October 5, 2011
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Find a fabulous pair of lace stockings or material with an intricate pattern and tightly stretch over your pumpkin. A twist tie can help hold them in place. Then, spray paint your pumpkin—lace and all—allow it to dry, and remove the lace to reveal a stunning design.
Give your pumpkins an eerie effect with glow in the dark paints. Try painting on faces, stenciled designs or repeating patterns. When your pumpkins sit outside during the day, or even near any light, they’ll be charged and ready to glow by nighttime!
With puffy paints of any color, create designs on your pumpkin that add dimension once dry. Paint over your raised accents with a light color like gray or baby blue, and your details will appear to naturally pop from the pumpkin’s rind.
Give your pumpkins personality by adorning them with homemade masks. Creating your own is simple; just turn to our personalized masks slideshow. We love dressing up a whole family of veiled pumpkins, letting each one take on its own personality.
Browse the range of produce at your grocery store and consider how various fruits and veggies could team up with your pumpkin. By cutting nature’s bounty into fun shapes, you can use toothpicks or dowel rods to attach them and create your own creatures!
Take sharp-tipped materials like studs, nails or pushpins and press or tap them into your pumpkin, forming your design. Instead of a spooky design, consider writing your home’s address, perhaps even on multiple pumpkins.
Just in time for Halloween, the Febreze® Flameless Luminaire offers a flickering glow without the worry of a candle’s flame—all while the changeable shade releases fresh scents. Pair one with an arrangement of pumpkins, or try using it as a decorative accent in your entryway.
Decorate pumpkins by collecting fallen leaves or make your own cut outs, then use decoupage glue to affix them to your pumpkins for a simple and festive look that’s appropriate for the entire season.
Try decorating pumpkins with bold colors and patterns. By dipping just the tops or bottoms of pumpkins in paint or by taping off sections, you can create unique, contemporary looks in no time.
Make your pumpkins sparkle this season by crafting glitter pumpkins. Simply apply a coat of decoupage glue, then sprinkle glitter over pumpkins until they shimmer. You can also use a variety of colored glitter to create different designs.
Instead of carving all the way through pumpkins, try scraping away outer layers and leaving the inner rind in tact. With the right tools and techniques, you can make your designs glow with a spooky silhouette.
By painting pumpkins with chalkboard paint, you can customize them as often as you like. It’s a great way to let kids decorate and redecorate pumpkins, and for the more serious artist, it creates a re-workable surface for sketches.
Using sheets of gold leafing and a few supplies you can find at the craft store, gild gorgeous designs onto your pumpkins for a sophisticated look. Read Gilded Home Décor for instructions. You can also try using gold or silver spray paint.
Choose a white “ghost” pumpkin or paint your pumpkins soft, neutral colors, then use stencils to create intriguing designs with black paint. Read The Great Designer Pumpkin to learn how to perfect this project.
Use pumpkins as unexpected containers for housing floral arrangements. Since these aren’t quite as spooky as jack o’ lanterns, you can create a festive pumpkin flowerpot that will last from Halloween to Thanksgiving.
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