What in the world did we do before faux pumpkins existed?!

Remember when the only fake pumpkin you would see was the fragile, ceramic one your grandma always put out?  Or those thin plastic orange ones with a little black handle you went trick-or-treating with? Well, thank goodness for the darling faux jobies you see everywhere these days!

I love ’em; the creative possibilities are limitless with those babies!

Create your own easy scary Spider pumpkin with decoupage or glitter glass

Of course, you can paint a fake pumpkin,  jazz it up with a little washi tape or even just monogram it and those darlings will last and last and last; no worries it will turn to mush like the real ones do.

So today I’m showing you how I used our pumpkins from last year with a really fun, practically free, easy way to give your faux pumpkins a makeover today.

My obsession with making over my pumpkins came from a cheap jar of crushed glittery glass I bought from  Ikea.

like a year ago.

I’ve been thinking. Watch out!

What could I use the cool crushed glass on? How would it look on the whole pumpkin,? too much? kind of cheesy?

I wasn’t sure. So I started small and that’s when I saw how my friend Jeanette of  Snazzy Little Things painted and decoupaged her pretentious pumpkin big time.

And given my recent love affair with Mod Podge I knew I wanted to try that gooey gluey stuff on my pumpkins too.

So, first

the glitter glass – scary Spider Pumpkin

It’s really so simple.

Dribble your hot glue around the base of the stem and in the grooves of the pumpkin. I went for 4 drips or legs 😉 on each side hoping to make it resemble an 8-legged creepy crawler.
ta da!

What do you think? It pretty much looks like a spider, right?

Anyway, let’s move on to the gooey gluey…

For those, I visited The Graphics Fairy  and of  course found so many gorgeous free graphics to choose from {thank you Karen}!

I honed in on a few of my favorites and printed out a vintage Halloween spider image  along with a couple of her scary skull  and crossbones images too.

I cut my the spider out all ziggy-zaggy so that it wouldn’t look too perfect.

I’m going for scary, remember?

A nice coat of Mod Podge using a couple sponge brushes…

And because of the round surface and grooves, I layered on the rest of the Spider graphic in two smaller pieces. I find the paper lays down better on the project if you do it that way. 

But I wasn’t feelin’ it…

My faux pumpkin didn’t quite look spooky enough. What to do? What to do?

A roll of silver wrapping paper from last Christmas, of course!  Cutting little shreds and decoupaging it on to mimic the spider’s web did the trick!

And for good measure because my hands were already sticky with the decoupage stuff, I went for the skull and cross bones on a black pumpkin too.

Boom!

Twenty minutes later…

my pumpkins had dried and I very haphazardly, dry brushed a tiny bit of silver glaze on all them.

Why? Because glaze has a magical ‘finished’ bling-like quality that I can’t resist. 😉I threw ’em all together on top of the handsome boy dresser into a little Halloween vignette.

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What do you think?

Was their life before faux pumpkins? ha! 

I’d love to hear what you do to keep your Halloween decor updated.

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