How to Decoupage Flower Pots with Paper Napkins

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Start by painting the main portion of the terracotta pot with white chalk paint. Then, paint the rim with black paint.

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When using napkins for decoupage you’ll want to remove the printed layer from the rest of the napkin. A lot of these printed napkins are 3 ply. Be careful, these get pretty thin and delicate.

For this pot I ended using a quarter of the napkin, so I cut off a square of it to start with.

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I definitely recommend using a pair of small sharp scissors to cut these out. The closer you cut to the design, the better it should turn out. If you leave on a lot of extra napkin it can create unwanted extra texture such as outlines, bubbles, and crinkles.

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When cutting out little objects like these bees, I find the best method is to separate each object before going back in and cutting it closer to the design. Even going in to make little snips if needed.

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I wanted to be able to use this pot outside, so I used the outdoor mod podge. It’s a little thicker than the ones I usually use, but it goes on smooth and didn’t get any foam or bubbles.

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Start by painting on a patch of mod podge where I want to place the bee. I’ll dip the brush into a bit of mod podge to pick up the paper piece and press it down onto the pot. Then I spread it out over it to smooth the napkin down.

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Since I cut out each piece separately I can easily move them around on the pot to get the look I want.

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I continue working around the pot adding bees. To add more interest I put the bees going in different directions like they would when crawling around a hive. I covered the whole pot with just 1/4 of the napkin using this method.

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For the rim I wanted to add some cute daisies. I used the ends of two paintbrushes to paint them on. Dipping the end in the lid of the paint seems to work really well. I put the yellow in the center of the rim to serve as the center of the flowers.

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Then I go around the yellow dot with six white dots. I went around the whole rim like this and added in dots of sparkle mod podge in between as well as on the wings of the bees.

Once everything has dried I add one final coat of the outdoor mod podge to seal everything in.