It Really Works!!

Read my UPDATE post before attempting!

A few days ago I stumbled upon Laurie's French Flower Pot project! If you have not seen her incredible pots you must head over because I know they will inspire you as well! I will admit I was a tad skeptical that her technique involving just paper and Mod Podge was actually going to work but again her pots turned out amazing so I decided I had to give it a try!

Remember my caddy I found at HomeGoods a few weeks back? Yep, it needed some umph so I figured why not try Laurie's technique!

I already had everything on hand so I had nothing loose! No money wasted if it did not turn out as I had hoped.  I printed my image that I got off The Graphics Fairy site. I think I ended up choosing the exact same one that Laurie used but that was not intentional by any means. It just happened to be the only image I thought would look right on the caddy. I followed Laurie's direction and darkened the image just a tad using my Picnik account. It is free to sign up so no worries. It is a wonderful tool for us bloggers!

Next I flipped the image which was easy to do in my printer settings and printed it out. Then I trimmed it to size. Next out came the Mod Podge. I coated the image as instructed to do so. You want to coat the ink portion that printed out.

When centering the image and pressing it down I accidentally ripped the one side off but thankfully I was able to easily remove my Oops and started over. So be careful!

Attempt #2 went much better! Now I am NOT as patient as Laurie and so I did not wait an entire night for it to dry. 

A few hours later after taking the hair dryer to it just to make sure it was indeed dry I dampened the image with just a moist paper towel. It needs to have enough water in it to squeeze a little here and there.

After wetting it down I started the tedious process of LIGHTLY rubbing my wet finger over the paper removing the layers as instructed. I could NOT believe it this was actually working!! Here is a tip though-DO NOT trim your paper down so close to the image. Leave ya some room because you could potentially rubbed off the edge of the image. Yep, been there but in the end all was good.

Here is the finished project!

I just LOVE how it turned out and am sooo grateful that Laurie took the time out to show us how she accomplished this technique of image transfer! Thank you Laurie!

I loved this process so much that I have my next victim all lined up! Stay tuned!

Before I go, I thought I would also share that I found the cutest wire caddy for my antique silverware last week! Can you guess where I found it!? Yep, my most fave place in the entire world-HomeGoods!;)

Hope your weekend is going well! Many prayers going up for those on the east coast. 

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