When I’m feeling crafty, I like to use the ancient art of decoupage as a way to inject new life into vintage objects that have seen better days. At a local thrift shop, I discovered a green metal serving tray that was just waiting to be refurbished. I realized its potential and scooped it up for a mere dollar.
The next day, I gathered materials for the project: tear sheets from old garden books, Mod Podge, an X-acto knife, a cutting board, and a collection of flower-shaped vintage buttons magnets.
After selecting various garden-themed images to use on the tray, I carefully cut them out.
As I often do, I decided to use book pages with text as a background. I glued them in place and coated them with light beige paint to soften the black typography.
Next, I arranged colorful wildflower drawings and black and white illustrations on top of the background, as well as the Latin names for the flowers I had chosen. When all of the elements pleased my eye, I coated the front of the tray with five layers of Mod Podge.
Now this tray is all ready to be of service in the kitchen, embellish a dresser, or grace a coffee table. And by adding six of my handmade button magnets in matching colors, it can do double-duty as a message board.
And there you have it! Of course, if you actually want to have it, you can find it for sale in my Etsy shop HERE.
Give this fun and easy decoupage project a try. If you do, be sure to let me know. I’d love to see a photo of your handiwork.
Susan
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Nicely done, thanks for the instructions, especially like the tip about painting the text with watered down beige paint,to soften the look. I pinned this for later...
Posted by: Susan | October 18, 2017 at 02:50 PM