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Volumetric decoupage of Christmas balls. MK. Decoupage of a wooden Christmas tree. Decoupage of New Year's toys - master class for all design options

Getting ready for the New Year

This time, in addition to the big Christmas tree, we will also have this one - small, decorative, with surprises and wishes:

For this New Year's tree, we bought a blank made of fiberboard - we could, of course, ask my husband to cut it out with a jigsaw, but it can also be nice to work with goofy things

(By the way, last year I made something similar to this Christmas tree template, only from colored foam napkins for cleaning - you don’t need to cut them with a jigsaw, they can be easily cut with scissors:)

I had this Christmas tree blank for more than a year - I had a lot of fantasies and it was difficult to give preference to any decor option. In the end, I decided to make decoupage, and not the traditional “neat and even” one, but in my favorite “patchwork” technique (such as, or)

And this is also the case when I was not too lazy to take sequential photographs of the entire process, so I will share the details.

So, to begin with, I primed the workpiece with white acrylic paint (regular good quality paint from a high-quality supermarket, which we had left over after the renovation). It is convenient to prime with a piece of foam rubber (an old washcloth).

For decoupage I used regular PVA glue, slightly diluted with water. I find it convenient to work with a small flat brush.

The glue is applied to the base, then a napkin is placed on top (for those who don’t know, this is the top layer of colored napkins, they are usually three-layered). I smooth the piece of napkin carefully with my fingers and then with a brush. Small folds are an almost inevitable thing when decoupage (when the paper dries, they noticeably flatten out). Do not smooth it too hard - the paper will not tolerate it. We also glue the edges, the excess can be carefully torn off when the napkin dries.

I already had two boxes of napkins for decoupage, so I had plenty to choose from. I took the ones with a New Year's theme and with a pattern reminiscent of fabrics. This is the “patchwork” decoupage I ended up with:

Then I added a white outline to imitate zigzag seams to make it look even more like flaps. And I glued the buttons onto a rolled strip of paper (approx. 2mm), with “crazy Velcro” glue (PVA doesn’t take plastic very well):

On the buttons, I used an outline to imitate the “threads” with which they are supposedly sewn. I also added sequins in places.

I hung small “messages” on the buttons - in them I wrote “predictions”, such as “an interesting journey”, “new friends”, “unexpected income”, etc. The idea is for each of the guests to take one or a couple of such predictions for the next year.

Here it is our new Christmas tree from different angles:

And some close-up details:

The New Year is rushing towards us! Vintage - decoupage balloons!

Mk "Christmas tree toy".

We will need:

1. Plastic blank

2. Rice paper with a suitable theme

4. Acrylic paints

5. Structural paste

6. Antique medium

7. Medium for flowing effects

8. Water-based liquid bitumen

9. Matte varnish

10. Alcohol for degreasing

The tools we need are:

Brushes,
sponge,
stencil,
palette knife,
sandpaper,
masking tape and
wet wipes.

Completing of the work:

We divide our medallion in half and degrease the sides we will be working with. Since I am going to do reverse decoupage on one of the halves, I degreased it from the inside.

I tear out the plot I like from the rice paper. I take a half with a fat-free inner side and on this side I MUST glue my motif face down using decoupage glue.

While this half is drying, I take the other half - with the outer side degreased. Using white acrylic paint, prime the surface (up to 2 times with intermediate drying).

After everything has dried well, take the stencil and attach it to the half with masking tape. We take acrylic paste (I have a universal one from Goya) and use a palette knife to apply it to the stencil.


We try to do it evenly, but if suddenly it doesn’t work out perfectly, don’t be upset - it can be fixed later. Remove the stencil and let our pattern dry well.

I take the half with the motif glued on and apply white acrylic paint over the design.

This is done in order to make our picture brighter and reveal it. Try to leave the borders of the motif intact; we will later compare them with the general background. Let's dry it.

After that, I take an antique medium (plaid 17) and a medium for flowing effects (also plaid), mix it and lightly apply it around the picture with a foam sponge (remember, all this time we are working with the inside of the medallion).

Now let's create a general background. To create a suitable tone, I needed white, green and ocher acrylic paints + a medium for flowing effects.

I also apply them with a sponge, trying to align the borders of the picture with the background so that the transition is not noticeable. Let's dry it.

I take half with a well-dried pattern. The pattern was not very neat, so I worked a little with sandpaper.

Now I paint the half in a suitable color (I mixed ocher with white). Let's dry it.

After that I coat it with varnish (I use matte acrylic varnish from Maimeri). We dry it again.

