What to do with those
styro foam boxes
you get with Christmas goodies inside?
Here's a great solution and it's easy to do.
Make faux rock planters out of them.
Yup!
Here's one finished planter with a succulent that's loving it's new home.
This planter is a few months old so you can see I have to touch up a few spots
but really, it looks like an old stone planter covered with moss!!
This was a box for our Christmas ham. I trimmed it down then roughed up the sides
with a wire brush. Then I scored rough rock shapes into the foam.
I took my regular acrylic craft paints in rock and moss colors and started layering
and layering until it looked authentic.
I used spray paint sparingly at some of the joints and I loved
the cool rocky texture it made.
So now I tried some more light sprays of paint in little areas and loved it even more!
This is definitely a stony, rocky look right there.
Then I layered on more acrylic paint to blend the colors and cover up
any white foam showing through.
I'm in love with this project!
I already had a pot of mixed sedum on my deck so I
popped it into the new planter.
Oooh aaaaah!
