Transferring Artwork onto Furniture

10/4/2013

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This is one of the Passport Stamps we transfered to the top of of son's dresser. This is a great way to personalize your furniture and give it that high end look for low end cost.

What You'll Need:
1. Piece of Furniture, or an absent neighbor's piece of furniture. Think of their surprise when they arrive home!
2. MOD PODGE- Matte waterbase sealer, glue, and finish (approx. $4), or Liquitex Gel Medium (approx. $16)
3. Reverse Printed Artwork. If you need instructions on how to reverse your image, well, that's a different tutorial.
4. Sponge Brush Applicator ($1-ish)
5. Water and a Sponge or Paper Towel (cost determined by your preferred brand of Towel, but we recommend Bounty :) )
6. Fingers (Free...unless they are someone elses fingers, in which case, we don't want to know.)
7. Patience (although this project is quick on the gratification scale, the rubbing process does require a bit of patience and restraint, to keep from rubbing too hard in anticipation and damaging the transferred image.)

So, here is our first crack at an instructional video for one of our projects, and now one of our favorite techniques of adding a personal touch to your project pieces, transfers. The video quality is not the greatest, perhaps we need to watch a tutorial on producing video tutorials, but we digress. For now, we will offer you what we can, and our video production skills will improve with time. We hope you enjoy, and if you do, please share our blog with a friend, or sworn enemies, we're not picky. And if you have any questions or comments, don't be shy, unless you plan to be mean, in which case by all means, be shy.
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Farm Style Coffee Table

8/17/2013

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This Farm Chic Coffee Table is available for purchase.
We picked up this coffe table at a garage sale for $5. Immediately I was drawn to the "plank" style construction of the table top. I had a very clear vision of what this table needed to look like. The lines were making me think farm house, so farmhouse chic it was.
The first step is to sand and paint. A good point to note is that when painting a deep red, don't freak out when it goes on as fuschia, it will deepen as it dries. It is recommended to allow 15 hours to dry before recoating for a color like this.

Next, I created a design that fit the look and feel I was envisioning. After printing the design out on multiple pages taped together, the next step was to hand cut the stencil. Exacto knife + hour or two later = giant rooster design stencil.
Finally, perhaps the most therapuetic step for me personally, distressing the table. There is something about taking a table that has a brand new paint job, and making it look like a really old one, it is quite fun. There is a balance to be had, and a fine line between too much, and too little. Where is that line? Finding it is a secret, and if i told you...well you know the rest. $5, two coats of paint, a sweet rooster print, and a bit of distressing later, we turned this ordinary coffee table into this Farm Chic Work of Art.
Using some repositional spray adhesive, I sprayed the back of my paper stencil, and adhered it to the surface of the coffee table. Next I painted through the stencil, being cautious not to over saturate the brush with paint, after all, this is a paper stencil, and it will only absorb so much paint before allowing it to pass through.
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