5 Steps to a Pretty Porch Sign

Today, let’s make a quick, adorable porch sign!  First, round up your supplies: one 12″ x 6′ pine board spray shellac 2″ craft brush Beeswax block Fusion Chocolate paint Fusion Casement paint IOD Market transfer (retired) your choice of IOD...
Dress Up a Vintage Window with Transfers

Dress Up a Vintage Window with Transfers

I just love IOD transfers.  They give you the ability to take something simple and make it spectacular!  Take these windows, for example.  I had a couple of vintage windows and thought I would dress them up.  Here’s what I rounded up for this project: Vintage...

Moody Midnight Garden Transfers

When Iron Orchid Designs (IOD) rolled out the latest transfers, creator Josie predicted that the Midnight Garden transfer would be HOT.  Boy, was she right!  I began to see people use it on pieces and was struck about how amazingly beautiful it was on darker paints....

How to Paint an IOD Transfer

  If you’ve been around just a little bit you’ve seen the GORGEOUS Iron Orchid Designs transfers.  Those IOD sisters have some talent!  So it blew my mind when they came out with transfers that you can use as is for a one color look or hand paint to...

Coming Up Roses

I am just a sucker for good bones!  Like, seriously!  I love the curves and the carvings that make pieces unique.  So when I saw this one, I knew she had to be mine.  She’s not a big piece (27 x 27 x 13) but she’s big on personality!  So I scooped her up...
A Bloomin’ Beauty

A Bloomin’ Beauty

Have you ever been so excited about a new product that you could just burst? That’s how I felt a few weeks ago when my new shipement of Iron Orchid Designs transfers arrived. It wasn’t hard to decide on the first project, though. I was dying to use the...