Great job. I'd strongly suggest wearing a respirator when sanding and painting. You're doing a number on your lungs in the canopy with all that.

Kara....WOW!!!...my first time watching your incredible creativity!!! You are AWESOME girl!!! What wonderful unique pieces you make!! My paternal Grandma began training me in all things artsy at the young age of 3 or 4 years old!!! So...I've been into art, of all mediums, for over 60 years!!! Again, what incredible talent you have!!! Your eye for detail is amazing!!! One comment, I have seen from others, PLEASE WEAR SOME SORT OF MASK!!! I know first hand, the toll these chemicals take on our precious lungs!!! So, think of it as your safety tip you gave about the hot glue!!!! If you use hot glue...you have burned yourself at some point!! Your precious, valuable lungs, are also being burned!!! Want you safe and healthy to continue to dazzle us with your unique talents!! Thank you so very much for sharing with us Kara!!! Keep on crafting girl!!! 🎃

although this is old I absolutely LOVVVE it! The work the details and all I genuinely watch this from the beginning to the end

This has got to be one of the best things I've ever seen! Love the creativity and def am gonna have to do one for myself soon! Thanks for the tutorial and tips!

I love how whimsical, and animated theese pumpkins look!

I have to say , I really enjoyed watching you make this, you have amazing talent and vision!~ well done!

Wow!! That’s a lot of work!! Well done

Kara this is absolutely amazing. Your skill is top notch. I've got to mention your hot melt process scared the hell out of me. I used to work with it in a professional high volume manner and we always had a bucket of water nearby to plunge a hand or in your case a foot in to stop the burning if you mess up. That stuff doesn't come off until cool.

I love both pumpkins

LOVE your stuff! I love how whimsical these pumpkins are.

Great demo. Incidentally the speed of the video gives the background walls the appearance of the breathing of a great beast. :)

I clicked on how to cut a pumpkin and i got IT , what a great master piece

I am so impressed with this. Thank you so much for sharing this and for creating. I am OBSESSED

These turned out so amazing you did such a great job. We love your style and thank you for all the tips and techniques. That's a sweet work space and we really need to try the paints one of these days. Thanks again for sharing Kara really awesome work it's going to look so good this year. 😍👍

I loved this video. You showed from start to finish each step. The painting turned out perfect to look like a pumpkin does. I used to do stuff like that back in the day. But was limited on the craft supplies that is available today. I made a black fuzzy 12 foot spider that had a 5 foot fuzzy butt. Used 2 inch round red lenses for lighted eyes. Used it 2 seasons till someone paid me good money for it. Can't do that stuff anymore due to a stroke. Glad you did a video on it. Keep up the good work

Beautiful job! Like something from Disney! What an awesome tutorial! Thanks for sharing ❤️🎃

These are amazing! For your great idea here’s one in return. Maybe for easier storage you could countersink strong magnets in the seems. Pumpkin can then be stored in 2 pieces and be able then to store from the long magnetic strips they sell for tools

That's a great pumpkin

This was one of the best videos I have watched on Styrofoam production! I was taking notes on all your tips and trick to use for the pumpkin that I am making for my Halloween Birthday. Thank you so much for this well executed tutorial.

Beautiful! ...and the pumpkin's pretty awesome too!

The collection is coming together nicely! looks great!

Hands down the coolest thing I've seen on KZfaq! So much detail and great tips. You've inspired me to give this a go. Thanks so much!

is amazing and wonderful. great work . I love it . Greetings from Dresden Germany

You are so talented! Beautiful work

Miss walker that was AMAZING

Hey Kara! Girl, you are a work horse! I can't imagine a more fun job to have than this! You are awesome! I love how that pumpkin came to life! I was mesmerized watching! TFS Hugs!

Congratulations, what a beautiful work and tutorial! Thank you very much!

This is SO freaking awesome! Funny enough, I was watching MAKING IT and saw the giant foam pumpkin and googled how to make one and here you are! GREAT JOB and THANK YOU for this tutorial! Can't wait to make it

Absolutely brilliant

You have incredible talent and creativity. 😊❤

Wow! Great work as always. Very cool to see the whole pumpkin evolve.

That was a lot of work, but man the end result was stunning... you are a talented person indeed. This looks so intimidating....

SURE LOOKS LIKE A LOT OF WORK BUT LOOKS FANTASTIC IN THE END

I am obsessed with this! You are so inspiring and what a talent you have!!

