Dollar Tree Pumpkin Sign Crafts

Hi, I'm Amy from Crazycraftlady.com. Fall is here and I'm bringing you a new batch of

dollar

store

pumpkin

crafts

, all featuring

dollar

tree

pumpkin

sign

s, so this isn't my first rodeo crafting with these dollar

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pumpkin

sign

s. Super cute on their own, but I like to paint and decorate them to match my personal style. You have a couple of options when it comes to these dollar tree pumpkin signs and over the years the decoration on them has changed, but I like it. the same basic shape as cardboard, as cardboard template, has been the same, so this year they have these as monograms like a dollar tree under different letters, these have the letter b, um or you can do solid wood now the size it's a little different so if you make the cardboard one versus the wooden one this one is a little smaller so you might like this one you could get away with making a door hanger with this one this one is a little too small perfect for a little bookshelf or a sign or like a little vignette, but maybe not for a door hanger and then I picked up these, this one says hello fall and this one is a pumpkin, it doesn't really matter which one you get because I'm going to use it anyway. the back of them, this is just a nice solid wood surface to paint, the only other difference would be the number of sections, so this pumpkin, if you're going to paint it or divide it into sections, I'll see as we craft this one has like three main sections this one has five so this might get a little more complicated so if you want to make something more like you I'll make something with wooden beads and Make something with jute rope where you're dividing the sections it's possible You might want to choose this one, but if you just want to cover it with a solid piece of paper or paint or something, you can also make the wooden one.

I'm going to link below some other past

crafts

, like wooden pumpkin signs, that I've made before, but I'm so excited. I'm doing a neutral feel in white, green and tan with a neutral feel for this one. Very excited let's make some fall pumpkin crafts let's start making here we go we're going to start with our first craft using a placemat from Dollar Tree so you just want to remove that little metal leaf decoration be careful because the metal can be a little sharp and then take a simple black marker, not a permanent marker, not a marker, like a normal black marker, place the pumpkin sign on the top of the tablecloth centered and then trace around it and then very much Be careful, cut it right on that line or maybe just a little bit inside, it's good to use a non-permanent marker that way, if there is any black ink left, you can just wipe it off with your hand or a damp paper towel, but keep going and cut out that pumpkin shape. that you have traced on the individual tablecloth.

I love Dollar Tree placemats because I think they are super cute and there are tons of different ways to craft with them. I've made door hangers before, super fun. Oh, I framed them too. and I hung them to decorate the wall so I'll link them to those projects as well and then I used some of Eileen's tacky glue and this was like an older bottle so the glue is a little bit thicker than I would have liked. I need to buy. a new bottle, but just squeeze it onto the back of the little pumpkin hanger on the door and use a paintbrush to smooth it all out.

I was pretty generous with my layer of glue because this is the sticky surface of the placemat, I didn't know how well that would stick with glue, I wouldn't use hot glue on this, you definitely want to use it as liquid glue and then just place the location of the cut down centered on the pumpkin, smooth it out and let the glue dry and then I just embellished it with some fake lambs, your greenery that I hot glued onto the stem. I was a little self-conscious about gluing a full leaf to cover that part of the stem that didn't have the tablecloth covering it because I didn't want any of that cardboard.

Poking around and then I made a simple lazy bow by just cutting some pieces of natural like it's not burlap, it's like a natural fiber ribbon. I cut three sections at 45 degree angles on all ends and then stacked them in the center and tied them together. I attached it with another piece of ribbon that I simply tied in the back with an overhand knot, so it ended up having the effect of being four pieces of ribbon and then I just fluffed them up until I got the right look. you want to hot glue the bow down and then I also hot glue that little metal leaf ornament so it's a super easy way to use a placemat in an unexpected way next to another sign, remove the little leaf ornament and turn it over.

Now, for the next two, I'm going to paint the back of this pumpkin hanger, so you should be able to have a flat surface and, dear dollar tree, stop putting price tags on the back of these signs, like There had to be a better way. Total pain in the butt trying to get them off so what I did was I did my best to use like my fingernail to try to get most of the paper off and then I went in with this handy little eraser tool that they sell. at Dollar Tree in the craft aisle which was really helpful since it's not helpful on paper so you have to peel the paper off first but then for the sticky adhesive to actually work really well it just took a little bit of time if you can.

