DIY and Crafts — pumpkin

It is finally that time of the year! The time when it isn’t completely out of line for me to start crafting for Halloween. I figure if the stores have Halloween decorations out, then I am fully okay to start sharing all my fun and colorful Halloween crafts! Of course I have to start of the crafting with DIY pumpkins. These DIY no carve color blocked pumpkins can be used for colorful fall, Halloween, or Thanksgiving decorations. Of course I went with my favorite bright color palette, but feel free to do these in more muted tones line mustard and...

Painting pumpkins is nothing new. If you look for it, there are hundreds of tutorials on how to paint pumpkins in so many different ways. These DIY abstract art halloween pumpkins are beautiful and perfect for setting out for the entire fall season. Just add a few spider webs and spiders to give them a Halloween makeover. The beauty of abstract art pumpkins is there is no wrong way to paint them, but there are a few tips that I discovered when painting these that will ensure a pretty outcome. Materials First you will want to start out with your...

As the fall season approached, I tried my best to rack my brain for ideas on new ways to decorate pumpkins. It gets difficult because there have been hundreds of different pumpkin decorating tutorials created by talented crafters over the past 10 years. But so far you all are loving my abstract art pumpkins and color blocked pumpkins I came up with this year. But today I am going to share how to marble pumpkins! You may recall the marbled planters I shared back in May. I just applied the same technique to ceramic pumpkins and created these fun and colorful marbled guys. Now I will...

Happy October! I have been sharing all sorts of Halloween crafts and projects with you the last few weeks, but now that it is October, I feel that I am finally in the clear to go Halloween crazy. These DIY roving covered spider web pumpkins are one of those creations that just happens to come together from materials I had laying around. I know I have talked before about how sometimes I don’t have an idea for a project before hand, but see two items laying on my desk from previous projects and I just think “hey, those would be...

Today’s Halloween project is simple and oh so cute! These DIY iridescent pumpkin planters can be made out of any cylindrical planter you own, and they are the most fun pastel Halloween decorations to add to your home. I mean do they not spark the need to make a whole assortment of planters for your Halloween home? Just look at those shiny faces! Materials to make your own DIY Iridescent Pumpkin Planters: Cylindrical planters (you can find them at Ikea, craft stores, or Target) Montana gold spray paint in at least two colors Cricut Iridescent vinyl Begin by spray painting (outside...