Now we take liquid water-based bitumen (Ferrario). I apply it with a brush over the entire surface, trying to get through the pattern better (get into all the cracks).

I let it dry for just a couple of minutes. Then I take a damp cloth and slowly remove the excess bitumen.

She wiped - looked - again - wiped, etc. In general, you decide for yourself when enough is enough. If you suddenly overdid it and wiped off the excess, don’t worry - repeat the “procedure” again (we have varnish under the bitumen - it will retain our main color).

After you are satisfied with the result, let the bitumen dry and then coat it with varnish (personally, I cover the bitumen with spray varnish. It does not deform the bitumen itself and does not form streaks).

Now we connect our halves. We take cotton lace (you can use ribbon) and glue it at the junction of the two halves in a circle.

We make a decorative bow from satin ribbons on top and thread a lace through it. That's all.








Author Olga Koretskaya.

Decoupage inside a ball (or rather a hemisphere). Using elements of the Arte-Française technique.


I will conduct a master class using the example of such a ball.

1. Take a plastic ball of the diameter you need.

2. We cut it along the factory gluing line, preferably exactly along the contour.



4. Use sandpaper to smooth out all the irregularities at the cut site.

5. Paint the background inside the ball. You can also use aerosol paints, or you can tamp with a sponge. As you please. Use colors according to your motive. To speed things up, I painted it with an aerosol, but the background, of course, will be more beautiful with a sponge or brush, because you can create more shadows and color transitions, because... The area of ​​the ball in this case is small.

6. I take cotton pads and separate the cotton from the middle of the disc. I place suitable pieces on the bottom of the ball, having previously coated the gluing area with PVA glue. I apply it in small layers and spray each layer with varnish (you can use hairspray) or apply liquid PVA (the principle of papier-mâché made from cotton wool).



7. We print out the motifs in advance, in the size you need, several copies. I have six in the photo, but I printed more. There is a possibility that there will not be enough in the process of work, for one reason or another. Therefore, it is better to make larger quantities of the same size. (although the size can be slightly changed, here you can also show your imagination).

8. Cut out the first level, the furthest one, from one motif. For example, a horizon with trees. You can repeat this level twice, but in such a small space it seems to me that it would be unnecessary. Then the second level, we cut out a motif with trees, then a strip with houses. And glue everything layer by layer into a ball. I glue it with Moment rubber glue, sometimes I use a hot gun, and all kinds of pads to separate the layers. I sometimes use insulation for linoleums or this gasket for leveling floors under parquet boards, but I only use this when the surfaces are large. You can use double-sided tape.



9. After you have glued all the layers, add more cotton wool until the lower borders of the glued motifs are covered with cotton wool and merge together. The cotton wool is glued in the same way as described above. I glued the motifs with a slight downward shift, so my drawing seemed to be refracted. All these roughnesses can be tinted and retouched with matching paint.

10. From other printouts I cut out a central motif with a bird feeder and birds. There are fewer of them in the photo, I needed more birds. I glued this feeder separately and then glued the whole piece into a ball. Again I glued the joints and gluing areas with cotton wool and sprayed them with varnish.




11. Then I cut out fir branches from the following printouts.

12. I glued them along the edge of the ball using Moment glue, which I applied carefully along the edge of the ball. The motifs were glued overlapping, one on top of the other, to cover the cutting areas, align the composition and just for beauty.

13. After the glue had dried, I cut all the protruding parts with a stationery knife into the edge of the ball, carefully, accurately and evenly.

14. I applied snow on the spruce branches with contour paint and glitter, drew a stripe in the background like snowdrifts, and refreshed the color with snow on the trees and roofs.

15. Once dry, you can spray it with glitter varnish (suitable for hair) and cover the whole thing with acrylic aerosol varnish.

16. You can draw a circle around the edge of the ball with glitter and sparkles for beauty, etc. here you do it exactly as you want.

17. Glue the eyelet for hanging the ball onto the hot gun, tie a bow and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Mandatory conditions for work! Printouts are best done on thick paper. I did it on watercolor paper. And it’s better to make several copies at once. I made 7-8 copies.

Vintage Christmas tree toy using decoupage technique.

Take a big ball
an ordinary plastic blank of pale pink color.

The first stage is sanding.

Now you need to degrease the surface

And prime the surface for better bonding with subsequent layers

The ball needs to be covered with two layers of soil, so that there are no gaps on the toy... and besides, the layers should lie evenly, and then the toy will go to rest - to dry...



So, the work with color begins. You should choose light colors - they are easier to darken or repaint.

We use a suitable decoupage card or napkins.

