When I saw the stitching, my mind immediately turned to laced-up turkeys steaming fresh from the oven for Thanksgiving. Since I don't have any baked turkey stamps (can you believe that!?!?!?), I turned to the Internet and searched for "lacing turkey". I found a page that had a photograph of how to lace a turkey that I downloaded and enlarged to the size I wanted. I then printed it to a piece of regular printer paper. I glued the photograph to a piece of Stampin' Up! Whisper White Thick Cardstock using a sponge to ensure a thin even coat of glue. After the glue had dried, I cut out the photograph using Paper Snips.
I then turned the cut-out over to the white side, and used my Copic Markers to color the shape using hints from the SCS Coloring Contours Tutorial (Tutorials at Splitcoaststampers.
The colors I used were:
Y17 - Golden Yellow
Y23 - Yellow Ochre
Y35 - Maize
E13 - Light Suntan
To create a "serving platter" I use the Coluzzle Oval Cutting Templates to cut the biggest oval out of SU Whisper White, and the next largest oval out of Very Vanilla cardstock. My SU Layering Ovals Thinlits Dies weren't large enough for the size platter I wanted.)
I cut an Early Espresso panel 5-1/2"x 1-3/4" and glued it to the SU Watermelon Wonder card base, then glued the large white oval to form the "rim" of the platter. The center of the platter formed by the Very Vanilla cardstock was glued down next.
To create the lacing on the turkey, I used a paper piercing tool to punch two columns of six holes each, then using a carpet sewing needle (so the eye was big enough to accommodate the bakers twine), I stitched the cross-hatch pattern, and tied a bow at the top.
To give dimension to the turkey, I ran a long Adhesive Foam Strip down the breastbone of the turkey all the way to its tail. Then put Mini Glue Dots all around the perimeter of the turkey. When I attached the turkey to the "plate" the foam strips gave it height in the middle just like a real Thanksgiving turkey!
Finally, I used my MISTI to stamp only the "Thanksgiving" sentiment in the lower right on the card base. I did this by positioning the "Happy Thanksgiving" stamp from the SU Teeny Tiny Wishes set, and after inking it with SU Early Espresso, removing the ink from the word "Happy". I stamped the card twice to ensure good solid coverage of the sentiment.
I gave this card a difficulty rating of "4" because of the research I had to do to find the perfect turkey outline, and the skill needed to color contours of the turkey to make it look three dimensional.
I think it looks yummy!
Date: Saturday, October 7, 2017 GMT Views: 583
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