Are you ready to learn how to grow a pumpkin?  No water or dirt required just a couple of punches, paper and ink.  So, let’s get started

First, you’ll need growing materials.

Pumpkin Materials

• Card Stock – Cajun Craze (#119684) and Pumpkin Pie (#105117)
• Ink – Cajun Craze; (#126965)
• Punches – Extra-Large Oval (#119859); Small Oval (#120908)
• Sponge Dauber (#102892)
• Adhesives – Glue Dots (#103683);  Stampin’ Dimensionals (#104430)
• Optional – Burlap Ribbon (#132140)Scraps for Stem; Washi Tape (#132155) & twist ties for Tendrils; Leaves, etc.

1.  Start by punching 3 Small Ovals and 3 Extra Large ovals from Pumpkin Pie card stock.  Also punch 2 Extra Large Ovals from Cajun Craze Card Stock

Step 1

2.  Using Cajun Craze Ink and a Sponge Dauber, distress all ovals.

Step 2

3.  Attach one Cajun Craze Oval to each side of one Pumpkin Pie Extra-Large oval with Glue Dots.

Step 3

4.  Attach one Extra-Large Pumpkin Pie Oval to each side with Glue Dots.  Repeat this step with small ovals.

Step 4

5.  Add stem, leaves or tendrils.  The tendrils shown here were created with Washi Tape covered twist ties.  The stem is a scrap of Burlap Ribbon selvage edge left over from the scrapbook pages shown below. Attach small pumpkin to large pumpkin with Stampin’ Dimensional. See the scrapbook pages below for more ideas to make your pumpkin come alive.

Step 5

Final Step

Now that you have your pumpkins, what do you do with them?  Pumpkin pie?  Somehow I don’t think that would work. How about a card?  If you missed the previous post showing a card featuring these home-grown pumpkins, click here.

The pumpkin bounty was so great I decided to create 12 x 12 scrapbook pages too.  Perfect for some of the special pictures you’ll take on Thanksgiving.  Click on the images below to for a larger view.

Autumn Page 1

Autumn Page 2

You can even grow these hybrid pumpkins year-round!  Click the image below for larger image of the coordinating card.

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