Clay pots and vases (you can even use the ones in your garden) and enamel paints and, if you need, dust (which comes in different colors such as silver, gold, bronze) etc.
Making:
Once you get hold of these things the options are endless. You can make miniature drawings on pots and colour them, do collage work, try the thread, stamp effect (which can be made by taking a long piece of thread rolling it in dust mixed with turpentine oil (mati ka tail) which can then be applied on to the pot), drip paint on the pot to create funky designs which is called the dripping effect, make the marble effect, decorate a cut work pot with laces and ribbons (which make excellent lamps), do stencil work on the vases and then fill them up with rice etc., make things out of Plaster of Paris and stick them on the pot with glue or you can even put some plain bajri mixed with paint onto it and sprinkled with glitter to give it a shimmering effect!!! You can even mix a lot of different effects together. (After all, it is about being creative)
At first, colour your earthen pot with any enamel paint.Now take a container containing three-fourth quantity of water and spill different colours of enamel paints into it.The different colour paints float on the water.Now gently hold your painted pot at its edge and dip it into the water and twist it around, in the water and slowly take it out of the container.Keep the pot aside without disturbing it.The wet paints will slowly take its own design and shade.Wait till the pot dries.
Cut two 4 inch squares of fabric, two 3 inch squares of fabric and two 2 inch squares of fabric. Fold each square of fabric in half, then fold it in half again. Trim the unfolded edges of the fabric into a scalloped shape. (The scallops don’t have to be perfectly even to make a nice flower shape.) Unfold the fabric, then cut slits between the scallops toward the center of the flower, without cutting the petals all the way apart. These slits will make it easier to fluff out the petals and make the flower more three-dimensional .Place the two large flower pieces on top of each other. Pull the petals of the lower flower up through the slits between the upper petals, to make the flower petals fluffier. Repeat step 5 with the pair of medium flower petals, and the pair of small flower petals. Stack the flower petal pairs on top of each other, with the largest petals on the bottom and the smallest petals on the top. Make sure the petal pairs are centered. Stitch the layers of the flower together through the center, using a few small hand stitches. Add a button to the center of the flower if you wish.
Start out by cutting a variety of flower shapes out of colorful craft foam, felt or card stock. The buttons will serve as the center of the flower so the size of the buttons will determine the size of the flowers you cut. Cut a piece of floral wire about 20" long or twice as long you want your flower's stem to be.Now it is time to assemble the flowers! First, poke one end of the wire through the center of a flower shape. Push the wire through the flower about halfway. Next, poke the that same wire end through one of the holes on a button. Push the button down until it sits right up next to the card stock flower. That same wire end should be bent and poked through the another hole in the button and also back through the flower. The wire should be pulled snug against the button.To finish your flower, twist the ends of the wire together all of the way up to the flower to form the stem. Experiment with using a variety of flower shapes and buttons. Make an entire bouquet of button flowers.
