Kids Craft Zombie

Hi everyone! Happy Halloween to everyone who celebrates it! We didn't used to, but it is becoming more and more widespread here and the kids think it is a lot of fun. I am also enjoying crafting projects and home decor which is different from what I do during the rest of the year. 

Today, Anton is a guest on my blog, with a zombie that he made over the weekend. He wanted his zombie to be on my blog on Halloween.

He started out with a wooden circle, which became the head. I die cut a body for the zombie from mat board and patterned paper, with Tim Holtz's Arch Frame die. Apart from that, everything you see are Anton's own ideas. I only helped him punch holes and set eyelets in the body.

On the head, he drew a brain and used two shades of pink to color it. He found some green epoxy stickers in my stash for eyes and also drew a mouth with teeth. The grey skin was done with a pencil.

The arms were twisted from plastic-coated wire and Anton used red wire here and there, as blood. He also wrote a spooky message on the body of the zombie with a glow-in-the-dark marker.

The hands hold Tim Holtz's idea-ology keys, which almost looks like hands themselves.

Here's the key on the other hand.

For the legs, he used the same wire and twisted a piece of tinsel into it. The zombie hangs from the same tinsel.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!!

Happy crafting!

Anton and Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Sizzix ARCH FRAME [ SSS ] Sizzix LITTLE SIZZLES MAT BOARD PACK [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology HALLOWEEN Word... [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology 8 x 8 Mini Paper... [ SSS ] Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE [ SSS ] Sizzix PURPLE WITH SILVER GLITTER... [ SSS ] We R Memory Keepers CROP-A-DILE [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology 75 JUMP RINGS [ SSS ] We R Memory Keepers WARM METAL [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium MATTE [ SSS ]

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Elephant Mini Canvas

Hi friends! I hope you had a good weekend! Anton spent quite a bit of time crafting and painting with me and I have a project of his to share tomorrow. He particularly enjoys using my Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks at the moment, since he can get a lot of color down quickly and turn it into watercolor if he wants to. Deco Tape is another current favourite. 

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog we have an All Creatures Great and Small theme. So you can do any type of project with an animal and/or insect. Don't miss the last project of our October guest designer Wanda Hentges. Wanda created a lovely butterfly card for you this week.

I decided to go with a large creature and also one of my favorite animals, the mighty elephant. This canvas is pretty small, 4 x 5 in, and it was the perfect size for the elephant on the StencilGirl Born to be Wild Animals stencil. I went for a different color combination than I would normally have used, with a bright yellow, orange and pink background. This started out as a tutorial, but then I got in a bit of a hurry and forgot to take the remaining step photos. 

After coating the canvas with gesso, I started out by sponging Dina Wakley's Elephant paint, mixed with a little black to make it darker, through the stencil, and started to paint the elephant with the Elephant paint.

Once I had painted the elephant, I painted the background with Lemon, Cheddar, Fuchsia and a little Blushing paint.

I traced the elephant on SSS Masking Paper and cut out to create both a positive and a negative mask. With the mask in place, I stamped the elephant with the Darkroom Door Scratches stamp, to create and elephant like texture. The I covered the elephant itself with the positive mask and stamped the background with dots using white and Fuchsia paints. Always clean your stamp immediately after using it with paint.

Metallic Medieval paint was mixed into texture paste and applied through the stencil, lining it up with the previous impression of the elephant. I avoided the tusks and used only white texture paste on them. When the paste was dry, I added more Medieval paint, a shadow with a Black Soot marker, white paint on the tusks and gave the elephant eyes.

I added Glossy Accents to the tusks, to make them shine. The metallic heart is by Prima.

Birds in flight were stamped above the elephants head and I painted the edges of the canvas black. After that, the edges were dry-brushed with the Medieval paint, which has a really nice platinum metallic look to it. There are also some Design Tape and metallic Prima stars.

I picked three sentiments from Tim Holtz's Clipping Stickers and inked the edges.

At the bottom of the canvas I added another piece of Design Tape, as well as a piece of Linen Ribbon. The background was also stamped with the Darkroom Door French Script Texture stamp, which you can see here and there.

I hope you will join us this week in our All Creatures Great and Small challenge. As always, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Don't forget to follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by my blog today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies: 

StencilGirl BORN TO BE WILD ANIMALS... [ SSS ] Darkroom Door Cling Stamp SCRATCHES [ SSS ] Darkroom Door Cling Stamp DOTS [ SSS ] Darkroom Door Cling Stamp FRENCH SCRIPT [ SSS ] Darkroom Door Cling Stamp AFRICAN TREES [ SSS ] Prima Marketing TIN HEARTS Finnabair [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology CLIPPINGS Stickers [ SSS ] Prima Marketing MINI STARS Finnabair [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology CHATTER Design... [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology LINEN RIBBON [ SSS ] Simon Says Stamp MASKING PAPER [ SSS ] Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste WHITE 8OZ [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger MEDIEVAL [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger FUCHSIA [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger LEMON [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger CHEDDAR [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger ELEPHANT [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger BLACK [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger BLUSHING [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger SET OF 6 [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger PAINT SET OF 11 [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium MATTE [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Markers BLACK SOOT [ SSS ] Tsukineko Stazon STONE GRAY [ SSS ] Tsukineko Stazon JET BLACK [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad GROUND... [ SSS ] Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS [ SSS ] Dina Wakley Ranger PALETTE KNIFE [ SSS ] Ranger MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS [ SSS ] Ranger MINI ROUND FOAM REFILLS [ SSS ] Hero Arts Rubber Stamp SMALL BLOCK TRIO [ SSS ] Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT... [ SSS ]

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