The bloom pots you tin detect in diverse shops can be quite bland and the ones that are pretty enough to catch your heart will price an arm and a leg. And so, let'southward make our ain rustic painted pots!

flower pots

In this fashion, you'll buy basic pots, just you lot tin can turn them into actually cute creations that you will eagerly add to your windowsill so the neighbors tin see them. Perhaps they'll fifty-fifty ask you to make some for them.. who knows!

Materials for rustic painted pot

  • clay pot
  • hemp twine
  • foam and dark-green acrylic paint
  • paintbrush
  • scissors
  • glue gun
  • sponge
  • stencil

How to make a rustic painted pot

Before we even get started, we want to make sure you take all the materials lined upward. The last thing yous want is to run effectually trying to find something or some other you lot forgot about. So, practice you lot have them all? Let's go on and so.

Rustic painted pot materials

Step i: Paint the pot

We're going to kickoff with the basic step – painting the pot. So, grab the pot andgreen acrylic paintandpaintbrush.Dip the paintbrush in and showtime painting the whole thing.

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You want to cover the lip of the pot, as well as the body of information technology with the colour.

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Put your hand inside the pot and turn it slowly so you can paint the sides as well.

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You'll besides want to paint the very tiptop edge of the pot since information technology's going to be pretty visible. If you desire, you can also expand the painting on the within of the pot's top surface area.

Prepare the pot aside and allow it time to dry out. Acrylic paint dries off pretty fast, so don't hurry it also much. You want the pot to be completely dry earlier moving to the adjacent step.

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Step two: Allow's stencil in the blueprint

Now that the paint has dried on the pot, information technology'southward fourth dimension we go to the side by side step – applying the stencil. Our stencil is a chip agglutinative which will certainly help in keeping information technology in place. If yours is not like ours, you can hold information technology in place with some paper tape.

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Detect the correct spot on the pot and try to place the stencil every bit directly every bit possible.

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Lay downwardly the stencil perfectly, evening it out with your thumbs.

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Get thewhite acrylic paintand thesponge.Dip the sponge in the white paint and start pressing the sponge into the stencil. You lot want to do this slowly and carefully in such a way that you do not get paint beyond the stencil.

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Get slowly and layer out the pigment on the stencil. Once more, be careful with the sponge.

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Allow the pigment a few minutes to dry out and and then remove the stencil past peeling it back. If you had a different kind of stencil and you prepare it down with paper tape, slowly remove the tapes.

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Echo the procedure on the other side of the pot besides. Carefully place the stencil on the pot once more than.

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Advisedly spread the paint with the help of the sponge.

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Get slowly so you don't brand any major mistakes. Smaller mistakes are easy to overlook or fix, only you don't desire too much paint beyond the stencil'due south borders.

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Remove the stencil once the paint has stale a fleck. Go slowly.

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Expect how pretty it is! You'll like displaying this pot now!

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Step 3: Wrap some twine

Our rustic painted pot too features some twine. And so, go thehemp twineand themucilage gun.

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Start past adding a bit of hot mucilage right on the edge of the pot. Press the twine into the glue and hold it there for a few seconds.

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Add some more than glue to the very edge of the pot and press the twine into the area.

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Go around the pot and brand sure the threads are as close every bit possible when you start making extra rows. We advise you to get slowly and to only apply as much hot glue every bit necessary here because it dries up pretty fast and you lot'll need to scrape globs that are too large.

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It'due south starting to look actually pretty with the hemp twine! Go along going!

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You lot want the hemp twine to comprehend the entire upper area of the pot. If you lot stop midway information technology volition look like information technology's an incomplete design. Nosotros know the chore is not the about glamorous of them all, but it's going to await beautiful, we hope!

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Once y'all're done, get thepair of scissorsand cutting the hemp twine.

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Add a piddling fleck more hot mucilage and secure the edge of the twine, pressing information technology into the upper layers.

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There you go! That'due south information technology! You now have a wonderful rustic painted pot to pride yourself with. It'due south then pretty and nosotros're sure you tin't await to institute some of the prettiest flowers you accept!

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This is a blueprint you can customize a flake by changing the color of the paint nosotros covered the flower pot with, or the color of the paint we used over the stencil. Whatsoever design you lot cull, we're certain information technology will look wonderful.

Talking of which, we'd love to see how yours turned out, and then send us your pictures over social media. Also, tell us how you experience about this craft in the comments department below!

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