Hi friends!!  You are in for such a special treat today.  Can I tell you how much I love Karin from Art is Beauty?  She was one of my earliest followers and I have followed her from the beginning too.  Not only does she do the most beautiful furniture transformations, she is a very gifted artist as well.  I am so thrilled she is sharing her creativity with us today.  Karin is what I call the “Queen of Transfers”, and she has a HUGE portfolio of furniture featuring beautiful graphics to prove it. Like this adorable entry table with Vintage Skeleton Keys.  LOVE!

And now……turning this blog over to Karin:

So excited to be doing my very first Guest Post for REDOUX!

If you haven’t met Karen, you are missing out.

I have to admit I have a bit of a bloggy crush/fatal attraction

thing going on…but its totally for her Trash!!

Man that girl gets some AMAZING trash…

and if you know anything about me..I LOVE TRASH!!! 🙂

Anywhoo…I was so honored when she asked me for a guest post that I thought I had

make it SUPER TRASHY!!  get your mind out of the gutter…and INTO the dumpsters people!! LOL

If you remember yesterday, I did my post about my free pallet art from the wood I got out of my neighbors garage. They were happy to have me haul it away.I  knew just what I wanted to do with it.

Like I have said before…free stuff and power tools make my day…I think my hubby was a little miffed at me because he wanted to build the table. I usually give him some of these kinds of projects, but that’s when he is pestering me to clean out the garage or something..It will usually get him off my case for a couple days…:)

So with a couple of cuts I started making my table.I had watched my husband make our beautiful farm table for our fire pit last summer so I knew kind of what I needed to do. You can see that table HERE.

First I made my apron and attached the sides together.

Then I added my legs.

Then I added the boards to the top.

then I just stained the top. I am painting the legs.

Now for the fun part..Karen asked me to show you how I do my freezer paper transfers.First I LOVE the graphics fairy since she supplies such amazing free graphics,

so I went on there and got a nice FRENCHY one; seeing as Redoux and I are FRENCH CRAZY!! 🙂

I printed my graphic out on my freezer paper in reverse. I have glued my freezer paper to card stock to make it easier to feed through the printer. Shiny side up so that you can transfer the ink.

Now the fun part…again..:)  Here is where I lay down my graphic and start burnishing it with the back of a spoon. Now don’t get frustrated with this. I hear from quite a few people that they haven’t had any luck, but practice makes perfect.

You can see here the ink transferring to the table. I had to lay it back down a couple times to make sure it came through enough; you just have to be careful not to move the paper or it WILL smudge.

VOILA!!! A beautiful FREE FRENCH table.

I painted the legs with some paint I had. It was a mix of some  blue and cream color, to make a nice dusty blue.

I just love how it turned out; and the best part…FREE!!!I hope you enjoyed this tutorial,

and thank you again to my dumpster diving Team mate Karen!!!

I don’t know what I would Redoux without you!

HUGS and have a BEAUTIFUL day.

Thank you so much Karin!  I am so inspired to not only try my hand at some of your transfer methods, but I am building myself a table!

 

PS Don’t forget to come back at 2:00 EST for the Link up party and features!!!