Decoupaged "Home Is Where the Heart Is" Box
Posted by DecoArt on Sep 3rd 2015
A papier-mâché house becomes a center for inspiring message.
SUPPLIES
- water container
- palette or plastic plate
- paper towels
- scissors
- #6 round brush
- 1" foam brush
- chipboard heart
- white glue
- watercolor paper
- permanent marker
- twine
- black pen
- spray bottle
- detail brush
- metal label
- papier mâché house
INSTRUCTIONS
NOTES:
Let dry completely between painting steps.
- Paint the entire house surface with White Gesso.
- With Americana Matte Decou-Page and a foam brush, glue down a piece of Moroccan Americana Decou-Page Paper on each side of the house, as desired. Brush over the paper on each side to make sure the paper is secure and has no air bubbles.
- Using White Gesso and a foam brush, apply the windows and door on one side.
- Paint a flower of White Gesso on one side.
- Paint a large window with White Gesso on the final side. (Leave one side of the house empty for wording.)
- Paint a door shape with Cerulean Blue. Add a doorknob with a touch of Quinacridone Magenta using a detail brush.
- Choose a word phrase and print out. Cut out the words. Adhere words to the side of the house using Decou-Page.
- Place a drop of Hansa Yellow Medium, Cerulean Blue, Quinacridone Magenta, and Titanium White on a palette. Lay a small piece of watercolor paper down on a paper towel. Dip the round brush in water and mix it in one of the colors so it is a tad watery. Splatter the colors, one at a time, onto the watercolor paper. Lightly spray with a spray bottle immediately after each color to create a watercolor effect. Apply a layer of Liquid Glass to the surface.
- With the metal labels, take the water-colored paper from the previous step and cut it out to fit behind the metal label. (It should look like a stained glass window.) Glue them on with white glue.
- Adhere the windows on either side of the door using Decou-Page.
- Paint in the picture window using Hansa Yellow Medium and dab with a wet paper towel to add a bit of layered color. Using Quinacridone Magenta and detail brush, paint scallops around this window.
- On the fourth side of the house, paint in the flower with Hansa Yellow Medium and Quinacridone Magenta. Once dry, add doodles around the flower with black permanent marker.
- Put a few drops of Cerulean Blue and Dark Grey Value 3 onto the palette, mix together, and paint the roof of the house using a foam brush. After this dries, add a touch of Cerulean Blue around the edges of the roof.
- With Titanium White and a round brush, water down paint just a little to be able to flick paint all over the entire house.
- Apply White Gesso to both sides and around the edges of the five chipboard cut-out hearts.
- Using the same watery palette and round brush from the watercolor paper in step 7, splatter the colors one at a time onto the chipboard hearts.
- With a black ink pen, outline the windows, doors, words of the phrase, and flower on the house.
- Paint the inside of the house with Hansa Yellow Medium and a foam brush.
- Write a word across a few hearts. Tie twine around the other hearts and use these to write names of other loves or other words that bring you the comfort of home.
