Punch art can be very involved and time-consuming, but not this time! To make this little guy, you don’t have to pull out every punch you own. I bet you won’t even lose pieces on the floor in the process. I saw this cute little chick on a project made by Connie Stewart, and knew I had to recreate him.
I speckled some Pool Party cardstock with one of the Gorgeous Grunge stamps inked in Pool Party. The egg is cut with the Extra Large Wide Oval Punch. Cut the egg in half, and then use your scissors to cut an irregular zig-zag on each half.
The chick is made from a 1 1/4″ scallop circle, and a pie-shaped wedge of a 1 1/4″ circle (for the tail). I made mine from Daffodil Delight, and also sponged the edges with Daffodil Delight. It’s hard to see in the picture, but I also snipped a little fringe on the tail with my Paper Snips.
The beak is one of the Little Labels Punch Pack punches – I scored it so that it would fold neatly in half on the diagonal. I used a skinny Sharpie to make two dots for eyes. (My pencil eraser stamps were too big.)
That’s it! I thought he could stand alone on a card, and I simply added some rickrack trim (Strawberry Slush and Perfect Plum) from the Borders Die to pull it all together.
On my last chick card (see it here), I reminisced about hatching chicks in our suburban Cleveland home when I was little. You can also see what I am talking about when I say “pencil eraser stamps” in that post. Since then, my Dad sent me some pictures to share.
Two new chicks, just hours old and not fluffy yet, resting after making their way into the world. The other eggs are in various stages of hatching. We incubated the eggs in this ordinary electric skillet for three weeks until they hatched. Yes, it has a lid, which would normally be in place to keep the warmth in!
After they hatched, they moved to a cardboard box with a warm electric light – looks like Mom brought over the last egg so that we could watch the chick work his way out.
Here I am, playing with the chicks, sometime around 1982.
And this is a shot from 1977 with the neighbors. I am not in this picture, but my sister Mary Ann is standing, in the gray pants. Too bad the tree branch is obscuring that cute Holly Hobbie t-shirt that we loved 🙂
As the chicks got bigger, we would take them out in the yard to play. The chicks stayed with us for a couple of weeks at most, and then we would take them to my Grandma’s farm where they would happily adopt a mother hen to follow.
Have a great day!
