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q for my crafty friends
For those of you who do things like decoupage, please share your "best practices" with regards to painting a topcoat over paper.
For context -- though I'm also interested in advice that's irrelevant to this particular project -- I've got a big piece of mat board and a stack of inkjet printouts. I glued the printouts down on the mat board, and then painted mod podge over the top to make the surface a bit more resilient.
I find that it makes the paper ripple. If I use it straight from the bottle, it's very thick and saturates the paper before I can spread it around. If I dilute it even just a little, it's wet enough so it saturates the paper. In either case, the wet paper ripples and ruffles and bubbles.
Do I just need to let it cure longer after I glue it down, so the mat board backing keeps it from bubbling when I put the top coat on?
I realize that an answer to this question might be "Use $PRODUCT instead," which I'm open to hearing, but I'd also like to understand how to use this easy-to-find, inexpensive product, because sometimes I just want to make do with what I have on hand instead of going out and hunting down The Perfect Product for my project.
Edited to add: How long do I have to wait before I can start cutting it? After a few hours, I still see some parts are shinier than others, suggesting they're not completely dry. My x-acto knife is itching...
For context -- though I'm also interested in advice that's irrelevant to this particular project -- I've got a big piece of mat board and a stack of inkjet printouts. I glued the printouts down on the mat board, and then painted mod podge over the top to make the surface a bit more resilient.
I find that it makes the paper ripple. If I use it straight from the bottle, it's very thick and saturates the paper before I can spread it around. If I dilute it even just a little, it's wet enough so it saturates the paper. In either case, the wet paper ripples and ruffles and bubbles.
Do I just need to let it cure longer after I glue it down, so the mat board backing keeps it from bubbling when I put the top coat on?
I realize that an answer to this question might be "Use $PRODUCT instead," which I'm open to hearing, but I'd also like to understand how to use this easy-to-find, inexpensive product, because sometimes I just want to make do with what I have on hand instead of going out and hunting down The Perfect Product for my project.
Edited to add: How long do I have to wait before I can start cutting it? After a few hours, I still see some parts are shinier than others, suggesting they're not completely dry. My x-acto knife is itching...
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