flags & flower pots!

flags & flower pots. . .

If you're looking for a quick & easy way to dress up your mantle,  

spruce up your sideboard, or decorate for a gathering. . .here's a cute idea :)

This project only took me about 30-40 minutes to make. . .

All you'll need is some small random terra cotta pots, scrapbook paper, mini-dowells,

spanish moss, glue stick, and foam. Pretty much everything came from Hobby Lobby, with the exception of the terra cotta pots which were a farmhouse find.

 

 

 Step one: cut foam squares, and stuff into pots. . .

 

 

Step two: make a diamond shape template on a plain piece of paper, fold in half to

make sure both sides are even, and trace onto the scrapbook paper.

Step three: cover diamonds with a glue stick, and wrap around the dowell

to create a "flag."

Step four: Print & cut out 3" letters from your computer and trace onto scrapbook paper,

cut out, and mount onto flags. Make sure your paper with the letters can be

easily seen against the flag its being mounted to.

Also, I used some foam sticky squares to attatch the letters, to create a 3-D effect. 

Step five: Push dowells into foam, making sure to stagger the heights

to create visual interest. . .

Step six: Fill with moss. . .and you're done :)

Just a thought. . .

Since spring, summer, autumn, and winter each have six letters, it's easy to

just make new flags for each season, and rotate them in the pots :)

Happy Spring :)

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