Check out these pumpkin design books! Pumpkins are a traditional decoration during the Autumn. They are a common site decorating the fronts of peoples houses for Halloween, and most are decorated or carved to make brilliant designs and creative creatures. They are also a symbol of Thanksgiving and the harvest season. Here are some great books that will help you carve or decorate your pumpkins. Make sure you also check out my free pumpkin designs to download.
1. Extreme Pumpkin Carving Book
Providing a new twist on a holiday tradition, this book illustrates how to carve three-dimensional faces and scenes in pumpkins using tools ranging from kitchen knives to carving gouges and chisels. Complete information is provided for getting started, including an overview of tools and tips for finding the best pumpkin to work with.
2. Extreme Pumpkins: Diabolical Do-It-Yourself Designs
Based on his popular and addictive website ExtremePumpkins.com, Tom Nardone has created a full-color guide to pumpkin carving that's truly frightening. Featuring the website's signature Puking Pumpkin, and spanning everything from Drowning Pumpkin, Crime Scene Pumpkin, and Cannibal Pumpkin to Electrocuted Pumpkin and other never-before-seen designs.
3. Great Pumpkin Book
Great Pumpkins features pumpkin-carving ideas to light up every porch and window, from an evil witch on a broomstick sure to terrify the neighbors to cute little kittens to welcome 'frady cats of all stripes. Simple instructions give novice carvers the know-how, while experienced carvers will find practical inspiration for show-stopping artistry.
4. Pimp My Pumpkin
Take your pumpkin from boring to bling! You could carve your pumpkin, but why not take it to a whole new level? With Pimp My Pumpkin you can transform your jack-o'-lantern into the most blinged-out one on the block.
5. Pumpkin Chic
Presents an array of projects that use pumpkins, squash, and gourds for autumn decorations throughout the home.
