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Welcome back! Last week you saw a garage sale dresser transformed with paint and decoupaged napkins. If you missed it, click here.
Today I have a little tutorial showing how it was done. Let's get started, shall we?
The drawers were sanded down to bare wood and the edges were painted black to match the rest of the dresser. The napkins were found at the Dollar Store.
Notice they are 2-ply napkins? You only need one, so separate those layers! Iron the one-layer. It helps when you are ready to lay it down on the wet decoupage medium. Since the napkins were not wide enough to cover the entire drawer, I was going to have to piece them together. These napkins also had a very definite pattern that was going to need matching, so it was time for some measuring. I found the middle of the drawer and matched it to the middle of the napkin. Then I marked the edges of the napkin on the edge of the drawer with chalk. See the white (chalk) dot? There are actually two of them as guides for …
Today I have a little tutorial showing how it was done. Let's get started, shall we?
The drawers were sanded down to bare wood and the edges were painted black to match the rest of the dresser. The napkins were found at the Dollar Store.
Notice they are 2-ply napkins? You only need one, so separate those layers! Iron the one-layer. It helps when you are ready to lay it down on the wet decoupage medium. Since the napkins were not wide enough to cover the entire drawer, I was going to have to piece them together. These napkins also had a very definite pattern that was going to need matching, so it was time for some measuring. I found the middle of the drawer and matched it to the middle of the napkin. Then I marked the edges of the napkin on the edge of the drawer with chalk. See the white (chalk) dot? There are actually two of them as guides for …
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