Rosette Turkeys

Here is my little turkey flock, ready to adorn the Thanksgiving table. I'm not much of a cook so this is my contribution to the celebration. They are based on the Tim Holtz Quirky Turkeys but I used the MS scoring board rather than a die.

I made the bodies/faces from basic shapes on MTC (2 circles and an elongated tear, welded and stretched to 2.25 inches tall for the body, a kite for the beak and half a yin/yang for the waddle.) But if you don't want to make your own, Cricut has several choices or there are some freebies on the web.

Here are cutting measurements to get three turkeys per 12x12 sheet:
Cut paper vertically at 10.25. This will give you a strip to punch circles for stability. Contrary to what Tim says I put one on the front and back of each rosette. It made them easier to glue together.
Cut 3 strips 1.5x10.25
Cut 3 strips 1.25 x 9.75
Cut 3 strips 1x9.25
Punch along one long edge of each of these 9 strips with your scallop edger, score at quarter inches, then follow Tim's instructions.

The rosette paper is from SEI's Nutmeg stack.

A Wed Wose - How Womantic.

I found this beautiful, perfect Valentine rose SVG free at Miss Vickie's CuttingCrazy Blog. Go snoop around her blog and store. She has some super cute cut files. (I love the Angry Turkey SVG just in time for Thanksgiving. I see him on a card with the caption: Eat More Pork.)

The lacey oval frame is free at SVGcuts.com.

Reverse Nestablilites

Have you met Gina K. at GinaK Designs/ StampTV? No? Well now's your chance. As I've cruised YouTube, astonished at the amazing things people do with paper, Gina's videos keep popping up. She makes beautiful cards and makes it look so easy. For example, in  this video she demonstrates a technique she calls Reverse Nestabilities. Turns out I don't own any Nestabilities, but I do own Make-the-Cut. So I just used similar shapes to create a cut file for the same effect.

The card on the left is the Reverse Nestabilities technique. If you look closely you can see that the whole card front is popped up so only the bottom layer of the butterfly and the sentiment are actually on the card. Pretty cool. The card on the right uses the leftover cutouts. Easy, clever and I got 8 cards from 3 sheets of paper, butterflies included.

Credit where credit is due: Paper and Ribbon is American Crafts. Stamps are Fiskars. Butterfly svg is SVGcuts.com from the Cheryl's cute bugs collection.

Fat Penguin...something to break the ice.

So you know that snowman I was frustrated about a couple days ago? Yeah, I ended up making my own cut file, along with the penguin and robin. I'm not in love with the robin so look at him as a work in progress. And if I make them again I'll make the penguin not as fat and tuck his feet in farther.

I used the arms from the frustrating download. The wings for both birds are flower petals, as are the penguin toes which I welded to circles for gluing. I borrowed the hat band from the Mad Hatter which is a free file over at SVGcuts.com. Everything else is just from the basic shapes file on MTC. Even the hat was easier than I expected. It's just two ovals and a trapezoid that I mashed, squashed, stretched and welded until it made me happy. It doesn't take much to make me feel accomplished.