Make a beautiful green DIY marbled concrete planter for succulents- using white concrete and acrylic paint! Are you as enthralled with the look of marbled concrete as I am? It overloads my brain with creativity when thinking about all the color and pattern possibilities. You can make swirly patterns, flowy patterns, veiny patterns. The possibilities seem endless. Marbling is one…
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A DIY cement planter with succulent relief design that’s recessed into the cement! The design was created with a Cricut, but can be done by hand too! Making a cement planter with a succulent relief design is something I have been wanting to do for a long time. I had seen someone do something similar with lace and thought it…
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A quick tutorial on how to cast these cute cement egg planters with drainage holes, using a real eggshell for the mold. Easter is around the corner and I have the hardest time knowing how to decorate for this holiday. Truth be told, I’m not the greatest decorator anyway, regardless of the fact that I’m a kitchen designer in real…
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Want an attractive key holder? Make a magnetic cement key holder that’s also a great decorative piece. Mount it flush with the wall using a magnet that’s built inside! This magnetic cement key holder was overdue. Things were getting desperate at my place. My husband and I switch cars fairly often and car keys don’t get put back in the…
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Everything you need to know about concrete and cement mixes and sealers for making concrete crafts. After a couple of years of making cement and concrete crafts like planters, and other concrete decorative craft, I wanted to teach myself the nitty-gritty of concrete and cement crafts mixes and sealers. This is the first in a series of posts. This information…
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A cinder block planter sculpture! Paint and stack cinder blocks, add plants to make a fantastic vertical planter. I really needed a way to spruce up this bare spot in front of a fence in my yard. I have a bunch of plants and not enough room on my deck for all of them, so I decided to make a…
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Learn to make these cement balloon planters the easy way, and that works! Use a balloon as your mold. Cement (not concrete) is the key. I started this project out feeling really frustrated. Originally I tried to make these round cement balloon planters using concrete like other tutorials show, but it was a complete fiasco. Even though I sifted the…
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Round DIY magnetic cement planters made from a plastic ball, with an actual making time of only 15 minutes. Oh what joy these DIY magnetic cement planters bring me! I had been dying to make these for over a year. Last summer, while working on the mini cement balloon planters, I came up with the idea of using plastic bouncy balls as a…
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Repurpose an old sneaker to make a DIY cement planter. I saw a cement planter that someone made using a rain boot and I thought it would be really cute to make a planter out of a Converse high top sneaker. I love experimenting with unique shapes of existing items to make planters out of. Why not a cement sneaker…
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