1st Prize: Kitchen Aid Mixer (any color available). Congrats Oana! We loved your beautiful pumpkin and your beautiful photo. Way to go!2nd Prize: $100 gift card to your favorite ABM sponsor. Congrats Jodie! We loved how you added paint to your pumpkin carving. So fun and pretty!3rd Prize: $50 gift card to your favorite ABM sponsor. Congrats Matthew! We just adore your ET inspired pumpkin. Too cute!
Honorable Mention List: 1. Courtney, 2. Abbey, 3. Shawn and Melissa, 4. Karly, 5. Sarah, 6. Jen, 7. Cheryl, 8. Rachel, 9. Danielle, 10. Evan, 11. Grace
Congratulations to the winners and thank you SO MUCH to all of you who submitted photos to our pumpkin contest! We had so much fun looking through your entries! We hope you have a happy and memorable Halloween. xoxo. Elsie, Emma + the ABM team
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What great ideas!! I love that you did an online carving contest. Great posts this fall. π
Meg xoxo
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Oh my Goodness!! I am sooo excited and Happy!! Thanks Elsie and Emma!! This is sooooooooooo great I am literally squealing!
The best Halloween Hands Down!
That Dr. House pumpkin is from 2010. Hope you fact-checked some of these.
Wow! These pumpkins are amazing. Wonder how much time it had take to do them. I’m already stretched too thin when I just want to carve a face into a pumpkin π
Thanks for sharing them.
Sarah from pleasuresoflifeblog.blogspot.de/
Holy cow some of these are so amazing!
I don’t know how you guys decided between all the great entries!
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WOW – just WOW! Such amazing creativity all over, love all the pumpkins! π
There all so pretty and congratulations to all the winners!:) I’m a little sad I didn’t get picked but its the taking part that counts π Happy Halloween Elsie and Emma xx
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I LOVE these! So amazing!
Kate
http://acreativecookie.blogspot.com/
wowzers!those pumpkins are amazing!
@L-L, thanks for looking out! We’re aware when the pumpkin was created, but we didn’t stipulate this had to be a new carving (we might do that next year). You can check Shawn’s site to see that pumpkin carving is kind of his thing. His wife actually turned him onto the contest. We did the most thorough search possible on all the selected winners to ensure intellectual property rights. But we encourage any violations we didn’t catch be brought to our attention.
Gosh, no idea how you chose a winner. So much talent and creativity!
these are all so amazing! love your choice for the first prize!
xxx Sabrina
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Love, love, love them all – especially the sugar skull. Congrats to all the winners!
Katie Pea
http://craftycrazylife.blogspot.com
That sugar skull one is amazing!
Life Unsweetened
I want the second prize…badly!
Oh wow the first prize winner is amazing!
xo Jennifer
http://seekingstyleblog.wordpress.com
Wow, all of those are so good!
Awesome pumpkins! I can’t believe some of those. So cool!
The 1st place winner also has a great outfit too!!
Those are AMAZING! Makes our silly jack-o-lanterns look kinda lame. π haha
Morgan
seemomogo.blogspot.com
wow…these are all really rad! love the sugar skull. great contest idea guys.
That fawn is darling! I sorta want an art print made of it )
ahhh thank you for the honorable mention!!! Oana is a very, very worthy winner!! Xx
Congratulations!
Oh man! Clearly I need to brush up on my pumpkin carving skills. These are great!
I think the second prize sgld be the winner! Or the third!
All of those look sooo amazing, I couldn’t have chosen a definite winner. Great contest and congratulations to all winners!
xo Julia
Wow, they are all SO amazing. Happy Hallowe’en Elsie + Emma! xo
What great carvings/decorations! Love the first place winner.
Isnβt That Charming.
These are incredible!!! Love the colors on the day of the dead pumpkin.
Holy cow these are AMAZING! It makes me wish I had ANY artistic abilities haha. Hooray pumpkin carving!
Brooke
Cutest, prettiest pumpkins I’ve ever seen!
-Lindsey
http://ettu-tutu.blogspot.com
Incredible!
http://www.samspinkslippers.blogspot.com
OMG….!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOW
THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH for showing mine, i worked soo hard! I know in the original post in only said there would be 10 runner ups, but the fact that you included me and put mine as 11th made me THE HAPPIEST PERSON!! again thanks sooooo much, yall are constantly inspiring me and amazing me π
Wow! 10 + 11 were so amazing and thoughtful!
Your faces have been pumpkinized! :-O
Seriously. That’s not something you can say every day …
super cool. π
I love love love love one and two! I’m a doofus and didn’t submit mine in time.
Wow! Amazing! You have such creative readers! My favorite is the candy skull!
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OMG! How gorgeous?!
That first one is just stunning
and the one with the face of dr House: wow!
X
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my personal favorite is the second place winner. I would want that on display in my home all year long. I gave up on pumpkin carving last year. These people have some serious talent!
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congrats for the winners! <3
Wow, they’re incredible!
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Wooow. Each pumpkin is a great little piece of art. Congratulations to all participants, I was delighted to see his work
You have some true artists among your readers! These are amazing. Congratulations to Oana, Jodie and Matt!
Oh how amazing all of these are! The one with the added paint is really unique! Congrats to all!
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xx,
Erika
Oh wow, these are amazing! The one with Hugh Laurie, wow!! xx
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amazing work, excellent .. congrats
3rd is the best! I love E.T.
What a pity that in my country don’t celebrate halloween π
XOXO
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the second prize is awesome!!
xx
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I didn’t realise the possibilities! X
http://your-girl-is-lovely.blogspot.co.uk
wow those are all amazing!!
i really love the second place winner, wow π
These carvings are amazing, my little witch on a broom does not compare… but then I’m British and Halloween isn’t so big over here, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it! Well done people.
Gemma
http://typicallyprettyenglish.blogspot.co.uk/
That calavera pumpkin is ridiculous! I love it!! These are all so impressive.
OMG these pumpkins are amazing! I’m so impressed! My favorite is 2nd place!
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These put any pumpkin carving skills I thought I had to shame… such amazing talent! Congrats to the winners π
Strive to Thrive,
Nic
http://www.Thriving-Wives.com
Okay when I see them, I can honestly understand why I didn’t win hahaha… THEY are just TOO GOOD! WOW!
xxx Lena
http://joyfuldiary.blogspot.de/
What great pumpkins! I’m especially impressed with the House MD carving! All of them are great and I’m so glad to finally see the winners.
Wow the second place pumpkin is amazing! I love them all π xo
Wowzers trousers!!!! These pumpkins are incredible!!! What talented readers you have…
Wow, Oana really deserved to win. So beautiful xo
Wow! So much creativity. I love them all (especially #2)
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Oh my goodness! These are so amazing!
As a military GF, I just adore Honorable mention pumpkin #9…so touching.
All these entries are phenomenal! I could only imagine creating something like these in my dreams
I am so impressed, you girls had a nice idea, it is so nice to see people’s talent and gee, their is talent indeed!!!
Olive xox
these are awesome! love the first one especially. (also, it might not matter, but #3 isn’t original. it’s cut from a template: http://www.zombiepumpkins.com/et-pumpkin-pattern/197/)
OMG there is some talented people out there!
These pumpkins are so lovely. Congrats to the winners!!!
Wow! So many awesome pumpkins! must’ve been hard to choose a winner!
X
http://kendra-genevieve-rose.blogspot.com
so happy oana won!
Love that sugar skull pumpkin. SUPER CUTE.
OH my god, these are truly incredible! The House one is CRAZY!
http://lasaloperie.blogspot.com
Wow!!!!! So many of these are incredibly impressive!!!!