Pumpkin Carving Stencil - Pumpkin Tattoo

I thought this was pretty cool, pumpkin carving tattoo stencils! Instead of using paper patterns you actually stick the tattoo on the pumpkin and carve it that way. The set pictured here is from the artist Ray Villafane, who creates awesome 3D pumpkin carvings ... now he has made even the most basic pumpkin carving even easier! Click the photo to see more pumpkin tattoo patterns.

Halloween Pumpkin Carving

This was my Halloween pumpkin carving, it is definitely not my best work but I am still proud of it. I tried a couple new techniques and did not finish my drawing out my stencil until right before carving my pumpkin, so the whole project was a bit rushed.

I did the stencil myself with a little help from my printer/scanner/copier and I used a tip I saw online that used cornstarch (or flour) to make the tiny stencil guide holes easier to see. Now the tip did as advertised, making the holes easier to see but I had to take more care to make sure all traces of the white powder where gone.

If you look at my stencil, you can see that there is a bat hanging off of a tree branch right in the middle of the pumpkin carving stencil ..... poor planning, my branch was to thin and the bat too big, they did not make it.