Heirloom & Neutral Faux Pumpkins

These pumpkins are beautiful for autumn decorating, or a Thanksgiving centerpiece. Painting the inexpensive orange faux pumpkins you can find in any craft store takes them from being tacky to classy! Plus, they are very easy to create.

How To Make Your Own 

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What You Need:

  1. White Chalk Paint 2 8oz containers
  2. For the Heirloom Blue Pumpkins (2 of each): Cloud & Wet Cement
  3. For the White Pumpkins (2 of each): Wedding Cake & Summer Linen
  4. For the Gray Pumpkins (2 of each): Lake Fog & Wet Cement
  5. For the Stems (1 of each): Arrowhead & Gray
  6. Small Paint brushes for detail work
  7. Biger Paint brushes
  8. Sea Sponges
  9. Paint containers< for mixing
  10. Hot Glue Gun & Glue Sticks
Difficulty Level: Medium
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Faux Pumpkins:

  1. Lots of options on Amazon
  2. Large & Medium pumpkins
  3. Assorted small pumkins
  4. Small same size pumpkins

What You Do

Step 1 : Remove the stems

Step 1 : Remove the stems
  • Using Plyers, remove the stem

Step 2 : Basecode the pumkins

Step 2 : Basecode the pumkins
  1. Pain the pumpkins with the white chalk paint
  2. Paint enough coats that the pumpkins truly look white and the previous color cannot be seen through (2 or 3 coats)
  3. Allow to fully dry after each coat

Heirloom Blue Pumpkin Step 3: Paint the primary pumpkin color

Step 3 : Paint the primary pumpkin color
  1. Paint the pumpkin with Cloud Blue
  2. Repeat the process until the pumpkin is fully covered, 2 coats
  3. Allow to fully dry after each coat

Heirloom Blue Pumpkin Step 4: Add the shaddows

Step 4: Add the shaddows
  1. Mix the shadow paint color, two parts Cloud, one part Wet Cement, mix well
  2. Using a sponge, dab down the indent crevices of the pumpkin with the darker paint
  3. Dab around the crevas at the top where the stem will go
  4. Useing a fine brush, draw down the crevis lines with the shadow paint
  5. Allow to fully dry after each coat

White Pumpkin Step 5: Paint the primary pumpkin color

Step 5 : Paint the primary pumpkin color
  1. Paint the pumpkin with Wedding Cake white
  2. Repeat the process until the pumpkin is fully covered, 2 coats
  3. Allow to fully dry after each coat

White Pumpkin Step 6: Add the shaddows

Step 6: Add the shaddows
  1. With Summer Linen, take a sponge, dab down the indent crevices of the pumpkin with the darker paint
  2. Dab around the crevas at the top where the stem will go
  3. Useing a fine brush, draw down the crevis lines with the shadow paint
  4. Allow to fully dry after each coat

Gray Pumpkin Step 7: Paint the primary pumpkin color

Step 7 : Paint the primary pumpkin color
  1. Paint the pumpkin with Lake Fog gray
  2. Repeat the process until the pumpkin is fully covered, 2 coats
  3. Allow to fully dry after each coat

Gray Pumpkin Step 8: Add the shaddows

Step 8: Add the shaddows
  1. With Wet Cement, take a sponge, dab down the indent crevices of the pumpkin with the darker paint
  2. Dab around the crevas at the top where the stem will go
  3. Useing a fine brush, draw down the crevis lines with the shadow paint
  4. Allow to fully dry after each coat

Step 9: Paint the base color of the stems

Step 9: Paint the base color of the stems
  1. With Arrowhead, cover all of the stems
  2. Allow to fully dry

Step 10: Add some texture

Step 10: Add some texture
  1. Using gray, and the sea sponge, randomly cover the stems
  2. Allow to fully dry

Step 11: Hot gule the stems back on the pumpkins

Step 11: Hot gule the stems back on the pumpkins
  • Using the hot glue gun, glue the stems back on the pumpkins