Exclusive and stylish decoration of flower pots plays an important role in interior design and creating a certain mood in the entire room. But purchasing colorful and attractive pots in a store is not a cheap pleasure, and affordable products do not look as presentable.
Therefore, it is worth decorating unsightly pots yourself and improving their appearance according to your taste and desire, and then you will be able to show off to your friends the original flower pots you created with your own hands.
The beginning of the transformation
There are many different ways to transform old or tatty pots. To do this, you can use completely different materials found in the house. The main thing is to give free rein to your imagination and apply a little diligence, and your mini-garden inside the house will acquire new shades.
Before starting the creative process, you should prepare well, study the relevant materials and photos of hand-made flower pots. It is also worth considering whether you need to spend money on buying cheap and unsightly pots, or whether it is better to make them yourself.
Nowadays, handmade products, the so-called hand-made, are highly valued. In addition, you will receive the required volume of the pot and an exclusive option for shape and finish.
Polymer clay pots
Ideas on how to make a flower pot yourself can be found on the relevant websites. Polymer clay is the most commonly used material for creating flower pots. To make small pots, you will need: a dessert spoon, polymer clay and a stove.
First, the clay needs to be thoroughly kneaded to a soft plastic consistency. After which a ball is formed and placed in the freezer for 10 minutes. This is necessary so that the clay is slightly hardened, and it is easy to form the desired shape of the pot and decorative elements from it.
The next stage of work is to create a recess inside the pot. Using a spoon, scoop out any unnecessary clay from inside the ball and return it to the cold.
From the outside of the ball, give the desired shape to the pot. For example, round or oval in the form of a flowerpot. Using a knife, you can make the shape square. A very interesting option is the unusual shape of the pot: abstraction or figurative modeling.
The formed product must be hardened (fired) in the oven. In the instructions for using clay, specify the recommended temperature conditions and production features.
Next comes the most enjoyable part of the job - decorating the surface of the pot. For interiors in the style of minimalism, you don’t need to apply decorations to the pots, but other styles can get along perfectly with painted and colorful elements.
Various decorative techniques are used to decorate the surface of the pot. Decoupage would also be appropriate.
Cement pots
Based on the name of the material used, it already becomes clear to everyone that the product will be highly durable and original. Such products will perfectly decorate outdoor garden areas, public gardens and home mini-gardens.
A detailed master class on flower pots will help you understand in detail all stages of the process. So, to create a large container, you will need to create formwork. But today, we will talk about the production of a medium-sized pot.
First, you need to cut off the top of a 5 liter plastic bottle so that you get a square bowl. The inside needs to be lubricated with oil and filled with a cement solution prepared in advance.
Lubricate the outside of a 2 liter bottle with oil and place it in the center of the bottle filled with cement. Please note that the larger the internal container, the thinner the walls of the pot will be, and the lighter the product will be.
After two days, the cement will harden and the plastic core and outer shell can be removed. In the end, all that remains is to decorate the outer surface using acrylic paints, varnish and decorations, if desired.
Wicker pots
Fans of rustic interiors in ethno-style using environmentally friendly materials will like this method of creating a pot, because it requires wooden rods. It’s not at all easy to build a completely wicker pot, but the result will undoubtedly please you.
But, if you can’t do this, then this method can be used to decorate flower pots with your own hands. Take a couple of dozen wooden rods of a certain length, twine, rough cloth, a cylindrical tin can and glue.
Measure the required length of the twig (just above the edge of the pot) and cut off the excess; do the same with the rest. Place the twigs under the ruler on the table surface and tie with a strong thread according to the principle of weaving a mat.
The outside of the jar is covered with burlap, dried and wrapped in the resulting wicker fabric, which is tied with twine on top.
Photos of DIY flower pots
From polymer clay you can create various products of amazing beauty. This master class will tell you how to create a tiny pot of flowers the size of just over 5 ruble coins.
The work consists of the following stages:
1 Make a pot. To do this, roll out a ball of clay and, using a felt-tip pen cap, give it the shape of a pot. To make the outside of the pot look as realistic as possible, use a toothpick to squeeze out barely visible vertical stripes.
