How to Decorate a Strawberry Pot
Fresh strawberries truly make summer feel like summer. Luckily, you can grow your own even if you don't have a massive backyard. Strawberry pots typically are shaped like urns, with pockets on the sides. Decorating a strawberry pot is a wise idea as it allows you to have a festive-looking vessel in your garden, deck or patio, during those long months when you're waiting for your strawberry plant to blossom completely. You can ornament this pot in a way that gives it distinction as a vessel primarily for this sweet, red fruit. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Acrylic paint, hunter-green
- Palette
- 2 sponges
- Strawberry pot
- Strawberry stencil
- Acrylic paint, red
Instructions
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Squeeze some hunter-green acrylic paint onto a palette. Dip the corner of a sponge into the paint and dab it across the surface area of the pot. Continue in this manner until you have covered the pot completely. Allow it to dry.
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Squeeze more green acrylic paint onto your palette and dab a corner of your sponge in it again, applying a second coat to the outside of the pot. Allow this coat to dry completely.
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Hold a strawberry stencil onto one of the pockets of the strawberry pot. Squeeze red acrylic paint onto your palette. Dip a fresh sponge into the red paint. Dab the sponge over the stencil, transferring the design onto the pot. Repeat this process on each pocket of the pot, and anywhere else you'd like to have a strawberry image on the pot. Allow the paint to dry completely before using it.
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References
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