Mini Terracotta Pot with Paper Flowers and Foliage

Today I’m sharing a mini terracotta pot with paper flowers and foliage.  I love trying my hand at coming up with different ways to use my dies and thought this little flower pot arrangement was perfect to add to my “anything but a card” category.  I used the Rubbernecker Small Flowers #1, Large Ivy and Leaf Group to fill the pot.

The pot is only two inches across and I felt I could fill it with foliage if I added strips of cardstock inside the pot to attach everything to.  I added two strips and began attaching branches using glossy accents.  I actually added a couple more strips of cardstock inside the pot to the ones you see below after I got started but forgot to take another picture. 

The Pot and Arrangement Base Strips

• Cut strips of green cardstock about 3″ wide and lightly score at 1/2″ on each end.
• Apply 1/2″ double stick tape on each end.
• Place the first strip straight across the middle and secure each end to the sides of the pot.
• Cut a slit in the middle of the second strip and slide it down over the first and secure the ends to the pot.
• Note:  Not shown in the photo above.  I secured shorter strips across each 1/4″ opening to give me places to secure the die cut foliage to for the arrangement. 

The Foliage

• Use green cardstock to cut several sections of the Leaf Group and Large Ivy.
• Cut the Leaf Group branches into 3 sections and begin attaching them in the center of the pot using glossy accents.
• Continue attaching the branches working out from the center and filling in all the way around to create a full foliage base.
• Cut several of the Large Ivy sections into two parts and attach a few of them inside the rim to face out over the edge of the pot.
• Attach more of the trimmed Large Ivy sections to fill in the arrangement.
• Finish the foliage arrangement by attaching full branches of the Large Ivy near the center of the arrangement so the leaves stand out above the other foliage leaves.

The Flowers

• Cut two sections of the Small Flowers using purple cardstock.
• Place all the flowers face up on the molding pad.
• Form each flower by pushing down in the center with a small tipped stylus to push the petals up.
• Attach the flowers to the foliage using glossy accents.

This mini terracotta pot arrangement was an experiment that actually turned out pretty well.  I wasn’t sure if it would but I sure had so much fun trying.  Check out this mini terracotta pot and paper flowers link on Pinterest for more inspiration.  There are so many cute ideas.  Rubbernecker is having a Happy New Year sale that you won’t want to miss.  Be sure to hop over and check it out.

The dies used for my mini flower pot.

5210-04D Small Flowers #1 [ RBB ] 5162-02D Large Ivy [ RBB ] Leaf Group die 5118D [ RBB ]

Supplies and tools used.

Mini Glossy Accents, Ranger Accents [ ELH ] Pennington Mini Flower Pots 2″ Terra… [ AMZUS ] Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Sour… [ ELH ] Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Easter… [ ELH ] Mcgill Rubber Paper Blossoms Molding… [ AMZUS ] Susan’s Garden Tool Kit, Elizabeth… [ ELH ]