Place your paper where you want it on the floor and paint over the top of it with the découpage mixture.
How to make a floor out of paper bags.
Tear or cut depending on what look you are going for the paper into large pieces.
Repeat until you have covered the floor but don t have any overlapping stones on the floor.
Wait for it to dry.
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Take your piece of paper and hold it over the bowl.
Then lay your paper down on the floor and smooth flat working from the inside out to remove any bubbles.
Step back as well as enjoy your new floors.
Prepare your surface area.
I designed a paper bag floor with cogs and wheels in my gallery on the coast in oregon.
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Paper bag flooring application after the floor is prepped tear and crumple 6 to 8 inch paper wads from a roll of brown craft paper the material used in brown paper lunch bags.
Remember ways to découpage.
Make sure to smooth out any air bubbles.
A very easy craft to do.
Dip each piece into the glue mixture until fully saturated and then lay into place on the floor.
I used a diluted water based paint to create a warm wash on the paper then i used oil based stain on the cogs and wheels and sealed the whole thing with a water modified polyurethane sealer about 6 coats.
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How to make paper bag.
Notice the texture the crumpling gives the stones once again.
Use your hands to scoop up some glue and spread it evenly over both sides.
Requirements for paper bag.
Continue the process until the floor is completely covered.
Follow your floor diagram and begin placing the brown paper bag pieces to one section of the wall gently smoothing out the pieces with your hand.
6 give the glue about five minutes to set.
Do not polyurethane the paper it turns the paper crispy and translucent and you don t want that.
For a mottled look like bryson city outdoors crumple up each piece.
Set the piece of paper on the floor smoothing out bubbles and ripples.
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The easiest way i found to apply that paper is like so.
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Brush the back of a large piece of torn bag with a paintbrush or foam brush loaded with the glue and water mixture.
Once dry give it a coat of polyurethane.
Make that floor shine like the top of the chrysler structure.