Halloween is right around the corner! Don't you think it's the perfect time for those halloween decorations? Let's start it off with the pumpkins, get overboard this time and ready to be creative in designing your pumpkins.
HGTV and Country Living shows you how to bedazzle, paint, even make those pumpkins a metal beauty. Ready for the fun project? The DIY will show you eight wonderful ways you can decorate those pumpkins, to view the designs just click on the pumpkin design titles.
Pumpkin Idea 1: Black "Point the way to yummy candies" pumpkin
Materials: Black spray-paint, small fine brush for lettering, white paint
Step 1: Using a black spray-paint, cover your pumpkin in black up to its stem.
Step 2: Scribble the word "candy" on the upper left side using a fine small brush and white paint.
Step 3: Draw an arrow also in white paint under "candy."
Pumpkin Idea 2: Groovy patterned pumpkin
Materials: Masking tape cut in various sizes, acrylic craft paints (try Martha Stewart crafts satin acrylic paints in fun colors like light blue, pink, yellow green, tangerine, yellow and black) and different size paint brushes.
Step 1: Cut your masking tape in different widths and sizes.
Step 2: Stick them up on the pumpkin in zigzag patterns.
Step 3: Paint your pumpkin in yellow.
Step 4: Freehand the painting of the zigzag designs using different colors and writing it in different paint brushes.
Pumpkin Idea 2: False Wood Effect
Materials: Print out of false wood pattern, carving knife
Step 1: Place print out on the pumpkin.
Step 2: Carve patterns and adjust size.
Pumpkin Idea 3: Spotty- Spatterwave pumpkin
Materials: Acrylic paints (Delta Ceramcoat): White, Copen blue, paint brush
Step 1: Paint your pumpkin in white paint
Step 2: Create a speckled dots of different sizes in blue paint
Pumpkin Idea 4: Big Dipper Pumpkin
Materials: Chalkboard spray paint, battery powered string lights, chalk, medium- drill tool
Step 1: Spray-paint the pumpkin in black chalkboard spray-paint
Step 2: Use chalk marks to draw the big dipper on your pumpkin.
Step 3: Using a mini driller, drill the points of the constellation.
Step 4: Insert battery operated string lights.
Step 5: Draw and connect points using the chalk and add some more additional stars around.
Materials: Nailhead trim of your choice, thumbtacks, acrylic paint in black, marker
Step 1: Paint in black color.
Step 2: Mark your preferred design, example: chevron or just follow the slice lines of the pumpkin.
Step 3: Tack those nailhead trim on the marked designs.
Pumpkin Idea 6: Gold and Starry
Materials: Black spray-paint, gold star stickers, silver or white acrylic paint
Step 1: Spray- paint the whole pumpkin black.
Step 2: Paint a crescent moon in white or silver paint.
Step 3: Stick those gold stickers all over the pumpkin.
Pumpkin Idea 7: Copper Herringbone
Materials: Acrylic white paint, Copper metal paint, small paint brush
Step 1: Paint your pumpkin covered in white
Step 2: Paint the stems in copper
Step 3: Brush paint herringbone design on the pumpkin.
Pumpkin Idea 8: Spooky Bats design
Materials: Acrylic white paint, 1-inch and 2 inches bat pattern cut-outs, double-sided tape
Step 1: Paint your pumpkin covered in white paint
Step 2: Stick the bat cut-outs in right side corner
