07.08.20 Decoupaging glass plates and plant pots

Today’s blog post is about the last two things I know how to decoupage!  Reverse decoupaging glass plates first! I started out not doing too well with these.

These two glass plates below were made for my daughter in law Amy. She picked out the napkins and I made two dinner size decorative glass plates for her. Being a preacher’s wife I know she’ll have lots of opportunities to use these.

These lunch and dinner glass plates come from Dollar Tree.  It is really amazing the things you can get at Dollar Tree!

Here’s how these are made.

Apply a coat of mod podge on the bottom of the plate, let it dry.

Apply a second coat of mod podge in a different direction.

When the second coat of mod podge dries, separate the top napkin layer from the rest of the layers.

Lay the napkin upside down on the bottom of the plate. You are getting ready to use the iron to heat up the mod podge so the napkin will adhere to it.

Heat up your small iron and lay a sheet of parchment paper over the plate.

Using the heated up iron rub it around the flat circle in the middle of the plate.

Then the fun part is flattening and getting out the wrinkles of the napkin on the curved part of the plate! Using the tip of the iron, the side edge of the iron, and however else you can use the iron to get the napkin to adhere to the plate! The edge of the plate needs to ironed on a lot so you can get the excess napkin filed off with a nail file.

I’ve learned how to do this without the parchment paper.  I use it the first few times around the plate but take the parchment paper off and gently press the iron over the edges of the plate and over the inside of the flat part of the plate. Making sure the napkin adheres to the plate is important because if not the plate will not come out like it should.

 

What you see in the first photo below is the underside of the napkin and the plate.

This is the top side of the plate with the napkin showing through it!  

The same steps were used on this one. This photo is the bottom side of the plate and napkin.  This is the top side of the plate and napkin showing through it!The photo below is how to use a nail file (or sand paper) to rub the napkin off on the edges.  Makes it have a really finished appearance!The finished plates for the two I showed above are in the photo below. The top lunch size plate was made from a napkin that was too small to cover the whole plate so I painted around the napkin with a cream color that matched the napkin pretty well.  That one was made for one of my granddaughters.

The lunch plate at the bottom was made from Happy Birthday wrapping paper that I got from Dirt Cheap for 49 cents.  I made it for my grandchildren to put their slice of birthday cake or their birthday cupcake on when it’s their birthday.  I’m using the rest of the wrap to wrap their birthday presents in!

I made these next four specifically so that when my sister Harriett and brother in law George come to visit we have special plates to eat our dessert on! We haven’t seen each other since the worst of the covid 19 staying at home time. Tomorrow they are coming to visit and we will get to use these for the first time.  All four were made from thin scarves from Dollar Tree.

My sister and brother in law just left and they liked having their own plates decorated for them. The pink ones are Harriett and mine!

So that you can see how the scarf at the top was used on something else here it is. This is one of the flat glass cutting boards from Dollar Tree!

I made this one to display on my kitchen counter and to use as a plate to hold muffins, cookies, etc. on!

I’ll tell you here that right on top of wine bottles as the hardest things for me to make are these glass plates. The problem is it’s a combination of the decoupaging materials I was using and the fact that the curved part of the plate is difficult to get the wrinkles out of. I used thin scarves from Dollar Tree and wrapping paper as well as napkins. I cannot find pictures of the other plates I’ve made but there were more!

One last decoupage method that I know are these almost free plant pots made from various plastic containers and napkins! We bought a baker’s rack at a flea market this year. I needed about a dozen pots to put on the rack and only had a couple! I gathered two-liter bottles, cool whip containers, bottom half of gallon and half gallon milk jugs, a large peanut can, and a couple of small regular pots.

I painted them white. When dry, I covered the outside with mod podge and then adhered a napkin (after removing the additional layers.) I finished off with two or three layers of coatings of polycrylic. I really like how they came out.  They all live now on the baker’s rack.

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I’ve decided I’m not loving how the milk jug bottom half looks like. I really do like how the cool whip and the small cups look. Since making these I’ve gotten better at making the large Folgers containers so I may do that one over. Here they are all in one place on the baker’s rack!   That’s all of the things I know how to decoupage! Rocks, wine bottles, flat glass trivets, luncheon and dinner glass plates, and plant pots! If you want to try any of these and have questions let me know! I’m no expert but I’m getting better with each one I do!

Next, I’ll show ya’ll how to make flower rocks, ladybug rocks and healthcare heros! Neither have anything to do with decoupaging but they are two new painted rock projects I’d like to share how to do them with you.

Ya’ll have a Blessed week!