Pumpkin Carving, Part 4: Harry Potter Patterns

UPDATE September 19, 2015: Want to learn how to carve pumpkins like these? I’m creating a set of step-by-step video tutorials. Check out Carve Awesome Pumpkins for more info!

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Welcome to week 4 of my Pumpkin Carving series.  In case you missed any of the previous posts:

This week is all about Harry Potter! I would love to have a collection of Harry Potter pumpkins just like my Twilight pumpkins. I’m slowly working up to it.  So far, I have carved these:

As you might expect, there are bunches of Harry Potter pumpkin carving patterns available online, both free and for purchase.

Harry Potter Pumpkin Patterns — Free

Stoneykins sells patterns, but he has 100 free patterns as “samples” and one of them is Harry Potter:

Pink Ray Gun has three free Harry Potter patterns:

Harry Potter Pumpkin Patterns — Purchase

 Stoneykins.com

Stoneykins is my favorite source for detailed pumpkin patterns.  He creates hundreds of new patterns every year.  His prices are incredibly cheap: they are on a sliding scale based on how many patterns you purchase.  Packages range from $3-$25 — and you’ll never pay more than $0.60 per pattern no matter what package you buy.

Here’s a coupon you can use at Stoneykins:

stoneykins coupon

Zombie Pumpkins

Zombie Pumpkins is a great resource for pumpkins that do not have any shading but still look great.  This site also has a sliding price scale, ranging from $2-$20. The most you’ll pay for a pattern is $1.

Ultimate Pumpkin Stencils

Ultimate Pumpkin Stencils is another site whose patterns do not have shading, yet look great.  They have the most patterns to sell in pop culture patterns.  Their prices range from $2-$5 if you buy the patterns individually, but if you buy the package, the patterns are less than $1 each.

Ultimate Pumpkin Stencils has a 12-pattern set, but you can also buy the patterns individually:

These two Deathly Hallows patterns are not part of the set:

Check Out This Carving Master!

Alex the Pumpkin Geek is a professional pumpkin carver. He does some really awesome work — both in the carving and in the creation of the patterns.  If you’re interested in having Alex carve you a pumpkin, you can contact him through his website.

Three Free Pumpkin Patterns & Three Contests to Win Pumpkins

Three Free Pumpkin Patterns

Today I’m adding a third pumpkin pattern for free download, City of Bones.  Click on the picture below to download it:

City of Bones pumpkin mockup

Check out the Freebies page for the Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Beautiful Creatures patterns.

Three Contests

There are three contests currently open in which you can win a YA-themed pumpkin carved by me.  They all end in one week.

1) Win a pumpkin carved with your choice of YA book cover.  Hosted here on my blog.

2) Win this Beautiful Creatures pumpkin, hosted by the Beautiful Creatures Examiner:

Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures
pattern by me

 

3) Win this Paper Towns pumpkin or this Divergent pumpkin, hosted by Novel Novice:

Paper Towns Pumpkin

Paper Towns
pattern by Kate Hart

Divergent Pumpkin

Divergent
pattern by Kate Hart

Pumpkin Carving, Part 3: Twilight Patterns

Twilight Pumpkin

UPDATE September 19, 2015: Want to learn how to carve pumpkins like these? I’m creating a set of step-by-step video tutorials. Check out Carve Awesome Pumpkins for more info!

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Twilight Pumpkin Carving Patterns

Welcome to week 3 of my Pumpkin Carving series.  First, I shared some tips for carving.  Last week, I shared links to young adult book cover carving patterns. I also announced a contest.

This week, I’m sharing the Twilight pumpkins I’ve carved as well as links to the carving patterns.

 Twilight Pumpkins I Have Carved

It started innocently enough in 2008. I carved the Twilight movie poster onto a pumpkin. Since then, my Twilight pumpkin collection has grown a little…

It looks like this will be the first year since then that I won’t be carving a Twilight pumpkin. But we’ll see.

Twilight Pumpkin Carving Patterns — Free

This article has links to several free Twilight pumpkin carving patterns, including the Edward & Bella  and the Alice Cullen pumpkins  shown above from Pumpkin Wizard.

