Tuesday Tutorial: Pretty Pumpkins

I recently saw similar pumkins in a magazine, and decided to put a sisters sassy spin on them for today's tutorial... stay tunded, they are as easy to make as they are pretty!

Supplies you will need include

 3 sheets of pumkin colored paper and 1 for the leaves (I used Jeepers Creepers paper from the Paper Studio)

buttons

hot glue

flameless candle (optional)

Cut your paper into 1" strips.  For largest pumpkin, you will need 10 1"x12" strips.  For the next size down, you will need 8 1"x10" strips, and for the smallest pumkin, you will need 5 1"x12" strips.  For the leaves, you will need 3 1"x12" strips, and also some 1/4" x12" strips. 

Starting with the biggest pumpkin strips, glue 2 stips together lengthwise, making 5 really long strips.  Cris-cross these strips to make an * shape, and glue them all together.  Next, starting with one of the tips of the asterisk, glue each tip to the next one, to create a sphere.

Repeat for all 3 pumkins.  Next, to form the leaves, take one of the strips, and form a figure 8, gluing them together.  You can make curly vines by using the thinnest strips of the green and wrapping them around a pencil, then gluing these to the leaves.  to make the stem, glue 3 buttons together.  Put it all together and you have a cute little pumkin! 

For added stability you can cut 2- 2"x3" rectangles, make an "x" and glue to the bottom of each pumpkin.  A flameless candle inside these pumkins is adorable! (Sorry the picture didn't turn out!) You can also select paper according to the Holiday, would be beautiful table decorations for Thanksgiving as well! 

Happy craftin!