If I don't find one of these eraser tools I would try sandpaper maybe and just sand everything but I really think this eraser is the way to go, then I took out some art deco chalk paint so I'm having trouble . my chalk paint right now so if anyone has recommendations let me know so I use Decoart chalk paint on these projects. I usually use Waverly chalk paint from Walmart, but it seems like it's been really hard to find lately if it's been hit or miss. There is a Walmart. I randomly found out that my kids went to a summer camp that was about a half hour drive from my house this summer and we stopped at Walmart to get school supplies a day after camp and they had Waverly chalk paint, but I don't think I should have done it. to put in a lot of effort and I don't want to recommend paints that aren't easy for all of you to find because then you won't be able to replicate these projects, so I'm going to use folk art chalk paint.

I will list all my paint colors in the video. description and I will also link similar printable cards that have the full tutorials and supply list but I just used light green, light blue and gray and painted the center section green with hints of gray and then the two outer sections of the blue pumpkin with little touches of gray, you can really be as creative as you want with this and play around like there's no wrong way to do this, so I focused on doing the center of the sections. a solid color and then I accented it with a similar blend and gray around the edges of the sections, but the idea is to simply create more dimension by blending that gray to make the pumpkin look more realistic, so once you're happy with your paint, You can set it aside to dry and then take out the dollar tree jute rope, which is my favorite material for dollar tree crafts.

I think it's the jute twine I use on a lot of projects, so you start by hot gluing the twine all the way around. the stem, so you're going to wrap it and glue it front and back and make sure the rows of string are pretty close together so that none of that cardboard is sticking out. This was a little tricky because it was like a small stem and the rope is very thick, so you really have to be generous with the hot glue and take your time and really like to hold the rope in place while it dries, once it dries. you reach the top of the stem. and you make your final row, then you just add one more section of rope on top and cut the end of the rope probably at a 45 degree angle so you have a more gradual end, you don't have a 90 degree cut. rope hanging off the end because I don't know that, I think it looks better with a hot glue at a 45 degree angle over the top of the stem and then you can go ahead and we're going to outline all the sections of the pumpkin so what I did was put little dots of glue around the edge of the pumpkin so you work in sections and then place the string over the hot glue like outlining the entire perimeter of the pumpkin so I made a small section there and then went ahead and if you want, It covers the bottom of the pumpkin and there are little arcs at the bottom, so you know, just follow the edge of the pumpkin until you've done the whole perimeter. outer edge of the pumpkin and then you can cut a piece of string and kind of an eyeball where that similar section would be so there will be two vertical lines like curved vertical lines of string that you'll add with hot glue and keep adding Rub like points of hot glue and then placed the rope on top so that you have the three sections more defined than just with the different paint color and finally I embellished it with some faux greenery. which I hot glued to the base of the pumpkin stem and then added that metal leaf as well.

Then I have this gray and cream ribbon that I bought at Dollar Tree a while ago. I don't know if they still have it. but I just made a simple like figure eight bow where you know the two little loops and you tie them in a knot and then fluff the loops and cut the ends of the bow at a 45 degree angle on each tail of the bow. and then hot glue it into place right at the top of the leaf, but there you have a little fairy tale pumpkin that I really like, like the blue and green fall pumpkin decorating trend.

I'm here for it all day and then we leave. to paint another pumpkin hanger on the door after removing that pesky tag it comes back with the same chalk paint so this is the same decorative chalk paint but this is just the green so I painted everything green. I liked a solid layer on the pumpkin and once. I had a full coverage with green paint then I used a little bit of white and just accentuated like you know where the pumpkin sections are and then I contrasted it with a little bit of gray so you do this while the green is still wet so that everything blends together and you use the same brush, don't change brushes at all, so you can just keep adding and then say "oh, that was too stiff with the gray." you can add more green to cover it and so go back and forth until you get the look that makes you happy and then for this one, on the other one, we like the sections outlined with jute writing on the dollar tree.

