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Easy Terra Cotta Pots
By Marie Segal

Materials:

  • Terra Cotta garden pots in 8", 4" sizes
  • Terra Cotta saucer for 4" pot
  • Terra Cotta Sculpey Summer Flower Mold
  • Sconce Mold
  • Leaf Motif Mold
  • Sculpey Super Slicer
  • Translucent Liquid Sculpey
  • Pebeo Porcelaine 150 in choice of color (Opaline blue was used for Summer Flower Pot)

 

Directions for Terra Cotta pot using the Leaf Motif mold and the Sconce mold - 8" pot:

  • Roll out a tube of terra cotta Sculpey about 3/4" in diameter and slightly smaller than the border you are going to use.

  • To fill the mold, press the coil into the mold starting at one end of the border.

  • Trim off the excess clay with your Super Slicer. Be careful not to cut the mold.

  • Gently pull your molded border from the mold. Because the molds are flexible, you can bend the mold back to release the clay form the mold.

  • Put a bead of Translucent Liquid Sculpey on one end of the back of the molded piece. You may also use API Ultimate Tacky Glue.

  • Spread across the back of the molded piece with a bamboo skewer or toothpick to get a nice even coating.

  • Press on the molded band onto the pot evenly. Make sure all of the molded piece is attached, with no gaping areas.

  • Now, mold more pieces of the same border mold and follow the above directions to go all the way around the top of the pot.
  • Use your sconce mold and pick an embellishment that you like. Mold enough to go around the pot under the lip. Be sure to put Liquid Sculpey on the back of each piece before you attach it.

  • Bake your pot in a calibrated 275 degree F (130 degrees C) oven for 30 minutes. Then turn off the oven and let the pot cool in the oven. When cool, take out and give your plants a beautiful new home.

For Blue Glazed Pot:
  • Use the summer flower mold and go around the top of the pot like you did in the previous project.
  • Put a smaller border on the saucer. Bake in the oven as above. When cool, paint with Pebeo Porcelaine 150, and let dry according to product directions. Bake again for 35 minutes according to product directions.

 
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