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DIY Pumpkin Gothic Halloween

Bored with cute pumpkins, sweet looking pumpkins or scary pumpkin for this year Halloween? You may want to try this pretty yet gothic style pumpkin. It’s not made from a regular pumpkin, but made from a plank. It’s a square black lacey pumpkin with orange ribbon. Black lace together with orange ribbon are really stressed out the gothic look for a Halloween pumpkin. My gothic lacey pumpkin is perfect for an adult Halloween decoration; moreover, it is easy to make and quick too.

A mature pumpkin decoration would add more sophistication to your Halloween decor. And a gothic style is a perfect way to celebrate Halloween without looking over spooky or childish. Take a look at on how I made this DIY Pumpkin Gothic Halloween and you will know how simple it is to have a gothic Halloween decor by using only black lace and orange ribbon to decorate a white plank pumpkin.

Things To Prepare

Different lace pattern would give a different look to the gothic pumpkin. So, don’t be afraid of using other pattern than my lace pattern. And like I have told you on my Halloween Black and White Sign, that if you don’t have a black lace and you have a white lace instead; then you can color it black with black marker before you spend more money to buy some black lace. Anyway, let’s find out my short list of supplies to make my DIY Pumpkin Gothic Halloween:

A white plank ( wooden or other material would fine as long as it is white)
Black lace
Orange ribbon
UHU clear glue

How To Make

I promise you, that the process of making this gothic lacey pumpkin is easy and quick. You can make it big, regular or in small size. Put them together in different sizes and have them as a focal point to your Halloween decor. Without any further, let’s just find out my steps on how to make DIY Pumpkin Gothic Halloween:

1 .Have a white plank cut into a square pumpkin.

2. Cut a black lace into 3 parts with the same length.

3. Glue the black laces one by one and wait until it’s dry before you proceed to the next step.

4. Take the orange ribbon and tie a bow and then secure it to the lacey pumpkin by applying glue to it. Let it dry. And you are done! As simple as that!

My DIY Gothic Pumpkin is not just great for Halloween, but you can also have it as your fall decoration. It’s just great to have a decoration that will match more than one occasion, just like this lacey black and white pumpkin. It would look fantastic both for Gothic Halloween or for black and white fall decor!

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Mel

DIY Pumpkin Place Cards

If you tired of using the same bought from store pumpkin place card for Thanksgiving tablescape; you might like to try my DIY Pumpkin Place Cards. It’s an easy DIY to do and even your kids can help you with the project. More hands mean less time to make. The pumpkin place card I made from ice sticks. And I got trick to avoid sticking one by one each popsicle sticks from one to another. So, I promise you, It’s an easy Thanksgiving DIY to make as I say it is.

A card with your name on it would make the dinner more special and intimate, yes, that’s for sure. I let the popsicle pumpkin look as it is to get a rustic look but also a fancy touch from the sparkling pipe cleaner. You can choose any color you like or soothe your Thanksgiving table theme color for the pumpkin place card. Before any further, let me list down for you some simple supplies that I use to make my place cards pumpkin.

Things To Prepare

I have some blue pumpkin cards from my previous project, A Give Thanks Pumpkin Pot. I drew the blue pumpkin card with pencil color. You can have it in printed pumpkin cards. Other supplies are common craft supplies. Here are the list of material you need to have to make my Pumpkin Place Cards DIY:

Ice sticks
Green pipe cleaner
Wood glue
Blue ribbon
Blue pumpkin card
Drawing pen to write name on the pumpkin card

How To Make

My DIY Pumpkin Place Card is super easy and quick to make. Therefor it’s just perfect for Thanksgiving dinner that is almost only a week ahead. You can make all for each plate on your Thanksgiving table in one day. Anyway, here are the simple steps to make pumpkin place card from popsicle sticks :

Gather a handful of popsicle and tie it with rubber band. For smaller pumpkin, cut the popsicle into two.
Apply some wood glue on top and bottom of the popsicle pumpkin and let it sit for while until it’s dry.
Take a green pipe cleaner and tilt it around the pumpkin and its stalk.
Slip the pumpkin paper with name on it in the green pipe cleaner. That’s it!

Come on and sit down with your kids. Make sure you have all the supplies needed in front of you. Then start to make this DIY Pumpkin Place Cards with your kids and have some fun. Give different task to each of your kid, then you got everything in control and fast to be finished. Have fun and early Happy Thanksgiving!

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DIY Give Thanks Pumpkins Pot

I have this simple idea of being grateful and thankful. I made a DIY Give Thanks Pumpkins in a pot. It’s a simple DIY and quick to make. It’s great Thanksgiving decoration in many way and also as a record of things or person that you like to thank for and grateful for. It comes in blue and white colors which great for fall to winter decor theme.

I drew the pumpkins with a pencil color. Printed pumpkin drawing that you get from browsing would do great too. I like to draw it better than print it, because I found some fun and therapeutic to draw those pumpkins in monochrome look. Well, the choice is yours, either draw them or print them. Just choose the way that is simpler for you. After all, this is a simple DIY, so it’s should be easy to make. Now, we start with a list of simple materials to make my DIY Give Thanks Pumpkins Pot.

