Garden Stepping Stones

RE: Garden Stepping Stones Post By Amy (Guest Post) (06/10/2005) Most craft stores have press in letters for making stones. Micheal's has stone making items so they most likely will have them. Though when I bought them a few years ago they were not cheap. RE: Garden Stepping Stones Post By Amy (Guest Post) (06/10/2005) Go to http://www.hgtv.com/ and type in stepping stones there is everything from make your own shapes to stained-glass to mosaic. http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jhtml? ... emplatedata/bhg/story/data/16159.xml has how to add mosaic to existing garden stones. RE: Garden Stepping Stones Post By Mary Ann Becker (Guest Post) (05/15/2005) Does anyone know where I can find press-in letters and numbers for stepping stones. RE: Garden Stepping Stones Post By Ann4 (Guest Post) (03/28/2005) I've made stepping stones using a pizza box. I taped the corners of the box to make it a little more sturdy. I used pieces of tile from yard sales and made a pattern. I taped the front of the tile piece to the bottom of the pizza box (the pattern is then upside down, a drop of hot glue would work well also) to keep the pattern in place. Then mix up some concrete from Home Depot and pour. Let set several days. Tear off pizza box. The stepping stones I made have lasted for years and they get stepped on alot. RE: Garden Stepping Stones Post By (Guest Post) (03/26/2005) If you use broken bits of crockery as stepping stone decorations, then what do you think might happen to a child who trips and falls? One of my neighbors told me about her child slicing his arm open on a steel burglar alarm warning sign in her yard. We must be careful! RE: Garden Stepping Stones Post By marcy (Guest Post) (03/25/2005) Try pouring wet concrete into an empty pizza box. Decorate with broken china or pepples stone and let dry. Tear the box away from the dried concete and you have a stepping stone. RE: Garden Stepping Stones Post by Jess869 (1) | (03/18/2005) Contact Hi I made stepping stones out of purchased stones by making a frame out of wood 1 inch higher than block and adding mortar pressing whatever suits you into the mortar tile, broken dishes,shells, Jewery findings etc. Remove the frame after 2 or 3 hours and leave it alone for a few days. when you put it in the garden to weather don't walk on it right away. give it a couple of weeks. i've had mine for 7 years in WI and they are fine. Just like when I put them in. Plain mortar. RE: Garden Stepping Stones Post By Lisa (Guest Post) (03/11/2005) I would like to know how to put tiles on an already made stepping stone, seen it done on the television but didn't explain how RE: Garden Stepping Stones Post By Tracy (Guest Post) (03/08/2005) You could always print out the words onto a clear plastic sheet (like for over-head projectors), flip it over for your "backwards" print, and make a second copy of it. You can use that as your template for how the words should look on the mold, to print correctly on the stepping stone. In fact, it isn't like you can't tape a sheet of paper with the writing in black onto your window so the light shines through it, and then trace it on the back for the backwards writing. You can then use the back of your paper as your template. RE: Garden Stepping Stones Post By sandy (Guest Post) (03/03/2005) could you use letter cookie cutters to spell out the words. or even the letters that folks have on the refridgerator- by plaayschool. RE: Garden Stepping Stones Post by meoowmom (933) | (03/02/2005) Contact Bev, I did this years ago with marbles and I had a postcard that I loved a saying about desert flowers and God etc. anyway I was dertemined to have it so I put the card into laminate and then after marbles were all placed I left room for my postcard and put it on when it was more that half dry. You might print out your saying and laminate it. I hope it helps and keep going you will have a pretty stone. Annie RE: Garden Stepping Stones Post By Mary (Guest Post) (03/02/2005) Go to Home Depot (or any other home improvement store) and purchase a bag of cement and a half a dozen 12-inch plastic drip pans that you put under flower pots (to pour the concrete in). Then go to Michael's (or any arts and crafts store) and buy several bags of decorator marbles (the flattened kind). Create stepping stones with footprints, hand prints, one with an alligator, a cross, star, swirl, butterfly and several other designs. You should be able to reuse the plastic pans. One bag of concrete makes about a dozen stepping stones. The total cost is about $15. Hope this helps! RE: Garden Stepping Stones Post By (Guest Post) (03/02/2005) my aunt just finished her house off, and had a few extra kitchen tiles.. She stuck those in her garden, and while at first I was skeptical.. they look awesome!