Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Happy Spring Tablescape for Easter

Another Easter Sunday has come and gone.  I had a wonderful day with all of my children together to celebrate Easter.   We had ham,  potato salad,  baked beans,  Slovenian sausage and sour kraut,  dinner rolls, and home made pineapple upside down cake.  I love cooking for my boys especially for the holidays.  Of course there were plenty of leftovers so that everyone could take home enough food for another meal.
Easter - Spring Tablescape
Small clay pots from Marc's (my favorite closeout store) held a foil wrapped chocolate, a small chick, and a faux daffodil in a bed of Easter Grass.
Easter - Spring Tablescape
The plates are made from a clear glass plate with a quilting square decoupaged to the back (tutorial to follow at the end of this post).
Easter - Spring Tablescape
Large wicker place mats (thrifted) and butter cream color Lenox charger plates (an Ebay find) start the stack.
Easter - Spring Tablescape
Lenox Summer Terrace candle holders (thrifted) and cream white candles decorate the center of the table. Bunny napkin rings hold green napkins with faux flowers tucked into the folds.
Easter - Spring Tablescape
 The lambs were an Ebay purchase this year from Replacements at a very reasonable price.
Easter - Spring Tablescape
 Daffodil flatware.
Easter - Spring Tablescape
A garden bunny is sitting in the middle of a bed of faux hydrangeas inside a freshly painted birdcage.
Easter - Spring Tablescape

Easter - Spring Tablescape
 The Park Design mushroom S&P's were bought at Marc's last year.
Easter - Spring Tablescape
The napkins and some of the napkin rings were thrifted (the sixth one is part of a set that Marigene sent to me). I didn't have enough of either design so I combined them.
Easter - Spring Tablescape
Easter - Spring Tablescape
 Thrifted stemware decorated with a bee and spring flowers.
Easter - Spring Tablescape

Easter - Spring Tablescape

The following is a  tutorial to make the decoupaged plates.
Tutorial to make decoupaged Easter plates
The material is a happy Ebay mistake.  I had bid on and won a piece of Peter Rabbit material to use to make salad plates but as it turned out that piece was not available so the vendor offered this piece of quilting squares as a substitute for the Perter Rabbit material. The interior squares were 10 inches, just the right size  for dinner plates. A thin lightweight fabric is easiest to work with.
Tutorial to make decoupaged Easter plates

Tutorial to make decoupaged Easter plates
After spreading a tarp on my work surface (AKA dining room table) I placed the material printed front up and brushed my laminating paste (Tacky glue works well too) on it's front side.
Tutorial to make decoupaged Easter plates
 I placed a clear glass plate on a large can to raise my work surface
Tutorial to make decoupaged Easter plates



and brush the glue over the back of the plate covering it completely.
Tutorial to make decoupaged Easter plates


Place the front side of the material (carefully positioning it) onto the back side of the glued plate and cover the back of the material after it is on the plate with a coat of glue too. Use your brush to work out any wrinkles that may appear. 
Tutorial to make decoupaged Easter plates
Trim the excess material after the glue has dried with a sharp razor knife.  A coat of white paint sprayed or brushed on the back of the plate will intensify the depth of color if the material is thin (and light in color) like the material I used for the bunny plates.
Please note:  Adding a coating of a clear sealant on the back will help to make the plates easier to clean. 
(do not submerge in water)
and
 Voila!

Tutorial to make decoupaged Easter plates

Have a wonderful day!
Remember to thrift on ladies, thrift on!

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16 comments:

  1. Candy- Well, aren't you crafty and clever? Crafty, Clever Candy Coated China! (say that fast 10 times). I love the way that plate turned out. Your table is just gorgeous, too. I have a bunch of those clear plates. I might have to work some magic on a few of them now! xo Diana

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  2. Oh I so love your table - and those bunny plates - what a grand idea - you could have special plates for any season or occasion. The little cups with the chick inside are darling and of course you already know I am in love with the daffodil silverware. The napkins are clever and so are the napkin rings - just a lovely table all around - so springy and fresh. I'm glad your kids could all be there for the dinner, which sounds yummy. I see you decided to go with the pineapple upside down cake.

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  3. Brilliant decoupage! I love it, Candy! It all looks great!!

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  4. Clever crafting and it looks fabulous! Thanks for the tutorial.

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  5. I love those little eyes peeping out of the bowl/pot. So cute. And that's a great idea and tutorial for creating custom plates. I love it! Thanks. :0)

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  6. I LOVE this table and LOVE the bunny plates!!! I am going to look for some material I can use to do this! When you say tacky glue, do you mean Modge Podge? Also what are the bowls? I am in love with them too!!! Gorgeous table!

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    1. Thank you Pinky, Modge Podge would work great to adhere the material to the glass plates, any thick white glue that dries clear is suitable. I have been using a product called The Laminator for years but I have not seen any available since I bought mine. The bowls were a long ago ceramics project. I have been searching for a source for greenware or bisque in this pattern without any luck. I like the color of the single glaze finish on the bowls.

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  7. Candy, your tablescape is stunning. I love simply everything. The glass plates you made with the laminating of the fabric is so lovely. Thank you for showing us how to do it! I certainly didn't know how to do this process before you showed us how. Love how you did the napkins with the napkin rings, so creative. Gorgeous everything!

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  8. Candy, I LOVE this table! It's hard to know where to start to comment. Your dish stack is perfect and those decoupaged glass plates are darling (thanks for the tutorial). I love how you placed the napkins standing up in your napkin rings. If you don't mind, I'd love to try that idea. This table is perfect for spring. Thank you for sharing. Rosie @ The Magic Hutch

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  9. Terrific tablescape! Love the dishware, the centerpiece and of course, the terra cotta pots for treats! I love hearing how you like to cook for your kids - nice you can do that for them and send them home with leftovers!

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  10. OMG! You are so talented in so many ways my friend! The table came out gorgeous and so whimsy, the cage centerpiece is awesome Candy, I simply covet it!
    ...and if that was not enough, you made your own bunny plates, my goodness pal!
    Thanks so much for the tutorial, with the lack of bunny plates around here, now I know how to get me some, lol!
    Have a lovely weekend ahead. Pinning!
    FABBY

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  11. Lovely, whimsical table..great idea to decoupage the plates to match. Love them...love that floral stemware also. Gorgeous!

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  12. I knew when I saw just a peek of the cage there would be a bunny inside- delightful. The whole table is a masterpiece. I imagined your family dinner was so much fun looking at this scene, plus the food sounds perfect. I am thrilled to know about the decoupage plate idea. Your bunny plates should be a dinnerware series available at replacements or Macy's. Martha Stewart....step aside please, the Candy show is taking over.

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  13. Candy, this table is wonderful and I cannot believe that those charming plates were made by decoupaging fabric on them. How clever! Love that centerpiece, too!

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  14. It is definitely a Happy Spring when it is greeted and celebrated with so much creativity and whimsy! The mini pots and their adorable residents are complete cuteness! How crafty you are, Candy, to have decoupaged those plates with the sweetest of springtime scenes - beautiful!

    Happy Spring, my friend! Enjoy!!

    Poppy

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  15. Candy, there are so many great ideas on this table! I've got to go back and pin some of these pix. Those bunny plates are genius, and they turned out so pretty. The little flower pots filled with treats are adorable, and I'm going to "borrow" your idea of standing the napkins up in the napkin rings and tucking a little flower inside. That stemware is so pretty, and I can't believe it is thrifted. I also noticed some sweet Spring/Easter décor in the hutch behind the table. It all looks beautiful.

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