Halloween Decorations
Halloween decorations you can
make or buy for
the spookiest night.
Halloween Recipes
Our
cookbook filled with Halloween recipes, tasty tricks and treats.
Halloween Games Spooky Halloween games adaptable for both kid's and adults.
Halloween
Party
Halloween Party planning and
ideas
for your festivities.
Halloween
Safety
Safety
information, tips and suggestions for a safe Halloween.
101 Halloween Tips
That's right, 101 great
Halloween tips, ideas and suggestions!
Halloween Props
Spooky Special Effects and Props for
your Halloween haunt.
Pumpkin Carving
Pumpkin carving tips
for carving your Halloween Jack O' Lanterns.
Movies & Music
Suggestions for the best Halloween music and Halloween movies.
Halloween Crafts
Halloween craft ideas and instructions for lots of
Halloween fun.
High-Tech Halloween
Ghostly gadgets for your computer, cell-phone, Palm Pilot and
more!
MAKING YOUR OWN
STENCILS
The first step is to select a
piece of clipart that you like and would be useable as a carving stencil. What we will do
is remove any pieces that we don't want in the stencil. These instructions are for the
graphic shown below and will vary depending on the image you choose, but the idea will be the
same. All black areas are those that will be cut out of the pumpkin, while everything in
white will stay.
STEP #1
First open the image or piece of clipart in
your favorite paint program. If the image isn't already in RGB mode convert it to RGB
mode. This will allow you to re-scale the image later with better
definition.
STEP #2
Using the paint bucket tool, dump the color
white into areas that will not be cut out of the pumpkin.
STEP #3
Fill in any area that is open to the
surrounding white color, If you don't, when you dump in the black
color it will fill in everything white.
STEP #4
Using the appropriate color (white or black),
remove any part of the image that you don't want.
STEP #5
Crop off the excess border leaving about an inch or so. Set
the paint programs measurement type to inches instead of pixels and resize the graphic to
a size that will fit on the selected pumpkin.
STEP #6
Now you can print the stencil from your printer. If
you need the stencil to be larger that what your printer can print, you can take it to a
copy shop and enlarge it. Carefully trim of the excess paper leaving a half inch border.
Your custom stencil is now ready to be
attached to the pumpkin you've selected for it.
See
our page on using
stencils
to cut the pattern out.
SpookMaster
has the biggest and best selection of pumpkin carving patterns anywhere on the Internet. With literally hundreds of great designs, they are the number one choice when looking for top-rate pumpkin patterns.
Best if all is that all of their patterns, templates and stencils are free, that's right,
completely free! Just download the patterns you want and print them out.
