Help - My Decoupage Yellowed!

Hi,

I am a beginning decoupager and had a wooden stool turn yellow on me. I used a base coat on it, enamel paint, decoupaged using scrapbooking papers (a light cream color) and Mod Podge and then used an acrylic finish (Minwax Fast-Drying Polyurethane).

Within a month, the cream color paper decoupaged on now looks light yellow. Can this happen from old Mod Podge, paint or acrylic? I'd had the paint for about 2 months, the acrylic for about 6 and the Mod Podge even longer.

I don't want to keep repeating the problem and want to know if there is anything that I can do to fix the one that I now have.

Thx,
Sabrina

Hi Sabrina,

As for the stool you already did, I don't think there's anything you can do short of removing the acrylic finish; but that would probably ruin your decoupage work.

However I can tell you how to avoid yellowing in the future.

Here, along with my answer to Sabrina, are FAQs about Decoupage Yellowing.