Easy Pumpkin Carving E-Book

• Herausgeber: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Seitenzahl: 23

Beschreibung

Carve the perfect Halloween masterpiece! Whether you're a first-time pumpkin carver or an experienced pro, create the best jack-o-lantern on the block with this handy guide. Impress those trick-or-treaters with clever, easy-to-carve pumpkin ideas. Easy Pumpkin Carving offers tips and tricks for fang-tastic pumpkin carving with techniques that go way beyond traditional methods. Create luminary pumpkins and etched pumpkins, combine multiple pumpkins in creative ways, or embellish pumpkins without even touching a knife. With inspirational color photos and a dozen ready-to-use pumpkin carving patterns, you're sure to have a spooktacular Halloween with this book.

Leseprobe

Introduction

Welcome to a brave new world of pumpkin carving and embellishing. We’ve all carved pumpkins as a kid, or carved pumpkins with our own kids. So why this book?

First of all, in these pages you’ll you find the tips and tricks you need to make pumpkin carving easier, faster, and more effective than the carving you might already know how to do. With tons of useful info about types of pumpkins, carving tools, pattern usage, and more, your next pumpkin will blow your old pumpkins out of the water!

Second of all, this book will teach you several techniques for carving and embellishing pumpkins that go beyond traditional carving. You can create luminary pumpkins and etched pumpkins, combine multiple pumpkins in creative ways, and embellish pumpkins without even touching a knife. It won’t be until you see the ideas presented in this book that you’ll realize just how cool (and easy) pumpkin carving can be!

So turn the page and get ready to have the best pumpkins on the block this autumn.

Contents

Types of Pumpkins

Traditional Carving Tools

Using Patterns

Technique 1: Traditional Carving

Technique 2: Making Luminaries

Technique 3: Etching

Technique 4: Multi-Pumpkin Projects

Technique 5: Embellishing

Patterns

Types of Pumpkins

There are many kinds of pumpkins to choose from when it comes to carving and embellishing. What you choose will depend on what kind of project you want to make. Here are just some of the main options!

•  Standard pumpkins: Your typical pumpkin is big, orange, and sturdy. This is a go-to pumpkin for any project! Common varieties include Cinderella and Jack O’ Lantern (yes, that’s a real type of pumpkin!).

•  Mini pumpkins: Tiny pumpkins have variety names like Jack-be-littles, Munchkins, and Baby Boos, and they are just as cute as their names. These little pumpkins aren’t as easy to carve, but they’re perfect as fall foliage décor accents, and they can be painted or embellished with very little material or effort.

•  White and gray pumpkins: Depending on what you do with a white pumpkin, it can be creepy—like a ghost!—or elegant. Whatever you choose to do with it, white pumpkins are definitely a welcome departure from the norm. The Lumina variety in particular is white on the outside and bright orange on the inside, giving a very cool effect when carved.

•  Other colored pumpkins: Pumpkins come in many other colors and patterns, like blues, greens, stripes—you name it, it probably comes on a pumpkin! Each variety is slightly different, so do a little research before attempting to carve a pretty pumpkin you’re not familiar with.

•  Gooseneck gourds: We can’t forget good old gourds! The unique shape of a gooseneck or swan gourd, with their long necks and stems, is a treat to work with for embellishing techniques.

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