Blinged Out Wedding Pumpkins

Any one who knows me knows how much I LOVE glittering the heck out of everything! I couldn't be happier when my bride-friend told me that she wanted glittered pumpkins as a part of her centerpieces. We went to a farm to pick up a bushel of pumpkins. (I will add more photos to this post later. I can't find my camera cable right now.) I had taken some pictures at the farm.

Anyway, this is a bushel of pumpkin gourds, which is what they officially call these mini pumpkins. WeeBee pumpkins are actually small, round pumpkins; smaller than a regular pumpkin, but larger and rounder than a pumpkin gourd. A bushel has nearly 60 mini pumpkins inside. And, they sold it to my friend's fiance for $24 which is an absolute STEAL!

My friend too this picture of the bushel. We had already taken out nearly 45 at this point. About 32 of them were good, and nearly 10 were either dented, missing stems, or not cute enough for the wedding. Still, though, she has nearly another 40 or 50 in there, and she only needed about 50 to begin with!!

After running out of glitter and time, this is what she had. The wedding isn't until the 30th of Oct, so she's storing these in a flat plastic container and laying it flat on a rack.

We messed around with centerpiece ideas. We settled on 4 different colored pumpkins laying outside of a round mirrored tray with tea lights and a small round vase with cut Gerber daisies in fall colors. I didn't take pictures since it was only a trial run. I'll take pics of the actual centerpiece.

Halloween Pumpkins 2011

Because my blinged out pumpkins came out so great the year before, I wanted to step it up this past Halloween. I was a bit ambitious this time around. I'll tell it with pictures...

Cinderella's Carriage

My nekid pumkins. Two of them were from Southampton!

I started etching in the carriage door.

Then, the right carriage window.

Followed by the left carriage window.

TA-DA!

Oh, man...What a mess!

I embellished the outside with puffy glitter paint.

Pretty, isn't it?

Every carriage needs some wheels!

This was supposed to be glow-in-the-dark glitter. MARTHA STEWART LIED!!

See? No glow-in-the-dark action! Bastards...

But, they were sparkly...crystal-like.

Some glitter on the doors to make them pop.

My disassembled carriage.

I popped those wheels on with chopsticks & a little hot glue.

With the aide of a hammer.

 

My carriage awaits! (Daylight hours.)

And here it is at night!

Karma-saurus

We start off with a monster of a pumpkin and cut into it's head.

Hollow it out.

Give him some eyes and a nose.

...and a mouth.

ARRRRRRRRGH!
"I'M ALIVE!!!!"

Pop in the props!

Karma's a Bitch!

Impressive, no?

Throw in a small electric light.

"MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

I done good!

>=]

Now, that's a fancy stoop!

My craft babies! The striped one on the far right is done up with white glue and glitter.

Materials:
Various sized pumpkins
Cutting & etching tools
White glue
Hot glue gun
Glitter puffy paint pens
Martha Stewart Glitter in silver, onyx, & glow-in-the-dark (which DID NOT glow-in-the-dark-or-otherwise)
Chopsticks (to hold on the carriage wheels)
Tealights and small electric lights

Blinged Out Pumpkins

I was scrolling through craft pictures during Halloween season in 2010 and came upon some awesome Martha Stewart pumpkins all decked out and sparkly. She had actually glittered larger pumpkins. Knowing that glitter can be quite expensive, I bought a few of those mini pumpkins and decided to bling those bad boys out! All I would need is the glitter.

I sent my boyfriend (now EX) to the craft store to find some. He came back with the actual Martha Stewart glitter pumpkin kit. I'm not a big fan of buying an all-inclusive kit. I find them to be overpriced, the supplies to be not-enough for more than a couple of projects, and I like picking out my own colors and varieties rather than someone from some manufacturing company deciding what I should like.

With that being said, however, I was quite impressed with the quality of this particular kit. It came with a container of thick, pasty "glitter glue" that you had to dilute with some warm water. I was just going to use regular white glue, but found this glitter glue to be a lot better when working with the glitter. It didn't run, it dried fairly quickly, and it set fast enough once the glitter was applied.

The glitter itself was fantastic. It was a fine grade, the colors in this particular kit were unique and deep, and the results where quite remarkable! If you MUST buy a kit such as this, don't order from the website. (Martha charges an arm and a leg, and the shipping charges are ridiculous.) Go to your nearby craft store, and print out a coupon before you buy anything. Weekly coupons usually take 40%-50% off regular retail prices. This kit was bought at AC Moore.

The pumpkins lasted through New Years. I made them a couple of weeks before Halloween.

Materials:
Mini Pumpkins
Martha Stewart Glitter Glue (kit)
Martha Stewart Glitter (kit)
Craft paint brushes (for the glue)