Fall Gilded Pumpkin

a Purple Cows project designed by: Tracie Brown www.colorworksdesign.net

Tools and supplies:

Purple Cows CraftGeek Wind IT #7100 Purple Cows Sizzle & Melt #5000 Purple Cows Craft Iron Tips #5060 Purple Cows Encaustic Wax #5061 Corrugated pumpkin-local craft store Acrylic paint- Metallic gold Mod Podge Ranger Distress Ink Kaiser kraft paper

Fall Gilded Pumpkin Instructions:

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1.Purchase corrugated pumpkin shape from local craft store, cut paper of your choice into strips. Fig. 1 2.Using acrylic paint. paint the top,bottom,and in between curves on pumpkin. Fig. 2 3.Using Mod Podge adhere the paper strips into each section. Fig.3 4. Using distress ink on a sponge distress inside curves and top as well as wrinkles on paper. 5. Using the Purple Cows Sizzle sual craft iron on 1st setting, brush the trowel against the brick of wax and drip wax into sections that you want to highlight. Also with the wax on toll just touch here and there to give brush marks of gold highlights. 6. Using the Purple Cows CraftGeek Wind It make shapes and poke them into the top of pumpkin, move them around and shape them to where you want them. Like a vine. I love how this turned out, I have placed it in my entryway with my fall decor'.

Fall Gilded Pumpkin Instructions continued:

Steps 4,5,6 photos

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Using Encaustic Wax takes ordinary to Extraordinary!