Guest Project: Mandy from Sugar Bee Crafts {foil dresser}

Hi everyone!!  I’m Mandy, from over at Sugar Bee Crafts:

Here’s the whole gang on our recent Spring Break Trip to Silver Dollar City in Branson MO:

One day I hope to show off my whole craft room – for now, it’s one piece at a time.  Today I’m excited to show all you Craftaholics my foil dresser.

How to foil a dresser – – 
Yep, foil – you read that right.  Not “foil leaf” or something fancy – just regular ole foil I keep in my kitchen.  Makes for an awesome dresser, right?!

My son’s dresser was a little on the small side so I moved it to my craft room – here it was before:

Obviously fine for a baby’s room, but definitely needs some sprucing up if it’s going to live in a fabulous craft room.  First cut a really long piece of foil from the roll and wadded it up – don’t squeeze the ball too tight or it will be a beast to undo.

Undo the ball – now it will have those nice wrinkles.  Smooth it out flat.  Then spray the drawer fronts with glue.

Next press the foil sheet onto the drawer – be sure to press and press everywhere.

 I had overlap all around – I just cut in the crack and pulled off the excess.

 When I had all the foil attached, I painted over it all with Mod Podge so the foil would be more protected over time.  So far it’s held up great for me – I’m not sure how it would do somewhere in daily use (like a kids’ room) but for a craft room it’s perfect.  Love the pizazz!!

 And I love that I redid a dresser with stuff I had around the house, so total cost was nothing (well, I did end up buying new handles, on clearance for $0.50 each – not quite what I was looking for but it was too good of deal.  It took me a week or two to realize one of the handles doesn’t match the others – it must have been in the wrong bin – whoops!)

Linda
Hi! I'm Linda, the craft addict behind Craftaholics Anonymous®, a craft blog. Crafting is cheaper than therapy, right? When I'm not DIYing something, I can be found taxiing around our 4 crazy kids or working out. Or shoe shopping... because you can never have too many shoes! Happy crafting! ♥
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