Spring is just around the corner, which means it's time to create beautiful flower pots with your own hands. If you want to decorate your clay pots or disguise disposable containers before presenting plants as a gift, check out a few ideas that will help you style your green favorites.
Decoupage pots
You can add bright spring colors to your home using ordinary decorative napkins. There is a special technique for decorating various surfaces - decoupage. It consists in applying thinly ornamented paper to various surfaces using PVA glue. Then the surface is protected from damage by varnish on an acrylic basis. Usually, special sheets or three-layer napkins are used for decoupage, in which the topmost layer with a picture is removed. All materials for this decoration technique are very affordable and finding them on sale is not difficult.
Preparation of materials for decoupage
Before you begin, prepare the necessary materials: take ordinary clay pots, napkins with a pattern, acrylic paints, scissors, PVA glue and a brush. You will also need acrylic varnish. If you want to age the surface, use a special varnish - for craquelure. To transform the clay flower pot with your own hands, first rinse them well, dry them, and then paint them with white acrylic paint or any other - the main thing is to match the background of the napkins. Let the paint dry completely. At this time, you can cut out the motif from napkins. The motive is a repeating image. Apply PVA glue to the surface of the planter and glue the motif with a brush. Gently smooth the creases - a wet towel is very easy to tear. When the glue dries, cover the pots with acrylic varnish. Everything, we can assume that the flower pot is made with your own hands for indoor flowers! Instead of a pot for working in this technique, you can use other items - teapots, mugs, vases and small boxes.
How to decorate flowerpots with twine
The second option for decorating pots for indoor plants is with ordinary twine. In addition, you will need a glue gun. Everything is very simple - you just need to gradually apply glue to the surface of the planter, starting from the top and then going down. There is another option - to make a pot from scratch. For this purpose, you need a thicker twine that can hold its shape. From it you need to form a pot, applying glue to the top of the rope. Thus, you can create not only pots, but also different vases, wide plates and other accessories in which it is convenient to store different little things. The third option is to use empty bobbins from under wide tape. By combining three pieces together and gluing the bottom out of thick cardboard, you can also tie the resulting container with twine and get a full pot. Only from the inside it is desirable to smear it with varnish so that the bottom does not fall off the moisture.
Coloring a cache-pot for a decor
Clay pots are convenient in that they are easily painted. You can give them any color, and then decorate with additional accessories. It is enough to paint in two colors - white and black, as well as ordinary chalk to give the containers a beautiful and stylish look. Paint the pots first with white paint, and then in the central part draw a wide black stripe. When the surface dries, use a chalk to add some interesting drawing or inscription, for example, “Fill me”. You can paint the pot with white paint and instead of a black strip make an inscription in black paint using a stencil. The stencil makes life easier for the decorator - do not hesitate to use them to create a cache-pot in the same style. In the interior and in any photo flower pots, created using such a technique with your own hands, look very stylish. After the paint has completely dried, the surface can be given the texture and aging effect using ordinary sandpaper.
The use of stamps and other artistic techniques for design
Unusual effect and give stamps with letters. Just by painting the pot in white, dipping the mushrooms in black paint and signing the names of the plants that will be planted in these containers, you will create universal and stylish flower pots that will be easy to combine with the interior in any color scheme. An additional bonus of this method is that you will never forget the name of the flower if you sign the pot in which it is located. If you take some kind of dark shade and gradually dilute it with white, you can make a smooth transition of the tone from light to dark. It looks very beautiful. Special chic - hand-painted pots. It is not necessary to be an artist - you just need to select a sample in advance and follow it, painting the surface. Even ordinary cans painted in different colors can become decorative and stylish flower pots that can decorate any interior.
Painting a pot using spray paint
Using acrylic paints, you get a smooth matte finish. When applying layer by layer, make sure that each previous one dries well. In order to make a striped flower pot with your own hands, get a masking tape. If you stick it on the surface, you can get a flat, neat strip. The use of golden or silver spray paint will make the pot more elegant and give it a festive look. Before work, protect the table from splashes of paint by placing newspapers or plain paper on it. Light blue shades go well with gold: paint the clay pot with blue paint and seal the bottom third with masking tape. Then, when the surface dries, cover the upper part with tape or foil and apply a golden spray paint to the bottom of the pot. If desired, paint the stand with the same color. Allow the paint to dry for at least an hour before placing your plants inside. Add pink aquarium gravel to the top of the soil to create a vibrant and vibrant color combination.
Papier-mâché, or paper pot decoration
Papier-mâché technique has long been known and allows you to create various unusual compositions, figures and decorative elements. It resembles decoupage and is performed using PVA glue, but not one layer of paper, but several is used to decorate the surface. You can take not only beautiful images with a bright print, but also ordinary newspapers, book pages, just pieces of colored paper or the remains of gift wrapping. Clean the surface of the pot and apply glue to it, and then glue the same pieces of newspaper overlap in sequence. On top of the paper, apply another layer of glue and let it dry. For additional decoration, use satin ribbons, cords, ribbons or twine.
