This website is devoted to the art/craft of découpage. There are free instructions and advice for you to learn more about this fascinating and rewarding hobby. Learn how to decoupage on virtually any surface.
While découpage is a scissor-oriented craft and purists will tell you must cut out, it is OK to use paper punches, quilling strips and stickers to embellish your work. It is NOT advisable to use these for competition work because it is most often against the rules. Check the rules first. But as far as gifts or sale items are concerned, use them if you want.
A lovely background for collage on canvas is colored or patterned tissue paper. Simply "paint" your stretched canvas or canvas board / panel - with a mix of white glue and water, and then lay down the tissue, carefully pressing out any bubbles.
When it dries, you can continue to collage directly on top of your tissue background. Fun!
Keep plastic zip lock bags in a basket to sort pieces of everyday ephemera...like a tag
from a shirt, a business card, a button, a movie stub, fruit stickers, a colorful piece
of junk mail, a picture from a magazine, a label from a jar...
I sort the bags by color scheme. When I am in the mood for collage I take out a color
bag, a canvas, and some mod podge and I am ready to create!
Decoupage sheets in a variety of themes for men, children and women in the Red Hot Bed Clutter range. Materials for use in decoupage cardmaking and crafts. Ideal for children, simple and straightforward.
When using Clutter decoupage sheets you can use the example image to design your card. You also have a choice of designing to your own layout and using the example picture as the focus for a second card.
Visit here for everything you need to create 3D cards or 3D framed pictures. Choose any of the prints listed on the site as a complete kit -includes the box frame, at very affordable prices. Have your own pictures, you can get virtually any size frame you want. Lots of stuff for card makers, prints, step by step. Accessories including - silicone glue, foam pads, glaze etc. PDF downloads including waterfall cards, backing papers and paper frames. If you are new to 3d and need help - email/phone
Don't throw away the cut off's from your backing papers, use them to make matching small cards or gift tags, use the waste from peel off's to decorate them.