A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2004 casting plant leaves in concrete????

ok I had a set of files to do this and don't have now,but am also not locateing very well or am wording it incorrectly for the search engine to understand...........


http://www.webshots.com/search?query=caster+bean&new=1

see them photos?is a castor leaf& I'd love to do some for stepping stones in garden& even as a pond accent for next year.I need one of them DIY sheets..
anyone got one?

never enough time to be on here anymore

Njoynit,
Those are soooooo cooooool!!!
I wonder if Rue has seen those??
I wonder if she could do those out of that hyper~tuffa stuff?????? Hmmmmmmmmmmm???

Is there anyway to contact the person thru
webshots that you'd like to find out how to
make them???
Just a thought!

Weezie

Those castor bean leaves are very cool. I have never tried leaves but I need to.

I think it would work fine with the hypertufa. The dry stuff would have to be worked into finer particles so it would not distarct from the leaf design.

So many ideas and not enough time to do them all. I will never be bored!!

or distract even. lol!

HGTV Homemade Stepping Stones

Ahhh. HGTV and DIY....my 2 other favorite homepages
I will have to make some of these...after I finish the mosaic flower pots....and the birdbath dish...I have the old apple tree stump, now I just need a cool dish type thing to set on top of it!

lilitu

has anyone found an explanation on how to make your mold of a leaf? I know how to make a normal mold(circular, square, whatever shape) and then imprint the leaf in it, but how would you take a leaf and make a mold of it? anyone have brilliant ideas?

lilitu

I agree ....how do I get the leaf to do.
never heard from gal with pic on web shots.

I don't know if could set in sand and cover or what she did.

Are you guys talking about Rue???

Weezie

http://www.magma.ca/~robicho/rhubarb.htm

I'm going to try making some of these with castor bean leaves.

WOOHOO!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

You would think with my years of design experience/experiments that I could have thought of something so darn simple...or that i could've just found the site myself

Thanks!!!!! you get big hugs & smooches!
lilitu

Would it be possible to work with one of the leaf stepping stones that you like as the basis for a latex mold and somehow use it as the model for all your others?

Ann1