Do you remember the saying, in which it is said that the dishes be fighting for luck? If it happened to you, you can double and even triple happiness, making stylish flower pots from a fragmentation mosaic. I did this, and my life has changed for the better. Try and you transform the design of your room and speed up the approximation of the best times.
Materials and tools
For work, I needed such materials as the usual pot for flowers and fragments of the dishes. As a tool, I used the hammer, nippers, plow glue, liquid nails and grout for seams. Polyethylene tape, spatula, two sponges, old newspapers and bucket of water came in handy. For the purpose of security during the manufacture, I put on rubber gloves, safety glasses (a fragment may accidentally imagine) and armed with an old towel.Beginning of work
At first I washed the pots and carefully dried up so that no contamination remains. Then came up with a picture that scheduled to apply to the surface. You can create a sketch in advance or improvise in the course of work. It is not always possible to find the same pieces of dishes (it is also recommended to use the tiles of tile), which can be put in a certain order. I also improvised, picking up the pieces fit. After I decided on the main outline of the picture, then I started the following process.
Printing Oscolkov
First of all, I truncated the pots to improve the physical qualities of ceramics. To do this, I dispelled PVA and water in proportion to one to one and covered the surface.
Then waited until everything dies, and used liquid nails. The glue does not have a sharp smell and dries relatively quickly. If you have another, no less high-quality glue, use it. With the help of a tassel, I distributed glue and glued fragments. When all my pieces were attached, I waited again for some time so that the product was completely dry.
Usage of Zatir
Try to glue fragments so that there are small distances between them. Now in the assortment of construction stores there are many all kinds of outstanding a different quality and different colors.
If you want to take universal color, stop your selection on gray. But if you wish, you can use grout with a shade of your decorative coating. With the spatula, I filled out the deepening between the fragments. Make it mostly uniform.
You will probably wear rubber gloves, as I did. My fingers are very convenient to press the grout and distribute it through all the right places. Remains gently remove the spatula.
Completion of work
After your pot is fully decorated, tooling it from unnecessary mud. The process of using the grout is not very clean. Multiple residues in the form of points and roughness remain on the surface. When the material is dry, it will be very difficult to remove them, so take a bucket of water and a sponge.
Gently make a sponge into the water and remove everything too much that there is on the surface. Do it is not in a hurry, so as not to remove the grout layer. After each washing, wipe the surface with a dry towel. When a pot with a mosaic is clean, leave it to dry. I needed for this two days.
Instead of imprisonment
Using the principle of design by mosaic, you can make many original items. If you do not have prejudices about the broken mirrors, use fragments as a material, then your pots will constantly glow, to start the sun bunnies and raise you the mood.
The original solution will make the embossed surface, which is subsequently painted in color you need. Fantasize, invent new options, and good luck to you in your work!