Let's move on to the artistic stage.

We take a semi-finished ball with a picture in one hand, a special sponge swab in the other and apply the first tint layer with tapping movements, then we begin playing with the color palette, adding strokes of different tones here and there... the effect is magical... as if from under one layer another one appears... very similar to laminated glass.

Then comes varnishing in 3 layers with an interval of one hour and subsequent drying for 4 hours. – “The main thing is to rotate it very quickly and evenly, otherwise the varnish will not completely cover the toy,” it is better to rotate it by the wooden leg, like a centrifuge.

Before the “diving” stage, we sand the balls, and then we bathe the toys in varnish and put them in rows to dry in special holes.

Next is a magical and very important stage - Creating cracks with a two-component craquelure varnish.



The pattern is neatly covered with a grid of many cracks.

The next three stages are applying several layers of varnish, then sanding, again varnish and sanding, once again several layers of varnish, and leave until completely dry.

The final stage was decorating with lace, which by the way was also aged. After all, the lace is taken completely new, but after a couple of hours of witchcraft and really simple manipulations it becomes ancient.

It's simple:

We brew strong and tasty coffee.. no, no.. and don’t drink it.. but dip white cotton lace in it.. then dry it, then wash it somewhere and - voila!! The old lace is ready! The process seemed pleasant, tasty, aromatic and no less creative to me. At the very end, the old bow is placed on the ball; gold braid and colored ribbons add zest. I must say, the toys look solemn.


Author Khristenko Svetlana

New Year's balls.

We will decorate a plastic ball using decoupage technique. You don't need any special skills for this. So let's get started!

We will need:

Plastic balls, diameter 8 cm,
- acrylic paints: white, yellow, blue,
- acrylic lacquer,
- three-layer napkins with a pattern,
- PVA,
- sparkles,
- a little semolina,
- contours on glass and ceramics,
- flat synthetic brushes,
- a piece of sponge,
- polytra (I have a plastic modeling board).

If there are no special ball blanks, then you can use ordinary balls without a pattern.

Take a ball and a piece of sponge for washing dishes, put a little white paint on the palette, dab the sponge into the paint and hit the ball. There should always be paint on the sponge, then it looks like snow on a ball.

We do this with all the balls and hang them to dry (1 hour). Here's what happened

While the balls are drying, prepare the napkins.

Separate the top paint layer from the white ones.

Carefully cut out or tear out the motifs.

We dilute the PVA half with water and glue the motifs onto the balls. We start gluing from the middle of the motif and gradually move towards the edge.

And we do this with all motives.

For balloons with bunnies, apply light yellow paint and pat on the white background around the motif.

When the paint dries, coat the ball with varnish.

The result was such beautiful balls.

Now we will make them New Year's!
We take a little white paint and pour semolina into it so that we get a thick porridge and apply it with a thin brush to the ball in those places where we will have snow.





The ball is ready!


Author Slastina Elena.

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New Year is just around the corner, which means it’s time to start making exclusive decorations for the holiday. New Year's decoupage will help you breathe new life into old Christmas tree decorations and create unique accessories from champagne or candles.

This decorating technique is quite simple, but will bring maximum pleasure to everyone involved in the process. With its help, you can not only stunningly decorate your home, but also give decorated items to your loved ones.

Decoupage of Christmas tree decorations

What's a Christmas tree without Christmas balls? Balloons that are boring or have become boring over the years can always be transformed by decorating them using the decoupage technique.

Balls made of any materials are used as a base: glass, plastic, wood, papier-mâché. You can buy new plain toys or take existing ones and breathe new life into them.

For decoration you will need the following materials and tools:

  • the base, it should be smooth, this is important, so when using old toys they should be carefully cleaned;
  • white acrylic paint;
  • sponge or cosmetic sponge;
  • PVA glue (can be slightly diluted with water);
  • thin flat brush;
  • pictures with New Year's themes.

Pictures with suitable designs can be printed on a color printer or cut out from decorative napkins; even clippings from books or sheet music are suitable. For decoupage, it is better to use very thin paper so that the finished product does not get wrinkles or creases.

The first step is to prepare the toys for further decoration. To do this, apply acrylic paint to them with a sponge and let it dry.

While the balls are drying, you need to cut out figures from the napkins along the contour with a slight indentation. Typically, decorative napkins have several layers; to work, you only need the top one, on which the design is applied. If the picture is printed, then the image is cut out strictly along the contour or the required shape (circle, oval).

We apply the cut out image to the ball in the right place, carefully begin to coat it with glue using a brush, moving from the center of the picture to the edges. In this way we cover the entire required area, and carefully blot off the excess glue with a soft cloth.

