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flower pot for Mother's Day
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Mother's Day Flower Pot

a flower pot gift for mother's day using the Cricut machine and Dollar Tree supplies
Cook Time15 minutes
Total Time30 minutes
Servings: 1 flower pot
Author: Stephy
Cost: $5

Equipment

  • 1 pair of scissors
  • Cricut weeding tools
  • Cricut Explore Air 2 (or another cutting machine)

Ingredients

  • 1 terra cotta flower pot
  • white chalk paint
  • paint brush or foam brush
  • small potted flowers, plants, succulents, herbs or seeds
  • vinyl adhesive black

Instructions

  • Paint your flower pot white and let it dry. It takes about 5-10 minutes to dry.
  • While your pot is drying, open your Cricut Design space app and make your cricut design. The link for mine is above along with the fonts I used, but you may need to provide your own fonts if you don't have those particular fonts in your system fonts. If you are making your own click new project and if you are using mine click customize.
  • Center your words and once everything is where you want it, highlight all by dragging your mouse over everything or clicking CTRL + A or CMD + A (for Mac) and click attach in your toolbar on the right. This allows your design to stay in one spot without being rearranged. It will make it much easier to align your letters on the pot without guesswork.
  • Turn on your Cricut machine.
  • Click Make it. Select materials size and click Continue.
  • Load mat with vinyl into the machine.
  • Select the correct material type and settings and press go to begin cutting your project.
  • Weed the vinyl by removing the letters from your vinyl with your weeding tools. You can also use transfer paper to do this, but I found it easy enough to do without it. I started with the middle word in the center first to get the positioning right. Afterwards, I did the other words after. Make sure to look at where the "L" in 'love' is in relation to the word below so, for instance, put it above the "R" in 'grow'.
  • After your wording is placed on the pot, add the hearts along the rim of the pot evenly spaced apart. You can also add one on either side of the word 'love' too.
  • Add the flower or plant of your choosing to the flower pot.