DIY "Rock" Planters from Styrofoam Boxes

What to do with those 

styro foam boxes

 you get with Christmas goodies inside?

Here's a great solution and it's easy to do.

Make faux rock planters out of them.

Yup!

Here's one finished planter with a succulent that's loving it's new home. 

This planter is a few months old so you can see I have to touch up a few spots 

but really, it looks like an old stone planter covered with moss!!

This was a box for our Christmas ham. I trimmed it down then roughed up the sides 

with a wire brush. Then I scored rough rock shapes into the foam.

I took my regular acrylic craft paints in rock and moss colors and started layering

 and layering until it looked authentic. 

I used spray paint sparingly at some of the joints and I loved

 the cool rocky texture it made.

So now I tried some more light sprays of paint in little areas and loved it even more!

This is definitely a stony, rocky look right there.

Then I layered on more acrylic paint to blend the colors and cover up 

any white foam showing through.

I'm in love with this project!

I already had a pot of mixed sedum on my deck so I

popped it into the new planter.

Oooh aaaaah!