Splendid blender love

Ever since I saw a post on Villabarnes about a transfer method here, I knew I wanted to give it a try.  I picked up an old jewelry box at Goodwill outlet.  It seemed the perfect candidate to give this a try. 

I gave it two light coats of Old White chalk paint.  In order to use the splendid blender marker, I printed off a graphic from the The Graphic Fairy blog using a laser copier.  Make sure if you are using words to make a mirror image copy.  Anyways, put the graphic side down on your surface.  Then, using your marker marking over the back side of the image and burnish.  I used my finger to burnish.  I was so happy how easy this was to do.  I will warn that the marker has a little odor to it.  To finish off the box, I distressed and applied a clear wax followed by a dark wax.  Here is the end result.

It is all ready to store treasures of any kind as well as making a cute decorative statement.  Now that I think about it, it would have been perfect to store old love letters.  I think that is a thing of the past now.  At least, I can show my daughter the letters her dad use to write me in high school and college.  I wonder how our kids will be storing memories like these?!  Not quite the same to pull out a jump drive verses an old shoe box.  Ah, how technology has changed everything.   

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