Fall is my favorite time of year and the colors that come with it. However, I love to mix things up a bit from the traditional fall colors of oranges, deep reds and yellows. Succulents have a fun color palette of sage greens, greys and blues. And by adding a little bit of sparkling gold, this DIY pumpkin centerpiece is going to make an impact for my “Welcome to fall” dinner party.
We started this pumpkin centerpiece project by cutting the top off of a white foam pumpkin that we purchased at Michaels and adding a base of golf foil. Both of these are such simple steps, and I think I will be keeping the lid of the pumpkin to repurpose this as a pretty fall container to hide a few treats. We then made a set of wool felt blend succulents with the small addition of adding gold glitter iron-on straight onto the felt before cutting the mauve succulent leaves. This added just enough bling!
Download the succulent patterns below and follow the steps for the succulents in the PART 1 and PART 2 step-by-step tutorials to assemble the variety of plants for your pumpkin centerpiece.
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Tools
Materials
- White Foam Pumpkin
- Lia Griffith’s Wool Blend Felt — Lichen, Fern, Shady Grove, Olive, Dewy, Robin’s Egg, Purple Sage, and Marble (or Dove)
- Glitter Iron-On
- Mod Podge
- Foam Block
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13 Comments
Is there a video tutorial for this? Thanks
There is not a video tutorial, but there are photo tutorials. Just scroll down to find the button for the tutorial at the end. There are also tutorials for the felt succulents which you can find in the post text.
i am not finding the svg file.
They are available to download at the bottom of the post.
Hi Lia and team!
My husband surprised me with the new Cricut Maker for my birthday yesterday (needless to say, I was THRILLED)!
I know you don’t normally like to cut felt with the Cricut, but I’m wondering if you’ve tried it yet with the Maker, and if so, what are your thoughts?
Thank you!
–Sarah
Happy belated birthday Sarah! We LOVE cutting felt on the Maker. We’ve started adding SVG files to some of our popular felt projects, and will add more as the requests come in. A standard grip mat should work fine, and we suggesting using the rotary blade (it defaults to the regular blade on the Felt setting). Have fun!
Awesome! And thanks for the tip about the rotary blade!
Happy holidays,
Sarah
hI! I just got engaged and I’m having a fall wedding. I would love to do some center pieces using your idea! I wonder where you got the pumpkin? Did you have to paint it yourself?
I picked up that pumpkin from Michaels and I added gold foil to the bottom 🙂 Check out the tutorial for more details!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
<3
Pia
You are so sweet, always!
Wish our grandson could have something like this in his room. After stem cell transplant everybody/every thing has to be screened first to go in his room. This is great looking and so versatile. So glad you shared and inspired me, thanks a million. Altho he’s an adult now he’s at Childrens’ hospital in Denver as they have best unit to deal with what he has to endure. He spent a lot of time at Children’s from time he was barely 14 thru his 17th. year.
Daughter and I are working on special project for Grandson, help him pass the days. Many days he’s too darned sick to get on his computer. Need to keep him peaceful and free of germs. I try to stay pretty busy so I don’t think too hard and get down. Haven’t gotten to see Grandson for over 3 yrs.now and he lives in Grand Junction, we live out few miles west of G.J. Get to speak to his Dad, (my son) every couple of weeks.
Please ask your team to say big prayer for him that stem cell transplant works by killing all that nasty cancer in him. Found out it’s due from when he was sick with cancer before. This young man has been thru so much. Had about 3 yrs. of seemingly good health then bam found out he has cancer again.
Please forgive me for bothering you with this. We’ll do whatever we can to help him and keep him alive. He’ll be 22 early Nov.
I Found out few months ago he was losing his eye sight, he was in a trial prgram which operated and he regained his eye sight mostly. Now he’s deaf in one ear, another probability of cancer treatment.
Thanks for reading this. Happy weekend
Your comment touched all of our hearts,we will keep him in our prayers!!