Old china cabinet becomes shabby beauty

...How I've painted and transformed the china cabinet

And another painting-waxing project is done. I am ready to present to you this little and cute, I believe china -, cabinet that became nice and beautiful shabby chic style piece of furniture. I needed this cabinet to put in the living room to fill and to be filled - to fill the corner and to be filled with all my little stuff I hoarded.
Here is before and after pictures:

To transform the cabinet I used Annie Sloan Old white and Duck Egg blue and clear wax. I removed the glass and inserted the chicken wire instead; I think with glass it just looked like simple boring thing and with wire it looks like something interesting, anyway  - the wire instantly gave it some character, to me it looks like cabinet that came from old french country. By the way, if you don't know HOW TO put the wire in, just use the big stapler and short staples, try not to shoot close to edges or the wood can crack if it is too thin. Before though you will have to measure how much wire you need, then cut it with scissors for iron: try to keep the cells whole and leave their connection wires on, you use them to staple wire to the frame.

As you can see on the picture above I added some decorative wooden ornaments to the doors and sides of this piece. I glued them on with PL 400, love this glue - fast and I know it will stick for sure.
I also distressed the thing with 220 sand paper, this time decided not to use dark wax, I loved it as it were already.
A bit impression of Duck Egg blue paint (first time use), honestly, I thought it would be more light. To me it looks like greyish blue, but I guess you can always add it to the white to make lighter....I love the colour anyway.

 How do you like the cutest cup I ever bought (at FIND). My lavender finally has found its home.

So what do you think, would you have this cabinet in your house?

Give a shabby chic look to an old side table

With beautiful summer days I have absolutely no time to keep up with my updates here. Creating and painting in summer - posting in winter,  I guess :) I have lots of stuff to post, but trying to use sunny days to be outside and finish my projects, that keep coming and coming. My head goes round with all the ideas I have :)
Today though it's a bit rainy and I want to show you the little side table I found recently in the used furniture store. The little son of a furniture was hard to notice but I saw him and had pity on him :) Now it is going to be a present to my husband, he can use it for storing his phone and clock and keep it next to our bed.
Little cute table found his home.. All right, you can put  the tissue away and see for yourself:

Annie Sloan paint in old white and clear wax was used for this transformation. Also I decoupaged the antique maps on it using Mod Podge. I distressed the edges everywhere and here it is... Oh yeah, almost forgot, first I painted the table with Americana décor chalky paint in "primitive" colour, you can see it through the old white layer.
Do you know by the way how this thing officially called rather than side table?

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If you want to use antique map printable for your project you can find it on my pinterest board "vintage graphic - coloured". 

Bread box redo

Shabby chic kitchen decor

Hello, Happy Canada Day to everyone!!!
My latest project is a bread box! I was looking for old bread box for a long time, finally found one at my favorite store "FIND".

Isn't it cute? :) Annie Sloan and dark wax did a job! Some images transfer and you have an old french country style bread box for your kitchen. Check the GraphicsFairy for the printables. 

How to make antique letter poster

Hi everyone, 'twas awhile again, but I am here. Enjoying summer days, slowly crafting and painting. Here is a new post for you on how to make "antique" letter poster to hang on the wall. Such a poster quickly gives your room "antique atmosphere" and vintage feeling. It will perfectly fit your shabby or french vintage style room. Also it is very low cost to make this beautiful wall art.

Materials:

• Canvas of preferred size
• Printed images of your choice (laser printer)
• Mod Podge
• Lighter or candle
• Distressing ink 
• Spray acrylic sealer

How to:  

(I used the back side of the canvas, the one which wasn't primed)

• Take off the canvas from the wood frame, you may need pliers or something like that to take the staples out.  Don't worry if you rip the material a bit, we are going to distress the edges anyway. 
• With the help of a lighter (please be careful with fire, do it outside maybe with water near by) burn the  edges which were distressed beforehand manually or with scissors. 
• Use the distressing ink (Tim Holtz brand) to age and stain the canvas around. 
• Transfer images using the Mod Podge , see my other posts  for tutorial on that 
• Seal it with the acrylic finish 
• Using glue gun attach canvas to the wood frame
• Enjoy your masterpiece 

I used the image of the coat of arms of Great Britain (I customized it a bit). You can find similar image here 

Also I used different kind of vintage looking fonts, you can download them from www.Dafont.com, below are the names of the fonts:

• Numismatic Bats TFB  (for stamp looking details)
• Signarita Zhai (for main text)
• Paris Label  (for top right text)
• Strassburg Faktur (for the second headline)
• Jenuary Script personal use (used next to the coat of arms)
• Jellyka saint Andrew's Queen (for signature below)
• Cornucopia of dingbats Four (for ornaments)

Please, don't burn your fingers :) ... coz I DID

How do you like this kind of art? Let me know what you think ;)