Yes, MOAR silver spraypaint

Spray painted sea shells!

Ahhh, Silver Spray Paint, is there nothing you cannot do?

Well, yes.  For one thing, the picture above is not a DIY silver spray paint project.  These shells are professionally silvered, you can buy them from Creel and Glow, and they're a bit pricier than you might expect.  The most affordable option is $40, but most of the shells are over $100 a piece, going up to $1500. 

I understand wanting to create a less expensive option for such a lovely look.  And it appears the the blog that originally posted the picture  was using it as inspiration for a project idea, rather than presenting the picture as her own work.  It's the Pinner who decided to label a picture of professionally silvered shells as "spray painted sea shells!" who is in the wrong here.

In any case, the link from the pin doesn't work anymore - the blogger removed taken that page.  I don't know if they got complaints from fans who couldn't get their shells to come out like the picture, or if they were asked to remove the image by the owners.  One more Pin with a broken link.

"Fangs" for coming to my party

Spray paint some dollar store fangs for great card holders with person's name on them and/or what the food on a buffet is. 

Again with the silver spray paint.  It's nearly as popular as glow sticks.  If someone finds a way to combine silver spray paint and glow sticks, they'll be able to take over the world.  Or at least the corner of the world occupied by Pinterest crafters (a not inconsiderable portion).

On to this particular pin.  The picture here is not showing cheap plastic fangs that someone painted.  These are from the Pottery Barn.  They don't appear to carry them any longer.

I'm not saying you couldn't do this, but I am saying that what you're seeing in the picture are professionally produced silver fangs, not Dollar Store fangs that someone gussied up on her own.

If you can't duplicate this with silver spray paint, you might try painting the teeth black and then using silver Rub n' Buff.

Chrome Pumpkins

Shiny!

Chrome metallic spray painted dollar store pumpkins!

These look great.  Very shiny, very metallic.  Similar to the Mercury Glass Pumpkins that I posted about before.  Silver pumpkins are apparently very "in" this year.

Lets get down to brass (silver?) tacks:  This picture is misleading.  It was obviously taken soon after these pumpkins were sprayed.  After the paint cures, the shine is diminished:

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That's pretty much it - if you use metallic spray paint on Dollar Store (or probably any) plastic or foam pumpkins, they will be a little dull.  Still pretty, but the pin should use this picture because it's more realistic.  

Mercury Glass Pumpkins

Look closely. No, even more closely.  Have you ever grown a pumpkin with a metal stem?

'Looking glass' spray can transform pumpkins into these gorgeous centerpieces! Use a white spray first to get the best effect. Oh, I'm soooo doing this!!! I'll use fake pumpkins from the craft store so they'll last longer

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These are all great.  One of the pins quoted above came from Ruffles and Such, where she wrote, "But how is this for a DIY project? Spray paint (or silver leaf) those pumpkins and look how glamorous they can look! I could really get into that kind of pumpkin."

I'm not sure what kind of farmer's markets or pumpkin patches these people are going to, but it seems pretty obvious to me that the pumpkins in that picture are not real pumpkins that have been spray painted or covered in silver leaf.  Nor are they Dollar Store pumpkins.  And they definitely are not someone's homemade Mercury Glass pumpkins.  These are Pottery Barn pumpkins.  The only way this is an "easy last minute" pumpkin craft idea is if your idea of a craft is running to Pottery Barn.  And you know, if that's your thing, I'm not gonna judge.

For the rest of you who want a little more "Do It Yourself" in your pumpkin craft project, you have a few options.

You can try to use Dollar Store pumpkins:

It's a fairly inexpensive way to go, but I think we can all agree that this is not the look most people are going for.

You can use looking glass spraypaint on the inside of a glass pumpkin, and you'll get something like this:

Not bad!  A little more expensive than the Dollar Store route, but closer to the original desired look.

Or you could break all the rules of looking glass paint, and use it on the OUTSIDE of a ceramic pumpkin:

Folks, I think we have a winner!  It may not be shabby-chic enough for some, but I think that's a really nice effect and a lovely addition to anyone's Fall decor.

Lace Light Bulbs

Now that our lightbulbs don't burn out every few weeks of course everyone is coming up with ways to use old bulbs in crafts

spray paint through lace on a bulb.

DIY light bulb decor. Just put lace over the bulb and spraypaint

Spray paint through lace over a light bulb or clear Christmas ornaments.

This is one of those things that looks like it should work, but if you take a closer look, you realize that the logistics of spray painting through a doily that is laid over the round and variable shape of a light bulb would probably not look this great.

And you'd be right - despite what most of the pins say, this picture is not the result of spray painting a light bulb through a doily.  These are called Arquette lamps and they are (or were) for sale on Plumo.  It looks like they're gone now, but that's the original source of this image.

In addition to the probable failure if you tried to recreate this pin due to the picture not truly portraying a light bulb that has been spray painted through lace, the idea of using spray paint on a light bulb and then still using that light bulb for lighting is probably a bad idea.  Per a commenter on Polyvore:

"Don't you need a special kind of paint to do this to make sure that there isn't a fire hazard? I did something similar to this once with regular spray paint and it almost burned a hole in my ceiling...."

Words to live by. Don't burn your house down in the name of style.