Mega Mod Podge Project

As most of you already know, I love Mod Podge.  It's think it's the wonder ingredient of the crafting world.  I especially love Sparkle Mod Podge, but for today's project I held back and just used the regular stuff.

I've been wanting to do this project for awhile now and when I picked up this wooden chair for two whole loonies (that's 2 dollars for those of you outside of Canada) at a garage sale, I knew I was ready to go!

Here are the supplies I used:

Steps:

1) Check to see what the repeat pattern is on your napkin.  You could use tissue paper instead and probably get a big more bang for your buck, but I really liked these napkins.

You only need to do this for the seat.  Everything else will be pieced together and eventually you'll just start tearing and using scraps.  The first piece gets laid down as one whole piece though so you'll want to figure out which way you want the pattern to go.

2) My napkins were 3 ply.  The first one I glued down I kept getting air bubbles because of so many layers of paper.  I learned very quickly to take the layers apart first and use only the patterned layer.  The rest was for wiping the glue off of my hands.

3) Pour some glue out onto a paper plate and get ready to paint it onto your chair.

The rest is basic Mod Podge but I'll go through it anyway, just in case there's someone out there somewhere who hasn't taken the Mod Podge plunge yet.

4) Paint one layer of Mod Podge directly onto the chair.

5) Lay your napkin down and paint another layer of Mod Podge right on top of the napkin.  Mod Podge dries pretty quickly so you have to work fast.  Make sure you go over all of the edges to seal them.

It's OK if your napkin tears.  Sometimes it just can't handle all that glue and movement.  Once it dries you can just place another layer of glue and napkin and glue on top of the torn area.  No one will ever know~

6) Keep going all around the chair, making sure to get every little nook and cranny and spindle.  As you start getting into smaller spaces you can just tear your napkin.  Ragged edges are totally fine, if you have a busy pattern like mine it'll all just blend nicely.

By the way, I should probably mention that this is not something you want to do after an expensive manicure.  It does get messy.  I've got Mod Podge on my hands, my arms, my jeans, and I think even in my hair right now.  It all comes out easily, except when it's on top of nail polish, then it pulls the polish off too.

It's all worth it though, take a look!!

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I think it's just about pretty enough to be in the garden but it's actually going in front of a little built in desk in my kitchen.

Please excuse the mess of cords and the blahness of the walls.  This is the first step of an overhaul of my kitchen, almost the last room on my list of major make-overs.

I think this would be a fun craft to do with kids actually.  They like getting messy right?!?!  It took me a couple of hours and about 10 napkins to cover the whole chair.  I think it's fun and whimsical.  I can totally picture it with Mod Podge Sparkle but I'll try to ignore my 10 year old self and leave it as is.

Have you ever decoupaged something big?  While I was doing this I was thinking it would be pretty funny to do an entire dining room set or a bed frame or something.  You'd need a lot of Mod Podge but it could be fun.

Anyway, let me know what you think and if you're going to find something to cover in Mod Podge and Napkins.

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Glitter Tissue Paper Flowers

Well, I think it's official.  You guys are most interested in projects that include either glitter or butterflies.  So, I guess I'm not the only 13 year old girl living in a grown women's body after all!  I've been trying to keep a close eye on which projects seem to get the most visits and the most comments, and anything with mod podge sparkle is a clear winner.

So, even though today's project is one of those ones that's so easy peasy it doesn't even need a tutorial, I'm going to show it to you anyway, because it's what I made this week, and because I'm adding some glitter.  So hopefully, you like it.

Here's what I used:



Plus some spray Glitter!
How could I forget the glitter?!?!?

Steps:
1) If you're using two colours of tissue paper sandwich 5 layers together, alternating colours.

2) Using an accordion fold, fold the paper up lengthwise in about 1" pieces

3) Using some thread or string, tie a knot in the middle of the paper strip

4) Use your scissors to round off the ends

5) Very gently begin to unfold the paper

6) Now even more gently (or the paper will tear) unfold each of the layers, bringing them towards the centre

7) Do the same to the other side and you should end up with something like this

8) Give it a little scrunch in the back to make it more full in the front

9) I can't believe I almost forgot to do this, but here's where you get to bring out your spray glitter.  If you're a scrapbooker maybe you have glimmer mist, you could give that a try too.  I'm using some strange sparkly body mist stuff I foolishly bought last Christmas.  I don't know what I was thinking.  I've never worn it, you know why....because it smells an awful lot like mosquito repellent.


I must've been hypnotized by
the sparkles floating around.

10) Spray a fine mist of glitter all over your flowers.

It's a bit hard for the camera to pick up, but these flowers are super sparkly now!  (And a bit sexy and smelly, hopefully that will wear off over night)

I was originally going to make some flowers with this cheapo organza roll of fabric from the dollar store, but I wasn't crazy about how the first one turned out so I switched to tissue paper.

So, what are all these for???  Make sure to come back on Show and Tell Wednesday and I'll show you the rest of the room!

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