Terra Cotta Flower Pots
by Shirley Atkinson

Description: Tips for decorating beautiful terra cotta flower pots using leftover seed packets.

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Terra cotta flower pots make a bright and cheery pot for your favorite plants or whatever you want to use them for. I have mine sitting on my patio table with my favorite flowers. In the winter I put artificial flowers or greenery so my patio still looks cheery.

You can use just about anything you would like. Try using fabric, wallpapering, wrapping paper, old greeting cards or even making it patriotic. I used seed packets for mine.

For this project you will need:

Terra-cotta pot
Mod Podge decoupage medium
Decorations of your choice
Scissors with decorative edge
Sunflower seeds

Cut out the seed packets with your decorative scissors. Arrange them on the terra cotta flower pots in the design you want. Overlap them and you will need to cut them to fit. Paint the back of the packets with the mod podge and put them on the pot. When you have the pot covered with the packets then coat the entire outside with decoupage and let dry.

Using the decoupage, attach the sunflower seeds. When dry, paint the entire outside with 1 more coat of decoupage and allow to dry. You now have a finished terra cotta flower pot. These terra cotta flower pots really look nice when you use material like you would a quilt. Cut different shapes and colors and cover the entire outside. Patriotic pots can be done in red, white and blue material with stars and stripes.

Use your imagination and you can come up with all kinds of ways to decorate your clay pots. You can paint them a very light blue and then paint flowers on them. If you can't paint flowers you can always get decals to put on the pots. There are many beautiful decals on the market and they look like your have painted them yourself.

Shirley Atkinson
Crafters Love Crafts
http://www.crafterslovecrafts.com

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