Ou can create really intricate designs that would be near impossible if you made through cuts.Ĭarving the surface is easier than cutting straight through because a mini pumpkin is quite small and so is the stencil. What’s really fantastic about etching a pumpkin, is that it gives you way more flexibility in the designs you can carve. Instead, you scrape away the skin and whittle down the pulp, like you would do with a wood carving.Īs you reduce the layers of the pumpkin, it will allow light to show through the thinner areas of remaining pulp. You usually won’t create holes that go completely through the pumpkin. Okay, so how does it work? What exactly is pumpkin etching, or surface carving?Įtching/surface carving is where you carve into a pumpkin, but you don’t cut all the way through the pumpkin. Here are 67 free pumpkin patterns of cats, if you are planning on carving a regular sized pumpkin of a cat. Just start shopping now though, because with shipping times added for some of these cool designs, it may be calling it close for getting done in time for Halloween. These are actual physical stencils that are super inexpensive. The good news is that I found all of these mini pumpkin stencils that you can use for carving your tiny pumpkins. Finding a cat stencil was really easy, but finding a cat mini stencil was far less so. In thinking about what design I wanted to do for a pumpkin, it was of course going to be a cat. You may know I’m a cat lover, as I’ve made several cat crafts over the years. I don’t know what happened, but I’m back! Many years ago I was a renter and always decorated. Up until this year we had been renting our home and I guess over the past decade-or-so, I felt like there was no need to decorate much for holidays.īut now that we own our home, I’ve been bitten (no pun intended –truly)!īelieve it or not, I wasn’t always this way.

Up your spooky season decorating and learn how to carve a mini pumpkin for Halloween this year.

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