Time for a fun turkey for Thanksgiving and I came up with the Ribbon Turkey For Thanksgiving! I actually kind of copied myself, looking back through my blog at Thanksgiving ideas. I found an idea from 2012 for a turkey ornament I made with ribbon for feathers.

I made this but didn’t make anything out of it! You could tie a string on top and make it an ornament or decoration or attach it to a folded piece of cardstock and make it a place card! When I was a kid and we were at my grandma’s house, I always wanted to make place cards for the dinner table! I guess this year most people won’t need too many place cards! Sadly. Or you could put it on the front of a Thanksgiving card.

I used a variety of punches and whatever I came up with to make this turkey. The turkey body is the 2 1/4″ Circle Punch. The head is a small circle die in the Layering Circles Dies. I used Soft Suede Cardstock. The wattle….you won’t guess this….is a petal in Real Red punched from the Perennial Flower Punch. The beak is just cut from Crushed Curry. The eyes are punched with the retired Owl Punch. Loved that punch! The turkey feet are the stick arms from the Snowman Builder Punch.

Instead of paper turkey feathers, I just grabbed a bunch of my ribbons that I thought would work! You can use whatever you have or maybe even a mixture of paper and ribbon would be fun! I put strips of Stampin’ Seal+ on the back of the head and body and sometimes on the ribbon as I adhered it and then just cut non-measured lengths of ribbon and laid it down on the adhesive. If you are going to use it as an ornament or decoration, you might want to cover the backside of adhered ribbon. I punched out two more circles to match the body of Soft Suede and adhered them with Multipurpose Liquid Glue to the back of the turkey to make a cleaner presentation!

Just a fun little project you could even make with kids for Thanksgiving! If you don’t want to use your new ribbon, get out some older retired ribbon from your stash! Just have fun making a Ribbon Turkey For Thanksgiving!