Every housewife loves different little things that please the eye in the kitchen. Decoupage of a tea house attracts the surprised glances of guests and decorates the interior of the kitchen.
The master class will teach you how to decorate such a craft using decoupage of surfaces.
Tea house decor
For work, prepare:
- house details;
- acrylic paste;
- palette knife;
- dye;
- decoupage cards with a picture of a house;
- varnish;
- stencil;
- decoupage glue.
Prime the surface of the wooden house.
Cut out a balcony, windows, doors and other details from a decoupage card.
Glue the pictures to the right places.
To add volume in the right places, apply relief paste with a palette knife.
In some areas of the house, a brick effect is expected. It is easy to obtain using the same palette knife. The contours of the brick are made with a toothpick or match.
Using a stencil and relief paste, form tiles on the roof of the house.
Mix paint shades to achieve the desired color on the main motif.
Paint the tea house in suitable shades with some greenery.
Fill in the missing details yourself. Draw a lantern under the roof, stonework below. After this, all that remains is to add cracks on all the walls.
Paint the roof with acrylic red paint.
Darken the tiles to give the craft a natural look, and paint over highlights on various parts of the structure.
Using 3D gel, paint the lantern and windows, as in the photo. After this, light will be reflected in them.
Spray the house with some spray varnish and you're done.
Master class on decoupage of a tea house (video)
The tea house is a very cute accessory, just its name already makes you smile. Make such a charming little thing for yourself, and your home will also become a little cozy and warmer.
The master class was conducted by Oksana Lebedeva.
Many housewives are trying to equip their kitchen, add comfort and warmth. This requires extraordinary but functional things. One of them could be a tea house for storing tea bags.
Materials:
preparation of a tea house; putty; acrylic paints (white, ocher, red, burnt umber, gold); acrylic lacquer; PVA glue; table napkin made of bamboo straw; three-layer napkin; decorative element butterfly; stencil.
Tools:
flat bristle and synthetic brushes; sponge; toothbrush and stick; sandpaper No. 150, 180, 600, 800; needle file; palette; glue "Moment Crystal".
DIY tea house
For needlework prepare:
- wooden elements of the house;
- napkin with a pattern;
- acrylic primer;
- paints;
- bitumen;
- PVA glue;
- candle;
- varnish;
- acrylic lacquer;
- tape, file with stencil.
Use sandpaper to go over parts of the house to remove any imperfections or imperfections. After this, cover the surface with primer.
If you will not be decorating the inside of the craft, there is no need to prime it. When the primer is dry, go over it again with sandpaper. Paint areas with wear to get the effect of an antique piece. The paint will show through the main color of the house, and will give it the look of an old estate.
Selectively rub the areas with a wax candle, as in the photo.
The main color of the craft is blue.
When everything is dry, treat with hard paper those fragments that were rubbed with a candle. You will get beautiful scuff marks.
The fragment of the drawing depicted on the napkin will be on a large scale. To stick it on, use a stationery file. Place the napkin face down on it, after peeling off the design. Pour water in a thin stream over the center of the picture.
Distribute the napkin evenly over the entire plane of the file. You will remove excess air that has accumulated. Attach the blank to the side of the house and press the image. Remove the file using gentle movements. Immediately after this, apply PVA glue.
While the structure is drying, work on the roof. After priming and painting it dark, mark it into stripes with matte tape. Then cover everything with bevel varnish. After drying, cracks appear, simulating an old house.
Use a stencil to apply any inscription indicating tea drinking on the front of the craft.
Coat all corners and convex parts of the craft with bitumen. Dry and treat the surface with acrylic varnish. The house can be used to store tea bags.
Cardboard house
If you want to try to create a house from scratch, you can make it from cardboard yourself. For this you will need:
- cardboard and scissors;
- pencil with ruler;
- napkins with drawings;
- acrylic paints;
- PVA glue;
- varnish and thick paper;
- eggshell;
- twine and brush.
To create a structure from cardboard, you will need to cut out 2 square pieces for the base and roof and 4 pieces for the walls, in one of which a semicircular hole is made for dispensing tea bags. All parts are glued together using glue and paper.
On a note! You can strengthen the structures by gluing several additional rectangles onto the gluing seams
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Since ancient times, the tea ceremony
was an important event in everyday life. This tradition dates back to Ancient Japan, where beautiful geisha turned the usual drinking of tea into a whole ritual. To carry out the ceremony, they used a special Japanese tea house, which was adapted specifically for tea drinking. In Rus', tea drinking was also accompanied by long gatherings and conversations. Back then it was believed that such things brought people very close together.
To begin with, the table was covered with a starched white tablecloth, a large shiny samovar was placed in the center, and all kinds of sweets and pastries were placed around it. This tea party lasted more than one hour.
In the past, loose leaf tea was very popular, but now it is much more convenient and time-saving to use tea bags. Of course, a box of tea on the dining table is an unaesthetic sight, so the idea of creating a tea house was born. With the help of a simple master class, anyone can make a tea house with their own hands, using decoupage and decorating the house.
To make such a cute house for tea bags from wood or cardboard, the necessary diagrams, or a detailed drawing where all dimensions are indicated, can be easily found and downloaded on the Internet. We will look step by step what to do after the house has been assembled according to these schemes - how to give it the proper appearance so that it can not only be used for its intended purpose, but also decorate your table setting? To avoid any difficulties even for beginners, there is a tutorial on assembly, a gallery of photos of finished houses, as well as an interesting and useful video.