We are going to outline this with a small half ball like half a wooden ball that I ordered on Amazon. I love them and have used them in so many projects that now I had to reorder them because they ran out the first time. This is like a tried and true craft material that I love, so you just place them around the perimeter of the pumpkin edge. I'm a little picky, compulsive about the spacing of these and I'm always afraid that if I glue while placing them, I'll get to the end and there will be room for about half a wooden bead and then I'll have problems, so I dry fit all the beads first of wood or the wooden half balls by placing them. sort of in place and then I go back and glue them in place and to do that I just have a bottle of gorilla wood glue, I use whatever wood glue you have and a paintbrush, so I'm just going to dip the paintbrush in the glue. for wood. a little half ball of wood out of place, put a little bit of wood glue on the back and put it back into position and then repeat that process around the pumpkin, so I'm going to speed this up because you don't need to see me do each of these, so just glue one at a time and then put it back in place and then once you've done the entire perimeter of the pumpkin, you can do the two sections below as well.

I'm going to decorate my stem and for this one I took my heavy duty craft scissors and just cut the stem like I would the cardboard stem of the pumpkin. It's pretty easy to cut, it's not that thick and then I have this roll of these little halves. twigs that I bought at Hobby lobby a long time ago. I'll try to find a link to them, if not you can use any twig, like go to your garden, pick up a stick from the ground and then hot glue it in place and be done with it. I removed it with a bow so I used the same natural fiber ribbon from before and it's the same lazy bow trick where you just cut three pieces of natural fiber ribbon at a 45 degree angle and then I have a plaid ribbon of tan and white buffalo like Well, I cut three more pieces of that at a 45 degree angle on both ends and then you put everything in a pile and then you put it together in the center and you tie it in an overhand knot with another piece of ribbon to end.

With this one, I had six pieces ofribbon that were cut, stacked and then tied with another piece of ribbon, fluff until it's how you want and then just hot glue it right at the base of the stem, very easy. So this is probably the most farmhouse looking craft of all the pumpkins I made in this group and, well, you know me, anything with a good wooden bead makes me very happy, so I'm excited about how it turned out. this. I actually used a wooden door hanger and not a cardboard one. This is the only one I use the wood one on and I'm jumping on the bandwagon of this faux tin tile they have at Dollar Tree.

They also have super cool temporary wallpaper sheets, but I digress, so just grab a marker and trace around the little pumpkin on the faux tile. I didn't realize that like the backing, like the adhesive backing, it was a separate piece, so you could have actually traced this directly onto the back. of the fake tile but cut it all the way around the outline of the pumpkin anyway, you don't really have to worry about it being perfect or looking like a marker because it's on the back of the tile and then once everything is cut, you can see here as if the adhesive piece is separated.

I didn't need it and didn't use the sticky piece because I didn't know how sticky it was going to be in the long run, so I used my Eileen's tacky glue instead. I bought a new bottle to make it softer to squeeze out and then you just place the tile in the center right on top of the pumpkin and then if you're going to hang this, which is me, I just took a small craft knife and poked the holes in the fake tile, like the fake tin tile where the holes were. on the wooden pumpkin so I could thread thread later to hang it and then I wanted to just wear down the metallic look.

You could leave it plain metal if you wanted. I think it would look super cute either way, but I just took a little bit more of that white chalk paint and like a very dry brush technique, so dab it on the paint and then dab it on a little bit before painting and just started with the motion. back and forth and I quickly moved like a pounce motion, so if you have a pounce brush, maybe I would use a pounce brush for this, you can't damage your brushes as much as I damaged mine on this. I think this was a little aggressive, but I liked the motion of lunging up and down.

I guess I didn't want to see brush lines and then I mixed in a little bit of gray chalk paint which I just wanted to use sparingly and not everywhere like little sections and I even mixed in the gray paint. with the white paint so that it's very dull once the paint has dried, you can cut a piece of thread and then you're going to string some wooden beads onto the thread. Now this dollar tree thread tends to fray, so what I like to do. It's taking a piece of duct tape and wrapping it around one end of the thread and then using it while I string the wooden beads onto the thread that way the end doesn't completely fray so you can make your little hanger as long or short as you can. . you want depending on where you want to hang it and use whatever size wooden beads you have, these are about half an inch or so and then once they're all strung together on the string you can just string both ends of the string together. through the holes in the pumpkin and then tie, I think I did like a triple or quadruple knot just because the thread is so thin I didn't want the knot to slip through the hole on that wooden pumpkin and finally on this one I embellished it on the bottom of the pumpkin instead of on the stem like I normally do with just some faux boxwood, so two small twigs facing opposite directions are hot glued to the bottom of the pumpkin and then The dollar tree has these like wooden roses, it's like scraped wood that curls. in the shape of a rose you could add flowers you could add more greenery you could add a bow in the center the possibilities are really endless I just really liked the unfinished wood of the flowers as well as the unfinished wood of the wooden beads I thought it looked good super neutral together once again, probably very farmhouse style, but then hot glue the roses together so they not only like the tile but also stick to each other.

