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a herd of reindeer

Submitted by sheila on Sunday, 30 November 200811 Comments


This was one of those spontaneous projects that took me by surprise. I’ve been working on altering a nutcracker, but don’t really like the direction it’s going in. Harrumph. While looking through the tubs and tubs and tubs of Christmas decorations, I discovered a wooden reindeer that used to belong to my mother in law. The pattern looked simple enough, so I began to play. This is the result, which also brought me to a few other ideas I’ll be posting over the course of this week. If all goes as planned, I’ll have a nifty little winter scene for you to play with.

Here’s the print and cut file:

A few things about the reindeer:

- Smaller is better. I made one quite large and it didn’t stand well. If you want a big one, use cardboard or super heavy cardstock.

- I didn’t have double sided paper to use so I painted the back. Be careful not to make it too wet or the pieces will curl.

- I didn’t include the notches on the svg file. You’ll have to look at the print pattern and go with that. I found that by making my own cuts I had a bit more variety in the shapes f the reindeer. Kinda like nature.

- This is a good one for the kiddies. So have fun.

Here’s the svg file for you SCAL users:

reindeer.svg

Enjoy.

11 Comments »

  • Anonymous said:

    Once again…Very Nice!! You cease to amaze me!! nice gift to you Paxton friend! hahahaha!

    - 30 November 2008 at 5:25 pm
  • One Pretty Thing said:

    Oh how cute! Reindeer are my fav. I’ll be linking.

    - 30 November 2008 at 6:06 pm
  • Tazmadazz said:

    What a cute reindeer, thank you Cheeky foi sharing!!

    - 30 November 2008 at 10:22 pm
  • Digi Free said:

    Thank you! Your blog post will be advertised on the DigiFree Digital Scrapbooking Freebie search engine today (look for timestamp: 30 Nov [LA 09:00pm] – 01 Dec [NY 12:00am, UK 05:00am, OZ 04:00pm] ).

    - 30 November 2008 at 11:26 pm
  • Anonymous said:

    you make the greatest patterns/templates! is there any way you could save them as jpg or png files?
    thanks for sharing!

    - 1 December 2008 at 5:03 am
  • Karen from Ontario said:

    Hi…thanks for the template. I hope to use it with my daycare kids. Have you thought of using paper towel tubes with slits in them as the legs. My make a large reindeer more sturdy.

    - 1 December 2008 at 6:20 am
  • Regina said:

    Oh, this is cute! Thanks!

    - 1 December 2008 at 12:01 pm
  • Tabitha said:

    Just found your blog and I LOVE it! Thanks for all the templates and totally wonderful ideas!

    - 2 December 2008 at 1:33 pm
  • brittany said:

    I found your blog a few weeks ago and I love it! I just bought Sure Cuts A Lot today and it is awesome!! Thanks for sharing the.svg files with us!

    - 6 December 2008 at 11:15 pm
  • Spreadsheet Ninja said:

    Got bored at work, so to make things a bit more cheery I made one of these and put it next to our 1ft christmas tree! Great idea. Thanks!

    - 17 December 2008 at 1:22 pm
  • Pirate Raven said:

    We’re gonna try making these out of gingerbread for a gingerbread house party we are going to…. I think if you just cut notches instead of slits they should fit together the same. My HUSBAND linked me to you. I love it when boys do crafty stuff.

    - 18 December 2008 at 8:01 pm