How Does Your Garden Grow? A decorated Planter.

I was after something to decorate the table outside on our patio. My first choice was a pot plant but as the patio is covered it wouldn’t get any rain and I wasn’t sure if I’d be reliable enough to water it regularly!

Luckily I had some “flowers” that would never need watering and decided to plant them instead and also give them a little encouragement by decorating the pot with a call to action!

In a previous life my flowers were aluminum salad servers. That came to an abrupt end after a stint in the dishwasher when the metal  corroded rather badly. Although I didn’t want to serve food with them anymore, I couldn’t bring myself to throw them out, they were just too pretty!

My husband sprayed them with leftover Silver paint which hid most of the corrosion.  I also had a black ceramic planter lying around too -it had no drainage holes so was pretty useless for real plants but was perfect for this project. I filled it with sand , then I cut a small piece of fake grass to fit the pot and planted the salad servers through it and into the sand. The grass covered the sand nicely.

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I Decorated the pot using *Silver Glitter Vinyl with the word “Grow”, I replaced the letter “o” with a flower and added a couple of tufts of grass. I’m sharing the Cutting File Below too. Here’s a close up:

Credit Where Credit’s Due

I used a few different resources to complete my design:  The word  is written in Arial which I stretched upwards a bit to make it taller.  The flower is the Lowercase Letter C from the Gardenia Blooms Font which I’ve adapted to suit my design. The Tufts of Grass are the Lower Case letter A from The Border Bits Font by Kay Hall. This is a free font that Kay designed especially for die cutters. I haven’t included the Grass tufts in my free cutting file as sharing it may breach Kay’s copyright, but it’s freely available on her site for download if you want to swing by there and grab it yourself to complete the design.

The Free Cutting Files.

Here’s The Grow Cutting File for V3 of Silhouette Studio (tested in this)

Here’s The Grow Cutting File for V2 of Silhouette Studio

The Silhouette Challenge.

Today’s post is part of the Monthly Silhouette Challenge and the theme this month is “Outdoors”.

Take a peek at the other Outdoor  themed Silhouette projects that my online Challenge friends have come up with. We are all sharing projects on our blogs today, so check out the projects below for lots of Silhouette inspiration!

1. From Whine to Whine // 2. Small Stuff Counts // 3. Comfort and Yum // 4. Patina Paradise // 5. My Paper Craze // 6. Where The Smiles Have Been // 7. Practically Functional // 8. Get Silvered // 9. DIYJustCuz {Brittany} // 10. Dragonfly & Lily Pads // 11. Crafty Bonds // 12. Two Purple Couches // 13. Tried & True // 14. It Happens in a Blink // 15. DIY Just Cuz {Sam}

 

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