Christmas Card - The Turkey

This year's turkey

Every year, however busy I am, I endeavour to design and make my own Christmas card. For the past three years I have created 3D animal cards to send to clients, family and friends. This year I had in mind a turkey with a great fan tail. 

Always the tricky bit, and before the surface pattern was considered, I had to work out how to make the turkey both stand up and fold flat for the post. So I thought it would be interesting to show just a quarter of the rejects (turkeys) that came first - before they are consigned to the waste paper basket. 

The rocking turkey. Suitably legless

No, it's not the wrong way up. This one had legs but couldn't stand

This one was promising, although it involved a lot of 
cutting and wasn't stable

This is where the stability penny dropped.

All of the above (and more) amounted to about a day's work before I finally reverted to the notion of the simpler it is, the better. 

When I had the technical bit worked out I took another day to decorate and reproduce the components.

Final solution was simple and stable

Written greetings went on the back of the fan. 

Folded flat

On the shelf

To see previous Christmas Cards I've designed, please click here. 

A rafter of turkeys

A Merry Christmas to you! We're having goose actually.