Painted Pumpkin

Paint a Pumpkin for Thanksgiving. All you need is acrylic paint and a favorite Bible verse. #Thanksgiving #BibleLoveNotes #Bible

If you are like me, you are always looking for ways to incorporate your faith into your holiday decorations. 

If your pumpkin is fresh, it can last for a month or two.

Create your own masterpiece or let your children create theirs. Put the finished masterpiece on your table or front porch and share the name of Jesus!

All you need is a pumpkin, inexpensive acrylic paints, and a marker to do the detailed lettering or design.


Paint a Pumpkin for Thanksgiving. All you need is acrylic paint and a favorite Bible verse. #Thanksgiving #BibleLoveNotes #Bible

Why not paint a pumpkin for Thanksgiving or harvest time?

Painted Pumpkin with a Bible message
 I started with a nice orange pumpkin from Walmart ($3.88).

Painted Pumpkin with a Bible message
 Then I painted it about halfway down with an acrylic paint called "light mocha."
 
Painted Pumpkin with a Bible message
I finished the edges with an "informal scallop" (i.e. sloppy scallop).
 
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Then I added a layer of light blue and purposely made the border "feathery."

It took some experimenting with colors to get what I wanted. I darkened the first blue, then added a navy blue on top of it. I purposely allowed the lighter blue to show through.


This is my finished pumpkin. 

Paint a Pumpkin for Thanksgiving. All you need is acrylic paint and a favorite Bible verse. #Thanksgiving #BibleLoveNotes #Bible
With a Sharpie, I free-handed "Give Thanks unto the Lord" and added some dot designs.

Paint a Pumpkin for Thanksgiving. All you need is acrylic paint and a favorite Bible verse. #Thanksgiving #BibleLoveNotes #Bible
Both painting and writing on the pumpkin required care. The paint kept coming up when new coats were added and it was easy to pull up paint with the Sharpie.

Paint a Pumpkin for Thanksgiving. All you need is acrylic paint and a favorite Bible verse. #Thanksgiving #BibleLoveNotes #Bible
It's a little traditional and non-traditional, but I like it. 
And, hey, it cost me less than $5.

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Paint a Pumpkin for Thanksgiving. All you need is acrylic paint and a favorite Bible verse. #Thanksgiving #BibleLoveNotes #Bible
 

14 comments:

  1. Very nice and simple tutorial! It's fun to see what others are doing with pumpkins. Pumpkins will be my October food of the month over at harringtonharmonies.com . Thanks for inspiring me:)Many Blessings.

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  2. How cute! Thank you for sharing. Visiting from Adorned from Above. Would love it if you would share this at my Make it Pretty Monday party at The Dedicated House. http://thededicatedhouse.blogspot.com/2012/09/make-it-pretty-monday-week-16.html Hope to see you at the bash! Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse

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  3. this looks amazing! i love it, and am determined to paint pumpkins this year!

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  4. I'm so glad that I'm following you! What a beautiful pumpkin. It looks great. Thank you so much for sharing your awesome work:)

    Katie
    www.funhomethings.com

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  5. Such a great idea! You are very creative. Thanks so much for linking up at Romance on a dime!

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  6. I love the idea of painting the pumpkin AND writing on it with Sharpies. I've been eyeing "white" pumpkins but wasn't sure where to get one. I can just make my own!

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  7. woow....that´s a great job :) it looks lovley.....
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    Håkan ( The Roseman)

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  8. I love it!! I think I can do this one!! I especially love it because it is a fall idea and also honoring to the Lord. I need to figure out how to Pin It (hint...you need a Pin it button for people like me, lol) so I can find it in a week when I forget where I saw it :-)

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  9. P.S. I pinned it!! Woohoo!! Just copy Gail's link...go to Pinterest and enter the link in 'Add Link" . . . But I suppose you all knew this, lol :-)

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  10. So addled am I....Thanks so much Gail for linking up at WholeHearted Home Wednesdays. I just love your blog. It is most of the time the first blog I read and probably the only one until I am done with all that calls my name.

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  11. Beautiful job! My weekly linky party--One Creative Weekend--has gone spooky this week in honor of my thirteenth party. If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll visit "One Creative Weekend" on OneCreativeMommy.com (open every Fri-Wed) and link up this idea and anything else you’d like to share. (You can include non-Halloween posts as well, but feel free to link up as many Halloween-themed posts as you like.) There are two categories—one for Halloween and one for everything else.

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  12. This is so cute. Thank you so much for sharing with Wednesdays Adorned From Above Link Party last week. This weeks Link Party is opened at
    http://www.adornedfromabove.com/2012/10/jasmine-body-butter-and-wednesdays.html
    from Wednesday until Sunday.
    Hope to see you there.
    Debi Bolocofsky
    Adorned From Above
    www.adornedfromabove.com

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  13. Such a nice color to have with your assortment of blue dishes! Happy Thanksgiving, Gail.

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