New member!!!

[mariarita.livejournal.com]

Hello! I just want to introduce myself to this community since I just joined. A lj friend of mine heard me talking about decoupage stuff and told me about this community. I found it interesting! I didn't know there was something like that around! ;)

Well, I'm Mariarita, from Italy, and I always considered myself a creative person. Recently, I discovered decoupage and I really like it! I tried decorating things too...I dididn't really re-do much yet as I'm still a beginner but I want to become good at it.

During the Cgristmas holidays I finally had some spare time to use so I decorated a metal kitchen box with wintery sceneries. It's really much better than before now. I also decorated a Christmas plastic ball. It was a simple ball...just made of plastic, just for decorating...no pictures, no color...nothing. So a friend of mine gave me a kitchen napkin with Christmas images on (Santa with the sleigh and the reindeer) and I decorated the inside of the ball with these images. The ball could be split in 2 parts in fact so it was easy. After sticking these images on both sides I used a golden color (an acrylic one) to color the background (always inside the ball). I used a sponge so the effect was better. Then, on the outer part of the ball, not inside anymore, I defined the contours of the whole image (not everywhere, just where it was needed and the effect would've been better) with glitter glue. The final result was really really nice! :)

Lastly, I recently decorated my door bell with leaves and flowers. Before it was plain white.

I really love decoupage and I have many things on my mind that I wanna try out, so I'll post more soon...hopefully. :)

If anyone out there got good ideas to share it would be really nice!

All in all, this is a great creative community and I'm glad it's also so active!

Ooops...sorry, this entry is really long! Hope I didn't bore you all too much! ;)