Simple ideas for creating interesting and decorative effects.
The lemons design was created from a blank volto
mask and then decorated with decoupage paper, gold paint and relief pens. The face is embellished with gold relief following the contours of the cut-out papers with gold paint around the eyes to create a mask effect, finished off with goldfinger paste.
The 'hair' is made from card - each side having been glued with contrasting decoupage paper, a 'jingle' bell and pearl attached to the top and then edged with gold ribbon. Each piece of 'hair' is then carefully rolled and curled and attached to the mask using a hot glue gun.
The frill is a folded over piece of decoupage paper, edged with gold ribbon, pleated and attached with the hot glue to the chin. The mask is then finished off with a gold braid and gimp edging, fitted with a hanger and ribbons for wearing.
The mask is finished off with an attractive crackle glaze - you can download more details on how to crackle glaze from our decoupage papers site.
These wall masks were created from a blank volto mask which we then added a backpiece made from hardboard, cutout to fit around the mask. The backpiece was covered with decoupage paper and fixed to the mask with hot glue and gold braid trim. We used shells, artificial flowers and leaves to complete the effect. As with the 'lemons' mask, the face is finished with gold paint, relief pens and crackle glaze varnish.
This is one of Chris's creations.
A blank volto mask painted over with acrylic paints and then finished with a crackle glaze and gold relief paint over the eyemask area. You can read more about these masks on the blog: http://decoupagepapercraft.blogspot.com/