Flowers in a pot made of polymer clay. DIY flower pots: ideas, photos and instructions. Master class with step-by-step photos on how to decorate a glass pot with polymer clay

I wanted an unusual design for flower pots. Otherwise, everything is the same as everyone else’s. The simplest thing is to make it from polymer clay. No sooner said than done!

Today we will make Humpty Dumpty. Remember Lewis Carroll's fairy tale "Alice Through the Looking Glass". He is the hero of this fairy tale, where he appears as a large humanoid egg with a tie. Appears on the sixth chess square in Through the Looking Glass. Alice finds him in the store of the Sheep that the White Queen has turned into.

So let's get started:

To work we need the following materials:

Canned fish can, polymer clay or cold porcelain three colors: white, chocolate and beige, wire, whole eggshell toothpick, black marker for discs, acrylic paints, polyurethane glue “Crystal” for gluing parts, waterproof varnish.

Manufacturing:

Let's take a canned fish can and wrap it in white clay. While the clay dries, we will do the finishing.

Roll out chocolate-colored polymer clay into a thick layer and cut into 7 squares, 1x1 cm in size, similarly cut into 7 beige squares.

Glue the squares to the side of the jar in the order shown in the photo. Nearby you can make an inscription: “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall” (Humpty - Dumpty sat on the wall...), or you don’t have to do it. Whoever likes it.

We're done with the jar, let's leave it to dry for a day. Let's move on to making the scenery... Humpty Dumpty himself. To do this, you need to free the chicken egg from its contents. Carefully pierce the egg with a toothpick on both sides: blunt and sharp. Where the bottom will be, you need to make a larger hole so that a straw for cocktails can pass through. Draw out the contents of the egg through a straw and rinse. If you don’t want to bother with the egg, you can take any other blank, for example from a Kinder Surprise, and cover it with clay so that you can draw.

Using a marker, draw eyes, a nose, a mouth, cheeks, a collar, and so on on the egg.

Important! You should definitely take a marker for discs; a regular one can float from contact with the varnish. If you don’t find one, then you can paint with paints using a toothpick.

We make a tie, a bow tie and a hat from white clay. After all, our Humpty Dumpty is an important person! When the clay dries a little, they will need to be decorated with acrylic paints.

From wire we will build a heart and an egg stand in the form of hands with legs for Humpty Dumpty. Leave all prepared parts to dry for a day.

The next day we glue all the parts into the appropriate places. To glue an egg to a jar, you must first glue a piece of clay to the place where our Humpty-Dumpty is planned. Press a small piece of straw coated with glue into soft clay, and glue a wire stand with legs and handles on top. Place our Humpty Dumpty on a straw. Attach a heart on a wire to your right hand. From the remains of white clay, I also molded a bird and glued it to the other side of the jar. To ensure that all parts are strong, you need to cover them with several layers of waterproof varnish.

When the varnish is dry, you can fill the pot with soil and plant the plants. Sprinkle expanded clay on top. Since our jar is shallow, the plants should have a small root system. For example, a fat plant or a cactus. These plants have a small root system throughout the entire growth period. That's it! Our pot is ready!

So easily and simply we got such an interesting composition. As I worked, I realized that decorating flower pots with my own hands is also exciting activity! Try it and see for yourself!

Original DIY clay pot

It's always nice to look at things in the house that have been made with my own hands. They significantly fill the house with comfort and give a special soft charm to the interior. Also, such things can say a lot about the owner’s tastes or hobbies. In these important details, a special place is occupied by flower pots, which often stand in the most visible places at home: windowsill, table, chest of drawers, shelf, etc. For original interior You should choose the same interesting and creative containers for flowers, and then the atmosphere in your home will become much more pleasant. DIY flower pots are a wonderful decorative element that can be made to the individual measurements of your favorite plants.

In order to make original hand-made clay pots, You will need:

• a sharp knife for cutting clay or paper;
• polymer clay or any other intended for modeling;
• baking paper;
• template for the future pot;
• a stick with a rounded end for smoothing corners;
• rolling pin for rolling out clay.

