Easy American Flag Garden Stake
Here's an easy one that combines my love of decorating the garden with the Summer holidays. These easy American flag plant stakes use picket fence scraps.
This simple project started with a couple of picket fence pieces.
They were scraps and already cut in small pieces.
I painted the top blue and the bottom white
then using one of my favorite American flag stencils, that came in a set of 3,
to add the stars and stripes with craft paint. I'm using brand new stencil brushes from Re-Design with Prima, they were soft and sturdy and worked beautifully with my stencil.
I dry my projects in front of the fan to hasten the drying time, I'm a little impatient that way.
When the paint was dry I rubbed on a coat of gel stain to give the flag an antiqued look.
I made 2 flags while I was at it, one was made with the picket part of the fence pointing down so it could be placed into the dirt. The other flag was added to a wooden stake then stained. I tied a length of thick jute around each flag stake to finish it off.
These little scrap-wood picket fence flags fit so nicely into a pot out in the garden.
For more easy and inexpensive garden decorations please visit the bold link.
They also look great stuck straight into the ground amidst the flowers.
They were simple to make using scraps I had in the basement. You can invest in a few good stencils which are great for several projects like these for the summer. Follow the bold link to see the tutorials for these projects.
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This simple project started with a couple of picket fence pieces.
These little scrap-wood picket fence flags fit so nicely into a pot out in the garden.
For more easy and inexpensive garden decorations please visit the bold link.
