Things you'll need:
- 1 styrofoam pumpkin
- Fine glitter (I used gold fine glitter with specs of green and orange)
- Elmers clear liquid glue
- Knife or blade
- Pen (there is a Sharpie in the picture but I ended up using a ballpoint pen)
- Tea light candle with metal or plastic surrounding the actual candle
* Everything was bought at Hobby Lobby
Here is how you do it!
Start off by removing the "stem" from the styrofoam pumpkin. Usually these just twist off.
Tip your tea light upside down and trace around the circle. You'll be cutting on this line so make sure it's visible.
Take your knife or blade and carefully carve on the line you just drew. Scrape out the inside as well so everything is level. You don't want a lopsided tea light spilling the wax into the pumpkin.
Also, you want to continuously check the depth of the hole you're making so it's not too deep. You want the top of the tea light to sit leveled with the top of the pumpkin.
Checkin' the fit of the tea light!
& look at all of that snow!
...
(not)
Take your Elmers Glue and coat each individual panel with glue, spread it with your finger and coat the surface with glitter... generously!
* I prefer to use my fingers to spread the glue so I can be sure that the glue has been spread evenly on each individual panel of the pumpkin. For those of you who don't like to get your nails "glue-y", you can use a bristled paint brush.
Go back over any "rough" spots that don't have enough glitter and then let it dry! (without the tea light inside).
Once it's finished, put your tea light in, cook up some Pumpkin Pancakes with your significant other, turn off the lights, sip on a Pumpkin Spice Latte (OK, you get it), and light the candle!
I hope you enjoyed this DIY Tutorial! PIN this to your Pinterest account ladies! You'll definitely want this one saved!
#Noemi
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