Zombie Weekend

After a bruising week five, I was ready to take a break - a zombie break that is! I woke up, sat myself down with pencil crayons and paper ready, and drew to my heart's content. The result is five lovely jointed paper zombies. Oh how I love zombies :)

The first one was truly hideous. His name is Zombie Ted. He was formerly a farmer, but now he's a much-decomposed zombie. All brains and no carrots.
Next came lovely Zombie Margaret. I guess I was grossed out by Zombie Ted, so I opted for a prettier lady zombie. She's a little slow and wanders a lot. On her travels through the woods, she's known to emerge with a cluster of flowers in hand. Next came Zombie Theo. He's a laid back, easy going guy that loves cool skull T-shirts. He also loves slurpees... he's holding one now! Check out those nice white sneakers too. What a nice dude.

On a pretty gal spree, I made Zombie Lillian. She's wearing a thick caramel coloured sweater, white pants, and camel heels. On her tussle with the original zombie, she got pretty covered in grass from her lawn. Not wanting to be caught dead (literally) with her hair in a mess, she grabbed her sexy red hair dryer to take on her brain-hunting adventures.

The last is small, red-haired (my favourite!) and a little on the goth side. She's got a black T-shirt, a purple skirt, and pink and purple leggings. She's a cheerful gal and 100% awesome. Don't judge her by her missing arm, she makes up for it with extra love - extra love for your brain, that is!

My sis is having a bake sale at a local baked goods fair so I'll probably take these there to see if anyone would like to buy them. I figure they'd make good Halloween decorations/presents!

Have a happy weekend! Don't let the zombies get you!

Hedgehog Jointed Paper Doll Printable PDF

When I was feeling sad one day, I made a cute little jointed paper hedgehog and hung him on my bedroom door. It cheered me up right away. Hedgehogs just have a way of doing that :)

If you're feeling a little glum, you can make one too! Of course you don't have to be glum to make one. You might want to make one just because you love hedgehogs. I have made a printable PDF version of my beloved Hedgie and put it into my store.

If you get there, and it's not available, just let me know and I'll send one to you directly. Just email me at bluepandemonium@hotmail.com to place an order.

You can also purchase the PDF directly through Paypal using this button:

I want to share my love of hedgehogs with you. Hedgehogs are the best :)

I hope you have fun making your own jointed paper hedgehog!

Cheerio!

Time To Ring In The New Year!

I hope you all have a very wonderful New Years tonight! I'm off to a party at a friend's place complete with Beatles Rockband! Woo hoo! I can't wait. May the new year bring you many new blessings.

Love,
Marie

(I have no idea why new years prompts me to make a paper doll I have dubbed "Scottish Nerdimus", but it has. I love bag pipes! Yay for making noise! We've all got the golden ticket tonight!)

The Making Of A Zombie - Step by Step

In addition to spending quality time with family and friends this holiday season, I've been making ZOMBIES. Oh yes, that is one of my favourite new Christmas things to do, hehehe!

Here's how to make one if you fancy making some of your own.

You will need:

1. cardstock
2. pencil crayons
3. mini brads
4. pin
5. flat eraser or styrofoam block
6. sharpie marker
7. ink pens

First, get a nice, Zombie-coloured piece of cardstock. Draw all the main shapes with the sharpie marker and use the thinner markers to draw in smaller details. You will need a main body attached to the head, 2 upper arms, and 2 lower arms. If you have room on your paper, draw the legs now too. I didn't have any room so my zombie legs will come a little later.
Roughly cut out the general area where your drawing is. Don't cut right up to the edges until later.
Flip it over and add glue all over it evenly. I like to use the purple glue sticks so that I can see where glue has already been added.
Paste it on top of more cardstock. This makes the cardstock double the thickness so that your jointed zombie paper doll won't bend easily. For my earlier paper dolls, I left the thickness at one layer, but I found that they couldn't stand as well. Sometimes I leave the arms at one layer of thickness.
Now you can colour your zombie. Mine has a candy-corn coloured shirt :)
If you haven't drawn the legs yet, do that now. I placed the zombie body on the paper before I began drawing so that I would have it as a reference for size.
You need 2 thighs and 2 calves with feet. Don't forget to double the thickness of this cardstock paper too.
Once it is all coloured, you can cut out all the pieces. The thick sharpie border makes it easy to cut out because you don't have to be as exact.
Place the different parts onto an eraser or styrofoam block and poke holes for all the joints. The eraser block helps you keep the paper flat while you're poking the hole.
Here is Zombie Hank with all the holes made at the correct joint places.
Now take your mini brads and join all the limbs to the body and each other. Experiment to see whether it looks better to place arms and legs on top or underneath the body.
Ta da! Here's Zombie Hank all finished up. I even gave him a bucketful of popcorn! Zombie Hank says that the popcorn is good, but that it needs more brain.
Here he is with his girlfriend, the lovely Zombie Thelma. Don't they make a sweet couple? *snicker* They're off to the movies.

Don't forget to post photos of your finished work on the Flickr page here.

Enjoy making your own jointed paper zombies! You can also find Hank and Thelma in the shop.