As much as I'd love to have visited Tombstone, I never even traveled out west. The picture I uploaded of the three hanging plaques of Tombstone were found in an office I rented for awhile a few years ago. Once I decided on the right size boards, I painted them in kind of a sea green shade and then I added some age by burning the edges of the papers before decoupaging them onto the boards. You can do this by using a cigar or ciggarrette, holding the paper pieces over a baking pan and placing burn holes and fraying edges to the desired extent. Most people will use fire but it is rather hard to control and if you only have exactly the pieces you need, you don't want to take the chance on losing them to the flames. :)

Always have loved this particular craft and for years I've been making some pretty decent money at flea markets with some of the stuff I make. So many people think decoupage is just for plaques. You can decoupage anything. As you can see from the pics I've even done a cabinet. I often do tables and work with glass also. For glass, all you need to do is apply a coat of wall paper paste first. I recently found about 25 old windows in a friend's attic and they didn't want them so I'm decoupaging them using various themes and then I will either hang them with boat rope or hinge them together to create room dividers. The flat boards were done using old silk screens so you can see it's all about recycling too. The game board has a chess board on the other side so it hangs up along with the bag of playing pieces. Not all, but most of the pics have at least some decoupage work into them, including the funky rain sticks. The outlet covers are a cool way of expressing yourself without junking up an entire room. My step daughter makes a bunch of them now... all kinds, and sells them through my main web site and around the neighborhood. She's done a few custom requests as well. It's a fun hobby and can be incorporated into other crafts. A great way to do scale work is by taking a photo after laying the pieces out the way you want before gluing. This way, you can take a look at where the pieces were so your scale work is not messed up. Have a great time decoupaging tables, vases, tin cans or anything else. Don't stop with the plaques.