Repurposed & Upcycled Vintage Cedar Box
July 19, 2014
I picked up this vintage cedar box thrifting for $2.
What caught my eye was the dovetailing.
I gave it one coat of Annie Sloan French Linen inside and out.
I then painted on a coat of ASCP in Old White, and distressed it with sandpaper.
This is a photo of a vignette inside my china cabinet.
I am making the little box into a photo box, so I will be image transferring the camera vignette photo onto its cover using Mod Podge. One thing I hate about the Mod Podge image transfer method is having to get laser color copies since inkjet prints will smear. This is a very small town without a Kinkos, etc. I brushed some Mod Podge on an inkjet image and when it didn't smear, I went ahead and used my inkjet photo.
Needless to say, when I applied water to the image transfer to remove the paper layer, I encountered smears. I wasn't looking forward to sanding the top of the box and starting over.
BUT, was the image so bad? I began to think it looked like a water color or an old photo with "foxing". I brought my box into work to show my coworkers. Was I crazy that the smeared image was a "good thing". My coworkers liked the effect, and one wanted to buy it. I waxed the image and the box.
The little cedar box now holds old photos.
I love the paint job and the dovetailing.
AND, I love the smeared image too!
Not sure I will use this Mod Podge inkjet smear method often, but I liked it on this box. Luckily I found a color copy source in town for future image transfers!
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I think it ads to the vintage effect. It looks nice. I like the paint and distressing too.
ReplyDeleteI like the effect, too..and it does look like you planned it that way!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely looks as though it was supposed to look like that - in fact, it looks really old, as if someone made it a hundred years ago and it has been well used. If you hadn't said it was smeared I would have thought the entire effect was intentional, because it makes an amazing trompe l'oeil effect.
ReplyDeleteI love how it looks! Great box for holding photos. I love your vignette and using the photo on the box is so brilliant!
ReplyDeleteI agree too.........it looks great!! Very creative!
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