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Mixed Media Pumpkin Project for Fall

September 18, 2015 By Alisha Gratehouse · PRINTABLES TIP: Always go toward the end of a post to find the printable. · Disclosure: This Post May Contain Affiliate Links. {I may be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links.}

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The following post is from Alisha of Flourish:

It doesn’t matter if it’s still 90 degrees outside, whenever autumn comes around, I always get the strange urge to cook stews and bake everything. You see, I’m one of those moms who doesn’t really love to cook — it feels more like a chore to me — unless the calendar tells me it’s fall. Weird, huh? So out come my crock pots and family recipes.

I also get the urge to craft and create (okay, I always have that urge). But it seems a little more pronounced as we head into the cooler months. I start nesting and decorating for the upcoming seasons. So if you’re a bit odd like me and would rather create artistic messes than cook for your family, I invite you (and your kids) to join me in making this mixed media pumpkin to decorate your home for fall.

But first, throw something in the crock pot to cook so you won’t feel guilty.

Mixed Media Pumpkin Project {featuring easy to follow step-by-step directions}

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Welcome Fall with this Mixed Media Pumpkin Project

You will need:

  • Canvas panel (I used a 5×7 size)
  • Acrylic craft paints in your favorite fall colors
  • Vintage book or hymnal pages, or other ephemera
  • Paint brushes/sponge brush
  • Decoupage glue
  • White gel pen (or white water-based Sharpie)
  • Black pen (permanent ink)
  • Pencil

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Step One: Decide on which book pages or ephemera you want for your background. (For this project I chose a handwritten name and address from a vintage book, as well as the library due date slip in said book, and vintage sheet music.)

Sponge the decoupage glue over the canvas and lay your pieces in place. Then decoupage again over the tops of the paper. Allow to dry.

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Step Two: While decoupage glue is drying on the canvas, take a few book or hymnal pages and lightly paint in various shades of orange acrylic paint. (Remember, you’ll want to be able to see the words or music underneath the paint.) Allow pages to dry.

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Step Three: Once the decoupage glue is dry, take a pencil and sketch out a simple pumpkin on your canvas.

Then paint your background, as well as your pumpkin stem and tendril. I chose a blue background with a brown base. But I was very careful to let the details of my vintage papers show through.

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Step Four: While your background is drying, begin tearing your orange-painted pages into the same shapes of your sketched pumkin shell. I chose to arrange the torn papers in varying shades of orange.

Adhere them over the sketch with decoupage glue, then apply another layer of glue to the tops of the pages. Allow to dry.

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Step Five: Once your canvas is completely dry, it’s time to add in your detail work with your black and white pens. Simply outline your pumpkin with the black pen using short, loose strokes. Then add highlighting with the white pen wherever you’d like.

(Optional) If you’d like to add some words or a short poem to your art piece, then you can cut them from a magazine or simply print them out yourself. Adhere the words with the decoupage glue, allow to dry, then outline them with the black pen (if so desired).

You’ll have a lovely piece of fall art to add to your autumn décor or to give as a gift!

Happy fall, y’all!

Mixed Media Pumpkin Project {featuring easy to follow step-by-step directions}

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Filed Under: Crafts and Projects for Kids, DIY and Projects, Fall, Fall Fun Theme, Halloween Tagged With: art, mixed media art, pumpkin crafts, pumpkins

About Alisha Gratehouse

Alisha Gratehouse is a minister’s wife, the mother of three awesome kids, and a mixed-media artist. Her days are filled with writing, creating, homeschooling, drinking tea, and encouraging others to live abundant and satisfying lives (John 10:10). She believes that everyone has a God-given purpose to fulfill, and that in order to fulfill that purpose, they must follow the passions and desires the Lord has placed in their hearts. Alisha blogs at Flourish, and is the author of A Life That Flourishes.

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  1. Ann Dale says

    November 12, 2016 at 6:07 pm

    I love what you did with this pumpkin. also do you have a newsletter? Thank You Ann

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    • Angie Kauffman says

      November 13, 2016 at 10:36 am

      Thanks, Ann! You can find subscription options here: https://www.reallifeathome.com/subscribe/

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  2. Carol Adams says

    October 8, 2020 at 12:20 pm

    ANN – I’m just starting out my blog and it’s about mixed media, art journaling and bible journaling. I would like to do an article about making a similar canvas with the pumpkin and I would definitely give you the credit for the inspiration. My website if not published yet because I’m trying to get a few blog posts ready first. You can check me out on Facebook/Instagram at #caroladamscreations
    Please let me know if that would be okay and if I have your permission.

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    • Angie Kauffman says

      October 8, 2020 at 9:18 pm

      Carol –

      You shouldn’t copy the project and put directions how to do it on your own site, if that is what you’re asking permission for. However, if you make your own unique project inspired by this one with your directions written in your own words, then you are welcome to link to this project as your inspiration for your own project. Let me know if you have any other questions on that!

      Angie

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  3. Abbotsford Public Library says

    October 23, 2023 at 12:07 pm

    We used your project for Adult Craft Night at the Abbotsford Public Library. It went sooooo well. I did use a cricut to pre-cut the pumpkins for my crafters just to make things simpler and to speed up the process. We also did our pumpkins on a 5×5 wood canvas. Thank you for the idea and walk through!
    https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=AbbotsfordPublicLibrary&set=a.562737932553136

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