It does not matter if you are a novice or a professional, decoupage is a great craft to experiment with. You can easily create beautiful and useful works or art using pictures cut out from magazines, wrapping paper, and other sources. If you want to learn more about the craft of decoupage and find a large collection of new projects, check out these fastinating books.
1. Creative Three-Dimensional Decoupage
This colorful book contains the basic techniques, with new tips on how to enhance your images with seeds, moss, twigs, fabric, glitter and wire. Learn how to cut and shape, mix and match images, add fine detail and texture, and to vary backgrounds with sponging painting.
2. Absolute Beginner's Decoupage
Subtitled 'The Simple Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Beautiful Decoupage', the art of decoupage is explained clearly in these pages, enabling even novices to master all the basic techniques needed to create an endless array of beautifully decorated pieces.3. Manning on Decoupage
Clear explanations of every step of every procedure by a man who probably knows more about craft than anyone. This book has 91 drawings and over 100 photographs.4. Decorating with Decoupage
This book provides in-depth information on decoupage basics and includes instructions for 12 projects, including a toy chest, dessert bowls, and tea caddy. Find out how to create interesting antiqued effects and how to add special finishing touches; plus, check out the suggestions for other projects and for home decor.5. New Crafts: Decoupage
Projects in this book vary greatly in difficulty so there is something for everyone. The introduction explains in detail all materials needed to produce stunning decoupage projects, as well as practical advice. The introduction is followed by 25 projects including a Zebra-Print Chest of Drawers, a Gilded Mirror Frame, and a Headboard.6. All New Decoupage
Lavishly illustrated with more than 140 photos, this book offers not only clear, step-by-step instructions, but also a superb range of unique ideas with each stunning photograph. Items as diverse as ceramic and porcelain bowls and cups, a duvet cover and a toilet seat have been decoupaged using various new and adapted techniques.7. Decoupage
Subtitled 'A Practical Guide to the Art of Decorating Surfaces with Paper Cutouts'. A bit different from other how-to books, the authors starts out by exploring the history before concentrating on the techniques. Includes step-by-step directions, photographs of finished piecese, and useful drawings on how to select papers, prepare surfaces, choose the right tools, cut, glue, and varnish.8. Discover Decoupage
Each of the nearly 40 projects included in this book is graded according to difficulty. Beginners can start off on a cardboard letter rack adorned with a leopard, a gypsy-style jug, and a child's chair; and then move on to initialized napkin rings, a butterfly-and-leaf-covered lamp shade and base, an Oriental-style box, and a blanket box with a tulip design.9. Leslie Linsey's Decoupage
An introduction to the popular craft of decoupage explains how to transform ordinary objects into treasured works of art for the home, providing step-by-step instructions on how to decorate a wide range of objects, from small boxes to large pieces of furniture, and from flea market finds to attic treasures.10. Stylish Decoupage
Steeped in tradition, people have been practicing this popular craft for hundreds of years, but this book takes a new look at decoupage and brings it up-to-date with bright, fresh ideas that update the vintage craft of decoupage.