If the picture is printed, then before sticking it on, you should try it on. Attach the picture to the toy, cut off all excess and make small cuts along the edges of the image in places where the picture will not be damaged. This is done so that the thick paper lies on the spherical base without wrinkles.

In the place where the picture will be on the ball, we make marks, coat this area with glue, after which we apply the adjusted image and level it with a brush with PVA, as described above.

Important: The ink on printed images may be unstable. It is advisable to first coat the desired picture with water-based varnish, dry it, and only then proceed with decoupage.

Let the glue dry and mask the edges of the design with paint and a sponge, carefully painting over the joints.

Decoupage of New Year's balls should be as impressive as possible.

For further decoration you can use:

  • Glitter. Apply transparent glue to certain areas of the ball, including the design, and sprinkle the toy with glitter. The shiny ornament will remain only in those places where there was glue.
  • Glitters. Shiny contour paints can be used to create original patterns on toys. You can outline the picture or draw dots, snowflakes, etc.
  • Beads and beads. An image, especially a round one, can be decorated along the contour with beads, gluing them onto super glue or transparent silicone.
  • Stencils. Acrylic paint is applied through a pre-prepared template with a sponge.
  • Shells, dried flowers, rhinestones, etc.

The finished ball does not have to be white; after the picture is pasted, you can carefully use a brush to give the background the desired color.

Such New Year's toys can be effectively complemented with ribbons or lace, hanging on a decorative cord.

Decoupage bottles

You can decorate the New Year's table or create spectacular gift sets using bottles of champagne decorated using the decoupage technique. Even wine bottles can be decorated in this way, presenting exclusive gifts to colleagues or friends.

To decoupage champagne you will need the same tools and materials as for the balloons. Additionally, use masking tape to cover the label while you work.

The bottle must be prepared by removing all unnecessary stickers and labels. You can put it in boiling water for a minute and remove the remaining paper.

Use masking tape to seal the top of the bottle. Using white acrylic paint, using a brush and sponge, coat all areas where the drawing will be located. This can be the entire surface of the glass, or individual places.

A pattern is applied to the dried soil and carefully coated with glue from the center to the edges. For large images it is better to use a wide fan brush. If the picture gets wet and begins to tear, carefully connect the edges of the picture in the places where it is torn; this will not be noticeable on a dried bottle of champagne. If the defect is noticeable, then you can disguise it with something: sparkles, paint.

When the pasted picture has dried, you can tint all open areas of the bottle.



Using a sponge, carefully apply paint to all white areas. A paint that harmoniously matches the shades of the picture, gold or silver, is suitable. If necessary, the finished New Year's decoupage can be supplemented with spectacular details.



Congratulatory inscriptions or an original ornament should be applied with glitter, and with the help of white paint, semolina and sparkles, you can create realistic snow and emphasize individual elements of the picture.

Finally, you need to coat the entire product with a water-based varnish or a special one for decoupage. You should tie a ribbon around the neck of the bottle as a finishing touch.

This champagne can be a good gift for the New Year.

New Year's decoupage of champagne can be done in various ways, for example, by covering the bottle with thin cotton cloth. The glass surface is coated with glue and wrapped in cloth. With the help of a brush and hands, the fabric is pressed as tightly as possible to the bottle, all kinds of folds, wrinkles and ornaments are formed. You can glue a pattern to the glass in advance and distribute the material around it.

Ideas for New Year's decoupage

New Year's decoupage is indispensable for creating holiday accessories or original gift design. You can decorate almost any object, the main thing is that its surface is smooth.

Dishes with Christmas decor look impressive. These can be individual plates, glasses, coasters, or entire sets decorated in the same style. Glass, ceramics, plastic – any base material will do.

After decoupage, the dishes should be varnished. Such glasses or plates cannot be used for their intended purpose, but as an original accessory or gift they will come in handy.

Buy regular wide white candles and decorate them using decoupage. They will decorate any interior and become a pleasant gift for loved ones. Moreover, these are not only accessories; if desired, you can light them if you don’t mind spoiling such beauty.

New Year's decoupage can turn even the simplest box into a stunningly beautiful box or gift wrapping. You can cover it all with New Year-themed pictures and add congratulatory inscriptions. Or decorate it in a vintage style, decorating it with a Victorian-style pattern, beads, braid, or ornate patterns.

To extend the service life of products, it is best to coat them with decoupage varnish.

The decoupage technique allows you to change the appearance of familiar things, and the ease of implementation makes such decor accessible to everyone. Create a festive atmosphere in your home with cozy handmade decorations.

