Hi I'm Kitty and I'm Jennifer and we're the O'Neil Sisters and we're going to
show you how to decorate a wooden letter. This is a fun decoupage project that
anyone can do. Let's get started!
To decorate the letter the first thing you need is a letter. And we got this
nice big letter from the craft store. Ours was already painted white but if
yours is a different color you might want to get started by painting it with
white paint. To decorate the letter we've got some beautiful scrapbook papers in
sort of matching colors and patterns here. And we've got scissors to cut them
out. And we're going to use Mod Podge. We chose a Matte Mod Podge because the
paper is matte and we like the look of that matte paper so we're using Matte Mod
Podge. You could use regular Mod Podge too. And we're going to use a nice big
flat brush to apply it. And then finally to decorate our paper we're going to use
a gold paint pen to add a little of embellishment.
To decorate our letter with this beautiful paper the first thing we need
to do is trace the paper and cut it out, but before we just get started tracing
we want to pay attention to where the flowers are and what our design is and
where it's gonna land on our letter. And when we look at the paper it seems like
you'd want to put the letter right there, square it up in the center, just because
that's easy to trace and cut out but it looks like we'd end up with a whole
flower and the rest partially cut off. We think it might be more fun to have all
the flowers a little bit cut off. They look a little more designy. So what do
you think about shifting it a little bit like that. I think it's a good idea.
Except otherwise the whole top is this one big red pink flower and it might
dominate too much. If you don't really that seems great yeah and then we'll end
up with a little bit of all the colors too I think that looks nice so what
we're gonna do is we're gonna just trace the letter with a pencil all the way
around the letter and you can see I'm tracing on the front of the paper
this letter is symmetric and I really could trace it on the back and then flip
it over and it probably would fit perfectly but because you might have a
letter B or a D or a K you don't want to trace it on the back when you flip it
over you'll have the wrong side of the paper shaped like your K so we're going
to show you how to do it on the front and we recommend that you do it on the
front I think do it that way no matter what letter you have just in case the
manufacturing of your letter isn't perfectly symmetric this way we know
this is going to fit on here perfect so I've got that all traced out and I'm not
worried about these pencil lines showing because I want to cut the paper inside a
little bit of these trace lines and that way it doesn't need to come perfectly to
the edge it doesn't need to line up perfectly and no give us a little white
border enough water will end up looking intentional if you accidentally cut it
out in a way that more border shows or it get letters completely covered in one
spot but there's a little bit of a border and another spot this looks
intentional yeah it'll look like a nice little outline go ahead and cut that
section off of here part of why we are starting with the
letter white is that sometimes scrapbook paper can be
a little bit transparent and you don't want to lose your color of your paper I
mean every picked out this beautiful paper my first thought when I saw this
was oh let's paint the letter at this deal or the painters yeah and which
would be pretty to have that showing as your border right it might muddy this
color yeah paper so the white will keep it nice and bright it will add some
lightness behind the paper so I'm just cutting in a little tiny bit and then
we'll just lay it on the letter and see if we like how much border we have and
if the borders even snow trial and error here these scissors that Kitty's using
or most favorite scissors for this kind of project because they're they're big
so they're not you know like little tiny scissors you would use for decoupage
where you're cutting out little flowers or whatever that's nice for a big
straight lines and also these are kind of a ergonomic yes so if you have
arthritis or you know have a little bit of trouble with your hands or you're
just doing a lot of cutting these scissors have a spring in them that
balances back and they just think that's yeah so you press them and open them
they open by spring rather than trying to use this part of your hand to open
them and we ended up getting up because we do so much cutting we were having
hand injuries yeah you get like hand fatigue you poked my way in here oh
that's smart that's a good little trick that the designers that do be strapped
with papers are such artists generally and the colors they pick out are always
on trend and yes patterns and this one came from a block of paper where all the
papers were made to be coordinated together so that's how we chose our side
paper at the polka dots we're going to use on the side we chose from the same
block and it's the same color it's probably the same ink that they used
here you know what that they used for that I have one piece left here to cut
out and then we'll test it and see if we like how
much border I did it's good so here's our a oh it's pretty already it's pretty
already and I like how much border we have I think did you have any extra
border anywhere else I think so done Leslie this part right
here is just overlapping a little bit okay so maybe it's a nice image I'm
gonna just kind of bend it with my finger I'm kind of creasing it and
that's gonna help me see where I want to cut that a little bit and maybe smaller
scissors would help with this part but I think I can get the nail yeah that's
enough I'd rather cut it's a few times and take a little away each time because
I can't add the paper back little amount was just right so now the letter is it's
almost decorated but we need to fix it on there with on line punch so to do
that I'm just gonna just pour a little bit of Mod Podge into a dish here cuz I
think it's easier to work with don't need the ton mm-hmm and then we're
using a nice flat paintbrush we just like the decoupaging with the flat
