DIY flower pot decoration - 8 ideas

Any hostess is interested in making your home cozy, beautiful, revitalizing it. Fresh flowers are a great decoration for every home. Not a small role is played by the pot in which the flower is planted. Often you have to deal with the fact that ordinary flower pots are not beautiful enough, they make the interior simple, boring, and design pots are not affordable for everyone. Do-it-yourself flowerpot decoration is a great solution to this problem! After all, you can decorate the pot as you wish, and you will still have the opportunity to brag to the guests with a handwritten piece.
In this article we will talk about different ways of decorating, which will enable you to easily make elegant flower pots.

Sea motive

Everyone in the house who has ever been to the sea, there is a collection of seashells, pebble, colorful glass. These souvenirs can be used to decorate containers for flowers. Sea pebbles, glass can be found in any store, now it is not a problem. Beautiful enough is the combination of sea souvenirs with various small items (coins, buttons, broken pieces of crockery, tiles).

It is very important, before sticking shells on the pot, be sure to wash and degrease them.
It is best of all to glue the parts to the surface of the container with building glue, which has a high viscosity, dries quickly. In order to better strengthen the shells, stones, glue must be applied to objects and on the pot. After applying the glue, you need to press down the decorative elements to the surface of the container and hold for a couple of seconds.

After all the pebbles, glass pieces are glued, you can paint over some empty places (at your discretion). Void filling can be done with paints, or with a mixture of cement and PVA. This mixture should be a consistency of thick cream (diluted with water). It is necessary to add tone with acrylic paints, for example, colors of turquoise. The resulting mixture must be applied with a brush. After the voids are filled, and the mixture dries out a bit, remove the excess mass from the decor elements.

Decoration of a flowerpot with a sawn birch branch

Another option that will help fill the voids, to emphasize the marine style, is sand decoration. To do this, suitable sea or river sand. The decoration is as follows: glue is applied to the voids, after which the pot (under the slope) is sprinkled with sand.
The decoration of flower pots and the application of ordinary varnish are completed. This will give your product shine, make it stronger.

Eggshell as a decoration

Eggshell is quite popular, and most importantly affordable means of decoration. The shell can be used in natural color or give it the necessary tone.

It is very important, before starting decorating the pots, to remove the film from the shell, degrease it, wash it, dry it well.
Eggshell pot decor is rather simple in its technique. For starters, you need to prepare the foundation. The first step is to cover with adhesive the area of ​​the pot on which the material will be attached.

After that, with the convex side facing out, a fragment of the shell is attached. It must be attached tightly to the surface, but very carefully so as not to break. To correct the position of the parts, you can use a needle or a toothpick. After all the work done, the decorated surface is covered with PVA glue.

The next stage is painting. If the shell is already colored, then it can only be given brightness. Another option: completely paint the surface, which can be both the main background and the basis for further decoration. At the end of the robots, to fix the product, it is varnished.

Decoupage technique on a flower pot

Decoupage is a decoration method in which various paper pictures, cut out paper, napkins are used. This technique can be used on clay, plastic, corrugated pots. The technique is very simple.

Making the decor with your own hands, you can select the following steps:

• pot preparation (removal of unnecessary elements, degreasing, pot primer);
• coating paint, which serves as the foundation;
• working with paper, namely: cutting out the necessary motive; preparation of the napkin, as only its top layer is used;
• decoration pots (gluing paper on the surface);
• decoration with additional materials;
• fixing varnish.

Beads, beads will add special elegance to the decor of flower pots.

Unique decor with lace and burlap do it yourself

Very gentle and magical is the method of decorating flower pots using lace or burlap lace.

Work with lace is quite simple. In order to decorate the container, you need to apply PVA glue on the inside of the material and glue the fragment. Similarly, glue a piece of burlap. A very interesting option is the combination of these two materials. You can also decorate with beads, beads, pebbles. In general, it all depends on your imagination. Additional elements just need to be fixed with glue.

Burlap can be used without lace, replacing it with a rope. It will look very nice pot, fully placed in a small bag. To support the sacking in such cases there will be a rope tied around the pot.