Let's complicate the task: decoupage a Christmas ball using craquelure

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Long before the New Year, you can feel the approach of a magical holiday if you get everyone in the household involved in preparing for it, and as a manifestation of your creative imagination, we suggest mastering the New Year’s decoupage of Christmas tree balls with your own hands.

We sell a wide range of ready-made Christmas balls in a wide variety of styles. But it’s always more pleasant to hear praise and admiration from friends and acquaintances for the exclusive outfit of a forest beauty. Decoupage is a popular type of decoration, which prompted many lovers of originality to make a Christmas tree outfit using this technique with their own hands.

Step-by-step instructions for decoupaging a ball

Decor for beginners consists of gluing a picture from napkins or thin paper onto the surface of the ball. With further processing with paints or other auxiliary means, the toy looks like hand painting. The starting material is Christmas tree decorations: wooden, plastic and foam.

Preparing the ball for decoupage. At the beginning of work, you should remove the wire fastening from the ball and secure it tightly to the rod for convenience. Then use fine sandpaper to remove the glitter from the toys and wash off the paint by moistening a cotton pad with nail polish remover. Rinse with water and sand again. After this treatment, the adhesion of the pattern and the surface of the ball will be better, since it is more difficult to make decoupage on a perfectly smooth base. Next you need to degrease the prepared material.

The next stage is the primer, which is the basis for the pictures. To do this, add PVA glue, approximately 5 ml, to 20-30 ml of white acrylic paint. Apply this composition to the workpiece using a sponge and leave to dry, after which the application of primer is repeated.

Next comes the decoration of the Christmas balls using the decoupage technique. Having selected a New Year's motif in accordance with the size of the Christmas ball, cut it out and glue it to the surface. The best material in this case is napkins, in which you need to tear off the selected pattern from the top paint layer.

Advice! It is recommended to make cuts on the torn or cut out picture, which will allow the picture to take on the shape of a toy and avoid the formation of folds that must be carefully smoothed out.

For gluing, you can use PVA glue diluted with water in equal proportions. The design is glued in one of two ways: you can attach the image and brush it on top with a soft bristle brush, or apply glue to the surface of the ball and glue a festive motif to it. In both cases, care is required not to tear the picture.

After complete drying, the ball must be opened again with acrylic paint to even out the edge between the background and the glued image. Everyone chooses the main color according to their wishes and depending on the color scheme of the picture.

After drying, the glue may leave rough marks that need to be slightly corrected with sandpaper. The decor at the final stage depends on your imagination. There are enough options: add sparkles, highlight the contours of the image itself with a thin brush and paint, etc. The final touch is to apply a glossy varnish in several layers, allowing each to dry completely. For greater clarity, we offer color step-by-step instructions for decoupaging Christmas tree balls with your own hands with attached photos and videos.

Master Class

To work in decoupage style you will need:

  • Christmas balls;
  • napkins with New Year's motifs (preferably three-layer);
  • acrylic paints;
  • PVA glue;
  • glossy varnish;
  • brushes;
  • sponge;
  • contours;
  • semolina.

All necessary supplies are ready. When the toys have been processed in accordance with the above recommendations, you can begin decorating them yourself. Using a sponge, apply paint mixed with semolina onto the surface in a dotted manner - you get a snowy effect. While the balls are drying, prepare the napkins. Separate the top paint layer and tear off the drawing approximately along the contour. Glue, carefully smoothing from the middle to the edge.

After the napkin dries, artistic creativity begins. Having sanded the edges of the glued image, we paint the untouched part, selecting a shade of paint that matches the tone of the picture. We open the finished decoupage with varnish - and the DIY craft is ready. Those who have already worked in this technique and can show their master class will go further in decoration. For example, he uses glitter or uses a structural paste to add volume to the image, etc.

Balloon decoration options

An unusual decoration for the New Year's tree will be decoupage of Christmas tree balls with your own hands using photographs of your loved ones. The process is the same, only instead of napkins - a photo, which must first be soaked in warm water, and then pry up the edge with a needle and separate the unnecessary paper. All that remains is a thin image, and stick it on. You can make a frame around it from rolled napkins. Next, a little fine art and, as a final step, varnish the surface.

Children will enjoy colorful toys. Decoupage of Christmas balls using polystyrene foam is carried out according to the usual scheme, and if you add a few strokes of glitter and apply 3D varnish to the drawings to give them a three-dimensional image, then such foam balls will replace the expected gift from Santa Claus. A training master class with corresponding photos can be viewed on the Internet.