Back to Pointy Chins - Pilgrim Woman

It has been a little while since I have done a pointy chin person (but there are plenty more coming!) so today I give you Pilgrim Woman - anonymously suggested.

Face - ornament in blush blossom

Nose - 1/2 inch circle in blush blossom

Eyes - large heart Heart to Heart (in white, trimmed), standard hole punch in black (and I forgot her white gel pen highlight in her eye - she just isn't complete, sorry)

Body - ornament in Basic Gray

Skirt - 2 1/2 inch circle (Circle Scissor Plus) in Basic Gray cut off bottom

Apron - 1.75 circle punch re-punched with scallop border, strip of white for waist band

Collar - 1 3/8 circle, cut

Arms - Basic Gray - small oval, toss the oval keep the hole, punch around hole with wide oval

Shoes - Butterfly punch cut in half

Hat - 1 3/8 circle in black.  In white punch part of a 1.75 circle - toss the part - keep the hole.  Punch the wide oval around the hole so you just get the curved strip for her hat front.

Thanksgiving Duo 

Another Turkey

Similar to yesterday's turkey but smaller.  This time the 1.75 circle is the body and I moved the 1/2 butterfly up to be the head.  Same feet, waddle and feathers.  These colors were used since I did this for a LNS challenge to use old olive, really rust and ruby red.  I added the kraft paper, kraft button and natural hemp because I thought they NEEDED a neutral. 

Do you see the background behind the card?  That was me trying to get a different look on my texture paper by inking my brayer with vanilla craft ink. This is the back of yesterday's layout.  I liked the texture wheel that I showed yesterday better (obviously, since that is what is on the layout) but I will revisit this brayer on textured paper idea again someday - maybe you could try it and show me what you come up with.

My Biggest Blessings

Halloween is so close, I'm pretty sure you don't have time for any more ideas for that holiday, so let's get thinking Thanksgiving.  YUM! Turkey and stuffing and potatoes, and rolls and pie and...

Can you tell I'm still dieting? 

Back on task.
Here again are my two best blessings...

This is a little bit of false advertising - not that these are my blessings but that this is an Autumn picture.  It was taken during Spring Break when oldest was home from college (date recorded on back of layout).  But the colors of the photo worked with the paper and then I added the title - the first word that popped into my head and then the turkey just sort of jumped onto the page.   (Wild animals do that kind of thing, don't ya know?)

Body 2.5-ish circle (circle scissor plus)
Head 1.75 inch circle punch
Whites of eyes - 1/2 butterfly punch (vanilla of eyes, really)
Black in eye - standard hole punch, white gel pen
Waddle - 1/2 big heart in heart to heart punch
Beak - bottom part of the Full Heart (I don't type that much - I better get playing with that punch more)
Eyebrows - sliver from heart to heart punch (like clown eyebrows) but cut apart and adhered sideways
Feet - snowflake punch
Feathers - modern label punch, sponged with chocolate chip

Blessed title is the Jumbo Outline Alphabet - I LOVE that you can use this alpha set for more subtle titles and have your paper show through the lettering.

And this fab paper is Autumn Meadows from the mini catalog - talk about yummy, I love the colors!

The other papers on the page are straight from my scrap drawers - no cutting - I was challenging myself to use and position them "as is" (no measuring and no cutting) except I remembered the TEXTURE jumbo wheel so "size wise" they are as is - but I ran the texture wheel over them with chocolate chip ink - SO EASY - and I love the effect.

I'm just yakking now.  You can stop reading.

The sound just STOPPED on my laptop last night - I was rocking out with my David Cook CD and my headphones so that I couldn't hear the scary movie that baby girl and her two buds were watching and then NOTHING - no noise at all.

Got the girls to turn down that horrible movie so I could speak to two lovely young men (in India, I'm guessing) and the result is I have a hardware issue, under warranty BUT the only way to get it fixed is to mail them "my precious" and it will be gone for THREE WEEKS.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

I will be trying to keep up with things but since I will be sharing the lone dinosaur machine in the kitchen with the kid, I might not have posts daily.  But I'll do the best I can.  

I functioned for 51 years without this little box but I will be suffering SEVERE withdrawal while it is gone.  Oh how quickly we become addicted... I'm sure there is a life lesson here and I'll have plenty of time to learn it while I'm waiting for my turn on the other computer.

Chins part 3 - Pilgrim Man (by request)

So far, our chin men have included a Hobo, Conan and a Leprechaun from the same basic pointy face and body. 

Today I am changing the body a little bit to meet a reader's request.  Beth Saremba asked me if I would do a full pilgrim man (the mouse in the hat wasn't what she needed) so, ever desperate to please - I did.

his body is the 1 3/4 circle
his thighs are the small oval punch
his calves are the word window in white
his shoes are half a butterfly trimmed just a tiny bit.
his hat brim looks like a word window but it is actually longer

• To make the longer hat brim - cut a strip 3/8 inch wide with your paper trimmer - insert just the end into the word window (feed from the punch opening into the slit) -  round one end ,then do it again to round the other end. 

his buckle on hat and shoes is just like the chain link found here
his collar,cuffs, and top of his hat are all freehand

Beth, I hope this helps you out. 

Cheesy

I hope you aren't too tired of the mouse yet - I am finding him to be a very versatile little guy.  This time I dressed him as a pilgrim and made him part of a title for a gratitude page.  Of course he is thankful for his cheese!  Doesn't it look like he is about to take a bite?

This title piece of my 12x12 layout contains the mouse, Basic Black Striped Grosgrain Ribbon, Kraft corduroy buttons, Just Perfect Alpha,  So Very (retired) and some shiny dots from my stash.  I think it would look just as good without the "so very" but that is one of my all time favorite "just words" sets so I try to pull it out for use occasionally from my "retired and never to be sold" stack.  (Please excuse the incorrect use and over use of quotation marks in that last sentance - it is so hard to convey tone of voice on a blog.)

This time I made the mouse out of Kraft and sponged him with Soft Suede.  But what is that shiny paper behind the letters? 

It is soft suede with the NEW Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint from the mini catalog - LOVE THAT STUFF!  I just took a foam paint brush and painted the 1 inch circles, the edges of the "so very" block, the corduroy buttons, his nose, the edges of the pilgrim hat and the buckle of his hat.

Recognize the buckle?  It is one of the chain links like yesterday's chain post but in white this time.   (I took this photo before I put a slit in his collar but I thought you might see him better when he wasn't on a black background)

I'm way too old to be thinking of Pilgrims and Indians and turkeys from traced hands but I truly like that stuff and this is as close as I can age-appropriately craft in that fashion.   I love kids' holiday arts and crafts and I don't care if that seems "cheesy" (grin)