Habitat Restore Coffee Table Gets a French Connection

Tammy Ward Boone
by Tammy Ward Boone
Fab coffee table gets a french connection courtesy of http://www.cuttingedgestencils.com/ and their French Poem AllOver Stencil: http://www.cuttingedgestencils.com/french-poem-typography-letter-stencil.html.
This is the end result pictured above. Check out the progress of this project below.
Before pic of the top. This great find was from the Habitat Restore.
Look at the sides! Those details---I just knew it was the perfect piece for the French stencil.
2 coats of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. Old Ochre. (On the detail areas I did not cover every little spot with paint because I will be sanding those areas to show the details) Lightly sanded with sandpaper 220 across the top.
Used sandpaper to reveal those details even more. And distressed the edges of the table in addition to all the accented areas of detail.
Centered the stencil (French Poem AllOver from Cutting Edge Stencils) and used ASCP graphite to stencil the poem on (and a foam roller brush from their site). Centering the stencil is the hardest part for me. But once that was done I found the stencil easy to work with and line up.
Using the letters on the stencil I lined up the area and filled in the sides and top/bottom areas. The used AS clear wax to cover the entire table. The next day I used a dark wax glaze to antique the top and detail areas. Day 3--another application of clear wax on the top.
Finished product. The stencil was easy to clean--I put it on the lawn and used the hose to rinse it off. I found this stencil easy to use and very reasonably priced especially for those not using it over and over. You can follow other things I do on my FB page: https://www.facebook.com/shuggysplace I'm certainly no expert but I love finding treasures and fixing them up and I love being inspired by all the crafty creative people out there. Thanks to the people at Cutting Edge Stencil for letting me review their product. Here is some info. about the poem from their website:


The stencil features a verse from a poem “Le Lac” written by the famous French poet Alphonse de Lamartine from the French romantic movement of the 19th century. The French text translates to:


“Oh time suspend your flight, and you favorable hours suspend your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights, the most beautiful of our days!”


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