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.
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.
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….
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.
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.
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.
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| This post was originally written while participating as a member of the Glue Dots® Design Team. |
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Scrappin Rabbit Designs says
October 2, 2012 at 5:08 pmI 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.
Marcia Dehn-Nix says
October 2, 2012 at 11:58 pmFabulous Holly!!! I really love this.
Deanne Gutierrez says
October 3, 2012 at 1:48 amLove it – the pumpkins are great and I love fall too!
Rhonda Emery says
October 3, 2012 at 11:05 amlove these should enter into dtc challenge.
TeresaK says
October 3, 2012 at 8:03 pmI love this….I love decorating for fall also!
Teresa
http://www.createenjoyshare.blogspot.com
Karon says
October 4, 2012 at 8:05 pmThis is stunning – wow:-) TFS
http://karonskraftykorner.blogspot.ca/
Tamie says
October 4, 2012 at 8:21 pmHow 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.
Leanne says
October 4, 2012 at 9:44 pmTotally a cool idea, I like it…great job…and thanks for sharing with us at 4 Crafty Chicks…wicked!
Kelsie Ann says
October 8, 2012 at 8:39 pmWhat 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}
Bobby says
October 22, 2012 at 2:57 pmI was given a pumpkin like this as a gift many years ago. Maybe I need to make it some friends. Great job!