Decoupage wooden box

Hello dear needlewomen and hand-made lovers! I present to your attention a master class on decorating a box. Decorate an ordinary wooden box made of plywood (8 mm) using the technique decoupage, in shabby chic style.

For this we need:
  • wooden blank,
  • napkin,
  • artistic acrylic primer
  • acrylic paints for creativity (white, ivory, green (green foliage),
  • bitumen,
  • stationery PVA glue (or acrylic varnish),
  • paraffin candle,
  • varnish for one-step craquelure,
  • acrylic varnish for finishing the product,
  • brushes, foam sponges, sandpaper.


Before you start decorating, you need to sand all the unevenness and roughness with sandpaper until smooth. We cover our workpiece with soil and after complete drying, sand it again, remove excess soil, leveling the surface.

Decoupage wooden box


Paint the surfaces in the color “Green Foliage” using a wide brush.

Decoupage wooden box


After drying (you can speed up the process by using an ordinary hair dryer in the “warm blowing” mode), in order to further give our product abrasions, we rub some places with an ordinary wax candle.

Decoupage wooden box


The shabby chic style assumes the presence of certain “traces of time” on decorative items - abrasions, chips, cracks. To simulate cracks we will use one-step craquelure varnish. We evenly apply craquelure varnish to the outer corners of our box.

Decoupage wooden box


When the varnish dries, but remains sticky and does not stain your fingers (after about 20-30 minutes), we paint the surfaces with beige paint. Important! To create cracks, apply paint to the craquelure in one direction with one stroke.

Decoupage wooden box


After complete drying, sand all surfaces. In order for abrasions to appear especially actively in the three places with sandpaper that we rubbed with a candle.

Decoupage wooden box


To decorate our product, we chose an ordinary three-layer napkin. We select the element we need by tearing off the edges of the napkin.

Decoupage wooden box


We remove the lower white layers of the napkin and place the design on the workpiece.

Decoupage wooden box


In our work, household acrylic varnish purchased at a hardware store was used to glue the napkin. Apply the varnish with a wide, well-moistened brush, using quick movements without strong pressure. We put a dot in the center of the picture and, as if drawing a snowflake, from the center to the periphery we glue our napkin. If folds appear, you can carefully lift the edge of the napkin and use a brush to “drive” air bubbles from the center to the periphery.

Decoupage wooden box


If small wrinkles still remain, we will remove them with sandpaper after the napkin has completely dried.

Decoupage wooden box


To smooth out the color transition between the napkin and the general background, “beat” (“smacking” movements) the edges of the design with a foam sponge soaked in beige paint.

Decoupage wooden box


To give “traces of time”, the edges of our box are “beaten” with bitumen.

Decoupage wooden box


The last step in our work is to cover the box with several layers of acrylic varnish (4-5 layers).

Decoupage wooden box

Decoupage wooden box

Decoupage wooden box
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Comments (1)
  1. Anna
    #1 Anna Guests 10 April 2015 23:44
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    great master class! Tell me, where are these boxes sold?