How to Make Your Own Modern Plant Stand
- 1). Choose six magazines of roughly the same size and thickness. Remove all of the blown-in subscription cards from each.
- 2). Fold the first ten pages of the first magazine in half lengthwise, leaving the front cover out. Tuck the edges of the pages into the magazine binding. Repeat until you reach the end of the magazine, leaving the back cover out. It's not important that each section be exactly 10 pages; you can just grab an approximate chunk of pages. The result will look like a multi-petaled flower. Repeat for all six magazines.
- 3). Fold each front and back cover into the magazine bindings, creating individual flower petals.
- 4). Press the front and back covers of two magazine flowers together, making a fuller, circular flower shape.
- 5). Staple the petals that include the covers along the tops and bottoms, connecting the two magazines. Repeat with the other two pairs of magazines. If your plant stand is temporary, and you'd like to reuse the magazines for another purpose, stapling is not necessary.
- 6). Paint the tops, bottoms and lengths of each magazine petal with decoupage glue. This is an optional step that adds some sturdiness and water-proofing to your plant stand. This step is not necessary if your goal is to create a temporary plant stand.
- 7). Stack the three circular flowers on top of each other. Make sure that the petals are staggered, rather than lined up exactly, for better stability.
- 8). Set your plant on top.
