Make a Faux Leather Frame (With Paper Bags!)

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Learn to make a paper bag leather-based body utilizing Mod Podge and different fundamental supplies. You should utilize this remedy on partitions and even flooring!

Abilities Required: Newbie. It helps to have expertise with decoupage medium and stain, although any wrinkles you could expertise simply add to the feel of the body.

Decoupage frame that looks like real leather

So generally we get a little girly round right here and the Man Podgers must convey us again to actuality with tutorials which can be acceptable for dudes. I’ve 4 brothers, so I get it.

In case you are a dude, and even in the event you want a extra masculine contact to your decor, I believe you’ll recognize this challenge from Walter.


Do you REALLY assume you can also make a decoupage body seem like fake leather-based? Sure, it may be achieved . . . with Mod Podge. Take a search for your self and find out how I made this masculine decoupage image body.

I used to be impressed by a latest journey to Ralph Lauren; there have been so many classic leather-based props within the store like mail provider luggage, belts and boots . . .

And thus a thought was born. “I can try this” with Mod Podge!

Brown bag decoupage finish on a frame

Brown Paper Bag Decoupage Frame

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Pile of rice paper, a paint brush, and Mod Podge Gloss

I used an outdated uncared for flat body. I first measured the width of the face of the body – then I reduce items of rice paper to suit the primary layer of the body.

For the second layer, you’ll put together strips of paper bag by tearing with a ruler:

Man's hands tearing a paper bag along a ruler

Decoupage the rice paper onto the body and let dry.

Crinkled the torn paper bag strips after which uncrinkle (not utterly, however largely). Use the spherical tip brush to use the Mod Podge into the crevices and place on prime of the decoupaged rice papered body

***DO NOT SMOOTH OUT THE CRINKLES***

Press the paper proper on prime together with your fingers and let dry.

Superfine Japan Colors in Rose Pink

After I studied Furnishings Design in school, I used Superfine Japan Colours on a regular basis. The standard and coloration(s) are very affluent and chic!

Take a plastic cup, fill it with a half a teaspoon of Rose Pink and a 1/4 cup of mineral spirits and stir till the paint is clean and barely watery. Use a sponge brush and apply over the decoupaged body.

The outcomes are out of this world! A few of the irregular patterns from the crinkling absorbed the paint  in an inconsistent sample (that’s what you need; it offers extra  of a affluent leather-based look!).

Brown bag faux leather frame sealed in polycrylic

Superfine Japan Colours dry rapid, although I’d let it dry for at the very least a day earlier than sealing with Polycrylic.

Make a decoupage frame that looks like real leather

Have a look at the attractive and masculine affluent texture this body has! I inserted a picture from the Graphics Fairy and hung the fake leather-based body above my dressing desk. I may see one of these body in Ralph Lauren retailers . . . that may be good, don’t you assume?


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