Dressing up a tabletop

Hi Friend!  I wanted to share the project I shared over at Maybe Matilda this past Friday incase you missed it.  She is WONDERFUL if you don't know her---go and get to know her!!!

But anyways, without further ado here is my dress-up of a little side table!

My little table started out a bit plain. 

So I had fun picking out some of my favorite scrapbook paper ---Amy Butler design I must note. 

I then mod podged my paper (the side of the paper that you want on your project should be facing down) to the table.

Let your mod podge dry for a couple of hours and then...

Just add water....well kind of.  Dip your fingers into a little water and *gently* rub away your paper---the image will remain along with a layer of mod podge while the paper will be removed.

This is such a simple project, but the rubbing does take a while....so put on a fun TV show relax and rub the paper away (did I mention gently?!?).

When everything was all cleaned up and rubbed off I sealed the surface with another layer of mod podge.

And then my hand sander and I did some distressing of the little table.

Ta-da!  Your little project is all dressed up and has a more durable surface (this is an added bonus to using this technique as opposed to just mod podging paper right onto your project).

My little project {SO} isn't perfect, but I almost always say at the end of my tutorials, they never are....and I almost like them better that way!

I am really liking this new (to me anyways) technique and am already thinking of new projects to use it---are you?!?!

As a side note, 

I used a similar technique to make these pottery barn knock offs.

{Click here to check them out}

I am linking up to some of these parties, check them out for amazing inspiration!