Decoupage Delight

Having been bogged down in Open University TMA stress for the past few months, I haven’t been very crafty of late.  all that changed however with the dawning of Jo’s 30th birthday.  Not being able to let the side down, I decided to turn my hand to some papier mache and decoupage, something I haven’t done for ages.

I’d saved a plastic cotton bud pot which I thought was just the right size for a pen pot and being as Jo has recently moved into her new flat/cave, I wanted to make her one for her new desk/dining table/writing space.

I covered it in about 8 layers of papier mache (newspaper & PVA solution) and then 2 layers of pale pink paper.  I painted the inside and bottom with dark purple acrylic paint and added a small ring of pink, leopard print paper at the bottom and then I adorned it with a mini-Jo that I had saved from the girt wrapping on a Lush gift box.  With the addition of some flowers, hearts and butterflies and a few sparkly pink gems, it was done!!

It travelled down to Falmouth with me last weekend for the birthday celebrations and survived a couple of accidents on the way – phew!

Hope you like it Jo Jo!  xxx

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