seconds
just kind of push it along that napkin really carefully and let that mod podge
melt right into that napkin and adhere to the wood and then once you get done
i like to just to take pull up the parchment make sure that it's working yeah it's working perfect
and i'm just going to go over it again just to make sure that it is here
really well again every two seconds just kind of move it along and this one works fantastic
never have any bubbles or wrinkles when i'm using this technique
and once you're finished there's no drying time it's good to go other than the initial
waiting for the initial mod podge to dry but it's all finished and it's adhered
now when you're decoupaging you don't want to have a whole lot of extra napkin so i always like to
pick a spot where i like the pattern the best and i think i like this right here and then cut your
napkin just a little bit bigger than your project and it makes it a little bit easier to work with
and you're not fumbling around with a great big bunch of napkin that's going to wrinkle
on you easier so just cut it down a little bit bigger than the size of your project
and now i'm going to show you how to decoupage with cling wrap or saran wrap this is a really
great technique for getting rid of bubbles and wrinkles and you're just gonna paint on
your mod podge now you don't want a real thick coat if you put too much on it makes it a lot more
difficult to deal with just a light coat just to cover your whole surface and then you're going to
just pick up your napkin and very carefully now you can't lift this up after you push it down so
put it right where you want it just gently tap it with your fingers and then if you get a piece
of the saran wrap you can just tap it in and as you're doing that it's getting rid of all the
wrinkles and the bubbles and making a nice smooth surface and you can just go over it until they're
all out this works fantastic on smaller pieces too where you have to get into little corners and
stuff and uh press it out there and that worked perfect now we're just going to set it aside
and let it dry next method is a glue stick these work really well for decoupaging um these ones i
just picked up at the dollar store you don't need a real fancy glue stick and you're just going to
rub it over your whole project getting right out to the edges you want to make sure you have that
adhering to the edges and rub it all over and then you're just going to pick up your napkin
place it exactly where you want it
and just lightly tap it out and again with this with this type of decoupage you can also go back
with your saran wrap and just press out any of those wrinkles
and it works fabulous with the glue stick too
and that's working really good getting lots of the wrinkles out
and it's that easy
next method to decoupage is using saran wrap underneath and you just take off a little piece
of saran wrap the same size as your piece of wood and you want to lay it down nice and flat
and then you want to cut off the excess you don't want a whole lot hanging off the edges so just
trim it up a little bit around the edges i'm going to flip this around make it a little bit easier
and this is a really great technique if you're doing really small pieces
and trying to decoupage on them and it's quick and fast there's no dry time as soon as you've
finished it it's ready to go so we're going to lay that nice and flat you're going to lay your napkin
on top of it exactly where you want it and then you're going to get that piece of parchment paper
and you're going to lay it right on top of that and then you're going to take your iron
and just gently press it down now you don't want to move that around too much because you don't
want the napkin to slip underneath and you're just going to hold it for five seconds and then move it
five seconds and then move it and just do it over the entire piece of wood
until you've covered the whole surface and what this is doing is it's melting that cling wrap or
that saran wrap right into the napkin and the wood and adhering it to it and this works fantastic no
bubbles no wrinkles so i'm just gonna pull it up and have a look and make sure that it worked and
it did it's adhered perfectly i'm just gonna go over just once more just to make sure always make
sure you got parchment paper on top don't iron on right on the napkin and that one's finished
and this one has no drying time it is ready to go let it cool down and you can finish it off
the next method is water a water technique now what you want to do is you want to put a thin
coat of mod podge all over your project not too thick just a nice thin coat right to the edges
and then i have a plastic sleeve and i pick these up at the dollar store and they work
perfect for this type of a project you're going to take your napkin you're going to lay it face
down in the middle of that plastic sleeve and then you're going to take i have a little bit just of
water with a sponge and you're just going to wet that napkin until it's completely soaked through
and just get it all wet until it soaks up all the water
you can also use a spray bottle which probably would have worked a little bit better
because this is a brand new sponge and it's not
pulling up the water very fast but it's doing its job and then you just want to take your napkin
and just get all the wrinkles out of it just be very gentle because this will tear really easy
and then we're all ready for the next step now you want to get a piece of paper towel and just
soak up all that extra water being really careful on that napkin that it doesn't rip or tear
you don't want very much water on that and just be really mindful that it's not wrinkling again
and it's all set so then you're just going to pick it up
now the nice thing about this technique is you can move it around so if it's not exactly
where you want it you can set it down as you can see it's not centered where you want it
you can pick it back up and move it around that's the nice thing about this technique
is once you put it down it can be moved where the other techniques once it's down it's down
and then just very gently just rub over the top getting all those little bubbles and wrinkles out
and then you're going to peel away that plastic sleeve leaving the napkin down
and it's adhered right to the board and again if you see a little wrinkle or a little bubble
you can take that saran wrap again and just dab over the surface and get rid of it and then you're
just going to set this aside and let it dry now these are all dry and i'm going to sand around the
outside and get rid of all of this extra napkin and um it'll make them look nice and neat and tidy
and there you have all five different methods of decoupaging each one has its own purpose for
different projects maybe you could get five pieces of wood and try each of these techniques yourself
and see which one you like the best and then try it out on your project
okay let's do a recap so we have the standard method just putting the mod podge on leaving it
wet and then putting the napkin on top of it and using a little bit of cling wrap to push all the
bubbles and wrinkles out if that happens i use this one quite a bit always works really well
your cling wrap method this one works good you have to make sure that you're doing it
on something that you can get the iron onto flat enough to make sure that it adheres to the surface
really well but never any bubbles and wrinkles always works really good glue stick method this
one is so easy and so quick you just put the glue stick on put the napkin down use a little bit of
cling wrap press out the bubbles and wrinkles always works fantastic water transfer method
this one works really well if you have to go around corners or angles and um you have to
shape something this one works really good and the iron on method this one's fantastic also
but it has to be able you have to be able to do it on a flat surface where you can run the
iron over the top of it like table tops coffee tables um the top of boxes that sort of thing
i hope this video was helpful for you i think it will be really great for beginners
if you've never really done much with decoupage because you can try out these different methods
find out which one works best for you and then do that on your project
and um now the only thing that i didn't touch on was doing a top coat on these i didn't put a top
coat on these yet because i'm probably going to make them into signs but when you're putting a
top coat on any of these if you put too much on it will bubble up and have a tendency that seems
to be what people have the most problem with is after they finished all this it's so nice and
smooth you put your top coat on next thing you turn around and you look at it and it's
wrinkled and bubbled again so my tip for that is less is more i don't like using mod podge as a
top coat i find it really does bubble and wrinkle really easy i use a water-based polyacrylic sealer
or a water-based polyacrylic sealer spray and i just put a very light coat on almost like a dry
brush and just brush it on very lightly and that will eliminate a lot of the bubbles and wrinkles
coming up after you've already done your decoupage so i hope these tips and tricks have helped you
out and these different methods will get you started on your decoupage journey if you have any
questions just go down below in the description because i try to answer as many as i can to help
you guys out um and thanks again for watching and we'll see in the next video have a great day
do you