Romantic clothes hangers

One day I decided to try decoupage on hangers. I was waiting for art market and found some white hangers in good price. Some of them are sold now, so you are lucky to see them all in my blog.

La mamma exhibition, Thessaloniki 2011

There was an unusually high number of art markets in Thessaloniki this year. One of them La Mamma is held for several years in a row. This year, the Bank of Piraeus has sheltered artisans in its showroom. As usual, there were not a lot of works, but interesting. However, you may well appreciate them from the photos below.

Bijouterie

Cake-candles

Glues for decoupage

Today I present you some glues I used for decoupage


Universal glues

1. Decoupage glue - ArtPotch by C.Kreul
Very good glue especially for beginners, no-run. I tried it at different surfaces, the result was exellent.

2. White glue for paper
Common and cheap glue for school works. You have to dillute it 1:1 with water for decoupage.

3. Wood adhesive PVA
The same glue with above but thicker (and by this reason cheaper). Usually sold in big bottles from 500 g. You can dillute it 1:5 with water (1 part of glue, 5 parts of water). Anyway it's not for beginners. Experienced masters can try another ratio.


Special glues

1. Textil potch by C.Kreul
It's special glue for textil. You can decoupage your cloth with it. After 24 hours you have to iron it and you can wash decoupaged clothes at 40 C. Of course don't wait the same durability like from factory.

2. Porcelan potch by C.Kreul
Very useful glue for glass and china. The objects decorated with this glue can be used for food. You just bake your finished object in home oven to get safe for your health surface.


If I try a new glue I will update this page later.

New blog with decoupage tutorials

Some days ago I started new blog with decoupage tutorials from Russian masters. I will try to update it as often as I can. I believe we will meet a lot of surprises.

Draw a heart

Recently I've read in Svetta's blog about the campaign "Draw a heart". The mood of the day was a critical technology. Therefore, the relative heart was drawn.

Sveta is collecting hearts from all bloggers and show them in her blog. Send your hearts!

Canvas decoration class

It's summer now, time to get some rest. So I can show yu some photos from decoupage classes I gave this year.

The canvas with hydrangea was created like sample for my pupils. In this lesson we learn how to do decoupage at the canvas and how to use transparent medium for creating shadows.

Below you can see some creations of my pupils.
These two works had not yet dried out, so wrinkles and glue are visible.

There are some finished works

Two jewellery boxes

My friend told me that I am crazy when I've decorated a jewellery box with Christmas napkin at Easter. I don't know why I did it. I just had an inspiration for this napkin which was very siutable for the box. The joke is I sold it immediatly (so you can see below an awful photo of it)

There is an another box I made together with previous (and another fast photography before selling)