How To Decoupage A Glass Platter

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now I'm going to show you how to decorate this square glass platter with decoupage. We're going to be decoupageing a napkin onto the back of it. You want to put it on the back and have the design show up through so that you still have the glass surface to serve food on. They make a huge variety of napkins now a days and in beautiful designs. The first thing you want to do is choose your napkin and sort of plan out how you're going to adherent onto the platter. They have all kinds of designs. Many napkins have repetitive picture with the four. As the napkin's folded you're going to end up with 4 squares of the same picture, or you can find napkins that have a single design printed onto the whole napkin, and then it's just folded. When you're shopping for your napkins sort of peak into the package and see whether it's a repetitive pattern or a single pattern. Here's one with a single pattern. There's also napkins with borders. This one sort of a reminiscent of a bandana. That has borders. It's a lot bigger than the platter. Sometimes what I like to do is just take the item and put it on top and get an idea of how it will fit on your platter. Here's another one with a border. If I can open it. I'll do the same thing. You can see that you won't be able to use this outer design, but that part will be cut off. I'll show you some that I cut so you can get an idea of what those 2 napkins would look like on this platter. We've cut off the outer border, but this would fit fairly perfectly right on that. We might loose a tiny bit at the edge. This dark border on that edge. For this we're going to use this one. That's the look you would get. You want to try different things. Maybe you want to match your table decorations. There's an unlimited amount that you want to do. We're going to be using this napkin. I like it's gold; it's elegant. It has a little bit of an oriental look that goes nicely with the straight lines of the clear glass platter"