Flower pot painting

Decorate your home with plants

House plants create a sense of wellbeing and help make your house a home. Succulents, with their unusual growth patterns, are particularly popular at the moment and look impressive. They’re also very easy to care for and need little watering. Of course, you can’t just forget about them altogether. This matching flower pot design is both decorative and practical – and will help you remember to water your plants! The expressions ‘water please’ or ‘thirsty’ will help get your favourite plants noticed, meaning you hopefully won’t forget them! It’s incredibly easy to decorate your flower pots using edding’s porcelain brush pens. The special ink for porcelain and oven-proof glass boasts a creamy application and an even colour result. After finishing your designs, leave the ink to dry before baking them in a pre-heated oven. Your designs will then be dishwasher-safe!

Categories: Special gifts
Summer
Living room
Products: Porcelain brush pens
Materials: Porcelain and ceramic
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

For the best colour results, first clean your flower pots with water (ideally in the dishwasher) and wipe them down with methylated spirits. The highly flexible nib of the porcelain brush pen will allow you to create fine strokes and dots (with the tip), as well as broader strokes (by holding the pen flat). If you make a mistake, you can fix it with ease using a damp cloth or cotton bud.

Step 2

To create the letters for WATER, make a template out of paper and glue it to the flower pot or use finished adhesive letters. Next add clusters of little dots around the letters using the porcelain brush pen.

Step 3

Then decorate the rest of the flower pot in whichever way you like - the word ‘thirsty’, for example. Once your design is finished, leave the porcelain to dry for 15 minutes and remove the letter templates. Then, bake your painted flowerpot for 25 minutes in an oven preheated to 160°C. Make sure you place the porcelain on a cold oven shelf and put this in the oven once it has reached the right temperature. Then leave the oven to cool.