Posts tagged découpage
I Ate’nt Dead
Nov 26th
A couple days ago 
I made a couple fairly quick items for my sister’s upcoming 40th birthday.
The first is a wooden sign she can wear around her neck when taking naps. Such things are important as you get older. 
(Fans of Terry Pratchett will understand the reference.) I printed out the text on some decorative paper and then découpaged it onto a piece of wood that I had sanded and stained.
The second is the card I made to go with the gift. I wanted to photograph Nutmeg with a cane and use that as on the card. (If you’re curious, Nutmeg is a stuffed bear I got when both my sister and I were children. He’s a rather crazy bear.) I happened to go to the grocery store the day I was making the card and found a plastic cane full of psuedo-M&Ms for $0.89. The candies were made of a rather disgusting chocolate (how did they manage to ruin chocolate?!?), but at least I now had a cane. The body of the cane was clear plastic which probably wouldn’t look good in a photograph. So I printed out a wood texture that I had tinted purple, rolled that up, and put it inside the cane. The rest of the artwork on the card was inspired by the Paddington Bear T.V. series whose props and backgrounds were white with inked details.
Muwahaha
Nov 25th
As with the last few posts I’ll be describing something I made before starting this blog. I did this one during the summer. I découpaged a bunch of big wooden letters for my kitchen (the black around the edges is india ink). Steel strips are mounted to my wall and the letters are held to it with magnets, so I can change them when I feel like it. For now, I wanted a good mad-scientist laugh.
Mushroom Table
Nov 24th
In my previous post, I wrote about my canopy bed. Now that I had a bed that looked like something out of a fairy-tale I desperately needed a better bedside table. I had just been using an old metal filing cabinet. It was functional, but didn’t look all that great. So for my next project, I decided to make a table. And what goes well with a fairy-tale bed? A mushroom, of course! Thus the mushroom table was born. While designing the table, I struggled through all sorts of very impractical ideas that would have made a 3D surface in the shape of a mushroom (fiberglass, papier-mâché, lots of thin bent wood strips, etc.). None of these seemed very workable, and furthermore, I didn’t really like the looks of these designs. I wanted something a bit more artistic. As I worked at the design I decided that I didn’t really want to make an exact mushroom shape – I just wanted to give a suggestion of a mushroom. And then it occurred to me that I could use flat sheets of wood to build up the correct envelope (outline) of a mushroom in three dimensions. The resulting table is shown in the pictures (note that some of the pictures show the table in my living room before I moved it into the bedroom).
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