Hey mate that's great work last year. Splitting it into a 3 level cutout is fairly simple. Did you want Kenny isolated from the background, as that's a little more work?
My thoughts were that the background would stay as the pumpkin uncarved, with the body and shirt a variety of uncarved and scraped, and the number 7 and white at the end of the sleeves cut through.
Can't see your pic unfortunately so not sure what it looks like.
Hopefully this years pumpkin is big enough as last years was a bit small and I got massive cramp in my fingers scraping around the gates and letters.