DIY Faux Cement Planter: Perfect for Fall!

I have been dying to try my hand at cre­at­ing a DIY faux fall cement planter, and this cute lit­tle pot from a local thrift store was the per­fect piece for this cute piece of DIY Fall decor! Tru­ly, this DIY can be incor­po­rat­ed into any sea­son, but I have a per­fect lit­tle stack of adorable neu­tral farm­house pump­kins from Roost+Restore Home that would look amaz­ing nes­tled on top.

DIY Faux Fall Cement Planter Supplies

• old piece of pottery
• tis­sue paper
• mod podge
• paint (I am using Waver­ly Plas­ter, Ink and Antique wax)
• paint brush
• baby wipes

Begin with a cou­ple sheets of tis­sue paper. Tear the paper into strips and crin­kle them up into tight balls, like shown below.

Next, unwrin­kle the tis­sue paper, being care­ful not to press out the wrin­kles too much, and use mod podge to apply it to your planter. This one came from a local thrift store for $3.

Apply a thin coat of mod podge to the top of the tis­sue paper as well. This will help it dry with a nice hard­ened texture.

The next step includ­ed paint­ing the new dry tex­tured sur­face with a coat of white chalk paint. My favorite is Plas­ter by Waver­ly which is a great brand you can find at Wal­mart with a wide assort­ment of colors. 

Now would also be a great time to men­tion my brush. I get lots of ques­tions about it! It is a craft brush by Blue Hawk that I found at Lowe’s.

After the white basecoat is dry to the touch, it’s time to break out the baby wipes…yes I said baby wipes. You will use them to blend in your antique glaze and black paints. 

Dip the tip of your wipe in the paint and blot in small sec­tions, lay­er­ing the two col­ors. The mois­ture from the wipes keeps the col­ors blend­able. Just remem­ber that LESS IS MORE on this step! Don’t wor­ry, if you get too heavy with a col­or this is where the wipes work in your favor! Sim­ply grab a fresh wipe and wipe away or blend away from the dark­er area.

You can see this demo on VIDEO HERE

Just remem­ber the look you are work­ing to achieve. Old aged cement has lay­ers of col­or, imper­fec­tions and vari­a­tion. Throw the per­fec­tion out the win­dow and let the project take on a per­son­al­i­ty of its own!

I chose to style my fresh­ly made over planter with some Span­ish moss and a stack of hand­made fab­ric pump­kins! You can shop these pump­kins and oth­er beau­ti­ful hand­made decor at our home decor bou­tique Roost+Restore Home.

If you liked this trans­for­ma­tion, you’ll love my Faux French Coun­try Pot­tery Tuto­r­i­al I have on the blog as well. I use a dif­fer­ent tech­nique but the results are equal­ly stunning! 

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