Purple Sage Creations

Tom Turkey Tutorial

 I am back with yet another tutorial this week.  WOW!  Two weeks in a row...I am on a roll!  Today's tutorial is my Tom Turkey table decoration...

 

This little turkey can stand alone on your Thanksgiving table or can be attached to a favor box, Thanksgiving card, napkin ring or anything your creative mind can conjure.  He would look super adorable at place settings and dotted around the dinner table. 

 

To make this turkey you will need...

 

Cardstock: brown, red, green, yellow, black, and orange

1 3/8 inch circle punch

1 inch circle punch

small flower punch

hole punch

Nestabilities dies: large scalloped circle, medium circle, smaller scalloped circle

black marker

white gel pen

dimensional tape

adhesive

scissors

 

 
1. Start by using brown cardstock to punch circles with the 1 3/8 and 1 inch punches.  Punch 1 small flower with yellow cardstock.  Use hand-held small hole punch to make two blackcircles.  Then take the Nestabilities dies to cut small scalloped orange circle, a green plain circle that is just bigger than the small scalloped circle, and a larger scalloped circle using red cardstock.  Set all your pieces aside.

 

 
2. Gather the brown circles, black circles, and flower.  With scissors to cut the flower in half.  This will be the turkey's feet.  Then cut a small triangle out of yellow cardstock for the beak.  Last, use red cardstock to cut a small red wattle for the turkey's face.  Now you are ready to adhere them all together. 

 

 
3.  Take the smaller brown circle, which is the head, and adhere to the bigger brown circle, which is the body.  Then take the two halves of the yellow flower and adhere them to the bottom of the large brown circle on the underside of the paper for the feet.  Then adhere the black circles for eyes, yellow beak, and red wattle.  Use a white gel pen to add a gleam in your turkey's eyes.  Set aside.

 

 
4. Now begin making the turkey tail.  Take the large red scalloped circle and measure 8 scallops in to create a fold.  It helps to use a ruler to create a crisp, clean fold.

 
5.  Fold the scalloped circle back so that it can stand straight.  This will help your turkey stand.  If you are making the turkey to attack to a box or card, just cut where the fold would be.

 

 
6.  Now you are ready to attach the rest of the tail.  Mount dimensional tape on the back of the green circle and orange scalloped circle. Adhere the circles so that the larger one is in full view behind the smaller.  Use a ruler to fold under the bottom of the circles.  Or cut them if you don't want your turkey to stand alone.

 

 
7.  Mount dimensional tape to the back of the turkey body.  Attach to the tail.

 

 
8.  At this point you can be finished.  But if you want a pilgrim turkey you can add a hat.

 

 
9.  Cut black cardstock into a 1 x 1 inch square.  Then cut a strip of black cardstock that can be the brim of the hat.  Then cut a very small square out of yellow cardstock for a buckle.  Use a black marker to color a small square in the middle of the yellow square to look like a buckle.

 

10.  Adhere the small, black stip to the bottom of the black square.  Then adhere the buckle to create the hat.  Then adhere the hat to the turkey's head.

 

 
Your turkey is completely finished!!  And he will look so adorable on that Thanksgiving table.

 

*If you make one of these turkeys I would love to see it.  Feel free to share iton Purple Sage Creations' Facebook Page.

 

 The details:

Paper:  Dark chocolate, Lemon Tart (Papertrey Ink), Pumpkin Pie, Ruby Red, Garden Green, Basic Black cardstock (Stampin' Up!)

Tools:  Signo white gel pen, Stampin' Up basic black marker, circle punches, Boho Blossoms flower punch ( Stampin' Up!), Nesties scalloped and circle dies.

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Blessing Mix

I was just goofing off and surfing the blogosphere yesterday when I came across this super cute idea...

 
 

I thought these little "Blessing Mix" cards, and the mix, would go so well with the pumpkin treat boxes I was making for our Thanksgiving dinner table.  Just download the poem, print it out, and mix up some Bugles snacks, pretzels, candy corn, dried fruits and peanuts.  Fill up some little bags with the mix and attach the poem.

 

Here is a close up of the poem...

 

The idea came from a blog called Chicnscratch (cute name, huh?).  She has made a download for the poem.  You can pick that up HERE. 

 

What a great idea!!

 

The details:

Paper:  White cardstock, Chocolate Chip cardstock (stampin' up!)

Tools:  Pastels for distressing, circle and scalloped nesties die.

Pumpkin Treat Box Tutorial

 

Hello!  I haven't featured a tutorial lately so I thought it was about time I should.  The weather is beginning to look snowy so I figured today was the perfect day to hang out indoors crafting.

 

I created a pumpkin treat box to set at place-settings for Thanksgiving dinner.  I plan on filling them with nuts and candy corn.  The tradition started with my DH's mother.  This Thanksgiving these little treat boxes will adorn our table.  But you can make these and use them as little gifts to tell a certain someone how much you appreciate them.

 

This is how you make it...

 

You will need:

6x6 piece of orange cardstock

Scrap piece of green cardstock

Oval die cut or punch

Orange ink

Dimensional tape

Adhesive

Treat box die cut (mine is from Papertrey Ink) or keep reading to learn how to make the basket part of the craft.

 
1.  Take your 6x6 piece of orange cardstock and score 2 inches in on each side.  You should have 9 squares on your paper.  Then take scissors and cut the scored lines on one side of the paper.  Turn the paper around and do the same on the opposite end.

 

 
2.  Fold up the scored side of the paper to create your box or basket.  Bring the middle up and then pull the end flaps to the center.

 

 
3.  Do not completely overlap the end flaps.  Bring them to the center to create an x.  Do this on both sides.  You box is done.

 

 
4.  Cut 3 ovals large enough to cover the front of the box.

 

 
5.  Take a sponge and stamping ink to ink the edges of the ovals.  This creates the look of dimension.

 

 
6.  Adhere 2 ovals to the box side by side.  Do not overlap them.

 

 
7.  Add dimensional tape to the third oval.  Then adhere to the middle of the two ovals.

 

 
8.  Hand cut a stem from green cardstock.  Glue this in place.  If you would like a curly vine simply cut a thin, long piece of cardstock.  Curl it around a skewer or lollipop stick to make it curl.  Adhere in place.

 

 
You done!  My treat box only took me minutes to create.  And it's even faster if you happen to have a box die cut on hand.  My small pumpkin treat box was made from the die cut and nontextured cardstock.  The larger one from the handmade box and textured cardstock.  You can see each creates a different affect.

 

If you make one of these I would sure love to see it.  Leave a comment or visit my Facebook page to leave a picture.

 The Details:

Paper: Tangerine Tango, Kiwi Kiss textured cardstock (Stampin' Up!)

Ink:  Tangerine Tango (Stampin' Up!)

Tools:  die cut machine, nesties oval die, treat box die from Papertrey Ink.

 

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Etsy Shop Sneak Peak

I just can not contain my excitement!!!

 

I am gearing up to open my very first Etsy Shop...well, my very first shop in general, ever!

 

Here is a sneak peak of what's to come...

 
 

Opening day is coming up!!  Stay tuned!

A Teeny, Tiny Mayflower

Hello and happy Tuesday!  Today I wanted to share a quick post about this really cute idea.

 

I made this tiny Mayflower from half a walnut shell.  Breaking the shell exactly in half was quite a challenge, as you can see... If anyone knows a good way to cut a walnut shell in half without breaking a half dozen please let me know:)  I tried a knife.  That worked pretty well.  I inserted the knife into the top of the walnut and then twisted it.  Sometimes I was successful and broke the shell right in half.  Sometimes I just made a huge mess...

 

I used blue play dough to attach the shell to the blue cardstock.  Now it looks like it is floating in the water.  Then I inserted brown play dough in the shell.  I glued two pieces of white cardstock together and inserted a small toothpick to hold up the "sail".  The toothpick was placed into the brown play dough. 

I made a few of these with my kids.  This craft is easy enough that preschoolers can create there own.  I thought they would make really cute place settings.  I had the thought that guests names can be written on the sail or the blue paper. 

And that's it! Hope you all have a very happy Thanksgiving.

Jen