Mon Reve

In case you don't speak French, mon reve translates to "my dream."  I don't speak French either so I had to look up the meaning of the phrase. 

That said, these are my latest pair of French signs.  If you recall, these are the recycled cabinet doors I found at the salvage yard.  There were two of them, and I experimented with the Modern Master's crackle finish.  You can find the tutorial here.  Then I did a reverse mod podge transfer method for the image of this beautiful lady.  You can find that tutorial  here.  The image is from Graphics Fairy.  I emailed the photo to Fed Ex office and had them resize it for the area I had to work with.

I love my French signs to have an old world look to them and that's why I chose to do the reverse mod podge.  It gives an aged patina, and you can see some of the paper rubbed off, but that's okay because I was going for a very old, antique look.

Next I applied some of my pretty rose appliques and then I printed some lettering.  I wanted these to be perfume signs from the get go, but the width I had to work with on the lettering was only 4 1/2 inches so I kept it short and sweet.  The signs are identical except that the image of the woman is a mirrored image, one from the other, and one says eau de parfum and the other one says eau de cologne.  I am pointing that out because my husband thought they were identical.

Here are the backs of the signs.  As you can see, I don't disguise the fact that these are cabinet doors.  I use this type of door for the specific purpose of getting some extra architectural details that add some interest.

Thanks so much for your visit.  I always love it when you drop by.


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