They weren't the easiest to glue in place and I don't know if that's because the wood was stiff. or what, but I like to hot glue all the roses like glue to the back and then to each other, but I'm really excited that the dollar tree has these little faux tin tiles and I think I'll probably have to make more crafts. with them because they are super fun to use and super cute ok another painted cardboard door hanger I pulled out my blue chalk paint it doesn't look very blue on this but it's more like a teal would make a solid coat Of paint. like super solid, like I didn't want to have to do two coats, so I was pretty generous with the chalk paint on this solid coat, let everything dry and then went in with window clings so that Dollar Tree always has the window of most beautiful season.

It sticks and it's a shame you can only put them on your windows, why not make crafts with them? I've made, oh, I've made Christmas, a Christmas decoration that, like if you put window clings on it like a clear vase, it's super cute. way to decorate for the holidays, so just another idea with window clings in there, but then I removed just a couple of these and put them in place. I decided okay this is how I want my design to be and then I added mod podge so this is matte I like to use matte mod podge I don't really like shiny things so a pretty generous layer of mod podge on there and then put the window clings in place with the smaller window clings, I was only able to use my fingertips and to smooth out any air bubbles, but you'll want a roller or smoother tool of some kind for that window more big, it's just impossible to smooth it out with your fingers otherwise it's like a super generous layer of mod podge and then putting the window in stayed in place and I actually had to make several passes with my little rolling tool to get all the bits out. air bubbles and then I also added a couple of leaves on the side to fill in the empty spaces and then finish it all off. with a generous coat of mod podge over the entire sign, I don't even like the areas that didn't have window clings, cover everything that way, everything has the same finish, you don't want it to look weird in some areas use mod podge in some areas or just chalk paint because they will have different finishes so a super generous coat set everything aside to dry and then once the mod podge is completely dry you can adorn it with a ribbon or bow your to choose but I think this is a really fun and creative way to use like the super cute window clickers they have at Dollar Tree in an unexpected way and then a final note if you want to hang these pumpkins like a door hanger and not right through the little hole in the stem, some of them have two holes that you can hang on either side and some don't, so if you're working with this style and you want to be able to hang it and finish the back off nicely, which What you want to do is just remove as much of the paper as you can and sometimes it's easier to start at the edges to grab the edge of the paper and peel it off and then cut a piece of twine and cut it longer. than you think you'll need it because you can always shorten it later and I'll show you how, then grab a hot glue gun and a fingertip protector.

I finally ordered some of these and it saved me from a lot of burns and I just ran like a line of hot glue and then put the end of the thread right over that line of hot glue and you want to hot glue like a good three or four inches of that thread and then cover it with another layer of hot glue that way the hanger stays on nicely and then trace your little pumpkin sign onto a sheet like a 12 by 12 sheet of whatever type of scrapbook paper you like and then apply a very generous coat of mod podge all over the back of the pumpkin to get all the edges covered, what I like to do is use an outward motion, so brush from the center of the pumpkin outwards. and that way you'll get all the edges covered without the mod podge pooling up on the edge of the pumpkin and then fill in the center and then smooth out your scrapbook paper template and then use that mod podge rolling tool to smooth out all of them. the air bubbles and you really want to smooth out the area that has that string very well because it's like a little bit uneven and so when that mod podge is still wet and the paper is a little bit wet, you can smooth it out really well so that the paper will stick and Then when you flip the door hanger over, you can tie a knot to adjust the height of the string hanger that way.

Depending on where you want to hang it in your home, you can tie a knot higher or lower to adjust the height, but there you have it. I made five dollar tree pumpkin sign crafts if you have a moment and want to share a comment. Next which one is your favorite. I would really appreciate it, but I hope you enjoyed these tutorials until next time.