Decor accessories: frames, pots and bottles, their production using natural stones

It has long been no shortage of stores where you can buy anything they want to give the original interior. But all the same, really unique are the only things made by hand. A good idea would be the use of natural stones in the manufacture of furniture items. They may be material for a variety of craft projects. As the foundation stones can be combined with almost any material.

Decoupage on rocks

To put it in a nutshell, decoupage - a decoration of various items carved patterns. This technique is somewhat reminiscent of the familiar to all from childhood applique. More often than not to work in this technique using special napkins for decoupage, which are in abundance in the shops have for fans hendmeyd.

Procedure is quite simple:

1. From the materials needed: a stone-foundation cloth with a pattern, PVA, skin, white acrylic paint, clear varnish.
2. Suit every stone. Ideally, one side of the stone must be flat to ensure sustainability, it should not be too porous and the surface is not too much relief.
3. The stone should be thoroughly cleaned, sanded that part of it which will be applied in a pattern, and alcohol degrease.
4. After that, as a primer is applied to a white acrylic paint. Impose her better sponge rather than a brush. When using such a method is not specific to the brush strips.
5. Once the primer is dry, you can cover it with varnish. For this, too, is to use a sponge. As long as the varnish dries, can be divided into layers selected tissue. For operation need only layer on which a pattern.
6. For bonding pattern required diluted with water in a ratio of 2 to 1 PVA glue. Cloth dampened with water is placed on file for the document face down. Once the cloth is saturated with water excess must be drained.
7. File with cloth rolls over and gently superimposed on the varnished surface stone and smoothed from the center outward. The main thing - to avoid creases. The file is then gently removed.
8. Brush superimposed napkin fixed PVA adhesive solution.
9. After complete drying of the finishing layer may be applied lacquer.

With the help of twigs, cones, dried flowers and leaves can be constructed from stones, decorated in decoupage technique, and most of the original composition.

Working with colors

If you have the necessary skills, you can choose lighter and just paint the stones. Depending on the original form, fantasies and desires, they can turn into animals, insects or simply original trinkets:

1. The main thing here is not the actual coloring of the stones, and the creation of interesting compositions thereof. You can start with a simple, try to collect the stones from a cactus. Get beautiful and original thing is not so difficult.
2. It is important to choose the right material for handicrafts. For cactus is best suited oblong stones of circular cross section having a shape close to cylindrical.
3. For painting is better to use acrylic paints. They do not have an unpleasant smell, fit well and dries very quickly. Stones need to evenly coat of green paint. After its drying with the help of white paint applied cactus characteristic pattern of dots and lines, and the Stars.
4. Now you need to choose a suitable container. You can use a flower pot or a bowl unnecessary - everything is at hand and will look good. As a primer can be used ground or sand.
5. Ground mounted prepared stones. If necessary, attach them with glue. If you wish, you can try to make a simulation of "kids" cacti sticking very tiny colored stones.

If you can succeed in the coloring of pebbles, you can go ahead and try to lay the mosaic. Special artistic skills, too, is not required here, but will have to stock up time and patience. But as a result can get a truly remarkable element of the interior. The principle of the manufacture of wall panels of pebble as follows:

1. Selected a suitable image, which is then printed, in accordance with the dimensions of the existing frame.
2. The finished picture is pasted on the heel box, and, if necessary, it will need to be strengthened. For this fit, even thick cardboard or thin plywood, because the weight of the final composition will be quite large.
3. If the stones krupnovat, they must be crushed. The smaller the pieces of the mosaic will be, the more detail the image will pass.
4. Now you're ready to go. Pebbles painted in appropriate colors and adhere to the appropriate base site. You can pre predict how many stones of different colors required, and paint them before you start.

If the remaining places, through which shines background - they should paint over. The finished composition is varnished.

decoration items

Well-rounded pebbles sea is ideal for the decoration of various items: pots for indoor plants, bottles and cans. The sequence of actions is also very simple:

1. The surface of the decorated object is cleaned of all contaminants and thoroughly degreased with alcohol or solvent.
2. After drying it is necessary to apply a layer of clay or putty about five millimeters thick.
3. Stones gently pressed into the surface of the substrate and the excess is removed carefully with a knife.
4. If the stones are colored or pre-painted, you can put any ornament. But the surface is evenly covered with monochrome pebbles, too, will look good.

The remaining small voids, which are visible through the base can be filled with beads, beads or fragments of shells. So you can decorate not only a variety of containers, but in general any items. For example, it will be interesting to watch made in this technique frames of paintings, photographs and mirrors.