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How To Make Concrete Leaves

Today’s feature is packed with a handful of tutorials showing you how to make concrete leaves, these turn out amazing and they are simply gorgeous tucked into flower beds and around the yard. Easy to make too!

Casting Concrete Leaves: Basic Instructions

Click the pictures below to visit the instructions for each project

Tutorial By community.livejournal.com/craftgrrl/

How To Cast Concrete Leaves: Tutorial By craftgrrl community.livejournal.com/craftgrrl/

Tutorial By overthegardengate.net

Concrete Leaves: A Step-By-Step Guide How To Make Them overthegardengate.net

This tutorial is by craftgrrl and is loaded with pictures and details. Three pages of instructions with lots of pictures (nice & big too).

Getting Fancy With Concrete Leaves: Tutorials

Making a Sand-Cast Birdbath — Instructions gardengatemagazine.com

Making a Sand-Cast Birdbath — Instructions gardengatemagazine.com

Two-Toned Concrete Leaf Bowl gardenmolds.com

Two-Toned Concrete Leaf Bowl By gardenmolds.com

This tutorial shows you how to paint the leaf to give it some color then seal with concrete sealer. You can use any leaves that are relatively flat and uniform in size that have a strong vein structure.

More Lovely Examples

Attempting To Make A Concrete Rhubarb Stepping Stone By theoldcrowsnest.blogspot.com

Attempting To Make Concrete Rhubarb Leaf Stepping Stones By theoldcrowsnest.blogspot.com


Check out this large leaf that’s big enough for your cat to lounge in (found via Curbly):

Concrete Leaf Tutorial By concretegardenleaves.com

Concrete Leaf Tutorial By concretegardenleaves.com

Displaying lovely items in the garden doesn’t have to be expensive, you can try making a concrete leaf or two (as shown above), create unique garden containers and figures with hypertufa, select creative garden containers from everyday household items and even moss can be used to add beauty to your yard.

Click any of the images above to view the leaf tutorials, it was impossible to choose just one so I included them all!

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One Response to “How To Make Concrete Leaves”
  1. lbdlphotos says:

    Oh wow! These are beautiful! I want to try to make some of these! Thanks for sharing!!

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