Thanksgiving Card & Hostess Gift?

I wanted to do some things with turkeys for Thanksgiving...for the Mistletoe Craft Show I did last Saturday. You know, something cute that folks can give to their hostess who is serving up a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner next week, so first I made a turkey card! I think Pick a Petal is such a wonderful and versatile set-and this card is the perfect example!

Tom Turkey's feathers are made from the petals-turned around the opposite way you would make a flower...imagination that! I think it's cool when you can do that with a stamp...use it in a different way than what it was intended for!  I used the Kissing Technique to make the feather designs, punched the turkey's head with a 1" Circle Punch (sponged the edges with More Mustard Classic ink pad and cut the bottom freehand from a  scrap of Kraft cardstock (not too shabby...hey?)  The eyes are drawn on (or you could use the 1/8" Circle Punch), and the nose was made from a triangle cardstock scrap and reshaped.  Caramel Gingham ribbon is tied around his neck before attaching with Stampin' Dimensionals over the feathers.

I created the background using Kraft Cardstock and Creamy Caramel ink with the Flannel Plaid Stamp (the background stamps by Stampin' Up! are terrific!) They are actually bigger than a standard 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card so you don't have to ink the stamp twice and try to match it up...just one time gets the job done! I really like the Flannel Plaid stamp-you'll see me using it again for holiday cards-nothing like plaid for a real holiday look...

The Corners were done with a new punch from Stampin' Up! called Photo Corners Punch. It's really cool because it punches two different size corners so you can layer them on top of one another, as I did on this card...the Happy Thanksgiving greeting stamp is from the Holidays & Wishes stamp set-a simple little 6-piece stamp set with three holiday stamps and three wishes.

I really like the look of this card-it's very......country-ish, don't you think? Living here in North Jersey in "God's Country" (yeah, that's how the folks here in Sussex County refer to it here in our neck of the woods)  you come to appreciate that special "country" look...after all, they even filmed a movie at the Homestead Restaurant a few miles away and Tom Selleck played the star role!!!! (and to think-I missed it! I didn't get to see him!) They used an old horse-drawn carriage and the spot made a perfect western set...

...but before I go off on that subject, let's get back to turkey talk! Speaking of turkeys, and  living in the country, it seemed real appropriate to come up with a genuine Turkey Poop gag gift (you know, there are all those "poop" themes stampers love to make like...snowman poop, and reindeer poop, and it goes on and on (NO, I'm really NOT making this up!).  Well anyway, I came up with my own little fellow atop this cello bag of candy corn and his sad poem, and here he is:

You wouldn't believe how POPULAR this stamped gift was! I came home with only a few...and I made alot of these little critters!

This little guy is made COMPLETELY with punches....I just love punch art (can you tell???). I used the large Oval Punch, the 1/14" and 1 3/8" punches, and various Earth Element colored cardstock attached some googly eyes with glue dots..and can you guess what I used to create his webbed feet? If you go to the Online Stampin' Up! Catalog, you'll find the answer in the section with all the punches! You'll be amazed at yet another product that is so versatile, you can make turkey feet from it!  Stampin' Up! also carries these small flat cello bags that are PERFECT for so many cute little gifts...and of course to finish it off, I used our wonderful new Crop-O-Dile to punch a hole thru all the layers to insert the red grosgrain ribbon. (All  products are Stampin' Up!)

I hope you dazzle everyone with your turkey creations this Thanksgiving holiday...I think I'm getting a little "punchy" myself and in looking at the clock, I can see why! I can't believe it's 2:00 a.m. (EST)!!!! (I could swear it was just 10:00 when I started stamping and blogging! Time really flies when I'm stamping but it's AMAZING how fast it also goes when I'm BLOGGIN' about STAMPIN'!  Time for this country stampin' bumpkin to hit the hay!