The use of ropes and threads for decorating pots

The use of ropes and threads takes place in different ways of decorating a flower pot. They are an additional element that will give the product refinement. For example, you can decorate a flowerpot with sacking, give it tenderness with the help of lace, tie up everything (without using glue) with a thread or brown rope. This method will emphasize the shape of the flowerpot, make it beautiful.

Also, the ropes and threads can be used to decorate the pot yourself, giving them different shapes (flowers, leaves), making curls, pigtails. They are attached with glue.
It looks beautiful pot, completely shrouded in rope.

Decorating a pot with simple pencils and a ribbon bow

Such a pot can be painted with spray paints. Before you start coloring, some parts of the flowerpot, which should be of natural color, should be covered with adhesive tape. Paint non-taped places and allow to dry. After, remove the tape - the pot is ready.

Cloth decoration - master class

Decorating flower pots with a cloth with your own hands is an easy way to update and decorate your flower pots.
Fabric for decoration can be chosen one for several pots, making a certain ensemble, or different, at your discretion. The finished product can be decorated with lace, beads, etc.
It is necessary:

• pot;
• the cloth;
• glue;
• brush;
• scissors.

We begin work by cutting off the necessary piece of fabric. The width, it should completely cover the pot, the length - be a little more to envelop the bottom and top of the inside of the tank.

After the fabric has been prepared, it is necessary to grease the pot with glue, using a brush. The fabric is also slightly coated with glue, it should not be too much. After that, glue the fabric and level.
The next step is to cut the lower and upper stock. It is necessary to make an incision on a small smushka, then lubricate it with glue and glue the pots to the bottom. From above we start the fabric inside the plastic container and fasten it. Upon request, the pot can be decorated and everything - the product is ready.

Decor flower pot decals and drawings - master class

A drawing or an inscription on a flowerpot looks very mysterious, they make a certain note of magic. Translated labels and drawings on pottery look very elegant, but you can also experiment on plastics and ceramics.

It is necessary:

• pot (we have clay, you can take at your discretion);
• black and white acrylic paint;
• brush;
• glue;
• drawing (printed on the printer, you can use decals or stickers);
• paper towel;
• varnish;
• scissors.

Getting Started:
First, take the pot. For the decor of a semi-antique flower pot, with the help of a brush we unevenly paint the surface with white paint. In order to give an uneven pitch, somewhere in the third part of the flowerpot is painted gray. It happens as follows: in a separate container, we mix black and white beauty, so that the shade turns out to be gently gray; take a paper towel and soak in gray beauty. With a napkin we apply light paint on the bottom of the pot and leave it for a while, until it dries.

While the flowerpot dries, we are preparing a drawing. The image in the mirror image printed on photo paper needs to be cut out.
After the picture is cut out and the pot is dry, glue it to the surface (we part a little glue half with water). Lubricate the surface of the dish and stick the picture, properly pressed. Leave for some time to dry up.

At the end of time, we take a sponge soaked in water, thoroughly moisturize the image. After that, gently roll the top layer of paper so that only the drawing remains. Dry thoroughly. To protect the image or inscription, varnish the surface and that's all, the decor is complete.

Groats as a way of decorating - master class

Decorating with grits is also a pretty good idea to decorate pots. As they say, cheap and cheerful!

It is necessary:

• pot;
• glue;
• millet groats;
• acrylic paint (we took gold and silver);
• brush;
• wooden stick;
• napkins;
• sponge;
• varnish

Getting Started:
In order to give the surface an extraordinary relief, we decorate it with paper and glue. Dilute the glue with water (about half the glue, 1: 1). We tear a napkin into small pieces. Using a brush, apply glue to a napkin and glue on the surface of the dish. With a stick we make small relief folds. In this way, glue all the free space and leave for some time.

After the glue has dried, proceed to the millet. To begin with, apply undiluted glue to the folds, then sprinkle with grits on top. Sponge soak and leave to dry.
Next, proceed to painting. Using a brush completely paint pots in silver color, dry.
After the paint has dried, decorate the pot with golden paint, painting only the part where the millet is poured. Cover with top varnish.