To celebrate the first day of November, I made this Plaid Tidings Turkey Thanksgiving Card! After all, now that it is November, it won’t be long until Thanksgiving! When it is time to take down the Halloween decorations, it’s time to put up a few Thanksgiving turkeys, Pilgrims, pumpkins, whatever you have for Thanksgiving.

I copied myself to make this card! Back in 2016, I made this punch art turkey to decorate a candy bar for Thanksgiving. This year we don’t have the same type of punches so I had to look at my dies for the basics. But you’ll be surprised to see how I made the turkey feet!

For the turkey body, I chose two Layering Circles Dies. I chose a small circle for the head and two sizes larger circle for the body. The Plaid Tidings Designer Paper was used for the feathers and I used the Oval Layering Dies. You could even use two or three rows of feathers if you really wanted to die cut a lot of ovals. Or just use colored cardstock instead of designer paper.

I just cut the beak out by hand from Crushed Curry Cardstock. The red wattle hanging on the turkey’s neck is a die cut from the die of a group of little hearts in the Be Mine Stitched Dies. We used to have some heart punches that worked so if you still have your old punches you could substitute some of these dies. Or just cut out a heart by hand. I couldn’t find anything the right size for the turkey eyes (Bring back the Owl Punch!) so I die cut two small flower dies that kind of gave me the circle shape that I could trim out. Then I just used a black marker to color in the eyes. The feet of the turkey stumped me for a bit but when I looked at my punches for a small circle, guess what I found? The Snowman Builder Punch has two stick arms and they were perfect for the turkey feet! Who would have thought?!

The card base is Crushed Curry (I thought I was probably going to use Soft Suede.). I thought I would look through my Plaid Tidings DSP to see IF there was one I could use for the background layer but really thought I would use a solid cardstock color. When I saw this red plaid and tried it, I wanted to use it. I think it is a bright Thanksgiving card with the red paper.

The greeting was also a surprise. I was thinking there weren’t too many “Happy Thanksgiving” greetings out there. I was about to settle on a “Celebrate” saying in the Many Mates Stamp Set when I noticed my Banner Year Stamp Set which actually had a “Happy Thanksgiving” greeting in it! That stamp set is a sleeper! I have used it so much and didn’t really expect to.

The greeting is stamped in Soft Suede Ink on Crushed Curry and punched on each end with the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch. For some embellishment, I used two Gilded Gems on each end.

I like these Gilded Gems but they are a little bit high which could make them difficult to mail. When I have something like these gems or rhinestones on a card, I usually cut a piece of paper towel to cover the front of the card in the envelope. You could also use another piece of paper, particularly if you have a paper crimper that you can use to give it some texture which I think might help protect the embellishments.

This is one way to make a punch art or maybe die-art turkey for a card for Thanksgiving! Dig out your old punches or look through your dies and see what you can use. Or even just cut out pieces by hand if you don’t have the right thing.

It’s November so we are off to the races with the big holidays coming up and I have my first Thanksgiving card made in this Plaid Tidings Turkey Thanksgiving Card.

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Coming Tuesday, November 3rd!