Jennifer Perkins: Your pumpkin may not exactly have a five o’clock shadow, here is
going to look really good with a nice clean shave. I’m talking
about a up in coming alternative of pumpkin carving, that’s called
Shaving and it is easiest pumpkin pie. I’ve got couples of every
technique I’m going to show you. The first step let’s talk about all
the fun tools and tricks that go along with this technique.

Right over here I have a set of wood carving tools, now you can
pick this up but I guess the wood carvers store but I’ve got mine at
the craft store. The fun thing about this woodcarving tools is they
work great on a pumpkin. The trick is, you just want to go and take
off the top layer of your pumpkin, it’s not like carving you don’t
want to go all the way through and create an actual hole. So that
when you put your life source inside it just going to be a shine
through and have a really nice claw to it so, this work super easy
and they also work great on the full pumpkins. As we have another
tool over here which are a rotary tool that has a rotary tool
attachment on the top and this rotary tool is actually made
specially for pumpkins.

So, let me show you how to shave with a rotary tool. Just cuts off
that first top layer and make a little heart in there because I heart
my little pumpkin and I want them to look cute. So, now you have
411 on pumpkin shaving and let’s go over here and I want to show
you my friend thus swirl all over pumpkin. You’re getting very,
very sleepy. The beauty of this swirl all over pumpkin is not only
is the gorgeous, it could possibly hypnotize someone and that’s
what I loved about it. Now, this is such a pretty pumpkin, we
actually did this on a foam pumpkin. They come in shades too like
while which is really, really cool and looks awesome with this
effect.

You can see that we win around and then we shave, they get a
swirl a little pattern all the way around the entire pumpkin. And
this technique is actually a lot easier than it looks. You will see that
there is a tape on here and now what this is? Is curve the masking
tape and what that mean is it will just kind of like bend and move
so you can put it on more the swirly pattern. I’ve got it started; I
can all the way going around. So once you have your pattern laid
out all the way around your entire pumpkin. You will bring to your
rotary tool and you would just start filling this in.

Once I had that outline then I was just go to the whole thing,
obviously it is worth the finish product because it is so pretty.
You’re going to love it; all your neighbors are going to love it. You
are going to have the basket and you can tell me what’s going to
happen. With the little tape and some string we can make this
really cool pattern in cord. And on this one as you see we’re
bringing back that old favorite carving, don’t be sad we haven’t
totally forgotten it. But we’re also bringing in the new school
shaving, that’s kind of mixing enough. We get the best of both
worlds on this one. And it’s surprisingly easy which we always
love. Over here we have kind of what I did is I took two little
strands of thread and tape them space out about a half an inch apart
all the way around on the top of our gourd.

From here, I’m going to take this thread and you can see there is a
two pieces there and I’m going to split just like so. And I am going
to bring it into a B pattern and then I will tape it to the bottom. You
can see where they tape it already down here and I would finish
doing that with all the string and when I was done, I will get this
pattern that I’m getting my diamond shape. So, once we have our
shape then we need to do our carving and our shaving. The ones
that I carved you want to alternate with the one that you’re
shaving. And you would alternate until you got something that
eventually it look like this and it’s going to look even better once
we like this baby up.

Now, what I am going to do to it light up my gourd is I’m going to
use what called a See Hook. Now this is something you could just
find at the hardware store and they’re easy to come by and I’m
going to screw it up into the top of my gourd. And what I’m going
to used to lighted up are our holiday light. In this is what I’m going
to hook on to my little see. And the cool thing about this is once
you’ve hook it to the top it’s going to give a nice light all the way
down. So now I’ve shown you a bunch of different tips and
techniques so still have any excuse not to have the cutest pumpkin
in your neighborhood.