I am so excited about today’s post because several of my favorite home blogger’s have teamed up to do a fall blogger tour/blog hop highlighting all of the creative ways to style velvet pumpkins in centerpieces and other pretty vignettes. A big welcome to The Creativity Exchange for those of you new to my blog and visiting as part of today’s tour! I’m Cyndy and I’m so glad that you’re here!
 A big thank you to Yvonne from the beautiful blog StoneGable who organized the tour for us.
Today’s post is sponsored by LoveFeast Shop
You can follow along the tour by visiting the other bloggers participating for more styling ideas and inspiration listed at the end of today’s post and be sure to check back each day through Wednesday with new bloggers posting each day!
Now on to how I styled the velvet pumpkins!
Velvet pumpkins are such a pretty and fun way to decorate during the fall because unlike real pumpkins, velvet pumpkins will last forever. I especially love the HotSkwash pumpkins because their pumpkins have real stems, which is such a beautiful combination next to the velvet!
There are so many creative ways to layer and style velvet pumpkins! The possibilities are endless as you guys will see on this blogger tour! I decided to use my velvet pumpkins on my living room mantle mixed with white pumpkins, pine cones and seeded eucalyptus.
I wanted white pumpkins for my mantle but here in East Texas, it’s too early for pumpkins, so I painted pie pumpkins with gesso and I think they turned out so pretty!
The HotSkwash velvet pumpkins that I used for my mantle are the large coastal set in the LoveFeast Shop. It was so hard for me to choose which colors I wanted to order and but I thought the coastal set would work best on my mantle with the shades of blue painting over my fireplace. 🙂
I also ordered a large ivory one with feathers!
The cool thing about decorating a mantle with pumpkins is you can use various size candles holders to elevate pumpkins and if you slide another pumpkin in front of the candle base and fill with greenery and you won’t see the candle holder.
I like to mix and match the angles that I layer the pumpkins just to give interest.
Wherever you decide to style pumpkins for the fall, you can incorporate pinecones, greenery and branches from your yard, pinecones and even dried flowers!
If you want to see more easy fall decorating ideas, you can see me 5 minute fall decorating ideas here.
So many fun possibilities!
Now it’s time to move on to the other bloggers in the tour today! You’ll find links to their blogs below. Check back here tomorrow and Wednesday for more bloggers participating!
Come back tomorrow to see more beautiful pumpkin inspiration!
Thanks for stopping by today friends!
Cheers!
Cyndy
classic casual home says
This is gorgeous. Love the way your display is on a sliding scale…so creative and fresh.
Mary Ann
Cyndy says
Thank you so much Mary Ann for your kind words! 🙂
Joyce says
Gloriously beautiful velvet pumpkins Cindy! Your creative ideas
make me want to clean, put away summer accessories, check out my stored fall items, and do some shopping therapy.
Thank you for sharing,
Cyndy says
Thank you so much Joyce! I’m a big fan of shopping therapy!! lol! 😉
Yvonne @ StoneGable says
Cynde, Thanks so much for joining this tour. What a stunning mantel. The perfect place to put those beautiful velvet pumpkins. And you certainly picked the perfect ones! They work so well with your painting!
Lory at Designthusiasm says
Cyndy, how absolutely beautiful your mantel looks!! I love the asymmetry and the colors you chose to work with your home style! Just lovely!!
Cyndy says
Thank you so much Lory! Loved loved how you styled your pumpkins! 🙂
Ellen from Ask Away Blog says
I love love love decorating for Fall because of all the pumpkins! I only have 2 velvet ones though, I think I need some more!
Cyndy says
Thank you so much Ellen! I want to start collecting them! LOL! I’m totally obsessed! A friend of mine has all the shades of one color (violet) on her dining table and it looks so incredible!! 🙂
Jamie says
I love your vignette, Cydny! It’s so pretty and matches your artwork perfectly!
Hugs, Jamie
Jen says
Hi Cyndy! Do you remember the gold color of spray paint you used on your frames for your framed Rifle Paper calendar prints? There are too many golds to choose from and I love the way yours turned out! Thank you!
Susan says
I love the velvet pumpkins! So elegant, but at the same time, earthy. Your mantle is perfection from the colors to the textures to the styling. Sooo pretty!
Cyndy says
Thank you so much Susan! I agree with the elegant and earthy mix, especially with the HotSkwash ones with the real stems! Just makes me want them all!! Haha! Thanks for your note! 😉
Thelma Tone says
Your mantle vignette is elegant. The velvet pumpkins certainly take fall decorating to a new level.
I enjoy your blogs and always get great ideas. Thank you.
Would you please share the source where you purchased the art above your fireplace. It’s prefect for a project I’m working on.
Cyndy says
Thank you so much Thelma! Your kind words made my morning! The painting is actually from At Home stores if you can believe it!! I had it re-cut and placed in a floating frame. I just fell in love with the colors and I know they still carry it! Thanks for your note Thelma! 🙂
Joanna says
I have to say it is disappointing when these contests are open to US citizens only. As a regular reader and commenter, I feel left out. I would have no problem paying for delivery or picking up on my next trip down. And to the sponsor, I shop American often. Just saying….
Cyndy says
The giveaway is open to anyone Joanna but they will only ship to U.S. addresses. You could sign up and if you win, have your goodies shipped to a U.S. friend and then they can ship to you! 🙂 Good luck on the drawing!
Joanna says
That wasn’t clear. I will know for future posts. Thank you!
Lou says
This mantle arrangement is just beautiful. I love the different sizes with fullness of each pumpkin.
Denise Carlson says
I am in love with love fest Web site and have already picked out what I would spend the gift card on. All the blogs did such a beautiful job arranging their pumpkins! Please enter me into the drawing.
Thanks, Denise
Debbie says
Gorgeous! Love the colors you chose. I am so happy to learn about this shop. Thanks for sharing as always.