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28 April Crafts & DIY Projects Digest

DIY Floral Decoupage Spring Flower Pots

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If you're looking to add a touch of springtime charm to your garden or home decor, why not try your hand at DIY Floral Decoupage Spring Flower Pots? This fun and easy craft project allows you to personalize plain flower pots with beautiful flower designs, giving them a fresh, new look. Simply gather your favorite printed napkins or paper, some decoupage glue, and a bit of creativity to transform ordinary pots into eye-catching pieces that will brighten up any space. It's a delightful way to welcome the season and unleash your inner artist!

Supplies:

flower pots or 4" peat pots
paint 
craft brushes (I used a foam brush and a small flat craft brush)
floral paper napkins
scissors
decoupage medium

Steps to decoupage flower pots

As you can see in the supplies list, I was using two terracotta pots that I had previously painted blue, as well as a peat pot that I had spray painted brown. I love recycling my supplies first before I purchase new.

Take a look at this picture, and then read the detailed steps and tips below.

Step 1 - paint
Paint your pot to match the base color of the napkins (tissue paper is very thin and any base color will show through). You can't really go wrong with white, and I like chalk paint because it covers best. Two light coats is all I needed.

Step 2 - peel
Separate the ply from the napkin (paper napkins are usually 3 ply). You want just the ply with the design. Remember, it will be very thin so be careful you don't tear.

Step 3 - cut

Cut out the pieces of the design from the napkin that you want to use.

Step 4 - dry fit

Before gluing the pieces to your flower pot, do a dry fit to make sure you like how it looks

Step 5 - glue

Holding design piece in place, brush top with decoupage medium. Gently brush design flat, focusing on edges (some wrinkles are inevitable, especially when working on a rounded surface).
Continue with additional tissue pieces until you're happy with the look. Set pots aside to dry, or speed drying with a craft heat gun or even a blow dryer.

Additional tips

Don't be afraid to let some pieces slightly overlap the edges of the flower pot, it actually looks really good!
You can decoupage the entire pot, or focus on just one side (that's what I did)

Feel free to separate pieces of the design with your scissors
If you want to be able to shift your design once wet, add a thin layer of decoupage medium to the pot before adding design

Try not to overbrush the design with glue, once it's wet it's even more fragile and can easily tear.

Keep reading to see how to add flowers to decorated Spring pots.

If you want to add some faux flowers to your decoupaged pots, here are the supplies I recommend:
  • Styrofoam balls
  • hot glue - optional
  • flower single stems (I used pink ranunculus from Hobby Lobby)
  • greenery - optional
  • moss

Add a foam ball to each pot, hot gluing in place if it doesn't fit snugly. Push the flower stem and a small piece of greenery down into the foam (again, glue in place if it needs a little extra support).

Top the foam ball with a little bit of moss to hide everything and give your Spring flower pots a finished look.



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