Tim Holtz Zombie Flip Frame Tutorial

Hello and welcome! I am very happy to have been asked to make samples with some of Tim Holtz new holiday products. It was like an early Christmas to open the box and find the treasures inside; Sizzix dies and embossing folders and supercool idea-ology products. It might be my favourite holiday release ever.

My first project is a Zombie Flip Frame. My son was with me when I opened the box and was almost as excited about the products as I was. His favourite is the Zombie Thinlits die. He loves Halloween and has a spooky zombie mask. We have been making a whole little community of zombies, in all kinds of colour combination and they have become a part of story time. Each zombie has its own voice and they go on all kind of adventures, together with Anton. I've made up a lot of zombie stories lately as a result of this die. I took step photos.

Here you can see all the dies included in the Zombie set. Basically, you build and layer the zombie to get a great dimensional and spooky guy. It is a little bit like building a model or puzzle, which is one of the reasons why my son loved getting a pile of zombie die cut parts and start building zombies. This would be a fun Halloween activity for children.

I picked a paper from the Regions Beyond paper stash for the main part of the head. The backs of these double-sided papers have great distressed and textured designs. These dies are Thinlits dies and work great together with the Sizzix Magnetic Platform. Use this sandwich: Magnetic Platform, Cutting Pad, paper, die facing down, second Cutting Pad.

Here you can see the paper pad and the resulting head.

Smear Distress Ink on a craft sheet and mist with water.

Press a piece of manila cardstock into the ink. When dry, die cut the outline of the zombie (the largest die) from this paper.

I used a mix of patterned paper, inky paper and kraft-core cardstock to die cut all the pieces for the zombie, as well as a DecoSheet golden tooth (which I forgot to include in this photo). By mixing the papers, you can get very different looks for the zombie, as well as for the Vampire and Monster dies, .

Stamp a spider and web here and there on the face.

Stamp a script stamp on the orange part with Hickory Smoke. This ink gives a great softer look than black ink.

Ink the edges with Walnut Stain and sand the kraft-core pieces. Fold the grey face along the score line, increasing the dimension of the zombie. Also fold the nose and ears. Glue the three teeth parts together and glue behind the grey face. Glue the nose, hair, neck pieces, and eyebrows in place. I splattered a little bit of red paint here and there.

For the panel itself, mount corrugated cardboard from the Textured Surface set on chipboard and tear a patterned paper from Regions Beyond. 

Sand the paper to reveal some of the textured of the corrugated card. This gives a great look to the paper.

Ink with Walnut Stain.

Add some of the Regions Beyond Design Tape to the panel and staple a piece of Halloween Trimmings ribbon at the bottom.

Fill an Apothecary Vial with Black Soot Distress Glitter. Sand a label and ink with brown ink.

Use foam dots to adhere the grey face to the orange background head. This gives even more dimension to the zombie. The black eye was also adhered with a foam dot. Isn't he fun? You can easily make him even more spooky.

Here you can see some of Anton's zombies. He has selected the colour combos with great care to make sure they are all different and they have their own little personalities. They sleep on his bedstand next to him at night and take part in daily activities. If you pre die cut a bunch of zombie parts, kids will love to sit and put these together.

I painted some of the Wicked Alpha Parts.spiders and bats with Walnut Stain paint and placed them here and there. I also used a few Frightful ephemera labels.

Here is a better look at this part of the zombie, with red kraft-core die cut in the centre of the wound and red paint and splatters.

The details on this die are amazing and it is such fun to assemble the zombie. 

You might already know that I love little details, and the gold tooth is one of my favourite parts of this project. The DecoSheets are so shiny and perfect for this.

I also used an Oddities Adornment adhered with a gem brad. It was distressed with Black Soot paint.

Here you can see one of the bats.

I attached the Apothecary Vial by poking two holes through the background and twisting a piece of wire around the bottle. 

At the top of the frame, I placed one of the fun Boneyard Resin Skulls. He is attached with tape and can be removed if I use the frame with other panels. 

Here you can see the dimension of the zombie a little better. The Flip Frames are such fun and perfect for home decor. I am going to make some panels for Christmas, and maybe autumn too, so I can change them. You can see another example of mine in this Fragments Flip Frame.

Thank you so much for looking! I will post more projects with the new Halloween products during this month. 

Happy crafting!!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Sizzix ZOMBIE Thinlits	Tim Holtz ODDITIES Adornments	Tim Holtz Idea-ology REGIONS BEYOND	Tim Holtz BONEYARD Resin Skull Pieces	Tim Holtz REGIONS BEYOND Design Tape
Tim Holtz Idea-ology HALLOWEEN Trimmings TH92328	Tim Holtz WICKED Alpha Parts	Tim Holtz APOTHECARY VIALS	Tim Holtz Ephemera Pack FRIGHTFUL	Tim Holtz REGIONS BEYOND Brad Fasteners
Tim Holtz MINI HALLOWEEN 3	Tim Holtz APOTHECARY	Tim Holtz TEXTURED SURFACES	Tim Holtz Idea-ology DECO SHEETS	Ranger Inkssentials 12 X 12 MANILA CARDSTOCK
Tim Holtz Core'dinations KRAFT CORE	Tim Holtz Core'dinations KRAFT CORE CLASSIC 6 x 6	Tim Holtz FLIP FRAMES	Tim Holtz Distress Ink SPICED MARMALADE	Tim Holtz Distress Ink HICKORY SMOKE
Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD WALNUT STAIN	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK BLACK SOOT	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Tim Holtz Distress Paint WALNUT STAIN	Tim Holtz Distress Paint BARN DOOR
Tim Holtz Distress Paint BLACK SOOT	Tim Holtz Distress Glitter BLACK SOOT	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Sizzix MAGNETIC PLATFORM
Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL	Tim Holtz SANDING GRIP	Tim Holtz Tonic CRAFT KNIFE

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