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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Distress Micro Glaze Resist Tutorial

Hi and welcome! I am happy to share a tutorial on the Ranger blog today, and it is for a technique that I was really happy with.

I love resist techniques and Ranger's new Distress Micro Glaze is perfect for that since it is a water resistant sealer. I got the idea of trying to use it together with a stencil and in combination with a background stamp. The graph background stamp almost disappear in the areas without glaze while it remains crips under the glaze. I was happy with the cool distressed resist effect.

I also used the Bird Crazy stamp set and the coordinating Sizzix Thinlits die set, and one of Tim Holtz's new punches. You might also be able to spot some shrink plastic.

To see the full tutorial, head over to Ranger's site.

Thank you for visiting today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Story Time Shadow Box Tutorial

Hello friends! I hope you had a good weekend! We have a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, it is Make a Plan, all about planners, plans and planning.

I started out with a different project than I ended up with. After thinking about daily plans and planning to have done a scrapbooking page about that, I thought about my son's daily plans regarding story time. He has a very specific bedtime routine, after having read a book, I have to make up a story. Every evening, I make up a new story, on the spot. It is a lot of fun and some of the stories end up being quite crazy. There is just one constant factor, and that is that he himself always feature in the stories, usually as the lead role. Instead of doing a layout, I made a shadow box, using mainly Prima products.

I took a few step photos.

My base is Prima's Square Tray, which come in a set of three. I used the mid-sized one in the set. Since I love shadow boxes I was happy to see these trays. Start by painting the box with gesso. When dry, add tissue tape around the edges, and on the outside edges too.

Paint the tissue tape with Antique Linen. If you want to, you can paint the rest of the box too, but I had already decided to use patterned paper for the background. Paint everything on the owl, except for the heart with the same paint. I love these resin owl shapes.

Distress the edges of the box, first with white paint and then with Walnut Stain. Dry-brush the paint onto the box, concentrating on the corners.

I cut a paper from the Bedtime Story paper pad for the background. The cute fairy tale castle was die cut with Sizzix Birthday Pop Up Card Thinlits set, which contains a lot of great shapes. I inked through the die with brown ink for the windows and backed the windows and door with black paper. The heart on the owl was painted with Cracked Pistachio Distress Paint. The owl was also dry-brushed with Walnut Stain. The wand was die cut from both patterned paper and Silver DecoSheet, using just the silver for the star. It comes from the same set as the castle. 

I glued Bedtime Story Wood Icons to the frame and added silver Micro Beads to them, using Glossy Accents.

The birds were cut from one of the patterned papers in the Bedtime Story pad.

The clock is linking both to story time and to this being a daily activity.

I tore hills from patterned paper and inked them. One of the hills have the three little mice and the text 'do believe'. I love such little details. I applied Glossy Accents to the bottom and first sprinkled mica flakes, for a touch of magic. After adding a little more Glossy Accents, I sprinkled silver micro beads on top. The mix of mica and beads look really nice and the beads fill up any space between the flakes.

The castle got silver bead roofs.

Join us in our planner challenge, and you might be the lucky one who wins a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. The team also loves to look at all the submissions to the challenge. There is such a variety every week.

Thank you so much for looking!!

Happy crafting!!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Prima Flowers SQUARE TRAY SET	Sizzix BIRTHDAY POP UP CARD	Prima Flowers LARGE OWLS	Prima Flowers A4 Paper Pad BEDTIME STORY	Prima Flowers BEDTIME STORY Wood Icons
Prima Flowers FROSTED Mica Flakes	Prima Flowers SILVER Micro Beads	Tim Holtz Idea-ology DECO SHEETS	Tim Holtz TISSUE TAPE SYMPHONY	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD GATHERED TWIGS
Tim Holtz Distress Paint CRACKED PISTACHIO	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE Paint	Tim Holtz Distress Paint WALNUT STAIN	Tim Holtz Distress Paint ANTIQUE LINEN	Ranger 4 Oz. MULTI MEDIUM MATTE
Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Sizzix MAGNETIC PLATFORM	Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL

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