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Craft Projects, Dollar Store Crafts

Fabric-Covered Pumpkins

Jessica Smith

It is the first day of fall. Hooray!

Did you see the adorable pumpkin I transformed yesterday from a sweet Dollar Store find? If not, check it out here.

I had two pumpkins left over to complete my fall decor trio, so I decided to cover both of them with fabric. I had a gold tablecloth I’ve been wanting to use for a project, as well as some burlap remnant I picked up from JoAnn’s. I also picked up silver tacks at the dollar store, so I chose to use them as little studs in my fabric-covered pumpkins.

I started with the gold fabric, cutting the fabric into scrap strips. I started pinning them to the pumpkin using the silver tacks.

Once the pumpkin was covered in studs, I painted the stem of the pumpkins gray to match the Mod Podged pumpkin. Love it.

I did the same thing to the third pumpkin with the burlap strips.

The only thing securing the fabric to the pumpkin are the tacks, but I used about 150 per pumpkin (wowzer), so I don’t think that fabric is falling off any time soon. Having said that, I found it important to overlap the strips of fabric since there is no glue underneath the fabric. With the overlap, there is a nice texture of rough edge on smooth fabric, and there is total coverage of the bright orange pumpkin underneath.

The tacks run down the valleys of the pumpkin — it is OK to adjust your tacks as you go. If your lines aren’t exactly how you want them, fix them!

I painted this stem gray, too.

It was time to put my trio together, and boy do they look perfect together. I placed them on my copper tray in our bay window.

What a perfect fall decoration!

Happy fall — enjoy the amazing weather!

Craft Projects, Dollar Store Crafts

Dollar Store pumpkin makeover

Jessica Smith

IT IS ALMOST FALL!!!

I’m not a big fan of Halloween, but I love fall. It’s my favorite season. The weather is amazing, the fall foods are amazing, the decorations are amazing! And speaking of decorations, I needed some!

I took a quick trip to a local dollar store on one of my days off this week and I hit the jackpot. Who said crafting had to be expensive? Not me!

I found these adorable foam pumpkins and had to grab a few. So cute, right?

I decided to make them a little bit more autumn-y and a little less Halloween-y.

I grabbed pages I’d cut out of an old dictionary a while ago to Mod Podge them to one of the pumpkins.

I placed a layer of Mod Podge onto the pumpkin before placing a strip of paper on top. Then, I put of lay of Mod Podge on top of the paper strip.

Once the pumpkin was entirely covered in paper, I let it dry for a few hours. When I came back, I added a few embellishments: Mod Podged ribbons down the curves of the pumpkin, two red leaves at the stem, a little gray paint at the stem, and a bow.

Voila!

One pumpkin down, two to go. Check back tomorrow to see what I did with the remaining pumpkins!