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Something to entertain you while I'm gone...

Big Feet go International

By now, I am sure you have noticed that sometimes a punch creation appears on this site that has no obvious use in my life. (Possibly not in ANY ONES life). 

Sometimes this is because I am filling a request (Buzz Lightyear for example).

But sometimes, it is just what the Inspiration Fairy gives me - and you know I don't want to make her angry - so I simply follow her lead.

This resulted in the Big Foot series taking an international turn.  Let me present Big Foot #4 - little Dutch girl in her wooden shoes...

The question of the day:
Is that finger ready to help the little Dutch boy prevent flooding? or does she think her team is Number One?

I think you can figure out the parts on this one with just a couple of hints
Dress base is the breast of the owl punch
Hat is the ornament punched around the end of a large oval hole - PLUS - two small ovals punched next to a small oval hole  - looks like this

No, she is not the victim of a crazed barber - just a lazy puncher who knew the head would be covered by a hat.  I should have used the wood-grain background stamp on her shoes - just didn't think of it in time.

Big Foot Part 3 - Skater Boy

"Mom, why are the feet so BIG"
Because I am having a series of BIG FOOT characters
"oh"     (picture an extended "eye roll" here)

You may be wondering the same thing - particularly on yesterday's dancer - she might have looked better with normal feet.

I guess I'm doing it because the idea popped into my head.  Hubby says if I get an idea in my head there is no hope of getting it out until I get my way.  He knows me pretty well so I might as well admit he is right.

When I make a character "to scale" he/she/it often won't fit on a standard size card.  And even if I use it on a scrapbook page, it takes up too much page and attention. 

So I "thought up" making some characters where the head and feet were the emphasis and the body was tiny and less crucial to the character. Cartoon characters are drawn this way frequently (particularly the big head part).

I think this works particularly well for today's Skater Boy...

Of course for "your" skater boy you might want to do something totally different because you might want to emphasize the tight jeans on long legs - but maybe you can get an idea from this anyway.

I'm trying to keep the same base head and face for all these characters - and the feet are all the large oval in some form or fashion.  You could certainly change up the faces to make them more interesting.  I did photograph Skater Boy with two different mouths because I thing the look of disgust is funnier.

I'll be focusing on BIG FEET for another day or two.

All this foot talk...maybe I'll treat myself to a pedicure today....

Here is the punch list:
Head - wide oval
Hat - 1.75 inch circle - cut off part and use it for the brim
Hair - small ovals - trimmed like grass
Eyes - small heart to heart and standard hole punch, gel pen highlight
Mouth - smile is word window next to word window hole - frown is 1/2 inch circle next to 1/2 inch circle hole
Shirt - breast from owl punch
Sleeves - 1/2 inch circle cut in half
Pants - breast from owl punch (turn it upside down)
Shoes - large oval in black - large oval next to large oval hole to get white trim pieces
Arms - oval ring (large oval around small oval hole)
Hands - tips of modern label punch with circle from itty bitty punch pack
Skull on shirt - circle from ittybitty punch pack - repunched by same to get jaw line (put it on the sticky of a post it note to insert to repunch) draw on skull face
Skate board - wide oval next to wide oval hole, stripe from large oval nest to large oval hole
Wheels - 1/2 inch circle and circle from itty bitty punch pack

Twinkle Toes - Big Foot Part 2

I like it when a plan starts working....

I successfully completed a second BIG FOOT character so I CAN call it a series! 

This is what you call "taking joy in the little things".

Oh jeez, hush up Ellen, they don't need a positive thinking speech this morning - they came to see the punchin'!

Here 'tis...

The Thanks element opens up to read "That was tu-tu sweet!"

And here is some info on making Twinkle Toes:

Same face as Diver Dude from yesterday.
Added ears from tips of small oval
Changed hair to wide oval and added a 3/4 inch circle bun
Tutu is small oval and 1/2 inch circle
Arms and Legs are oval ring (large oval around small oval hole)
Toe Shoes:

• Flesh part is large oval
• Shoe part is large oval NEXT TO a small oval hole - if you hold your punch upside down you can see what you are getting.
• Laces - punched the word window on the edge of the paper to get HALF of it - cut that  into smaller pieces to have laces

I used a black marker on all the Pink Pirouette  (I HAD to use this color with that name for a ballerina!)  to distinguish it from the blush blossom (retired) that I used for her skin.

We could hum a couple verses of Elton John's Tiny Dancer now, but I think these feet would disqualify her.

Diver Dude - Big Foot Part 1

This is a simple little summer guy - the first of what I intend to have as a series of Big Foot characters.  I have several ideas, but this is the first that has made it to completion.

You can make him AS IS (punch list follows) or you could make his body, arms and legs flesh tone and add a little bathing suit for Snorkeler Somebody.

Here's the punch list for Diver Dude:

Head - Wide Oval

Hair - 1.75 Inch Circle, cut in half, snipped in a couple of times for bangs

Eyes - smallest heart of Heart to Heart in white - standard hole punch in black, white gel pen highlight

Mouth - word window offset from word window hole

Body - 3/4 Inch Circle

Hands - Modern Label, repunched on both ends with the circle from the Itty Bitty Punch Pack

Flippers - Large ovals, repunched by inserting just the tips into the Square Scallop

Arms and Legs - rings from punching a circle punch around a smaller circle hole - the bigger the circles you use the less "curve" you will have.  Snip the ring to the size arm/leg you need.

Mask - ring from Large Oval around Small Oval hole

Snorkel - Wide Oval next to a Large Oval hole (not surrounding it - just offset), then I snipped both ends with a small circle so they would look "indented"

I outlined all the "non black" parts with a black marker.