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Wood Block Pumpkins

October 2, 2012 by Holly Gagnon 20 Comments

I just LOVE Fall decorations.  Making these Wood Block Pumpkins has been on my “to-do list” for a while now.  I’ve seen a variety of  wood pumpkins on Pinterest and decided to create my own spin by using  supplies I have on hand and a piece of scrap wood out in the garage.

 

DIY Wood Block Pumpkins. Create this simple Fall centerpiece idea by making Wood Pumpkins out of various sizes of wood blocks.

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Wood Block Pumpkins

I cut the wood blocks  at 6, inches 8 inches, 10 inches and 12 inches long from a 1.5 x 3 inch piece of wood.  I used my jigsaw to cut them to the lengths I wanted.  Sorry, I don’t have a before picture of the wood being cut but it was just a plain wood board. Nothing pretty.

 

How to make wood block pumpkins

 

I painted the blocks  orange, lightly distressed them with a power sander and inked the edges with  brown stamping ink.    True story:  When I was outside distressing my freshly painted blocks, hubs comes outside and says “Why are you sanding them?  Didn’t you just paint them?”  Ha- yes, I did and it’s called distressing.  It’s my craft,  just go back in the house, pleaz….

How to make wood block pumpkins

 

I made the  pumpkin stems cut from a 1 inch wooden dowel,  that I cut in to stem pieces and painted  them brown then wrapped with green 20 gauge wire.

How to make wood block pumpkins

 

I used a die cutting machine to cut out the pumpkin leaves.  If you don’t have a die cutting machine,  you could easily hand cut leaves out of green card stock.  To add a little bit of dimension on to the leaves, I embossed them with a swirl embossing folder.

 

DIY Wood Block Pumpkins. Create this simple Fall centerpiece idea by making Wood Pumpkins out of various sizes of wood blocks.

 

 

The  pumpkins  are adhered together in a cluster using Glue Lines® but hot glue would work well too.  Then I tied the Wood Block Pumpkins together with a pretty burlap ribbon.

 

Since this will be a centerpiece on my Thanksgiving table, I stamped the word Thankful, on to a piece of card stock,  adhered  the sentiment on to a wood skewer and placed it on to the Wood Block Pumpkin centerpiece.

 

 

DIY Wood Block Pumpkins. Create this simple Fall centerpiece idea by making Wood Pumpkins out of various sizes of painted wood blocks.

 

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This post  was originally written while participating as a member of the Glue Dots® Design Team.

 

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Filed Under: Cricut, DIY, Fall, Tutorials, Wood Tagged With: Cricut, Fall, Glue Dots, Tutorials, Wood

Comments

  1. Scrappin Rabbit Designs says

    October 2, 2012 at 5:08 pm

    I just love your pumpkins!!! I love that you can use glue dots on wood too. I will have to give this project a try. Great decoration idea. TFS the how too’s.

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  2. Marcia Dehn-Nix says

    October 2, 2012 at 11:58 pm

    Fabulous Holly!!! I really love this.

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  3. Deanne Gutierrez says

    October 3, 2012 at 1:48 am

    Love it – the pumpkins are great and I love fall too!

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  4. Rhonda Emery says

    October 3, 2012 at 11:05 am

    love these should enter into dtc challenge.

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  5. TeresaK says

    October 3, 2012 at 8:03 pm

    I love this….I love decorating for fall also!
    Teresa
    http://www.createenjoyshare.blogspot.com

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  6. Karon says

    October 4, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    This is stunning – wow:-) TFS

    http://karonskraftykorner.blogspot.ca/

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  7. Tamie says

    October 4, 2012 at 8:21 pm

    How cool is this….? Well let me tell ya super cool! I didn’t realize that they could be put on wood…how awesome is this. Love learning something new each day. Way to break out the wood for an outstanding piece of art. I love the rich colors of Fall. Thank you so much for sharing it with us at 4 Crafty Chicks. Wonderful inspiration.

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  8. Leanne says

    October 4, 2012 at 9:44 pm

    Totally a cool idea, I like it…great job…and thanks for sharing with us at 4 Crafty Chicks…wicked!

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  9. Kelsie Ann says

    October 8, 2012 at 8:39 pm

    What cute cute blocks! I love the block crafts and this is one of my favorites. I especially love the greenery (both parts!)- Nice touch!

    Kelsie Ann {cutcraftcreate.blogspot.com}

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  10. Bobby says

    October 22, 2012 at 2:57 pm

    I was given a pumpkin like this as a gift many years ago. Maybe I need to make it some friends. Great job!

    Reply

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