Love these lanterns!

If you’re looking for a unique and different way to style your pumpkins this weekend, you might want to decorate them with some of these beautiful designs.  Sure, carving pumpkins is great fun, but if you’d like your fall fruits to last for more than a week, try stenciling or painting them instead.  We’ve got some great ideas for carving and stenciling below.

New York City stylist Marissa Corwin was inspired by the traditional scary-faced jack-o’-lantern to paint and carve the three lantern-laced pumpkins, pictured.  “They’re a bit more sophisticated than your average spooky face — something adults can appreciate, too,” she says.  Here’s how you can achieve the look:

1. Cut your pumpkin around the stem, remove the top, and scoop out the pulp.  (Or to avoid visible cut lines, carve a hole out of the bottom of the pumpkin and remove the pulp that way.)

2. Print (and resize if necessary) the lantern templates, found here.

3. Cut out the stencil as directed on the template and center it on the pumpkin, affixing it with masking tape. Outline the shape of the stencil onto the pumpkin with a fine-point Sharpie.

4. With the stencil still affixed to the pumpkin, punch through the asterisks marked at the top of the lantern.

5. Remove the stencil and carve out the pane(s) of the lantern, following the lines you drew.

6. Then carefully fill in the design using a fine-tip brush and black flat acrylic craft paint – or your Sharpie will work, too.

Check out these amazing black and white pumpkins!  They are so striking and will look great on your porch for the next few weeks.

By stylist Liz Demos of Savannah, GA.

I especially love the zebra-inspired look.  Country Living has provided a stencil for the beetle, found here, but the spider web look seems easy enough to do free-hand with a Sharpie or Magic Marker.  Be sure to start by painting the entire surface of your pumpkin with white acrylic craft paint, found in any hobby shop.

Finally, how about a Lite Brite inspired autumnal look?  This clever design is not Halloween-specific, so you can confidently display this pumpkin through Thanksgiving.

There's a moon out tonight...

The instructions for this design, by Paul Lowe of New York City, are found here.  What I love about this stencil is that if you don’t have holiday lights lying around, you can simply carve the crescent moon shape into your pumpkin and light it with a candle from within.

Be sure to visit Country Living to check out their other great Halloween craft ideas.  Enjoy!

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