DIY Summerween Flower Pot Miniatures

Hi Everyone, Happy Summerween! If you are a year-round Halloween person. Then you will be familiar with the term Summerween. Summerween was inspired by a cartoon show called "Gravity falls". Here is the episode description: It's Gravity Falls' Summer version of Halloween, with Jack-o-Melons and trick-or-treating. Dipper insults a candy monster that threatens to eat him if his candy quota isn't filled by the end of the day. I thought it would be fun to make some Summerween miniature plants. Let's get started!

Art Supplies

1. Glue: Tacky glue, Elmer's Glue and hot glue.
   

2. Acrylic paint: Black, Lime green, Bright green, Red.
   

3. Fabric paint: White
   

4. Fabric pen: Black
   

5. Paint brushes: fine tip and small brushes
   

6. Coffee ground
   

7. Mini Flower pots: I got these from Dollar Tree
   

Step 1

I went with a watermelon color scheme. I painted the taller pot to look like a watermelon monster and the two smaller pots in watermelon colors with acrylic paint. I used a black paint pen to add the Halloween faces. I went through my fake flower stash and picked flowers that I could cut down to make smaller flowers. It's really easy to take apart the flowers. I took one stem and cut three smaller stems that would fit into my pots.

Step 2

I just played around the flowers until I came up with something I liked. For the dark green leaves, I turned them upside down because they looked like bat wings and painted them black. For the small white flower, I painted the tips and the inside of the flower red to give it a vampire feel. For the lime green flower, I rearranged the flower by putting the green backing under the bud and then I glued one googly eye in the center. For the large white flower I took out the center, the tips looked like ghosts to me. I cut the tips off, turned them over and hot glued them back on so that the ghost would be in the right direction. Next, I used white puffy paint to fill out the ghost and to help it be more secure in the stem. I used a black paint pen to make the ghost's face.

Step 3

When everything was dry. I made the soil by mixing coffee ground and Elmer's glue. It will clump up and then you can press the soil into the pots. I put glue on the end of the stems to make sure they would be secure when I stuck them into the pots.

Your miniatures are complete! Now you can add these miniatures to any project you feel it may work for.

Resources

Bentley House Minis is a great resource to learn different miniature techniques. I am not new to art but, I am new to miniature making. I learned how to make the soil and smaller flowers techniques from Bentley House Minis.