Advanced template design

Advanced templates give you the ability to create some of the most amazing pumpkins.  Unlike the basic template designs which create basically two colors, advanced templates give you the ability to create a third color: dark orange.  With the dark orange color you can create shadows within your design.  It is the shadows that really give you the ability to carve pumpkins that look like photographs of people.

Carving a three layer pumpkin           

In the following example I am going to show you how to carve incredible looking pumpkins from templates.  The design that I am going to use for my carving is from a photograph of my son.  I want to keep this pumpkin for years to come so I am going to use an artificial pumpkin called a Fun-Kins pumpkin.  Fun-Kins are carvable foam that looks just like a real pumpkin.  I will cover Fun-Kins in more detail later.