Some clarifications before starting

For this craft, it is best to take decorative polymer clay. It hardens easily on its own, without requiring additional drying. If you cannot find one, then you can use the most ordinary clay for modeling, but you will need to bake it so that it hardens. It is not necessary to use a template before starting hand-made work. After all, you can always use your imagination, improvising on the fly. But it’s worth considering that you may end up with a slightly disproportionate pot, so it’s best to think through and draw the design of the future container in advance, and then just print it out.

So let's get started!

1. First you need to put the clay on baking paper and roll it out with a rolling pin into a layer approximately 1 cm thick.

2. If you decide to use ready-made template, then you need to carefully cut the clay along its contour or cut out parts of the pot by eye.

3. Next, you need to tightly connect the sides of the pot, and then use a stick to carefully cover and smooth out all the cracks. Just remember to hold the opposite side of the pot wall with your hand so that it does not sag.

4. When the pot is completely ready, you need to let it dry completely. A container made of polymer clay must be dried in the oven. Detailed instructions for baking, you can read the packaging of the clay, because it may differ from different types material.

After your pot has completely hardened, all that remains is to check if it is leaking, and then plant your favorite plants in it. You can also paint the pot to your taste, or leave it in its original form. We invite you to look at a few original ideas for decorating pots with your own hands.

In addition, you can not only simply paint the pot with your favorite colors, but also use the “ombre” technique, as in the photo below.

Hyacinth is a primrose adored by many, and there are many varieties of it. Today we will look at how to make such a flower from self-hardening (cold porcelain). The work ahead will be long, but not particularly difficult. It is with hyacinth that one should begin mastering ceramic floristry. Well, or from lilac. Or forget-me-nots. Why?

1. You train your finger motor skills by working with small details and learn to feel the clay.
2. Small flowers collected together look much more beautiful than one large one. That is, if you make one iris, for example, it will look boring. It's a matter of a hyacinth cap!
3. Modeling hyacinth from cold porcelain does not require special skills, such as, for example, creating such complex flowers as gladiolus or alstroemeria, where it is necessary to take into account the degree of bending of the petals and stamens, and also go through all the circles of hell in the stages of tinting (just look at alstroemeria! It’s the same horror!).

So, if you want to try your hand at ceramic floristry, start with hyacinth. How to make the flowers themselves is no secret, there are many such MKs, especially successful by Antonina Melnichenko, you can easily find this lesson. And I will show you how to put all the flowers together, and how to make a hyacinth bulb from polymer clay, and how to install a flower in a pot.

Hyacinth from HF – master class

Step 1. For the centers of small flowers we will need yellow polymer clay. Mix yellow paint into purchased clay (or) and be sure to add just a little bit of titanium white, which will remove transparency (if you don’t add it, the centers will turn out very strange).

Step 2. We prepare as many short wires (no more than 5 cm long) as there will be flowers on the hyacinth. It takes me 100 - 120 flowers for one hat. But you can make the hyacinth smaller. In a word - your choice. At the ends of the wire we make as small a loop as we can bend.

You will also need PVA glue (or latex, if available) and nail scissors.

Step 3. We pinch off a tiny piece of yellow HF and glue it onto a loop of wire pre-lubricated with PVA. The loop should be completely hidden in the clay.

Step 4. Cut the resulting yellow drop into 3–5 parts, as needed. We put the wire to dry on a foam sponge or simply place it on a surface to which the clay will not stick.

Step 5. These are the blanks for hyacinth made from cold porcelain - the master class ahead is quite long, we have now passed the very first stage.

I recommend making blanks with a reserve, because if during assembly it turns out that there are not enough flowers, it will be problematic to make new ones: you will have to guess the proportions of the colors exactly, otherwise the difference will be very noticeable - the flowers are all located side by side. I once foolishly made a two-color hyacinth

Step 6. We prepare the clay for rolling the stems. Mix “grass green”, “titanium white”, “dark yellow” oil paint into unpainted cold porcelain.

Step 7 Pinch off a little green clay and roll it around the stem. It is convenient to do this with your finger on your palm. Leave the tip of the stem bare.

Step 8 These are the blanks for hyacinth made from cold porcelain.

DIY hyacinth – MK

Let's move on to creating the flowers themselves. They will be yellow, so we prepare yellow clay, not forgetting to add a little titanium white. If you have planned a hyacinth of a different color, do it your way.

