Decorating and decoupage with shells - DIY bottle decoupage master class
One of the very popular design techniques inmodern times is precisely the work with decoupage. Thanks to master classes on this topic, masters from all over the world have a full opportunity to realize their professional qualities and improve any thing they want. But, as you know, even masters of handicrafts can sometimes have questions that they cannot figure out. Then various tricks and methods come to the rescue, with the help of which you can bypass the laws of physics, or the complexity of the material.
Decorating and decoupage with shells - DIY bottle decoupage master class
It often happens that decoupage of bottles carriesa lot of difficulties. In particular, we are talking about the problem of surface treatment, in particular - the convex edges of the bottle, or drawings on the bottle. It often happens that you need to paint over or get rid of a certain inscription to get the desired result. These difficulties raise a number of questions, but it is still difficult to cope with them. Therefore, the masters were looking for methods to solve this problem and of course - they found it! Decorating with an egg - a new decoupage method
To mask the surface of a convex appearance is notdifficult. To do this, it is enough to use an ordinary egg. Or rather, its shell, which is perfect for such actions. Craqueling a bottle is a complex process that requires special knowledge from the master and the desire to develop your potential specifically to expand the possibilities of such a craft. In order to process the surface of the bottle, you need to prepare the eggshell with which we will work. Decorating with an egg does not leave a single trace of previous inscriptions and copes with the task perfectly. To work with decorating a bottle, we will need special materials with which we will achieve the results we need. Prepare the following list of necessary elements:
- The bottle itself, with which we have to work
- Also, a means for degreasing or washing the windows
- Adhesive, preferably PVA
- Also need brushes
- Primer may be required in work for decoration
- You will need a toothpick
- It is necessary to prepare wet wipes for hygiene products
- And of course, do not forget about eggs
Why do you need crackle?
First you need to pick a bottle withwith the appropriate inscriptions to perform decoupage work on it. In the most visible place of the bottle there should be some element that we need to remove. We are making a bottle on the theme of marine design. With the help of craquelure with an egg shell, we will hide the annoying element that we need to remove. In addition, craquelure will become another design element that we will need to additionally decorate to create an imitation of fragments scattering, as well as shells from the water. Preparation of craquelure
Before you start decorating, the bottleIt needs to be processed, cleaned and degreased a little. Glass cleaner will do the job. First, apply the adhesive to the area of the glass surface that we are going to decorate with egg craquelure. In an area that is too large for the eggshell, it is necessary to gradually replace the surface areas. A piece of the shell is applied to the surface, then the shell is pressed with a finger, so it becomes smaller. The glue should not dry, and in the meantime, you place your pattern. This work will not be difficult, but quite dirty. Therefore, use wet wipes to remove glue residue from your hands and the bottle. Thus, we cover our glass surface with eggshell (or for an idea - sea shells). After we have done this decoupage, we apply another layer of PVA to the surface of the shell.
The layer of glue on top of the shell should not be too thicksloppy. Otherwise, the glue will fill the holes that will be between the pieces of shell, the crackle will not look beautiful. Thus, it is very easy to mask any surface to hide traces of unwanted bulges, using this useful and effective tool for solving the decoupage issue.




