Lesson 3 of 4
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Step 3: Assemble the Topiary

1: We are going to start by painting our pot in white color:

2: We are going to transfer our starts to the pot:

3: We are going to paint our stars blue and red and after at least 2 coats, we are going to remove the vinyl very gently to avoid peeling also the white paint in order to have something like:

4: We are going to start assembling our topiary, first we are going to glue the wood dowel:

5: We are going to start placing our flowers and foam glitter starts all over the surface:

💡Tip: You can use hot glue to glue them to the sphere if you consider it necessary.

6: After the sphere is fully covered with all the flowers and stars, we are going to glue the wood dowel into the base of the pot (you can cut the wood dowel to the length that you want)

7: We are going to add some rocks or anything heavy in the bottom of the pot:

8: We are going to add some of the 4th of July garland and our Topiary is done!!!!

In this tutorial, you are going to learn/practice the following skills:

  • Add shapes
  • Resize Elements
  • Duplicate Elements
  • Create decals

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