SHABBY CHIC TABLE - in a few steps ...

Preparation steps

• This is Shabby chic my way, unfortunately I didn't have a white candle or sandpaper !!!! So this is one "get along" with what you have, and forget that you don't have, what you should have. Here is another wonderful recipe of our Anka1955
• Use a sharp knife to "peel" the destroyed table top.
• I wanted only the edge of the table to be shabby style, so I just painted it brown with acrylic paint. On the dry brown paint, I applied a thin layer of crackle varnish - for a cracked effect.
• When the crackle dried, I poured vanilla acrylic paint into a shallow saucer and stuffed it with a sponge first along the edge of the table and then all over the table surface. I didn’t grind the table but left it with a coarser texture. If you want, you can grind it.
• I tore the motifs from the napkin and arranged them in the provided places ... Only the top thickest printed layer is used. The plates serve as weights so that my napkins do not "fly" since I worked outdoors, but also as an aid in determining the spacing between samples.
• When approaching gluing, it is important to remove the napkin, coat the table, lay the napkin on the glue, press lightly with your hand and start gluing from above, from the middle to the ends.
• Now comes the "do it" part - to get a worn effect on the edge of the table, I used the blunt side of a knife with which I lightly peeled off a piece of vanilla paint and got a brown background. I varnished the table twice with acrylic varnish. With a real Shabby, this is achieved by applying wax to the brown color - rub the candle well, paint it light, when it is dry, cover it with sandpaper and the brown worn part will remain.
• That's it!! Moo