paintbrush and then the trick with adhering a piece of paper that's this
big to something as big as a letter is you don't want to paint the whole
surface first with the Mod Podge normally when we decoupage we would
paint this whole thing with the Mod Podge and then quickly transfer whatever
the paper is on top but we have to line this up and if we accidentally started
you know over here a little bit time we got down here it wouldn't match it's all
misaligned exactly so instead what we're gonna do is line it up how we want it
and I'm gonna start in one corner holding this down I'm just gonna tip
this back get some of the girl scrap paper under there so pull this back get
a little bit of Mod Podge on the brush here whoops and paint the Mod Podge
directly onto the letter like that and then press this down and what that's
gonna do is allow me to have one corner of the letter affixed already and then I
can peel this part back and continue modpodge a knowing that
that's already held on there nice and tight it is kind of nice just do a
little at a time if you tried to paint the whole thing with the Mod Podge some
of my punch might dry before you got the paper onto it so you can just work in
sections like this put down a little Mod Podge press down your paper it also
helps you not get wrinkles nobody likes wrinkles in their decoupage
that's right you can just press it down with your fingers a little bit at a time
pressing out any excess it can squeeze out the sides and we love decorating
letters is a really fun gift you can give to someone with a new baby if you
know the baby's name and you can use scrap of papers that have like baby
imagery like teddy bears or little duckies or whatever or you could do a
more grown-up one maybe for a couple that's getting married that's a fun I do
a letter for them and you could even use a glitzy paper like a nice foil almost a
wedding look oh yeah for that and all you need to know is the person's name
and if you want to spell out a whole name you could do that too you could do
more than just the initial you could get for a boy's room
yeah I've seen some really cute like cowboy imagery I love the colors with
the denim and you could use those colors be nice and these letters are everywhere
and you just want to pick a letter that has nice flat surfaces to decoupage onto
yeah it's easier than getting one that has a beveled edge or something a little
bit of wrinkle there press it out yeah when if you haven't ranked on
usually you can press it out and we're gonna my punch over the top of this too
and that also helps you soften the paper a little bit yeah so it's gonna be
easier to so it says press the letter wrinkles out
there you go right over the top at the top and I'm just gonna go back and forth
kind of in all directions here so that we don't end up with stripes although
you can also get a matte fine surface that looks really smooth by sanding the
front after the Mod Podge dries if you don't like brushstrokes I kind of like
how the brush eyes look - it looks handmade and that's the whole point is
that you're making handmade gift that's wonderful if you get a little bit of Mod
Podge in the edge here you can just why with the brush because we're gonna use
the accent color for the edges so that's gonna get covered up anyway yeah on the
inside this will dry clear so don't worry about covering up your image it
looks a little pasty right now or cloudy but once you once it dries it'll be nice
and clear and you can do multiple coats if you'd like it to look more glossy or
yeah a little bit of wrinkle there I'm gonna press out well yeah you see how
the excess decoupage medium came out the side there yeah
does that look that looks great you see someone will start to press out I'm
gonna wet my finger a little bit with some extra Mod Podge you just work it
out to the side yeah and that actually works great good that's great so we're
gonna let this coat of Mod Podge dry and then we're going to cut strips out of
our coordinating paper and we're going to use those strips to do the same
technique on the sides of our letter
so we finished decoupaging the whole letter to do these outside edges we cut
strips of the complementary paper this pink paper in the right width it's the
same width for all these edges so we just used one side to measure and cut
the strips and to fit them into the inside of the letter we just held it up
sideways to the letter and cut it and then fit it in a little bit of trial and
error but the they all fit and we glued them on the same way by putting a layer
of Mod Podge on top of the letter on the side of the letter and then laying the
strip of paper on it so our letter is almost completely dry it's still a
little bit wet underneath the paper which is why we still have some wrinkles
here but those will flatten out as it continues to dry it's certainly dry
enough on the surface for us to go ahead and do a little embellishing with our
gold paint pen so this is optional but we just thought it added a little bit of
extra Flair and a nice little handmade touch to add some dots with a gold paint
pen and I'm just gonna look at the letter the scrap of paper itself and see
where it might want a little bit of highlight a little extra shine or Sheen
and mostly what I'm looking for our dots in the pattern our pattern has a lot of
these little dots and I'm just taking the gold paint pen and adding some gold
right on top of those dots I don't need to do every one of them I'm just gonna
space it out so I have a little gold over here we'll want a little bit of
gold up here I'll do the inside of these little stamens on the flower I think
I'll do the inside of the circle and this one and it's just gonna give it
that little extra something with this paint pen and I'm just gonna keep on
adding these little dots not too many I think I'm almost done and then we're
gonna let that finish drying our letter came with a little hanger on the back
already but if yours doesn't have a hanger you'll want to put a hanger on
the back so that you can hang it up on the wall didn't that turn out nice it
looks great we're so excited love our letter
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