I created the pattern for the Breaking Dawn Part 1 pumpkin shown above.  I’m happy to share it freely, just remember that I’m a better carver than I am pattern maker. 😉

Twilight Pumpkin Carving Patterns — To Purchase

Free patterns are great, but they aren’t always the best patterns for carving.  There are some really nice patterns available for purchase, and the prices are reasonable.

Ultimate Pumpkin Stencils has several Twilight patterns available in sets or individually. The Eclipse Movie Poster, Jasper, and Alice pumpkins above are from Ultimate Pumpkin Stencils. Their prices range from $2-$5 if you buy the patterns individually, but if you buy the package, the patterns are cheaper. This year, they’ve added 4 patterns for Breaking Dawn, shown here:

 

 

 

 

Zombie Pumpkins has Edward and Bella pumpkins. Patterns are $1 each or cheaper, depending how many you purchase.

 

 

 

But my favorite, favorite, favorite source for patterns — Twilight and otherwise — is Stoneykins.  Six of the pumpkins shown above are from Stoneykins, and he has a few more that I haven’t carved. Click on the picture to go Stoneykins’ website for purchase:

There’s hundreds of patterns every year at Stoneykins.  His prices are incredibly cheap: they are on a sliding scale based on how many patterns you purchase.  Packages range from $3-$25 — and you’ll never pay more than $0.60 per pattern no matter what package you buy. Here’s a coupon you can use at Stoneykins:

stoneykins coupon

Check Out This Carving Master!

Alex the Pumpkin Geek is a professional pumpkin carver. He does some really awesome work — both in the carving and in the creation of the patterns.  If you’re interested in having Alex carve you a pumpkin, you can contact him through his website. Check out the Twilight pumpkins he’s carved:

Next Week?

Part 4 of my Pumpkin Carving series will feature Harry Potter pumpkins. Check back next Sunday!

There’s only one week left to enter my pumpkin contest. Have you entered yet?

 

For the comments: Have you carved any Twilight pumpkins? Want to share pictures?

 

Pumpkin Carving Part 2: Young Adult Themed Patterns

Divergent Pumpkin

UPDATE September 19, 2015: Want to learn how to carve pumpkins like these? I’m creating a set of step-by-step video tutorials. Check out Carve Awesome Pumpkins for more info!

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Welcome to week 2 of my Pumpkin Carving series.  Last week, I shared tips for carving great pumpkins.  This week, I’m sharing some pumpkin carving patterns based on young adult book covers and characters.

But First — TWO Contests!

 Win a pumpkin carved with your choice of book cover! Contest ends October 15, 2012.

If you came here from Novel Novice to enter for the Paper Towns pumpkin or Divergent pumpkin, all you need to do is leave a comment on this post!

Pumpkins I’ve Carved

FREE Pumpkin Patterns

A friend asked about a pumpkin carving pattern featuring the Beautiful Creatures series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.  I couldn’t find one, so I made one myself. The lettering on the book is beautiful!  You can see a pumpkin carved with it a above.  I’m offering the pattern FREE from my blog.   Enjoy!

I found a great collection of patterns on Kate Hart’s blog.  She has a total of 20 book cover patterns available for FREE.  Some of the patterns include:

divergent pumpkin

Divergent

hush hush pumpkin

Hush Hush

anna and the french kiss pumpkin

Anna and the French Kiss

hourglass pumpkin

Hourglass

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think that Anna and the French Kiss pumpkin is calling my name… 😉

 

Vampire Diaries Pumpkin Carving Patterns

I’m updating this blog post to add these new Vampire Diaries patterns from Ultimate Pumpkin Stencils:

I’ve wanted a Damon pumpkin for a while now. It’s definitely on my carving list!

 

Check Out This Carving Master!

Alex the Pumpkin Geek is a professional pumpkin carver. He does some really awesome work — both in the carving and in the creation of the patterns.  If you’re interested in having Alex carve you a pumpkin, you can contact him through his website.

Next Week?

Part 3 of my Pumpkin Carving series will feature Twilight pumpkins. Check back next Sunday!