We love, love, love Halloween at our house. Our house goes from crazy Halloween decorations filling our house to a few small items for Thanksgiving. I wanted to make Thanksgiving a little more special. I found these fake pumpkins and tried to think how I could make them special.
I decided to personalized them.
I decorated this huge pumpkin with my Last name and year I was married.
Then, I made these smaller pumpkins and put mine and my husbands first names. Of course, my kids were like "Where's our pumpkins?" Not all decorations have to be about the kids. My whole house has the kid's pictures and artwork all over it. I just wanted these pumpkins to be about me and my husband. However, if you want the whole family included you can make even smaller pumpkins for the kiddos.
The Awesome thing about these pumpkins is that you can decorate both sides of the pumpkins for the different holidays.
I used my Silhouette Cameo to design and cut Oracal 651 gold vinyl.
I played around with different fonts and ways of writing our names. My sister in law wanted one that said "Give Thanks." I made one for a friend that had her address number on it for her porch.
I put our Last name on a large 9 inch white pumpkin, sorry no pictures.
I put our first names, address number and "Give Thanks" on 5.5" orange carvable faux pumpkins.
Cut out the design and add the transfer paper.
Measure out on your pumpkin where you would like it placed.
I set the pumpkin on the table and used a ruler to measure it out. With my pencil I marked where to place the bottom of the vinyl. I like to use a pencil, because it is erasable.
You do have to be a bit careful when applying the vinyl. The pumpkin is bumpy and curved, making the vinyl a little trickier to apply. Which is why I don't have a picture applying the vinyl. I folded the vinyl almost in half on the non sticky side. You don't want to crease it. Then I carefully rolled the vinyl over the pumpkin, pushing the vinyl into the grooves as I went. I removed the transfer paper, and rubbed the vinyl to help adhere it to the pumpkin. If you have bumps and the vinyl looks a little off, you can use a blow dryer to heat up the vinyl and push it down in the problem areas. Be careful not to get it too hot though, the pumpkin is Styrofoam and will melt or off gas.
And you have a beautiful pumpkin!
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