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Geek Girls Do: Comic Book Decoupage

Decoupage Instructions

Supplies:

Comic books

Mod Podge or other glue

Foam brush
Surface to Cover - Decorative boxes, picture frames, canvases, etc.
Scissors
Popsicle stick
Tissue - at least one for soaking up tears of sadness at destroying comics and another for glue removal
Newspaper

1. Read your precious comic books one last time. Wave goodbye to them as you prepare to bid them farewell. Celebrate as you remember you have a spare copy hiding away in a drawer somewhere.

2. Cut out the images, characters and logos you find appealing and would want to incorporate. Remember sound effects work also. After all who doesn't want to see a giant Bwaaaam! coming out of their art?

3. Lay down newspaper on your worktable to keep your room clean. This is not the most exciting of steps but it sure is more fun than cleaning glue out of your parent's carpet.

4. Using your brush spread a light layer of your glue onto whatever surface you've chosen to decorate. Place the comics you've cut out on top of the glue and smooth down using the Popsicle stick to prevent air bubbles. A tissue may also be used to soak up excess glue.

5. Let the project dry. You'll know it's done when you can touch it without thinking it feels gross.

6. Repeat step four and five until you've added enough layers to cover the entire surface. Remember, if you don't like the look of one of the comics you glued down or you suddenly realize your Robin to Batman ratio is 3:1 you can easily fix these problems by adding additional layers of glue and comics to your project.

7. When the project looks like how you want it, add one more layer of glue to add an extra shine and to secure the top layer.

8. Now enjoy the fruit of your efforts and your new way to share your geeky obsessions with the world!

Welcome to Our Great Adventure

Sarah and Krissy

Coming here very soon will be a new series of videos teaching you, our guests, how to share your shameless love of pop culture with the world through the ever popular and thankfully cheap past time of crafting. We do not promise to be the best with our skills; however, one of us is studying interior design so we like to believe that will make all the difference. Unfortunately, the other is an English major whose crafting claim to fame was getting first place in the 4-H county fair with a tie-die t-shirt in second grade. The judges were impressed by the white patterns and had never before seen a technicolor shirt featuring such a unique design. Of course, those spots were unplanned and simply had been missed accidentally with the spray bottle. Well, whatever they didn't know then won't hurt them now.

In the upcoming weeks we will feature instructions for making some of our favorite video game, comic, and sci-fi/fantasy inspired craft and cooking projects. You can expect lots of mod podge and a fair amount of flour to fly. Hopefully, not in the same project but we can't make any guarantees. Up first will be the fine art of decoupaging with comic books. Look back soon for more details. And if you have a suggestion for future projects let us know in the comments. We'd be happy to embarrass ourselves trying to recreate your ideas for posterity.