Craft #003 Decopatch

A few weeks back me and my madge went to the craft fair at the excel. It was a great day but was so busy you could hardly get to look at the products which was a shame. The one craft we did get a good look at was the Decopatch, they offered you the opportunity to have a go for free on a coaster. Anything free and crafty is defiantly not going to go a miss, so we took a seat and waited for our go.

We soon fell in love with the craft and couldn’t get enough of it. It is so simple, you choose which paper you wish to use (a special paper that has a waxy coating on the outside, it is not just tissue paper which we soon learnt), choose what you wish to cover (which is anything, there was actually a decopatched car at the show!) then get crafty.

The guy on the stall gave us 4 steps to decopatch, which were.

1.     Rip your decopatch paper into small squares.

2.     Put glue on the [insert what you are decopatching here].

This is a special glue that works as a varnish as well as a glue.

3.     Place your paper on top of the glue

4.     Glue on top of the decopatch paper.

Simple!

The one tip he gave us was to not use loads of glue. So after sitting for an hour at the decopatch table I had fallen in love with this new craft.

For Christmas I had received a small cardboard letter ‘D’, ‘S’ and ‘&’ , I knew straight away this is how I was going to put my new found craft to action. This is what I ended up with.

Decopatch is such a great craft it is easy to learn and can easily be done in front of the television. I can’t wait to see what I will decopatch next, shoes maybe?