Locksley Lane

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Paint Your Pumpkins Turquoise

Yesterday I showed you how to chalk paint your pumpkins. Today I want to share pumpkins done in simple acrylic craft paints. Why have drab pumpkins when you can paint them any color you want? Here are my pumpkins in turquoise!

These were painted with a simple acrylic craft paint. And.....if you get them in a "high gloss" you don't have to seal them or put any kind of Modge Podge on them. Paint them and they are ready to go!

I used turquoise,green and a soft gold metallic Craft Smart paint (high gloss) from Michaels.

The gold pear (it's really a squash but it looks like a pear :) was sprayed with a simple spray adhesive and then dusted with gold glitter.

Aren't they pretty?

If you don't have chalk paint at home, go get some craft paint and create your own beautiful colored pumpkins.

Happy Tuesday!

Paula

Monday, September 15, 2014

Chalk Painted Pumpkins

It is that time of year.... Time to bring out the fall decorations and go get your pumpkins. This year, I decided that I wanted pretty pumpkins.

I'm not really a huge fan of orange and I wanted pumpkins that were colorful and decorated. So I went and bought some foam pumpkins and pulled out the Annie Sloan Chalk paint. Nothing fancy here...these came from Walmart.

I pulled out my favorite chalk paint colors and gave them a quick double coat. Chalk paint dries very quickly so this was a breeze.

Then I did a quick wax.

You wax them just like you would your furniture. Put the clear wax on and rub it in. I added about 1/4tsp of mineral spirits to the wax so it would spread easier. Then on a few pumpkins I added some dark wax too.