Happy Fall Twine Pumpkin Sign

Rustic and pumpkin is a match made in crafty DIY decor heaven. This Happy Fall Twine Pumpkin sign is all that and more! And it uses recycled cardboard so it can be made on a budget too. Craft decor Win-Win!

Rustic Happy Fall Twine Pumpkin Sign made on a wood shim chippy white background, cardboard orange twine pumpkin, leopard print wood bead hanger, and a burlap strip at the bottom that says "Happy Fall" in scrabble tile letters.

I just looooovvveeeeee a good Rustic Charm in my decor. Especially my Fall stuff! The vibe it brings is….*chefs kiss*

This Twine Pumpkin sign gives you all the rustic #FallFeels, doesn’t it?

Of course, I had to give it the Manda Panda touch by adding the leopard print. If there is a way to work leopard in, I’ll find it.

It’s the perfect compliment to the Tin Can Pumpkin and the Patchwork Pumpkin as well.

The completed pumpkin project hanging on the wall staged with other diy fall crafts and decor.

Fall is in the air with this Twine Pumpkin Sign!

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Supplies Needed to Make a Twine Pumpkin Sign

The supplies needed to make the project laying on the floor spread out.

12″ Wood Shim
Mod Podge
Burlap
Sticks from Outside
Twine
Small square of cardboard
Scrabble Tile letters “HAPPY FALL”
17″ wood beads
16″ Leopard print beads
White paint
Vaseline
Antique Wax
Greenery pic for stem
Raffia
Jumbo Popsicle sticks
Hot glue gun

How to Make a Twine Pumpkin Sign

I made this Twine Pumpkin Sign on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Amanda holding the completed craft on a facebook live thumbnail.

Watch the video HERE

Start by bracing together 5 wooden shims, making sure to alternate them thick end/thin end like you see below.

5 12" wood shims laid out on the floor next to each other to from the background of the sign.

I used several jumbo popsicle sticks and glued them across the back to brace them together.

Next, stain the entire wood shim background with Antique Wax and then paint it white using the “chippy method”.

The back of the pumpkin sign showing that the wood shims are braced together with popsicle sticks.

There are a few different ways to do this, but for this project I used Vaseline. Basically you lightly rub Vaseline in random spots on the surface, and then paint the white over the top of it. Once dry, you take a paint scraper and “chip” the paint off the spots that had Vaseline.

You can SEE exactly how I do this in the video replay, or you can go to THIS post where I describe the process in detail.

The background painted white with chipping distressed paint.

For the pumpkin, I freehand drew a 4″ pumpkin onto a piece of cardboard, and cut it out. It doesn’t have to be perfect! Once we add the twine you won’t be able to tell at all.

Then wrap the entire cardboard pumpkin with twine, until you can no longer see the cardboard. You may have to add dabs of glue along the way to keep it in place.

A small piece of cardboard with a pumpkin drawn on it in blue pen.

If you’re worried you’ll see the cardboard through the twine you can paint it orange first, but you definitely don’t have to.

Paint the entire Twine Pumpkin orange. I brushed it on lightly rather then completely saturating it to give it that rustic charm.

The cardboard pumpkin wrapped in twine and painted orange.

Glue on some sticks as the “stem” and add a bit of faux greenery, a small burlap ribbon bow, and some raffia for decoration.

The twine pumpkin with stems made from sticks, some faux greenery, a small burlap bow, and raffia.

For the “HAPPY FALL” I used Scrabble tile letters, but you could use any letters that you have like wood or galvanized metal. You could even cut it out of Vinyl with your cricut.

I store my Scrabble Tiles in this plastic jewelry organizer to make it super easy to find the letter that I need.

A plastic jewelry organizer filled with scrabble tiles that are organized by the letter.

Glue a strip of frayed burlap across the bottom under the Twine Pumpkin, and then glue on your HAPPY FALL letters.

A strip of frayed burlap glued across the bottom of the sign, under the twine pumpkin with scrabble tile letters that say "Happy Fall" glued on top.

Finish it off by making a wood bead hanger with twine. I alternated stained wood beads with leopard print. In the middle I put two stained beads together so that it hangs even on each side (can we say OCD?).

Glue the hanger to the back, and secure with a piece of a popsicle stick over each end to help keep it in place (see the photo of the back of the project from the first step).

I just love how this Rustic Happy Fall Twine Pumpkin Sign turned out!

It’s perfect for a traditional rustic fall vibe, and it looks super aborbs with the Reversible Scarecrow (and snowman!) that we made in my subscription group, The CRafterparty!

The completed project hanging on the wall with a bookcase underneath that has a patchwork pumpkin, tin can pumpkin, and a wood scarecrow.

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