Things To Prepare

It’s better to use white color paper card to do this give thanks pumpkins, because the blue would look better against white. Basically is white and blue color tones, so if you have a blue pot, just use a white ribbon to stay in the white and blue look. Okay, these are the supplies that you need to prepare for making my DIY Give Thanks Pumpkins Pot :

Wood skewer
Blue pumpkin drawing or pumpkin printed paper card
Drawing pen
Adhesive tape
Blue polka-dot ribbon
White pot with white gravels

How To Make

It’s a super easy DIY Give Thanks. Simple and easy to find material to work with, plus it’s quick to make. You can either draw or print the blue pumpkin drawing. I find it easier to draw the pumpkin. I used only a blue pencil color to draw the blue pumpkins. To be clear, let me round down all steps I took to make my Give Thanks Pumpkins Pot for Thanksgiving decoration.

Draw or print out some blue pumpkins in different sizes on a plain white paper card.
Cut each of them. I made 5 pumpkins, you can make more but it’s better to have them in odd numbers. Odd numbers of pumpkin cards would make a good proportion.
Write a word or two to describe what are you thank for. Like mine are God, love, family, our children, and health. You can have it in different or more words.
Take some wood skewer and cut them in different length. Paste each give thanks pumpkin to a skewer by using adhesive tape on the back of the pumpkin cards. If you want to use it as a centerpiece, have the pumpkin in both sides, meaning paste two give thanks pumpkin card together with a stick in the middle.
Have a white pot that filled with small white gravels. Then take all the give thanks pumpkins and insert it one by one to make a flower-look-a-like arrangement.
Don’t forget to tie the blue ribbon around the pot! Finish!

This give thanks pumpkin cards are perfect for cake toppers too. You can use the give thanks pumpkins as your Thanksgiving cake topper or as a centerpiece pot at your Thanksgiving dinner table or just place them anywhere in your house as a Thanksgiving decoration. You can choose the things that you want to thank for and have them in short words to be written on each of the give thanks pumpkin. It would be great too, if you bring along your children to do the give thanks pumpkins so that they would learn to be grateful for the things they have.

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Welcome creative November!

Mel

DIY Pumpkin Decoration White Blue

Thanksgiving is getting closer and winter is following. It would be great to make some DIY decorations to celebrate Thanksgiving and also serves along fall decor. I made some pumpkins decoration from popsicle sticks. I made them in two sizes, a size of an ice sticks and the other one is an half of it. Since, now it’s the transitioning time from fall to winter, I painted the pumpkins in white and blue.

I like the texture of the pumpkin that comes from the ice sticks bundle. And I painted it roughly to get some rustic look. I so into the rustic farmhouse style. These two white and blue pumpkins would go well with farmhouse fall to winter decor. And more of it, this pumpkin diy is so easy to make and a quick too. But still I share the simple steps on how I make my DIY Pumpkin Decoration White Blue from popsicle sticks.

Things To Prepare

If you like to do some craft, you should have ice sticks stored in your craft supplies. Why? Because there are lots of things you can make from ice sticks. You can check out my ice sticks or some call it popsicle sticks projects I’ve made. Anyway, other things that you need to prepare to make my white blue pumpkin decoration are :

Ice sticks
Wood glue
White paint
Blue paint
Green ribbon or fabric
White lace

How To Make

This popsicle pumpkin is easy and simple to make. You can make some of it without having too much time spend and it also inexpensive. These are steps that I took to make the diy pumpkin in white and blue:

Gather a handful of popsicle and tie it with rubber band. For smaller pumpkin, cut the popsicle into two.
Apply some wood glue on top and bottom of the popsicle pumpkin and let it sit for while until it sip through and dry.
I painted the ice sticks pumpkin with white paint and the smaller pumpkin with light blue. Let it dry.
Last step is to tie a green ribbon bow on the white pumpkin stalk and lace to the blue pumpkin as if it’s the leaf. And you’re all done!

There are many pumpkin diys, I hope I have add another idea on making a pumpkin in a different way and look. My white and blue pumpkins are simply easy, quick and inexpensive to make, but the look is just beautiful enough for fall to winter decor and of course would work well for Thanksgiving theme.

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Welcome creative November!

Mel

DIY Halloween Pumpkin Paper Straw Tag

I made a cute pumpkin tag for Halloween from some paper straw. It would be a great Halloween tag on your trick or treat souvenir bags. It is a super easy Halloween DIY tag to make. You can make them together with the whole family and have fun with it. The supplies are so easy to find and inexpensive, so it won’t eat out your tight Halloween budget.

This pumpkin paper straw is actually can made into Fall tag as well as Halloween tag. By simply change the black cat ornament and replace it with maple leaf or acorn or any other fall ornament; you can have yourself a fall tag instead of a Halloween tag. So, it depends on what the pumpkin paper straw tag is needed for; is it for the fall celebration or for the Halloween festive. Now, let’s take a look at how I made this simple Halloween tag.

