Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Twinkling Bling Floral Wire Pumpkin

7:00 AM Gail @Purple Hues and Me Creative Craft Hop, Floral Wire Pumpkin, twinkling bling 5 comments

I love looking online in high end stores to see what inspires me! And recently I was on Frontgate and came across an adorable and quite unusual pumpkin as seen here:

It's called "Gemstone Pumpkin" and is described as being "covered in hundreds of warm white LED lights and gemstones." It retails for $429.00! All I can say is WOW!!!! It is really pretty but I truly believe given the simplicity of it, it's not worth over four hundred dollars or even close to that amount! If you look really hard at the picture, you can see the wires of the lights and gemstones wrapped around the shape.

I would never, ever spend that much money or anything near that amount on a pumpkin but it did inspire me to create a decorative pumpkin using crystals rocks, LED twinkle lights and other items I already had on hand!

Hello and Welcome to this month's Creative Craft Hop! I'm so glad you're here! We have two wonderful hosts - Donna @Modern on Monticello and Sara @Birdz of a Feather who take turns every other month! The talented and inspirational Donna is our host this month!

If you're coming over from Cecilia @My Thrift Store Addiction, wasn't her crochet chenille daisies absolutely adorable!

Let's get started with the items I used to make my

Twinkling Bling Floral Wire Pumpkin!

Supplies:

Floral Wire Rings (five) 12"
Craft wire - 22 gauge/tape ring
Wire cutter/ruler
Clear Acrylic Crystal Rocks
Hot glue gun/hot glue
Invisible (clear) thread
LED white lights with remote

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How To:

Begin by arranging two floral wire rings together at the center and . . .

add the remaining two by criss crossing or intersecting the first two rings. Secure by wrapping the top and bottom with wire at the middle top and bottom. I'm using a tape ring temporarily to allow the rings to stand evenly upright until the crystals are glued on.

Here are the floral wires grouped together at different angles for the shape of a pumpkin:

Once the floral rings were connected using wire, I used my hands to press the center of the rings down a bit to mimic the oval shape a pumpkin.

Next, I used the fifth ring to fold and shape the pumpkin stem using a ruler and a wire cutter and then . . .

hot gluing the stem wire to the center top of the rings.

After that, it was time to start hot gluing the clear crystal rocks to the base of the pumpkin stem wire.

I had some elongated crystals in my stash that I glued on each ring first extending from the center.

Once the center was done, which looked gorgeous by the way . . .

the stones were hot glued on each floral ring, one at a time . . .

as I moved around and down the metal rings.

Once this position of glued on stones was reached about three quarters of the way,

it was time to turn the wire pumpkin upside down to finish gluing on the stones on each ring.

Here, I'm getting closer to gluing on the crystal rocks to the bottom center.

Don't you just love how the crystal stones look once the rings are covered.

Smaller crystal stones were glued onto the stem to . . .

complete the crystal stones look! Invisible thread was used to tie on the LED lights around the stones on each ring - one ring at a time. Sorry, I didn't take a picture of this - but if you look closely, you can see some of the thread wrapped around the stones and ring. Remember, the thread is suppose to be invisible or transparent, lol!