Step 9 We prepare PVA glue, the main stack and a ball with the smallest ball (I already wrote how to replace tools for ceramic floristry), prepared stems (be sure to dry!), nail scissors and a lot of patience.

Step 10 We form a droplet from yellow clay. Using scissors, cut the larger (blunt) edge in half, and then cut each part into thirds. The result should be six identical parts, and the depth of the cut should be equal.

Step 11 Using the main stack (or knitting needles), we roll each of the parts, forming a petal. Don't rush, don't press too hard. First, do a little bit on each petal, then go around the circle again, giving them all the same shape.

Step 12 Using the sharp end of the stack, we make a depression in the center, and then lower the bulb there and make the hole a little wider, so that the outside “butt” of the flower is not sharp, but round.

Step 13 We coat the stem between the green and yellow parts with PVA (a little, otherwise it will come out over the edges!) and thread it through our flower.

Step 14 And now the most important touch, without which the hyacinth will look like a big lilac and not like itself. You need to press three petals (every 1) into the center, as shown by the arrows. Take a look at the photo of a living flower to understand what is required of us.

Tinting hyacinth from polymer clay

Step 15 Now we tint the flowers. We apply a dark yellow or light yellow or even light green color with a thin brush (oil paint, you can dilute it a little with thinner so that it is liquid), and then with a second dry brush we move it back and forth along the petal, but precisely along the axis, that is, in the longitudinal direction, not across. It is ideal if the paint does not come out to the edges, but only in the center.

Step 16 Here we get these flowers.

Step 17 The result of tinting using the example of blue flowers.

Making a hyacinth stem

Step 18 For the stem you will need the thickest wire you can find. I have a regular copper one. We take it as much as the height of the flower from the bulb to the crown, plus about 7 cm more for the loop for the bulb.

Step 19 We wrap the wire with tape.

Step 20. From white HF (you can paint it green, I was too lazy) we roll into a long sausage.

Step 22 Lubricate the tape-rolled stem with PVA glue.

Step 23 We make a groove in the white sausage.

Step 24 We insert a wire coated with glue into the groove.

Step 25 We pinch the HF together like dumpling dough. And then we roll it either on a flat surface (like rolling a rolling pin on a table, only without pressure), or in your palms (this is well shown in) and in step 29.

Step 26 Don't be alarmed, this is just a preparation for the stem, that's why it's white. At the end you need to leave our 7 cm under the loop - there the wire is bare, without clay.

Step 27 Now we roll the white stem of the green polymer clay.

Step 28 You can do it in parts, and wash out the joints with water to make it smooth.

Step 29 Pay attention to which parts of the palm you use to roll the stem - those from which the thumbs “grow”. Then the stem will be straight.

Step 30. Or almost flat

Step 31 Apply brown oil paint to the top part and tint (shade) with a dry brush.

Step 32 Now, they are no longer just green, but with a brown tint.

In the tutorial on sculpting hyacinth from HF, we will look at the assembly process, creating the bulb and foliage, and also plant the flower in a pot.

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From polymer clay you can create various products of amazing beauty. This master class will tell you how to create a tiny pot of flowers the size of just over 5 ruble coins.
The work consists of the following stages:
1 Make a pot. To do this, roll out a ball of clay and, using a felt-tip pen cap, give it the shape of a pot. To make the outside of the pot look as realistic as possible, use a toothpick to squeeze out barely visible vertical stripes.

2. Pour soil into the pot. Take dark brown clay and chop it finely. We place such a “crumb” of clay in a pot.

3. Now we sculpt the leaves and petals. We “plant” them in the pot one at a time.
Place carefully using a toothpick.

4. Don’t forget to make miniature yellow balls that will serve as the center of the flower. It is convenient to place this yellow stamen in the middle of each flower using a toothpick.

5. Place the product on foil and put it in the oven. You need to bake at 100 degrees for about 15 minutes.
6. After cooling, coat the pot with matte varnish, and the leaves and flowers several times with glossy varnish.

The result is such a wonderful souvenir that can become a stylish decoration for a cozy corner of your home or an excellent gift for one of your family and friends!

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