Today is Tuesday and I am starting something new called Tuesday Tutorials.
Most of the time I am going to be very elementary in explaining how I create something out of something else. Today's project was inspired by last years pumpkin and also my LOVE for the ART PAPERS I make with the Gelli Plate. Now don't worry if you don't have a Gelli Plate because I will give you some ideas on how to create something similar to what I do...
Here we go!
I started by grabbing all of my Fallish/Pumpkinish colors of paints and sprays, some white paper (I use printer paper because it is lightweight but durable) my beaten-to-death Gelli Plate and my equally beaten-to-death Brayer.
Basically, I am using the Gelli Plate as a place to mix my colors and hold my paint so that I can "stamp" it onto my papers several times. 
If you do not have a Gelli Plate, simple spray papers in the colors you
want and/or load up your brayer with acrylic paint and "roll" it on on
different directions. Lay stencils on your Gelli plate and stamp designs onto your papers or lay stencils down on your paper and use spray colors to create a design.
Let your papers dry completely before using them on a project.
For this project, I am using two random "squarish" blocks of wood that I had, the paper I made and a burlap "ribbon" that came off of a package of really cute box of jingle bells that I bought at TJ Maxx.
(the top pumpkin in the picture below is from last year but I wanted to see how they would look stacked before I started)
and really, the rest is as simple as it looks....use the paper you made to wrap the blocks. I do not want to make them permanent pumpkins (or I probably would have painted the blocks) because if you look at the three blocks stacked together, it is going to make a dang cute Christmas tree, so I just taped the paper to keep it together, you know, like you were wrapping a package.
Using the Burlap ribbon and more tape, I wrapped the blocks, tied a bow and bam, done.
This concludes the very first Tuesday Tutorial! Happy pumpkin making!