The simplest option is to assemble a structure from available material, cardboard. In this master class, you can use any cardboard box: postal or from household appliances. In addition to the box, we will need some materials and tools:
- stationery knife;
- leg-split;
- glue;
- ruler;
- simple pencil.
You need to start like this
, using a pencil and a ruler, draw future details on cardboard: 4 rectangles 20/9 cm, 1 rectangle 10/6 cm and 4 squares 10/10 cm. In one of the large parts you need to form a “door” from which tea bags will be taken out . To do this, draw a semicircle 5 cm high and 1 cm indented from the edges, cut it out. In addition, it is necessary to cut strips: 20/3 cm - 4 pcs. and 9/3 cm - 4 pieces, as well as two triangles to cover the front and back of the roof. It is better to make these parts from thick paper or thin cardboard.
Now we bend the cut thin strips along exactly in the middle and use them to glue the 4 walls of the future house. Next, we form a volumetric triangle from a 9/3 cm strip and glue a 10/10 cm square to it on both sides - we get a roof. When gluing
squares, you can place a loop between them for convenience. Now we cut out triangles to cover the roof from the front and back sides. Lastly, the bottom is glued - attached to the walls using short strips.
For aesthetics, you need to cover all cut cardboard edges with twine. The roof can be decorated with cardboard tiles, and with a utility knife you can cut out a window on the “second floor” and make it with partitions, a pendant, or decorate it with curtains. Tea bags will be “inhabited” through the roof.
This simple step-by-step master class
answered the question about how to make a tea house with your own hands without decorations. In a similar way, you can make such a blank from plywood, fastening it with nails. Further design should be thought out and selected based on the kitchen interior and the imagination of the master. You can bring any idea to life and the blank will become an Italian villa, Santa Claus's New Year's house, the hut of the seven dwarfs or a tower with Rapunzel sitting in it.
Coffee house-jar
Coffee house-jar. I invite you to consider Valeria’s wonderful master class. An original coffee house with a mouse, looks very cute and smells nice)
And so, we will need: Scissors; Glue gun; An empty twist-on jar, I have a square liter jar; Sackcloth; Coffee beans; Jute or thick thread to match the burlap; A little paper twine for the windows; A popsicle stick (for the door), but you can also use cardboard; For a flashlight, a piece of a plastic bottle and about san; Ribbon for decoration, I used gold 1 cm wide, but you can decorate without ribbons; Cardboard;
We cut out a rectangle from burlap and try it on the jar. Of course, it is more correct to measure the jar with a centimeter and add one and a half centimeters to the joint, at the top the burlap should be glued directly under the rim, and from the bottom you need a couple of centimeters, also for hem. I cut the first window right away; the rest were already on the jar.
We cover the jar with burlap, I made the joint where the door will be. I cut the windows so that they were all the same - put the cut piece to the jar and carefully cut it out with nail scissors, you can make a template and cut it out or trace it and cut it out, the windows can, of course, be of any shape - as you wish.
Glue the bottom of the fabric to the bottom - making cuts on the sides - so that the fabric does not wrinkle, and also at the top - in my version, I cut on four sides, because The jar is quadrangular with a slightly narrowed top and bottom, glued with an overlap.
The photo shows the cut locations in red. We unroll the paper twine, cut it lengthwise and glue it in the form of window frames, this must be done very carefully so as not to stain the glass; instead of twine it can be anything - threads, paper.
Look how interesting the jar looks from the inside - the window:
We glue a ribbon or tape at the top, cover the joint, and cover the bottom with coffee beans, I had very large ones - I just used them:
Coat the bottom with glue and glue it directly to the burlap, then cut around it:
This is what the bottom looks like after gluing it with grains:
True, they look like stonework:
I also decided to make a round window above the door, here you can see the joint of the fabric:
For the door we cut out a piece of cardboard, I pasted a piece of napkin imitating wood on top, but this is not necessary - you can also paste a piece of burlap of a different texture:
On top of the door I glued a pre-cut ice cream stick, glued some coffee beans - I had small ones and half in the form of a handle, you can also use beads and glue them around the door like this:
We cut out circles from cardboard starting from the smallest one and ending with a circle larger than the lid by about one and a half centimeters, I first cut them out larger, then removed a few so that the roof would not be very high.
Cover the side of the lid with a roller made of fabric, the approximate thickness of the roller should be 1.5 cm so that our roof could be “screwed” freely onto the house, I didn’t glue enough, then I had to “chemically” increase the size of the edges of the roof a little, so don’t make that mistake -and it also depends on the shape of the jar itself, here you have to look carefully:
This is how you stick the cardboard mugs onto the lid:
We cut out a piece of burlap for the roof - it is better to take about 3 cm more than necessary, trying it on to the roof itself - the top should be 3-4 cm higher than the cardboard sticker.
Carefully glue the burlap, giving it this look:
Top tie:
Let's start decorating - whatever you want - there is room for your imagination to run wild, I glued a wooden bead covered with coffee beans to the top, or maybe a traditional nest with a bird)))
I wanted to decorate like this:
Fingertips:
Flashlight: a piece of plastic bottle rolled into a cone, cut off, a button on the bottom - glue twine jumpers, the bottom with jute, a circle cut along the radius on the top - twist into a cone and stick on top, first make a loop, decorate. Holder for a flashlight (I don’t know what it’s called correctly, maybe someone can tell me, I’ll be grateful): wrap a piece of wire with thread, twist the ends and glue it to the house, seal the gluing area with a piece of burlap.
So another magical dream was born, all that remains is to cover the grains and the door with varnish:
Now let’s show off with the “mouse”:
