Thanksgiving Wall Decor

This is an 8"x10" wall hanging I made. I made it to replace the "Fright Night" wall hanging I made for Halloween. You can see that wall hanging here if you want.

I created the partial rosette from a 12"x3" strip of patterned paper from the Indian Summer Stack by DWCV. I used a Fiskars border punch on one side of it, then used my Martha Stewart score board to create the pleats. I folded it, then spread it out into a turkey tail. I got the idea for the turkey on the Cricut messageboard, by Camille Robinson, you can see that post here. She made a card from this guy, but I went larger and made him a wall hanging. Once I had my tail, I cut my turkey. He is cut from Animal Kingdom at 6." I covered his beak with glossy accents and used some brown gems for his eyes. The fancy acorn and leaves corner is from Art Nouveau. I cut it at 6" as well. The leaves are embossed with the Tiny Bubbles embossing folder. I used some Tim Holtz Distress Ink on the embossing folder before I embossed them. The orange leaves were inked with vintage photo ink and the gold leaves were inked with wild honey. It doesn't show up will in the photos, but looks really nice in person. I embossed the tops of the acorns with the Swiss Dots folder and added glossy accents to the bottom parts of the acorns. I also pop-dotted the acorns. The pumpkins are cut from the Pooh & Friends cartridge at 2 1/2." I embossed the pumpkins with the Distress Stripes embossing folder and pop-dotted the smallest pumpkin. The apples and basket were cut from Doodlecharms. I pop-dotted the basket and placed four of the apples in the basket and one of them behind it. I added glossy accents to all the apples and crackle accents to the basket. I finished it off with some gems on the basket.

I made this for the following challenges:

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  Cupcake Inspirations: scarecrow cupcake photo (see right)


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  BBTB2: accent #9 on Heritage cartridge (I don't have Heritage so I used the acorn corner on Art Nouveau)


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  Cooking with Cricut: fruits, cornucopia, harvest time


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  Exploring Cricut: acorn and leaves


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  Whimsical Wednesdays: Thanksgiving themed project

Think BIG

The challenge today at 365 Cards is "All Creatures Great and Small." The challenge is to use one small creature and one large creature on your card. I also just found a challenge that the Cricut Couple is hosting, which is to make a project with a cat theme. I figured I could combine the two and this is what I came up with, a little cat looking in the mirror and seeing a tiger.

The card is 5"x7." I used some paw print paper that I found in my stash for the matting. It is cut 1/4" smaller than the card base. The ovals were cut from George, the brown one at 5" with a 4 1/2" smaller one inside, to create a frame and the white one was cut at 5" as well. The tiger is from Animal Kingdom and cut at 4." The cat is also from Animal Kingdom and cut at 2 1/2." I used a marker to add some shading and added Stickles for the eyes and glossy accents on the nose. The word "dream" was cut from Jasmine at 1" and the word "BIG" was cut from Cricut Keystone at 1 1/4." I used my Gypsy to strech the letters to make them wider. The ribbon is from my stash.

Monkey Around

The challenge this week over at Paper Cutz is to create something using an image of a monkey, skunk, squirrel or hedgehog. I decided to go with a monkey and create this cute little birthday card. I used New Arrival for the monkey and added some google eyes on him. I also pop-dotted him onto the card. The vines are from Storybook. The "it's your day" sentiment is from Celebrations. I used my Gypsy to weld the letters of the inside sentiment, "so monkey around" which is the George and Basic Shapes font. The bananas are from Animal Kingdom. They took some work figuring out what size I wanted, but when I got it I cut them out twice, once in the dark yellow and once in the lighter yellow. I then cut the peel to fit the banana. I really like this card, I almost don't want to give it away, but I can't wait to see the face of whoever recieves it. Enjoy!