Do you often make crafts with your own hands? Then you know that it is much more pleasant to do utilitarian things than just beautiful interior items that cannot be used in any way. One of such useful crafts can be a watch. How to transform this thing? Decoupage watches is a fascinating activity that will help you not only have a good time, but also give you the opportunity to be proud of yourself and your creation hanging on the wall for many years after that.
Clock for the kitchen
To make such crafts, you need to make a basis. It can be cut out of plywood or used for these purposes a wooden saw cut. If you do not want to create a foundation on your own, then you can buy a blank. Sand the surface well with sandpaper. Now you can start creating watches. We will make decoupage a beautiful napkin with a suitable pattern. Divide the paper web into layers. We will need the top one. We attach a napkin to the base and cut it 1 cm more than the contour. For further work you will need glue for decoupage. You can create it yourself by mixing 1: 1 PVA with water. We put the cropped napkin in the center of the workpiece and drip a drop of water in the middle. Now we glue the paper picture to the tree in a spiral. This must be done carefully so that wrinkles do not form. When you make sure that the napkin lies without creases, you can apply glue. We leave the workpiece to dry, and then with the help of a wet sponge we form a beautiful edge of the product, removing all unnecessary. It remains to draw the numbers and varnish the workpiece. We insert the mechanism into the watch. A beautiful product is ready.
Minimalist watch
If you have an extra piece of plywood, you can transform it. For example, make a watch. Decoupage will help transform the workpiece in a matter of hours. We take plywood and polish it. If there are chips on the basis, they can be repaired using modeling decoupage paste. When the base is ready, we find napkins with a wooden texture. We lay them out on the workpiece. Now with water, glue and smooth the napkins. At this stage, if necessary, you can move the elements and even swap them. When the preparation is done, you can attach the paper with glue. You need to do this with a soft brush so as not to make tears on the napkin. After the product has completely dried, draw the numbers. This is conveniently done using a pre-printed and cut-out stencil. You need to paint the numbers with a spray can, so that the layer of paint lies evenly. Coat the product with varnish and insert the mechanism into it.
Clock with a rose
You can make such a product from any round wooden blank. How to make decoupage watches? See the master class for their manufacture below. You need to start by cleaning the circle with emery cloth and its primer. Now, using the compass, draw a circle on the workpiece. The image will be located here. And at the edges of the clock there will be a bas-relief. It must be created at this stage with the help of modular paste. Now we select a dense napkin with a suitable pattern. Divide the paper web into layers. From the top of the napkin, cut out a circle of the same diameter as the mark on the workpiece. We put the paper pattern in place and slightly wetting the napkin, smooth it on a wooden blank. Now we fix the picture with glue. We print a stencil with a dial and cut it out.
Using acrylic paint, we create numbers on the workpiece. Want to make a watch with a touch of antiquity? Then you will need to draw cracks with a marker on tracing paper. Put tracing paper on the product and print the marker with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol. We outline the dots around the figure. We tint the clock board in any color. This should be done with acrylic. And now you need to take the sandpaper and carefully walk through the bas-relief. The convex parts of the figure turn white. We fix the result with varnish. At this, the master class of watch decoupage is completed. But you can fantasize and bring something original to your creation.
Watch pan
If you like non-trivial things, then this product will be to your taste. Decoupage watches will be made from a pan. How to transform the dishes? Everything should be done according to the standard scheme: degrease the pan and prime it. Moreover, it is necessary to prime both the back and the front side. Now you should tint the future watch in any color that appeals to you. The product should be painted with acrylic paint. We print the dial and glue it to the central part of the back side of the pan. We find a napkin with a theme that suits you. Remove the lower layers from the paper product and cut out the pictures. In our case, pictures are images of cakes. You can stick them in any order, on the sample, each image corresponds to a time stamp. You can decorate the side of the pan in a similar way. We cover the finished product with varnish and then insert the mechanism into the pan.
Clock Board
Few needlewomen love to throw things away. Especially those who can be given a second life. For example, an old chopping board can be used as a blank for watches. Decoupage can decorate such a product. Come up with the original theme of decorative items, and then get dense napkins that will be perfect for the implementation of the plan. Now with the help of modeling paste, eliminate all cuts and scuffs of the board. Prime the product, and then stick the elements cut from the napkin onto it. You can create various compositions and drawings. It is not necessary to apply the image to the entire board, you can limit it to the bottom. And here at the top of the blank draw a dial. Coat the product with varnish, and then insert the mechanism.
Decoupage with elaboration
You can create not only flat, but also voluminous watches. Do-it-yourself decoupage on them will be as simple as on a regular wooden base. Find a workpiece that is suitable in size and shape. Prime it and tint. Pick up a few napkins and separate the top layer from them. Glue parts of the image in a chaotic manner. Fix the result with varnish and allow the workpiece to dry. Insert the mechanism into the resulting watch and decorate it with artificial flowers, beads, butterflies, keys, etc. In the foreground, you can attach the fence, thereby making the planar product voluminous. It remains only to come up with a place in which the watch will look good.
Decoupage with volumetric elements
How to make a nontrivial wall clock? Decoupage can become part of a bulk product. How to bring such an idea to life? You need to take a wooden blank and prepare it for work. Grind it and primer. Now choose suitable napkins, for example, with a pattern of masonry. Divide the paper web into pieces. Glue the first layer of napkins to the workpiece so that there are no joints in the resulting texture. Now you need to take the paste for modeling and raise the volume on the bricks. When this part of the work is done, you will need to tint the paste with acrylic. Pick a suitable dial and stick it on a hot gun. It remains to cover the product with matte varnish and insert the mechanism.
Clock with decoupage and drawing
Another way to make an interesting utilitarian product with your own hands is to make a watch decorated not only with napkins, but also with drawings. Saw the blank and primer. Now we tint the wooden circle and place the napkin cut in the circle inside. Glue the picture, and then apply the dial with acrylic paint. The edges of the workpiece are darkened. And now with the help of a stamp we create drawings. They must go in circles. We highlight two of them in bright color, and the rest should be neutral, in our case - light brown. The finished product is varnished and inserted into the center of the clockwork.