How To Turn A Cupcake Stand Into Garden Art because it may be for cupcakes but what I saw were petals and leaves. One of my favorite things to do when browsing thrift store aisles is to challenge myself to see the potential of what things COULD be rather than what they actually are.

Such was the case with this Wilton Cupcakes 'N More metal stand found at Goodwill. What I saw instead were these bright and whimsical garden art flowers. 

Repurposed Cupcake Stand Garden Art Flowers

When you have a spot in your yard that is shady and can't get anything to bloom, these vibrant flowers are the next best thing! They add that pop of color and some fun whimsy to an otherwise bland area of the back yard flower beds.

They compliment the faux oxidized Le Jardin door I made a few years ago.

Last week I posted the metal cupcake stand on my Facebook page asking readers to guess what I may be doing with it. While no one guessed where my quirky brain took it, so many excellent ideas emerged. I love how a new set of eyes can see something completely different. Now I'm on the hunt for two more cupcake stands because those ideas were so darn good.

I've been admiring my friend Tuula's Color Me Thrifty creative junk art flowers for a few years and have been waiting for the perfect junk thrift store find to make some, hence the reason my focus immediately went to the flower art idea.

How To Make Garden Flowers From A Metal Cupcake Stand

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Dismantle The Cupcake Stand

The first thing I did was dismantle the Wilton cupcake stand with wire cutters. Can you see the flowers now? A nice surprise in the dismantling process was that it provided readymade leaves for the flowers too.

Spray Paint The Cupcake Stand Pieces

Next up, time to spray paint the cupcake stand pieces in pretty colors. We've been quacking like ducks over here with nothing but rain. Spray painting the flowers was a challenge and took weeks between coats while waiting for some sunshine so I could paint outdoors.

For the stems, I found some metal garden stakes in the shed and spray painted them hunter green along with the leaves. The round connectors, or whatever you call them, where the rods screwed into each tier made for perfect flower centers, spray-painted sun yellow.

Once the centers were dry I covered them in painters tape and painted each flower a different color. Starting with the largest flower from the bottom tier in berry pink (my favorite) and the medium flower from the middle tier in silver lilac. Not as bright as the other two colors but pretty none-the-less. The smallest flower from the top tier is a bright poppy red color.

Assembling The Recycled Cupcake Stand Flowers

Time to assemble the garden junk flowers. The hole on the back of each cupcake tier, now flower, where the rod of the stand screwed into each tier was the perfect size for the metal stakes I found in the shed. All we did was bend the top in a vice.

Next, we cold-welded the two pieces together with epoxy glue for metal. The leaves were attached to the metal stakes with wire and touched up with green spray paint later.

And now we have fun whimsical garden art flowers for our back yard. The whimsical metal garden animals I freshened up last year were getting lonely.

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