DIY Breast Cancer Awareness Pumpkin with Giveaway

As we all know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I saw something similar to this last year, and thought what a great idea to combine the two biggest events in October into one, Halloween & Breast Cancer Awareness.  So I wanted to share with you how easy this was to create, and then give one of my readers one for themselves.

So of course, you need to have all of your supplies ready before you get started, so here is the list of all the items you will need:
Plastic Pumpkin ( I got mine last year after Halloween on clearance)
Paint (white, light pink, dark pink, you can choose your shades)
Paint Brushes
Small ribbons, flowers or other adornments in white
Some Pink ribbon stickers or buttons
Ribbon in pink or white, or both :)
Hot Pink Foam Sheet
​Sharpie
Glue Gun
​Newspaper

Now for the fun part, making your pumpkin.  First you can do this one of two ways, you can paint the entire pumpkin white, or just paint the white stripes on the pumpkin.  I did one each way to show you.

Then you will paint your light pink stripes.

 Don't worry if your stripes aren't perfect, I know mine weren't, but this is for your own pleasure, even if you are making them to sell or raffle at an event, each one will be unique.
Next, you will use the dark pink to outline your stripes and really set off the white & light pink. Again, they don't have to be perfect.

Now is my favorite part, decorating the painted pumpkins! You add the ribbons/flowers, and the Pink Awareness Ribbons, Even though they had small stickers on them to attach, I did use a glue gun, to ensure that they will stay in place. Then you will cut small rectangles from the hot pink foam sheet, and using the sharpie, write Hope, Believe or whatever inspiration quote that is associated with Breast Cancer Awareness that you chose, and then using the glue gun, secure that as well.

And now to put on the finishing touch, the ribbon.  I used ribbon that was made for gift wrapping, I just thought it would give it that extra something to make it pop, but you can use regular ribbon or what ever you chose to top off the pumpkin.

And that is it, you have a beautiful decoration for your home or office. I hope you enjoyed this DIY, and let me know if you make your own, I would love to know how they turn out.
So you are not the crafty kind? That is okay, because, the reason I made 2 of these is so that I could give one to my wonderful readers.  I will be giving away the small pumpkin to one of my readers.  So just go to the giveaway post and make sure you enter to win!
Let me know in the comments below what kind of DIY project that you would like to see in the future.