This weeks project is a lovely French Typography wooden sign, that I made!
This is the before photo. I took an antique wooden board, this one came off of an old door, it was one of the door panels. It had some old chippy white paint already on it so I just cleaned it up a bit.
I actually used my new favorite transfer paper to adhere the image to the board! This is the Iron on Transfer Paper that I used. It's called Tap and it's made by Lesley Riley. It's truly fabulous stuff! (For more about Tap, go HERE to see a project that I did previously.)I used the reverse print image above, and printed the image onto the transfer paper, using my inkjet printer. I then used my iron to transfer the image to the wood. Some of the paint did curl up a bit when I did it, this would probably work better with a smoother surface, but I'm still quite pleased with the results. I'm not sure if this would work as well with a latex paint, it might melt. The paint on this board is probably oil and it's been on there for a very long time.
Of course you can also use the printable to make towels, tote bags, pillows or whatever else you like!
I'm linking this one up to:
Transformation Thursday at The Shabby Chic Cottage
Met Monday at Between Naps on the Porch
Frugal Friday at The Shabby Nest
Made by you Monday at Skip to My Lou
Get Your Craft On Tuesday at Today's Creative Blog
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It's fabulous! :) Love the chippy board.
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gail
Oh my that is just so gorgeous... love your style!
ReplyDeleteLove transfers, love old paint, love this piece! Very decorative. Great look.
ReplyDeleteWOW that looks fabulous, I'm going to find some of that paper!!
ReplyDeleteOH, and I forgot to say thank-you for the printable...I love the French Signs!!
ReplyDeleteYou have the best graphics. I always know where to look, you have everything. Great project transformation.
ReplyDeleteFabulous, Karen! You DO have the best graphics - and thanks for sharing them with us! I'm definitely going to try this one out! :)
ReplyDeletexoxo laurie
This is lovely!
ReplyDeleteWow, I love that chippy paint! I never would have thought to use transfer paper on wood like that! Brilliant! Love it.
ReplyDeleteThis is so nice! Thanks for sharing it with us all. I appreciate it.
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LaVonne @ Long Wait For Isabella
Karen, I love this! I need to do something like this for my office. Thanks for generously sharing the details on how to do it!
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing Karen!! You are so talented!
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Frenchy
wow.. absolutly beautiful.. I will use this an a pillow I think.. I will link to this from my blogg. It is an amazing blogg you have, all of them!! I visit her often! hug from norway. :D
ReplyDeleteIt looks really nice, its got that vintage kinda feel to it :)
ReplyDeletejust lovely!!!
ReplyDeleteLove it! Especially the crackled color is charming. Great idea to keep the original paint!
ReplyDeleteOh this is totally gorgeous, Karen!! I love it!!
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Cindy
That's beautiful! so jealous of your skills, I've never come across your blog before but I'm so glad I have....bookmarking now!
ReplyDeleteSuperb project! Thanks for sharing your graphics. :-)
ReplyDeleteI have some old drawer fronts that this would be perfect for. Thank you for the tutorial. I am also a new follower and subscriber.
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful!! I havent worked with transfer paper yet, does the part the image isnt printed on, show on your finished piece or are you supposed to cut around the oustide of the image or? Thanks for sharing this! Tina
ReplyDeleteThank you everyone!
ReplyDeleteJanelle, That would be perfect! I thought about using this on a dresser even.
Tina, Yes, you want to trim around it, but it doesn't show nearly as much as other transfer papers that I've tried.
wowie!!! i love it!!!
ReplyDeletewhat a great idea! I never thought of ironing on wood :-)
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Hi,
ReplyDeletei just bought the TAP and when i iron it on wood - it melt!!! and the picture become very unclear and "spread..."
do you know what can i do????
thanks,
Tal
Thanks so much for sharing this. I plan to use this to transfer one of your images to a wooden table painted with latex chalk paint.
ReplyDeleteDo you know the best way to seal this so the image won't scratch off?
BTW: I have used another brand of iron on transfer on latex painted wood and it turned out fine, did not melt. It had some bubbling but was fine. Beautiful actually, because I used your french Chocolat image. Thanks! :D
I love this :) Can you tell me how much of an "outline" the transfer leaves behind? Im looking for a way to seamlessly transfer text to wood without it looking like a "sticker" if you see what I mean! x
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