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Other Items of Interest to Pumpkin Carvers
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Can You Make Money Carving Pumpkins?
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Pumpkin Carving Tools:
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Preserve Your Artwork
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Fun-kins. Don't want your pumpkin to wilt away? Fun-kins carve like a real pumpkin without the mess. Don't spend hours carving a real pumpkin only to have it decay in just a few days! Get a Fun-Kins pumpkin that lasts forever!
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Pumpkin Fresh. Spray-On Pumpkin Preservative. Check out how it works, you'll be impressed.
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Other Cool Pumpkin Carving Pattern Sites:
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The Pumpkin Wizard
has one of the best varieties of patterns available for advanced
carvers.
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Masterpiece
Pumpkins is a great resource for pumpkin carvers.
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Custom Pumpkin Carving.
Ed and Kristen are talented pumpkin carvers, and together they
form an unbeatable team. Check out some great creative pumpkin carving
genius on their site, PumpkinPage.com.
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Halloween Pumpkins very
nice site, well organized with a selection of great patterns.
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Jack-O-Lantern.com offers some great patterns, many of which are
great for beginners and children (although there are some great
advanced patterns as well).
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Check out the newest cool pumpkin carving site on the net. Jammin Pumpkins.com is one pattern site you will not want to miss.
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Another impressive pattern site. Ryan Wickstrand from ZombiePumpkins.com has a created some awsome, yet simple to carve patterns. My hat is off to the quality of his patterns and his site!
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How to create pumpkin patterns
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The Pumpkin
Lady has great instructions for creating your own pattern.
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Jack-O-Lantern.com has a great section on how to create portrait
patterns.
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Walt has a
great page with detailed instructions on creating a pumpkin pattern.
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The Pumpkin Wizard also has a
great page with detailed instructions on creating pumpkin patterns.
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Buy software that will create patterns for you with
Me On A Pumpkin. I personally
don't like the quality of patterns that it creates (compare their
Benjamin
Franklin to
mine). But it is another option for creating pumpkin patterns.
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Vegetable and Fruit Carving
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PumpkinGutter.com Scott Cummins has done some very impressive sculpting with pumpkins. This site is a "must see"!
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Edible Gems does some very creative things, not just with fruit and vegetables, but almost anything edible.
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Dazzle your next party with a creatively carved centerpiece:
ChefGarnish.com
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Unlike pumpkins, watermelon requires no cooking and hardly any preperation before serving as a tasty treat. Find out about the many health benefits of watermelon at Sundia.com, the world's largest watermelon brand in the world.
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Arts and Crafts
pumpkin carving patterns are good for more than just pumpkins
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AllCrafts.net - Free Crafts Network Free Crafts projects! Your guide for all types of crafts. Holiday crafts, Kids crafts, crochet, knitting, dolls, rubber stamps and much more! 20+ craft categories. New free projects added weekly!
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Craftster.org Great craft fourm, this is not your everyday crafting site.
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temptingstencils.com Awesome stencils for pumpkins and many other creative uses.
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Scrapbookpal.com Great resource for scrapbooking supplies!
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DLTK's Crafts for Kids Here's a great site for kid's Halloween activities.
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Ready Set Glo Here's a perfect idea for pumpkin patterns. Glow In The Dark Stars, Glowing Candles, Luminescent Paint.
Description: Offers glow in the dark products including glow sticks,
grout, stars, blacklight paint, nail polish, candles, paint, body paint,
and fabric.
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You can use pumpkin stencils to make creative cards. Here's a great source for a variety of cardstocks for crafting. Visit Jackkyll Scraps at cardstock.biz.
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Other
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Here's a great Costume site, not just for Halloween, but for all occasions, and not just for kids, but adults as well:
CostumeHub.com
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