Awesome work! ALOT,, of work, lol!! You really smashed it. Great job and thank you for sharing

You are amazing and may I add the working space is to die for. You have such a clear plan for that mess!! Brillant job. Subscribed

Loved the tutorial, but looks so intimidating!😮

A total ARTIST

that is brilliant. great job and well done

to make the eyes, mouth and nose black during the day you can use backlight rear light spray paint. that is a black transparent paint especially for car lighting. the light just comes through.

WOW. What talent

Oh my was this a treat to watch!! You are so talented!!!! It's so awesome to see all the pumpkins you made with all the different faces. Really A fantastic job. 🎃

I like your art work pumpkin 🎃

I would really like to try this job Such creativity , great job .

That's a lot of work. You did awesome!

Good job! Would love to see all of them together!

Great video! It’s always fun to see other people’s techniques.

WOW! THat's an amazing project!!! and I love all the pumpkins that showed up in the background, while you were making this Jack-O-Lantern.... =) *LOL!* - When you were applying the "hard coat", the fast forward made it look like the Jack-o-dude was giggling. ;)

You can use all of the shavings to make stryocrete - light weight concrete.

Awesomeness!!!! It looks so cool. Wow you really put a lot of work into this. Those details. Nice!

Great job!!

Wow these are so awesome! Really beautiful work, so spooky, whimsical, and perfectly Halloween!!🎃💀👻👍

Absolutely amazing!! You got some serious talent. 🎃🍁🍂🎃🍁🍂

Very cool watching your pumpkin take shape. Those hot knives and cutters make short work of all that trimming. Dont you worry about all the particulates in the air from the foam cutting, shaving, and burning?

FABULOUS as always! Also great job on the production with the voice-over and whimsical music! Great quality!

Wow that’s amazing. You are very talented!

Absolutely awesome!! And wow did the Hot Wire tools help make it go faster than the previous pumpkins. You really have a special talent..thank you for the tutorials!

Man that looks like a lot of work. You make it look easy, and that is some amazing work! Loved watching this. Thanks for sharing!

I smashed that like button and subscribed wow! Breathtaking!!! Inspired!!!

Unbelievable work! I love it!

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY EXQUISITE!!!

this is really awesome, I follow you on instagram but I just found out you have a youtube, your work is amazing

This is awesome! I need to try this now. Very informative

Wow that is one sweet a$$ pumpkin!!! You make the coolest props!!! Josh

Should you have a mask on to protect yourself from the fumes? Thanks for the video.

In one word AMAZING. You’re so talented. LOVE IT 🎃

That is some crazy talent!

Amazing!

Superb! Some great tips too. Thanks.

Awesome work!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

You are my haunt idol! Awesome tutorial!!! 🖤🎃 👻

This was soooo amazing! You did a wonderful job! I would love to see more of your creations! 🎃🎃👻

Kara, I’m a new subscriber. I love this. You gave the best tutorial I’ve seen + product list. Thank you! May even do this for smaller pumpkins. Have you ever made a Great Pumpkin (Peanuts) display out of foam?

I absolutely love these! Wish I could have you make me a slightly smaller one!!

wow thats all i can say excellent work i love it

Thank you for sharing. I learned a lot.

Your work is fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing.

I would love to see the entire display set up

Really Amazing Job . Beautiful work love it ~

Amazing job!!! But I don’t think I’m able to do it myself hahahha 😂

This might just have to be a project for 2021...thanks for all of the detailed information!

Amazing 🤩 great job

fantastic work ! however, curious to know , do you have an exhaust fan to remove the fumes coming off the stryofoam that you are breathing in inside that tent . They say, if this is polysttrene there are upwards of 100 different toxic chemicals emited as it melts/burns . I sure hope you have some method of removing those fumes not to mention the fine fine dust from sanding the foam that is harmful .

So so cool👍🏻🎃

Amazing work

this is awesome

Truly awe inspiring artistry!! This is so amazing!

Amazing work!

They look awesome!

Ooo,pumpkin!

This is so good, these have to be $1200 pumpkins with all the work and detail going into them.

Awesome work

that turned out great, seems like a very hard way to do it though.. I think making a jig for your initial shape would save you hours and hours of time.

Very nice. It's interesting to watch someone work on essentially the same project that I did. I made my first pumpkin this past halloween. We have similar styles to how we make our videos. You've definitely gave me some ideas on how to plus the pumpkin that I'm going to make for next year!

Love the video and the pumpkin…..but a mask is necessary to prevent the styrofoam particles from entering your lungs😊

wow just wow.

O G I’m so impressed I love it

Wow! I love this so much!

Oh my! Can I come and play?

They do sell a frosted glass pattern heavy duty plastic that you could use as a backing , instead of all that hot glue !