2. Pour soil into the pot. Take dark brown clay and chop it finely. We place such a “crumb” of clay in a pot.
3. Now we sculpt the leaves and petals. We “plant” them in the pot one at a time.
Place carefully using a toothpick.
4. Don’t forget to make miniature yellow balls that will serve as the center of the flower. It is convenient to place this yellow stamen in the middle of each flower using a toothpick.
5. Place the product on foil and put it in the oven. You need to bake at 100 degrees for about 15 minutes.
6. After cooling, coat the pot with matte varnish, and the leaves and flowers several times with glossy varnish.
The result is such a wonderful souvenir that can become a stylish decoration for a cozy corner of your home or an excellent gift for one of your family and friends!
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- You train your finger motor skills by working with small parts and learn to feel the clay.
- Small flowers collected together look much more beautiful than one large one. That is, if you make one iris, for example, it will look boring. It's a matter of a hyacinth cap!
- Modeling hyacinth from cold porcelain does not require special skills, such as, for example, creating such complex flowers as gladiolus or alstroemeria, where it is necessary to take into account the degree of bending of the petals and stamens, as well as go through all the circles of hell in the stages of tinting (just look at alstroemeria! It’s the same horror!).
So, if you want to try your hand at ceramic floristry, start with hyacinth. How to make the flowers themselves is no secret, there are many such MKs, especially successful by Antonina Melnichenko, you can easily find this lesson. And I will show you how to put all the flowers together, and how to make a hyacinth bulb from polymer clay, and how to install a flower in a pot.
Hyacinth from HF – master class
Step 1. For the centers of small flowers we will need yellow polymer clay. Mix yellow paint into purchased clay (or) and be sure to add just a little bit of titanium white, which will remove transparency (if you don’t add it, the centers will turn out very strange).
Step 2. We prepare as many short wires (no more than 5 cm long) as there will be flowers on the hyacinth. It takes me 100 - 120 flowers for one hat. But you can make the hyacinth smaller. In a word - your choice. At the ends of the wire we make as small a loop as we can bend.
You will also need PVA glue (or latex, if available) and nail scissors.
Step 3. We pinch off a tiny piece of yellow HF and glue it onto a loop of wire pre-lubricated with PVA. The loop should be completely hidden in the clay.
Step 4. Cut the resulting yellow drop into 3–5 parts, as needed. We put the wire to dry on a foam sponge or simply place it on a surface to which the clay will not stick.
Step 5. These are the blanks for hyacinth made from cold porcelain - the master class ahead is quite long, we have now passed the very first stage.
I recommend making blanks with a reserve, because if during assembly it turns out that there are not enough flowers, it will be problematic to make new ones: you will have to guess the proportions of the colors exactly, otherwise the difference will be very noticeable - the flowers are all located side by side. I once foolishly made a two-color hyacinth
Step 6. We prepare the clay for rolling the stems. Mix “grass green”, “titanium white”, “dark yellow” oil paint into unpainted cold porcelain.
Step 7 Pinch off a little green clay and roll it around the stem. It is convenient to do this with your finger on your palm. Leave the tip of the stem bare.
Step 8 These are the blanks for hyacinth made from cold porcelain.
DIY hyacinth – MK
Let's move on to creating the flowers themselves. They will be yellow, so we prepare yellow clay, not forgetting to add a little titanium white. If you have planned a hyacinth of a different color, do it your way.
Step 9 We prepare PVA glue, the main stack and a ball with the smallest ball (I already wrote how to replace tools for ceramic floristry), prepared stems (be sure to dry!), nail scissors and a lot of patience.
Step 10 We form a droplet from yellow clay. Using scissors, cut the larger (blunt) edge in half, and then cut each part into thirds. The result should be six identical parts, and the depth of the cut should be equal.
Step 11 Using the main stack (or knitting needles), we roll each of the parts, forming a petal. Don't rush, don't press too hard. First, do a little bit of each petal, then go around the circle again, giving them all the same shape.
Step 12 Using the sharp end of the stack, we make a depression in the center, and then lower the bulb there and make the hole a little wider, so that the outside “butt” of the flower is not sharp, but round.
