I inherited a small three legged side table that is meant to have a floor length table cloth draped over it. This is not an acceptable kind of decor in my house. Table cloths? Floor length? Should I put plastic over the couches too? The table is rather ugly without a table cloth anyway. No wonder. So I took off the legs and gave it a wider stance. The legs were positioned so they wouldn't be seen beneath the cloth. It was still ugly with the legs widened but I will address that later.
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| Circle cutter! It punches 1" circles out of paper. |
At my handy Micheals Craft Store I got a circle punch to make my
Magnet Glass Beads and thought it would do well to tile the table top with colorful circles of magazine pages. I decided to got with an orange and blue-green theme to match my front room. You can pick any color theme or go with random and let the magazine collage speak for itself. A cohesive color scheme though is sweet on the eye. Think Rainbow, pastel, primary, text only, whatever floats your boat.
Then I got to work punching out hundreds of circles from pages in my zillions of magazines. Wired magazine particularly has some good colors and photos to punch circles in. Also for the more girly-girl in you, Vogue has TONS of fabrics and model ads for that haute look. Plus one magazine is HUGE!
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| Handful of circles. |
You can use Modge Podge for all your crafting collage paper glue needs, but I prefer a good Matte Medium (which I use when painting in acrylic) It dries matte and is essentially a more expensive Modge Podge, I suppose. I just have a vat of it so I use it for everything.
When you glue the magazine circles, use a paint brush and don't over glue it! A thin coat is fine. Then place a clean piece of paper over it and smooth ot the wrinkles and excess goo. A good practice of collage artists everywhere. Keep it neat.
Just fill in the entire table, board, what-have-you and viola! A furniture piece/conversation piece. When I am done doing any paper collage craft on wood I always give it a finish with spray shellac. Shellac is for wood, so it has a yellowish tint in the end. You can always get a clear coat acrylic finish that has no tint, but I find sometimes it comes out tacky. The ultimate, best finish you could ever use is a beautiful RESIN finish. But be careful and do it outside, it's very toxic! Remember, don't die from your craft!
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Table top is ALMOST complete! Aaaaagh so many circles!
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