It’s Pumpkin Week — Make DIY Distressed Subway Art Pumpkins!!

Hi Tatertots and Jello Readers!  I’m Alexa of The Swell Life and FontCrafts.  

Every year around August through October is when I’m most excited about crafting, because I absolutely love Halloween!

 My mind is always swirling with new ideas…too bad I don’t have enough time to execute them all!  My favorite thing to create during the Halloween season is a good ol’ fashioned pumpkin decorating project!  I’ve never really enjoyed carving pumpkins and I like to give them new twists with paint, glitter and glue each year. I see a pumpkin just like you would see a plain wall canvas – the opportunities are limitless.  I love to drip, spray paint, puffy paint, fabric wrap, and collage the pumpkin to look like a mini piece of art. So that’s exactly what I’m going to do today on Jen’s blog – bring you a pumpkin in the style of subway art!  I hope you enjoy this project as much as I enjoyed creating it! Let’s get started!

For this project you’ll need: 

– 1 large pumpkin (I picked my faux one up at Michaels)

• You’ll want to start off by peeling off your stickers and attaching them to your pumpkin in the subway art fashion, spacing the words a similar width across.  It doesn’t matter the color of these stickers as you will be spray painting over top of them. I actually found that several of them lost some of their stick, so I ran it through a Xyron sticker machine to make them sticker.  Also, if you have an electronic sticker die-cutting machine and want to give it a go, you can; however, I don’t know if the results will be the same.

 

 

xoxo

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It’s Day Four of PUMPKIN WEEK.

Thanks for joining in!!!

I have been meaning to make a plate wall for about 2 years. And since then I’ve been collecting plates to use on a potential plate wall. So whenever I saw a black and white plate on clearance I would snatch it up. I ended up having too many plates at the end. But I am sure I will use them all eventually hahaha!

Last year we added beadboard to a little area in my family room and it’s a perfect place for seasonal decorations. I knew I wanted to put my plate wall in this little nook. And since I knew it would be temporary I didn’t want to put holes in the walls. So I relied on my handy-dandy favorites — Command Strips. They are so convenient.

Here’s how to create a plate wall with no holes:

1. Measure out the space and measure it out on the floor.
2. Put the plates in the space and rearrange them until you come to a grouping that you like.
3. You don’t want the plates to be TOO evenly spaced. You want it to look a little more random.
4. For my plate wall, I wanted a scrolly frame with a pumpkin to be the focal point. So I started with that frame and added plates around it.
5. A couple plates were blank and I added a pattern with vinyl from Silhouette’s online store, and the other I added a vinyl chandelier — also a design from Silhouette’s online store.
6. A couple of the plates had birds on them and I thought about printing off some crows with vinyl and covering over the birds, but I am not really into the “dark” side of Halloween, so I left them. If you want a “spookier” kind of wall, you could cover things on plates like birds with scarier elements.
7. Add the Command Strips to the back of the plates. Many of the plates have a slightly raised lip. You want to put the Command Strip on the highest part of the plate. You attach both command strips to the plate, with the velcro sides together and then press it onto the wall and press. You want one of the strips to stick to the wall, and the other to the plate.
8. And be sure to attach the command strips to the wall and let them sit for a hour before you hang the plates. You don’t want any plates to fall off and break!! Once the strips have set for an hour, press the plate onto the wall and stick the velcro sides together. (see full instructions on the Command Strip package)
9. That’s it!! Then add some accessories. I found the paper spiders at Target!

Here’s how to make the framed pumpkin:

1. I  bought the black frame at Hobby Lobby. Did you know you can bring up the coupon on your smartphone?? Get 40% off all the time without having to print anything off. I love that!
2. I took the glass off and lined the backing with some spider web material. I just taped the back with duct tape.
3. Then I cut a Dollar Store pumpkin in half with a knife.
4. I painted the pumpkin metallic silver and while it was wet I sprinkled Martha Stewart silver glitter on the pumpkin.
5. Then I wrapped a little black and white gingham ribbon around the pumpkin and tied it into a bow.
6. And I hot glued the pumpkin to the web material. Voila — a framed pumpkin.
7. NOTE — Be sure to hang plates with the appropriate size of strips. I tried to hang a heavy bowl and it was just too heavy and awkward for the strips. They aren’t miracle strips lol.

I was thinking a Thanksgiving Plate Wall might be the next project for that little space.

I spied some pretty Autumnal plates at TJ Maxx last week!

Sources:

Black Plate: Dollar Store

White Square Plate: Target

Round Skull Plate: TJ Maxx

White Round Plate with Branches: TJ Maxx

Black Scrolly Frame: Hobby Lobby

Black Poison Plate: Target

White Round Plate With Bird: Target (last year)

Black and White Graphic Plate: Target (last year)

Black and White Doily Plate: TJ Maxx

Black Glitter Cat: TJ Maxx

Orange Small Pumpkin: Target

Black BOO Pumpkin: Shopko (last year)

Black and White Polka Dot Candles: gift

Black Paper Spiders: Target

Fabric Witch Hand: gift

Have you started decorating for Fall??

Share YOUR ideas in the comments. And if you have blogged about your idea or shared it on Facebook, leave the URL — we would love to see YOUR idea!!!

xoxo

PS — I did use Command Strips for this post, but I bought them myself. I just like their products. All opinions are 100% mine.

PS — I’m linking up here:

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Here is a tutorial from TOP left to BOTTOM right image:

• First take your bag/grocery store (I used doggie disposal bags, or diaper disposal bags would work great too) and I filled it with poly-fil to my desired amount.
•  Next I pushed out some air and tied a small rubber band around the bag. I clipped off the extra un-needed bag. Then I placed the bag in the center of my fabric square, I gathered all corners, tucking were needed and pulled everything to the top center.
  
• I again wrapped the pulled fabric in some more rubber bands, and too cut off the extra un-needed fabric.
  
• To embellish the fabric pumpkin I then hot glued some ribbon around the pumpkin two pieces connecting from one end to another. Lastly I moved onto the stem. I took some cut green polka dot ribbon and hot glued them from one end to the other. 
• TIP: for the second piece of hot glued ribbon I made sure I tucked in any extra sticking out fabric by pinching it into the first piece of glued ribbon.
  
• I finished the pumpkin stem with some rick rack and some jute. You can add your favorite ribbon trims. 

I love the way Jen decorates her hutch for the seasons — Vintage Fall Hutch

Such a pretty – Fall Wreath

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