I love the look of a shabby chic pot, makes me think of a street in Hungary or Czechoslovakia that we visited years ago. The image of the moustache and wording came from The Graphics Fairy, whom I have mentioned before and love. I did the transfer with an inkjet printer, freezer paper and crossing my fingers. Tutorial below.
TUTORIAL STEPS:
1. This pot is painted with Anne Sloan chalk paint but any interior or exterior paint will work.
2. Distress the pot with sandpaper.
3. Get an image you would like and make sure to flip the image horizontally before printing on freezer paper. I have a wide-format printer but this image would work on a regular ink-jet printer. The freezer paper must be cut precisely the size of your paper and attached to a piece of paper. I use either doubled sided tape or spray adhesive to attach together.
4. Print and carefully remove the image transfer, handling the printed side carefully as the ink will be very wet and will smudge easily.
5. Place the ink side face down on the pot or whatever you want the image on and use a brayer (spoon, ice cream stick, your finger(nail) to transfer the image. I sometimes will tape the transfer so that I can lift the image up to see if the image is dark enough, if not continue to use your brayer until you get the look you want.
6. At this point you can wipe off the paper for use again.
7. The transfer will be wet for awhile. Let it cure for a few days and then spray lightly with varnish.
I have been waiting to get a five-finger fern for several months, to put in this little pot, and place in our bathroom. I actually had done the transformation of the pot last summer. My husband found this fern at Stutzmans Greenhouse outside of Hutchinson, Kansas. I was surprised when I saw the plant. He had specifically asked for a five-finger fern. I binged (googled) five-finger fern and the pictures were nothing like this fern, but this has five fingers and I love it! The internet says this is a silver brake fern. Whatever it is, it looks great in the pot.
