Crossword clues for decoupage
decoupage
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 An art technique in which paper cut outs (either from magazines etc or specially made) are glued onto the surface of an object and sometimes painted or decorated 2 An artwork made by this technique vb. To perform or use the art technique of decoupage.
WordNet
n. art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer
the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with vanish or lacquer
Wikipedia
Decoupage or Dècoupage is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf and other decorative elements. Commonly an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from purpose-manufactured papers. Each layer is sealed with varnishes (often multiple coats) until the "stuck on" appearance disappears and the result looks like painting or inlay work. The traditional technique used 30 to 40 layers of varnish which were then sanded to a polished finish.
3D decoupage (sometimes also referred to simply as decoupage) is the art of creating a 3D image by cutting out elements of varying sizes from a series of identical images and layering them on top of each other, usually with adhesive foam spacers between each layer to give the image more depth.
Pyramid decoupage (also called pyramage) is a process similar to 3D decoupage. In pyramid decoupage, a series of identical images are cut into progressively smaller, identical shapes which are layered and fixed with adhesive foam spacers to create a 3D " pyramid" effect.
Usage examples of "decoupage".
Lady Diana smiled back at her as her maid calmly began to lay out gowns over a decoupage screen.
Needlepoint pillows, a small needlepoint rug, and several decoupage lamps picked up at downtown auctions added to the Victorian feel of the room.
She works up detailed horoscopes, breeds Siamese cats, instructs in decoupage, gets around on a Honda and writes a weekly society gossip column for a throwaway called the Lauderdale Bystander.
These were decoupage images of Holmes, black cats, and, of course, Poe himself, such an unhappy-looking man.
Max pulled into the drive of the house he and Renee had bought twenty-two years ago, when she was coming out of her decoupage period and getting into macrame, or the other way around.
Laylah in a small room at the top of the stairs, sitting in a wooden crib from the fifties, the pre-Consumer Safety kind with wooden slats and toxic decoupages of pastel animals with lunatic grins and silky eyelashes.
While I was cleaning closets the next day, I found a present Paula had given us the year before, a blown-up snapshot of Dante and me on our wedding day, decoupaged to a rectangle of wood.
While Jason clicked away and asked questions, I decoupaged a Swisher Sweets container with old magazine cutouts.
A prisoner of her thespian ambitions and his own impecunious situation, Mark felt increasingly like a bird in a gilded cage, albeit a gilded, distempered, decoupaged and beribboned cage lined with toile de Jouy.
There was a little TV screen in the lid, where a decoupaged Miss America beamed, her face dotted with clear nailpolish tears.
A lunchbox decoupaged in flea market postcards of fin de siecle aristocracy was the Amelia Ramos.
I imagined her decoupaging orange crates, making clever hanging ornaments out of egg cartons festooned with plastic sprigs of lily of the valley.
One of the coffee can flowerpots had the instructions for taking care of the seed planted inside, decoupaged to the outside.
A small TV and VCR perched atop a pale blue bureau decoupaged with pink cabbage roses.