The simplest options for decorating a pot
One of the easiest ways to make flower pots with your own hands is to use fabric to decorate the surface. Enough small pieces of bright material to change beyond recognition a regular plastic or clay container. The fabric is stretched and glued around the edges with a glue gun.
It is advisable to coat it with acrylic varnish on top to prevent decay in the lower part. A flower pot for the garden with your own hands can be made from other materials. Another simple option is to make a decorative planter from ordinary wooden clothespins. It is enough to connect them together in a circle with the help of glue-gun, on one side attaching to the surface of a pot that is not very attractive in appearance, until the circle closes. Another way is to use a low can of fish or canned food and simply fasten clothespins along its diameter, and then place the plant inside.
Recycling materials in garden design
Do-it-yourself street flower pots for some reason are most often made from tires, either simply by coloring them in different colors, or by cutting and turning into figures that are rarely pleasing to the eye and look stylish. But for the design of garden plants, you can use the same techniques as for indoor plants, however, the amount of work will be more. It takes more time and effort to paint large containers, so for large flowers it is more convenient to take containers with a surface that does not need to be finalized. For this purpose, containers that are already out of order and cannot be used for their intended purpose are suitable: wicker baskets, iron tanks and troughs, watering cans, buckets, wooden boxes. These items themselves look stylish and harmoniously look with green foliage and bright inflorescences of plants. It is advisable to process wooden containers from the inside and outside with special protective varnishes that do not allow the surfaces to get wet. A film can be placed inside the iron containers so that water after irrigation does not cause corrosion. Some originals use the seats of old chairs, sinks, leaky rubber boots, and even shoes as flower pots. You can make a hanging flower pot with your own hands from PVC pipes if you cut them in half, install plugs on the sides and fasten to each other using a rope.
Cache-pot of nightstands and drawers
You can even create unusual designer flower pots with your own hands even from out-of-use nightstands and drawers. Even having two drawers from different tables, it’s quite simple to create an unusual step ladder if you fix them one above the other with the help of wooden slats. Painted in harmonious colors, this flower stand can be a real decoration for the garden. You can make hanging pots with your own hands for indoor flowers from small wooden boxes fastened together with thick twine.
Seashell flower pot
If you have access to such wonderful decorating material as seashells, or you are ready to purchase it, try decorating the pots in a marine style. You can use gypsum as a base - dilute it to a pasty state, apply to the surface of the pot and press the shells in random order. Leave to dry completely. Another option is to stick them with a glue gun. Combining various shapes and colors of shells, you can achieve amazing results. Add small pebbles, starfish and faux pearls to your decor to give your regular flowerpots an elegant and expensive look. Very large shells are used as pots for small plants such as succulents.
Macrame technique for decorating plants
Macrame is gaining popularity again thanks to new materials and the rapid spread of instructional videos on the Internet. DIY flower pot “Macrame” will allow you to decorate the interior in a rustic or modern style. The technique itself is quite simple - you just need to figure out how to weave knots from thick twine or threads in order to learn how to work with schemes and make complex patterns. Macrame also uses clothesline and special knitted yarn. In addition, you will need pins, scissors, a small pillow for attaching threads and beads for decoration.
Features of macrame technique
It is important to choose a high-quality and durable material, as pots made of flower rope with your own hands, especially after watering, can be very heavy. Those craftswomen who once wove baubles are already familiar with the basics of macrame technique. There are several types of nodes in it, but most often four options are used: fixing, flat, rep and square. Before weaving a flower pot with your own hands, you need to learn how to make a set of rows and prepare the threads in a special way so that their ends do not fray. First, a loop is made on which the composition will be suspended. For this, several additional threads are tied to the main thread and knots begin to be knitted from them until they form a loop. Then they begin to weave according to the selected pattern until a pot of the desired diameter is obtained.
Other ways to decorate flower pots
You can decorate pots by also sticking lace on the surface using corrugated paper or cardboard, tree cuttings and sticks, as well as satin ribbons.
Most materials are attached to the surface with a glue gun. Sometimes the pots are decorated with pine bark to give them a more natural, rustic look. Burlap is often used - it is tied in a special way to hide a not too beautiful or disposable pot. Pebbles and tiles laid out in the form of mosaics are usually fixed on gypsum, which is previously applied to the surface of the pot. Gypsum is a versatile material and is very easy to use. The only negative is that you need to work quickly, since the viscous mass hardens very quickly. Choose your option and create stylish and beautiful containers for your green pets.