Pumpkin is the brightest and most common fruit of all used for handicrafts. Most often, a variety of decor is made for her at home for the Halloween holiday, in particular, the familiar pumpkin head-lanterns. In addition, with its help decorate the autumn interior and make just beautiful and pretty enough pumpkin vases or other hand-made items that will embellish and make your house more fun not only on holidays, but also when you yourself want to refresh the interior.
The beautiful time of pumpkins lasts not only in autumn, but almost all winter. Nature and whispers to you about the possibility of making pumpkins beautiful and bright vases that will fill the light and joy of your home even in cloudy weather.
To cook delicious dishes from pumpkin, you can buy it already cleaned and even chopped. But in order to make crafts and decorations for the house, you will need whole fruits. Buy pumpkins can be on every corner - in supermarkets, markets, fairs or just from the hands.
From pumpkins you get very original and lovely vases, in which you can put live flowers or dried flowers, adding to this composition various decorative elements - seasonal berries, leaves and so on. Also, you can make carving from colorful vegetables, carving roses, tulips, chrysanthemums, chamomiles, gerberas or other flowers, and then place them in a pumpkin vase and decorate it with a festive table.
Vase from a pumpkin photo
In order to make vases from a pumpkin , you should choose not too big fruit, and sometimes even very small. Of course, your choice depends on the size of the vase you need. If you need an outdoor vase for the original festive decor, then the pumpkin should choose the largest. But the shape of the fetus can be either round or oblong.
The only thing that can upset you is the fragility of pumpkin vases, since its fruit has a property to spoil. But if you do not rush, but completely clean the pulp, then dry the empty pumpkin well, then the vase from it will serve as a decoration for your interior much longer.
How to make a pumpkin vase with your own hands , we show on the example of small rounded pumpkins( an example from the site ).In the United States, it is customary to decorate a pumpkin vase with a Thanksgiving table, it was for this purpose that the author made her vases. What prevents us to apply such mini-vases as an element of decor?
Pumpkin vases - master class
For decorative pumpkin vases you will need:
- Pumpkin fruits
- Spoon
- Paper towels
- Clay lacquer for decoupage Mod Podge
- White spray paint
- Sandpaper
- English salt( magnesium sulfate in granules)
- Sugar
- Multicolored strips of fabric
- Flowers
The process itself will give you a lot of enjoyment and allow you to have fun, and as a result get a few miniature vases from a pumpkin, in which you can put bright fresh bouquets.
So, buy 5-6 small orange round-shaped pumpkins. Carefully cut off the tops so that the hole in the pumpkins is sufficient for a cup under the flowers. Pull out the flesh with a spoon, then dry the pumpkins well with paper towels.
Pumpkin vase master class
Under the flowers in pumpkins you can place both glass cups and carved from plastic bottles, as the author of the master class did.
How to make a pumpkin vase
How to make a pumpkin vase
You can also use porous floristic sponges in which you can put flowers. Plants themselves draw water out of them.
So, put the glass inside the pumpkin, make sure it fits in size, if necessary, make a hole larger.
How to make a pumpkin vase
After this, you can proceed with the decor of your pumpkin vases. To do this, you can use several options. Brilliant pumpkin vases
To make the vases look shiny, you can use sugar and English salt. The latter you can easily buy only if you live in England, we have it sold in pharmacies, but rarely enough, and is called magnesium sulfate or magnesia. More often in pharmacies, you can find it in powder - this option is not suitable for decor, then it is better to use only sugar.
On the surface of the orange pumpkin, apply glue for decoupage Mod Podge, it has the properties of glue, varnish and sealant at the same time, it is strong enough and very high-quality.
Pumpkin vase with your own hands
Put a pumpkin greased with glue in the plate with English salt and pat on all sides to make the salt stick evenly.
Decorative pumpkin vases
The advantage of the same English salt( Epsom Salt) is that its granules are larger in size than sugar, and they also have uneven faceted shapes. When playing light, it looks great. Here is such a brilliant pumpkin vase turned out.
Decorative vases from a pumpkin
And here is a version of a vase in sugar, which is no less attractive.
Decorative vases from a pumpkin
Vintage vases from a pumpkin
The effect of antiquity is used today in many styles of needlework, including decoupage. Nothing prevents us and make vase from a pumpkin in a vintage style.
For this, take another pumpkin and paint it with white spray paint. Allow to dry and lightly sand with sandpaper to create orange gaps.
Pumpkin vases master class
This vase turns out to be unusual and attractive enough.
Photo of pumpkin vases
Multicolored pumpkin vases
You can create a cheerful and juicy vase with the help of bright cloth scraps. To do this, cut the multicolored fabric ribbons about 15 mm wide, apply the same adhesive to Mod Podge for 1/3 of the pumpkin and attach the ribbons to this part.
Pumpkin vases master class
Allow to dry and continue on the next part, then dry again and tape the ribbons onto the third part of the pumpkin. Here is a multi-colored decorative vase from a pumpkin turned out. No one will guess what was the basis for this vase.
Pumpkin vase
The pumpkin vase is a classic version of the
The easiest way to make a pumpkin vase by your own hands is to simply cut off the top, clean the pulp, dry the pumpkin and put a glass of flowers in it, without decorating the vase. You can appreciate what this vase looks like, and it is no worse than those that are differently decorated.
Pumpkin vase
Here are such lovely vases you can get from you, if you repeat the process described in this article.
Pumpkin vases
Get your imagination to help with the decoration of the vases - you can draw a pencil drawing on them, then cut it with a carving knife or a sharp kitchen knife. Carved patterns on the pumpkin look chic, so you should experiment and try it yourself. Fortunately, pumpkins are now abundant, they can be bought anywhere. Good luck with your skill!
