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DIY Faux Succulent Monogram Planter

By Lydia

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DIY Succulent Monogram Planter - so easy to make and so pretty!

Hello, I hope you’re having a great week!

If you’ve been around the blog before you have probably noticed by now that I have a succulent obsession. When I moved into my first place of my own, I bought several succulents because they say that they are easy to maintain. Whoever these “they” people are need to amend that statement to “easy to maintain for most people”. I’m sure you see where I’m going with this… I wasn’t one of the most. I was so disappointed because I just love how they look and the faux succulents on the market at that time were very faux looking. Not a compliment.

Now they make faux succulents that are so lifelike that you have to touch them to realize they aren’t real. Imagine my delight! I love decorating with monograms and I love succulents so a faux succulent monogram seems like something I should make. Obvi.  Let’s go over how easy it is to make your own!

DIY Succulent Monogram Planter

Supplies

Metal letter (I painted mine with satin nickel spray paint)
Floral foam bricks
Faux succulents
Sheet moss
Glue gun
Gorilla Hot Glue Sticks

Faux succulents for succulent monogram planterGorilla Hot Glue Sticks are THE most amazing glue sticks I've used!

Directions

* If you spray paint your letter, allow to dry overnight before adding succulents.

Play with arranging the succulents to your desired design in the letter before adding the foam. If you insert, take out and re-insert the succulents into the foam you will have a lot of holes and the foam won’t hold the succulents securely.

Arrange succulents in planter to your liking before gluing them in!

Cut foam bricks to fit inside letter and glue them to the letter with glue gun Gorilla Hot Glue Sticks.

Glue foam bricks to the inside of succulent monogram planter

Trim succulent stems.

Add a small amount of hot glue to the tip of the succulent and insert into the foam. Since the succulents are top heavy and the arrangement won’t be laying flat, the hot glue will help the succulents to stay secured in position. If you need to do a little adjusting after gluing the succulents in Gorilla Hot Glue Sticks give 45 seconds of play time so everything is not lost if your layout goes awry. 😉

Add glue to stem so that succulents remain in place.

Allow to dry about 15 minutes and add moss accents to fill in spaces.

Easy and elegant DIY Succulent Monogram Planter

And that’s it! A beautiful decoration that you can’t kill if you tried. Well I guess if you really tried you could but that would just be weird. 😉

This elegant DIY Succulent Monogram Planter was so easy to make and is a perfect decoration for the top of the kitchen cabinets!

I’m pretty excited that my succulent monogram is going to live on top of the kitchen cabinets (the only area left to decorate in the kitchen before I can move it to the “after” column).

DIY Succulent Monogram Planter - so easy to make and so pretty!Even with it standing upright I don’t have to worry about anything coming out, those babies are in their tight! If you didn’t know that Gorilla Glue now makes hot glue sticks (available only at Walmart), you do now and you need to have them. Like, really need them. You can use them with high and low temp glue guns and it even adheres to hard to bond surfaces like metal and glass. It’s even weather resistant (my wheels are turning with hot glue winter decoration ideas)!

Check out Gorilla Glue’s giveaway and enter to win a $250 Walmart Gift Card. That’s a lot of hot glue sticks haha!

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Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great week!

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Comments

  1. Lillian says

    July 18, 2017 at 9:19 pm

    Did you get those succulents from Amazon too?

    Reply
    • Lydia says

      July 19, 2017 at 1:13 pm

      Hi Lillian! Yes I did! You can click on the link in the supply list and it will take you directly there. Enjoy! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Nicole says

    November 6, 2016 at 11:29 am

    So funny you sound like me with the real succulents! These fake ones are amazing and I love using them for the monogram 😍

    Reply
    • Lydia says

      November 14, 2016 at 10:30 pm

      Thanks Nicole! 😉

      Reply
  3. Sonya Morris says

    August 24, 2016 at 7:05 pm

    I just adore this! Brilliant!

    Reply
    • Lydia says

      September 6, 2016 at 10:29 am

      Thank you so much Sonya, I appreciate you taking the time to tell me! 🙂

      Reply
  4. Abigail Trenton says

    August 15, 2016 at 9:26 pm

    What a pretty wreath

    Reply
  5. Erika says

    August 13, 2016 at 12:31 pm

    Where did you get that letter?! I totally want to make this! I love that the front is open so you can “plant” the succulents in it!

    Reply
    • Lydia says

      August 13, 2016 at 4:36 pm

      I got it on Amazon Erika! I’d love to see what you make! Here’s the link for the letter: http://amzn.to/2aODDNy

      Reply
  6. Michelle says

    August 13, 2016 at 8:20 am

    Love this project

    Reply
    • Lydia says

      August 13, 2016 at 5:01 pm

      Thanks so much Michelle!

      Reply
    • Lydia says

      August 15, 2016 at 9:33 pm

      Thank you so much Michelle!

      Reply
  7. Melissa @ Made by Melissa Lee says

    August 12, 2016 at 12:46 pm

    That is soooo pretty!!

    Reply
    • Lydia says

      August 13, 2016 at 5:02 pm

      Thank you Melissa! xo

      Reply
  8. Brittany Fry says

    August 11, 2016 at 12:24 pm

    So cute!!! Where did you get your metal monogram? I love succulents but am in the same boat because ours (live ones!) are not looking too hot right now.

    Reply
    • Lydia says

      August 11, 2016 at 1:39 pm

      Thanks so much Brittany! Here’s the link for the letter! http://amzn.to/2aODDNy

      Reply
  9. Janine says

    August 10, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    Very nice!

    Reply
  10. Siouxze says

    August 10, 2016 at 9:35 pm

    What a great idea! I love succulents too. It is beautiful !

    Reply
    • Lydia says

      August 11, 2016 at 1:40 pm

      Thank you so much Siouxze! xo

      Reply

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