Things To Prepare

This DIY Halloween tag from paper straw is a super easy and quick Halloween DIY. Less material to and cheap too, this Halloween DIY is just perfect for frugal Halloween celebration. Anyway here are a very short list of supplies that you need to prepare to make this Halloween Pumpkin Paper Straw Tag project:

Orange stripes paper straws
Black paper card
Green organic rope
UHU glue

How To Make

It’s super easy and quick Halloween DIY tag. Let’s find out how I made this super easy Halloween tag in step by step tutorial :

Cut some orange-stripes paper straw in different dimension that will form a pumpkin shape. You can decide yourself on how big the pumpkin tag is going to be. Mine is around 4 inches big.
Glue them together each by each of the cut orange paper straw to form a pumpkin shape. Let it dry.
Cut a shape of a cat sitting from behind. I used a black card paper.
Tie a green organic rope to the stalk of the paper straw pumpkin and glue the black cat onto one of the end of the organic rope bow. That’s all and you’re done.

My Pumpkin Straw Halloween DIY tag is very fast to make, so it is great for you who still want to prepare some handmade Halloween stuff even when you have tight schedule. You can also get your kids to do it together and have a great time.

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Mel

DIY Pumpkin Shabby Lace – No Sew

Pumpkin is a must ornaments on Fall decor. This time I made an unusual look of a pumpkin. I presented the pumpkin in shabby look by using lace to make the white pumpkin. I think it’s going to look good if you put it together with real white pumpkins. Maybe some of you are fond of white fall decor, then this DIY Pumpkin Shabby Lace would a great Fall DIY without sewing to make. In that case, let’s find out all the materials I used and what are the simple steps to make my shabby white pumpkin in lace.

Things To Prepare

It is a super simple Fall DIY to make and no sewing is needed. Here are the short list of supplies you will be needed to make a DIY Pumpkin Shabby Lace with No Sew :

White lace
White flannel
Pink checkboard ribbon
Pink flower ornament
Baby pink paper straw
UHU glue

How To Make

Fabric project without sewing is super easy and takes a little time to do. Just like my DIY lacey pumpkin. It’s all gluing job, I’m sure you can even ask your daughters to participate. By the way, these are the easy steps to make DIY Pumpkin Shabby Lace with No Sew :

Cut a white flannel into 5 circles from the biggest to the smallest with your desired size. Mine was around 4 inches (10 cm) as the biggest and 2 inches (5 cm) as the smallest.
Glue the lace around each of the flannel circle.
When you finished making the wavy lace around the flannel circles, cut a hole on each lacey circle in the middle by making a plus shape cut. This cut is to allow each lace circle inserted through the paper straw. The paper straw will serve as the structure and the pumpkin stalk. Every time you insert each lacey circle, secure it with glue.
Another thing is, the smallest lace circle is to have a double lace . This is to cover the last flannel circle with lace.
Tie a pink checkboard ribbon and finish it with pink flower ornament by using glue. That’s it, your lace fall pumpkin is finished.

A Fall pumpkin in lacey look would be a new fresh fall decoration or a centerpiece for a fall wedding which you would be easy to make in large amount because it’s so simple to make. And the lace is just scream for wedding! It would look amazing too if you put it together with real white pumpkins in different sizes. Why don’t you give it a try?

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Mel

Easy DIY Pumpkin Cardboard

Fall and Halloween are identical with pumpkins. If you want a fake pumpkin but tired of plastic pumpkins, this super easy diy pumpkin from cardboard could be a great idea! You can use it along the Fall season, from welcoming the Fall, fun with Halloween and celebrating thanksgiving. And it’s a very cheap Halloween DIY or Fall DIY or Thanksgiving DIY, whatever you wanted to call it.

Things To Prepare

Very easy DIY pumpkin project, only takes you just about cardboard to make it. Here are exactly what you need to have:

Cardboard
Flannel (color: green)
Orange pumpkin watercolor
Glue

How To Make

Super easy to make and you don’t have to be too detail, so it’s a quick diy to do. Let me share you how the steps are:

Draw circle on the cardboard, make a set of two for each diameter. But start with middle circle which only took one circle; I made it in around 3 inches (8 cm). Make a quarter of an inch smaller diameter from one circle to another fir the next circles. So, make 1 middle circle (3 inches), 7 sets of circles with a quarter inch smaller each circle, and 3 circles to continue the 9th circle for the pumpkin’s top; with still a quarter inch smaller for each circle.
Glue and stack up the circles of cardboard of each diameter. Leave it dry.
Cut around 3/4 inch of 20 circles on cardboard to make the pumpkin stem. Stack the circles and glue each of it and let it dry.
Glue the cardboard steam to the cardboard pumpkin and let it dry.
Paint the cardboard pumpkin with orange pumpkin and some brown watercolor to the stem.
At last, tie a green flannel to the pumpkin stem. Finished!

This cardboard pumpkin was my other cardboard project that I did, I made a maple tree from cardboard and Fall letters cardboard. Easy and cheap seasonal diy for your Fall and Halloween decor inspiration. A rustic rustic look of the cardboard pumpkin is just a great upcycling project. You can be creative with the colors and decorations of the pumpkin. Be creative and happy trying!

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Pump your creativity!

Mel