Wooden crate arrangement with decoration

With a decorative wooden crate arrangement in the garden or on the patio, you can quickly create a small oasis of well-being. Atmospheric wind lights are the perfect complement to your outdoor ambience. Our simple instructions show you how to use creative techniques to design unique terracotta pots and wind lights.

Decorate lantern glass with transfer motifs
Start by sticking the "butterflies" transfer motifs onto the lantern glass with cord. Choose your favourite butterflies from the transfer sheet and cut out the butterflies directly on the edge of the motif. Remove the backing paper from the underside of each motif and place it on the lantern glass. Rub a plastic or wooden scraper over the motif to secure it in place. You can then peel off the protective film on the top of the transfer.
Fill the wind light with sand and place a candle in it.

Creative napkin technique on the lanterns wind light
Decorate the wind light lantern with decorative butterflies from a napkin: to do this, cut out the butterflies, carefully remove all the bottom layers of paper so that you only have the printed layer of paper left.
Position these on the wind light and stick them on with napkin varnish. Apply as little varnish as possible over the motif on the glass. You can scrape away any excess varnish with a bamboo skewer or carefully remove it with a universal cleaner.

Lantern with transfer motif

Napkin technique on glass

Decorative terracotta pots and wooden flower
Before you decorate terracotta pots with napkin technique, prime them with white craft paint. The printed motifs on your chosen napkins will only be clearly visible on the terracotta when the background is light in colour.

While you wait for the white paint to dry, paint more terracotta pots and a wooden flower in fresh colours to suit your personal taste. You can also paint the edges of the wooden boxes with a little colour.

The napkin technique on the terracotta pots can be done in the same way as the napkin technique on the glass. However, it is not important here to pay attention to any protruding paint residue, as you coat the entire terracotta surface with the napkin varnish after applying the napkin motifs. This gives it an even look and a protective varnish.

Do you still have transfer motifs left over from crafting? Use these to stick on another small terracotta pot.

Craft small bunting garlands
Use the template to make the small bunting garlands. Download it and transfer it to fabric. Cut out the bunting with zigzag scissors. Fold the fabric at the seam allowance for each pennant, place a jute cord between all the pennants and briefly staple everything together (also works well with paper clips). Sew everything together. Attach eyelets to the wooden crates and loop the pennants onto these eyelets.

Have you already chosen a small space outside for your feel-good decorations?
Arranging your handmade wind lights and terracotta pots together with the wooden crates and other planted pots is a lot of fun.

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