How to Design a Gourd

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Karen LoCasale and I'm here to tell you about crafting with gourds. Putting your designs on the gourd, this is the fun part. You get to decide what it is you want your gourd to have on it and get creative. Lots of different things you can do for this. Rubber stamps work well, you can actually stamp on to paper and then from there we can transfer it on to the gourd using carbon paper. You can get lots of different design patterns from different books. This is a scroll saw pattern book that has lots of good patterns in it. You want to look for fairly simple patterns to start out with. You can always go back in and add the details. There's lots of books out on the market, it's depending on, I like to do Southwest so I have lots of Southwest and Indian design books but there's also Celtic and you know all different kinds of things, check out your book store or library, e-bay, for different design books."