Add color to your garden, patio or indoor space with simple flower pot crafts. Flower pots are functional blank canvases, encouraging many creativity. It is possible to paint, decoupage, stamp and embellish in your flowers pot crafts. Produce your own personal flower pot craft projects with these ideas.
Tips on how to Decorate Clay Pots by Heidi Borchers & Tiffany Windsor
Painting
After purchasing a flower pot, sand the pot down before painting. It's also advisable to seal the within from the flower pot with an oil-based polyurethane to protect your painted design from water penetration. Should you be painting pots for outdoor placement, make use of a paint specifically made for outdoor usage. DecoArt Patio Paint is water and weather-resistant and adapts well to changing temperatures. Outdoor paints also mean your pot will likely be simple to clean.
Try painting chapters of the pot in numerous colors. Use painter's tape to mark from the top lip with the pot and paint a coordinating color. Or, create several bands throughout the flower pot using the painter's tape and make stripes on the flower pot.
Bright colors are very effective in gardens. To select a color scheme, check out design or craft resources on colors like Paper Crafter's Color Companion by C&T Publishing. Paint two or three coats of each and every color on the pot. In order to put in a design for a pot, paint the setting a pleasant, muted color for example light yellow.
Use stencils to paint words or shapes onto your flower pot. You can also employ this way to label the contents of the flower pots decoratively, for example "Basil" or "Chives." Use a sponge to color your flower pots. Paint throughout in a or two colors, or create bursts of colours with a round sponge that appear to be simular to flowers. It's also possible to cut an average kitchen sponge right into a shape a real heart or star.
Decoupage
Reduce words and pictures from scrapbook papers, magazines and in many cases junk mail to decoupage your pot. Build a theme by selecting similar words or images, by way of example Spring. Tissue paper is an excellent material to decoupage pots. You can use one color or perhaps a variety of coordinating colors for any fun, semi-transparent look. Crinkle the tissue paper up to you and tear into pieces. Use a foam brush to use decoupage glue (such as Mod Podge) for your pot. Smooth tissue paper pieces over pot in the random pattern. Cover with another coat of decoupage glue.
Just for fun, give a coat or accents of glitter or sparkle, for instance 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 round the lip of one's pot, gluing while you go. Yarn-wrapping creates an appealing textured look.
Buttons - Flat buttons really are a fun approach to decorate pots. Paint flowers on the pot and glue buttons because the centers the flowers. Give a line of buttons around the the top pot. Randomly glue buttons all around the pot.
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