Step 13 We coat the stem between the green and yellow parts with PVA (a little, otherwise it will come out over the edges!) and thread it through our flower.
Step 14 And now the most important touch, without which the hyacinth will look like a big lilac and not like itself. You need to press three petals (every 1) into the center, as shown by the arrows. Take a look at the photo of a living flower to understand what is required of us.
Tinting hyacinth from polymer clay
Step 15 Now we tint the flowers. We apply a dark yellow or light yellow or even light green color with a thin brush (oil paint, you can dilute it a little with thinner so that it is liquid), and then with a second dry brush we move it back and forth along the petal, but precisely along the axis, that is, in the longitudinal direction, not across. It is ideal if the paint does not come out to the edges, but only in the center.
Step 16 Here we get these flowers.
Step 17 The result of tinting using the example of blue flowers.
Making a hyacinth stem
Step 18 For the stem you will need the thickest wire you can find. I have a regular copper one. We take it as much as the height of the flower from the bulb to the crown, plus about 7 cm more for the loop for the bulb.
Step 19 We wrap the wire with tape.
Step 20. From white HF (you can paint it green, I was too lazy) we roll into a long sausage.
Step 22 Lubricate the tape-rolled stem with PVA glue.
Step 23 We make a groove in the white sausage.
Step 24 We insert a wire coated with glue into the groove.
Step 25 We pinch the HF together like dumpling dough. And then we roll it either on a flat surface (like rolling a rolling pin on a table, only without pressure), or in your palms (this is well shown in) and in step 29.
Step 26 Don't be alarmed, this is just a preparation for the stem, that's why it's white. At the end you need to leave our 7 cm under the loop - there the wire is bare, without clay.
Step 27 Now we roll the white stem with green polymer clay.
Step 28 You can do it in parts, and wash out the joints with water to make it smooth.
Step 29 Pay attention to which parts of the palm you use to roll the stem - those from which the thumbs “grow”. Then the stem will be straight.
Step 30. Or almost flat
Step 31 Apply brown oil paint to the top part and tint (shade) with a dry brush.
Step 32 Now, they are no longer just green, but with a brown tint.
In the tutorial on sculpting hyacinth from HF, we will look at the assembly process, creating the bulb and foliage, and also plant the flower in a pot.
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Any gardener knows that there are never too many flower pots. In this article we will tell you how to make a very simple decorative clay flower pot. To make such a flower pot you do not need virtually any skills. Even a beginner or a child can handle the project.
Materials and tools for making a flower pot:
- clay that does not require firing
- Plastic container
- rolling pin
- stationery or construction knife
- acrylic paint
- paint brushes
How to make a clay flower pot with your own hands
Roll out the clay using a rolling pin. Place a plastic container on the resulting layer, cut the clay, moving the knife along the edge of the container. This will give you the base of the pot.
Mix the remaining clay and roll it out again into a long narrow strip. The strip should be long enough to wrap around the sides of the container.
Make the sides of the pot from a strip of clay. The edges of the strip can be overlapped or cut and joined at the ends.
After wetting your fingers with water, smooth out all seams.
Let the clay dry for 1-2 days. When the walls have hardened, the pot can be turned over to provide air access to the bottom of the pot.
When the bottom is dry, you can start painting the pot.
Mix the paint with water. Use a wide brush to paint the bottom half of the pot.
Note: It is not necessary for the paint to lay down in an even layer. A little carelessness allows you to achieve a good result - it immediately becomes clear that the pot was made by yourself.
If necessary, the paint can be applied in several layers.
Mix a drop of black acrylic paint with a few drops of water.
Dip a brush in black paint and then, running your fingers along the bristles, spray it onto the sides of the pot.
Advice: It is advisable to carry out this procedure outdoors, otherwise you risk splashing furniture and walls.
After the paint has dried, the surface of the pot can be varnished.
Attention: a pot made of unfired clay should not be exposed to moisture, so you need to place a plastic or metal container inside, and only then fill the pot with soil and plant the plants.
Original article in English.