Decoupage

Since I'm a pretty frugal person (though my wife would say otherwise!!) every time I finish a silk paper cut I'm left with heaps of beautifully shaped scraps. I hate to throw them away so I carefully collect and store them. I realized I needed to use them in some way, so I started sticking them onto unpainted bamboo bowls and plates.

This one I did months ago, but I decided to add a poem to it to see how the shapes and writing interacted.

Here are some very recent examples, but instead of using scraps I purposely cut flower shapes out of silk paper and carefully glued them to the plate.


This last one is actually two layers of different colour silk paper slightly offset to give a blurring effect.

Now all I have to do is set up an Etsy account and try to sell the stuff! That'll be my next project.

Silk Paper cutting decoupage

Here’s some more decoupage using all those scraps left over from silk paper cutting. However this time I also used some more complete cuttings that ended up in the reject box. I cut and trimmed them and stuck them to large bamboo plates. The leaf one was originally from a larger cut done as part of a series of silk cuts based on the four elements. The dancing boy only got as far as the sketch stage when I originally designed him. Since the design fitted the plate’s size it only seemed logical to cut it out and glue it on. If you’re interested in purchasing one of these then please contact me for further details. Comments please!!