Add color in your garden, patio or indoor space with simple flower pot crafts. Flower pots are functional blank canvases, encouraging many creativity. You'll be able to paint, decoupage, stamp and embellish in your flowers pot crafts. Develop your flower pot craft projects with one of these ideas.
How to Decorate Clay Pots by Heidi Borchers & Tiffany Windsor
Painting
Finally , before using a flower pot, sand the pot down before painting. Its also wise to seal the inside from the flower pot having an oil-based polyurethane to guard your painted design from water penetration. If you are painting pots for outdoor placement, make use of a paint specifically designed for outdoor use. DecoArt Patio Paint is water and weather-resistant and adapts well to changing temperatures. Outdoor paints also mean your pot will be all to easy to clean.
Try painting sections of the pot in numerous colors. Use painter's tape to mark over top lip in the pot and paint a coordinating color. Or, create several bands throughout the flower pot with all the painter's tape and make stripes in your flower pot.
Bright colors work nicely in gardens. To select one scheme, check out design or craft resources on colors like Paper Crafter's Color Companion by C&T Publishing. Paint two to three coats of each and every color on your pot. In order to convey a design to your pot, paint the setting a good, muted color such as light yellow.
Use stencils to paint words or shapes onto your flower pot. You can also employ this strategy to label the items in the flower pots decoratively, such as "Basil" or "Chives." Use a sponge to paint your flower pots. Paint all over a single or two colors, or create bursts of colors with a round sponge that look very much like flowers. You can even cut a normal kitchen sponge in to a shape a real heart or star.
Decoupage
Cut out words and images from scrapbook papers, magazines and also spam to decoupage your pot. Build a theme by selecting similar words or images, for instance Spring. Tissue paper is a great material to decoupage pots. You can use one color or even a selection of coordinating colors for any fun, semi-transparent look. Crinkle the tissue paper up to you and tear into pieces. Make use of a foam brush to utilize decoupage glue (for instance Mod Podge) for a pot. Smooth tissue paper pieces over pot in a random pattern. Cover with another coat of decoupage glue.
To keep things interesting, convey a coat or accents of glitter or sparkle, including with Tulip 3D Sparkle Paint. For outdoor placement, you will need to cover your decoupage utilize a coat of UV-resistant acrylic coating, like those made by Krylon.
Embellishment
Yarn - Wrap yarn or twine tightly around the lip of your pot, gluing as you go. Yarn-wrapping creates an appealing textured look.
Buttons - Flat buttons are a fun method to decorate pots. Paint flowers on the pot and glue buttons because centers the flowers. Convey a distinct buttons throughout the the surface of the pot. Randomly glue buttons everywhere in the pot.
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