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Turn a Dollar Store plastic pumpkin trick or treat bucket into vintage decor to add to your Halloween festivities!

INGREDIENTS:

Cricut

Pumpkin Carving Cricut cartridge

Black Vinyl

Sheet Music OR Book Pages

Decoupage Glue

Orange Pom Pom Fringe

Hot Glue Gun or another strong adhesive

Black Printed Fabric Scraps OR Ribbon Scraps

DIRECTIONS:

1.  Tear strips of sheet music or bookprint pages into all different sizes.  This project will require several pages and the final amount will depend on how many layers you add to your pumpkin.

2.  Apply adhesive to the pumpkin with your fingers, a foam brush or paint brush to one small section at a time. Begin by adding strips of the torn paper to the adhesive covered pumpkin making sure to overlap the ends.  As your adding paper strips have extra decoupage available to “paint” over the top of the strips – this forms a sealant and keeps the paper from lifting or being ruined by water damage.  Make sure to also add decoupage glue where the paper strips seem to lift or between paper layers. 

3.  Most of the plastic pumpkin buckets have indentations where the eyes, nose and mouth are located.  When you are decoupaging this area, add extra layers to help fill in these indentations so it’s not noticeable to the eye.

4. Once the whole pumpkin has been decoupaged with the amount of layers you desire cover the entire pumpkin with one more thin coat of decoupage glue OR a spray sealant.

5.  Next, you need a piece of black vinyl – at least 10 x 10  and the Pumpkin Carving Cricut cartridge.  Set your size at 7″.  You’re going to “kiss cut” the vinyl so that the vinyl is cut but not the paper backing – this makes it easier to remove the vinyl.  Set your  blade pressure to 6 and your pressure to 2.  Select whichever image you desire.

6.  You can either use George or Plantin Schoolbook to cut the triangle nose or just cut one by hand if you choose the same pumpkin face.

7.  Add either a strip of hot glue or strong holding liquid adhesive to the top of the pumpkin to hold the orange pom pom fringe in place.

8.  Cut strips of fabric or ribbon and tie onto the plastic strap handle.

Add any extra detail such as inking, spritzing with Walnut Ink or Glimmer Mist or brush on diluted  Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tea Stain Dye Refill to age the pumpkin. 

I hope you liked it and have fun personalizing your own plastic pumpkin bucket into an adorable part of your Halloween decor!

Olive a simple craft project, don’t you?

xKim

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