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Photo Plant Poke Craft

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How to Personalize a Potted Plant Using Photos
Photo Plant Poke Craft

Photo Plant Poke Craft

Sherri Osborn
You can use these home-made plant pokes to dress up and personalize any flower or plant. It is perfect for gift giving. I used this idea to make centerpieces for my daughter's graduation open house.

Materials Needed:

Instructions:
Start out by trimming 2 photos to the same size. I wanted to preserve my original photos so I scanned them and printed them out on cardstock.

Cut a piece of wire about 2-feet long. Wrap the wire around a pen or pencil to make it look like a spring. Gently pull on each end of the wire to separate the coils a little bit. Straighten about 2-inches of one wire on either end.

Now spread a thin layer of glue on the back of one of the photos. Lay the straightened wire end onto the glue and then lay the other photo on top of it so that the wire is sandwiched between the two photos. Try to line up the edges of the photo as well as you can.

Once the glue is dry, you can poke the other end of the wire into the soil in a flower pot of into the vase of a bouquet of flowers.

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