Celebrating the Last of Summer With a Corrugated Board Technique

Hello! It's Amy here today, and I am so happy to share a favorite technique of mine in a video tutorial, and to give you a look at a layout I created using this technique!

As summer reaches its end for us here in Kansas, I wanted to review the celebration of fun we had at the beginning of the summer, visiting family in Minnesota. While we were there, we enjoyed several trips to their clear, beautiful lakes. My daughters all love the water so much, mostly because I am a water lover myself, and had them in the water right away, when they were tiny babies. My oldest daughter is now in her senior year (where did the time go?) and I'm getting nostalgic about everything. Of course, when seeing the picture below of her so happy in the lake, I remembered back to how she would amaze everyone at the swimming pool, by diving in the water, and swimming like a little dolphin, as early as 2 1/2 or 3 years old. No matter if she's an adult or not, she'll always be my "water baby." So, I created this layout around this theme.

Here is the video of the technique used to created the colorful, airbrushed look on the Zutter corrugated board:

And as seen in the video, here are some of the details on the page:

 I got the fabulous idea to create "water" with mist and layers, from a beautiful layout created by Jennifer Priest. You can see it HERE (it's a must see).  I changed it up a bit, by using cheesecloth, and spraying it with many colors and layers of mist, and then shaping it using decoupage paste and Krystal Kote (in Matte) by Helmar.  

 

Thank you SO much for stopping by the Zutter Zisters blog today, and for checking out my technique and layout! I hope as summer's celebration winds down, you will find fun photos of your summer activities that you can create a beautiful background with too, using this technique!

Other supplies used: 

Patterned Paper: Every Day is a Holiday; Foreign Text Paper/Punchinella/Teal Ribbon/Feather Fibers: Gauche Alchemy; Flowers: Prima, Recollections, Bazzill, Webster's Pages; Crocheted Trim, Hydrangea Hippo; Wooden Alphas: Pink Paislee; Starfish, Dew Drops: The Robin's Nest; Cheesecloth; Ink: Clearsnap, Tattered Angels

Zutterista Spotting!! LALO IK!

We love finding new Zutteristas on our Facebook Page and that is exactly where we discovered Lalo's amazing creations!!

Isn't this little mini book so cute cute cute!!!??

About the Artist:

A little about me...

I'm a born and raised art lover living in Hawaii.  I feel so lucky because I got the best job in the world.  Raising three awesome boys and one punky little princess (in other words I'm a SAHM).  I got into paper crafting about 7 years ago and just love it, I call it my one selfish obsession.  I started off with layouts, got really into cards, but always had a passion for altered arts and making gifts and that's why my Bind-it-All is always sitting on my craft desk.

Please check my blog out at http://naniwale.blogspot.com/.

Want your work featured on the Zutter blog? Just share your projects on our Facebook Page we just MIGHT be contacting you sometime soon :)

How Do You Do...BAMBOO!

Good morning Zutter friends, 

Pinky here with a fun book today, a Bamboo Spine Cover-Alls mini album!

When I found these I just fell head over heels for the amazing look. 

Let me share a quick tutorial on how I put this "Happy Day" album together. 

Step 1. Begin with 7X5.5 Bamboo Spine Cover-Alls book.

Using Clearsnap Smooch Spritz- spritz book all over, focusing steady spritz on spine. 

Step 2. Create your cover page & back cover page. To fit cover (Make 1/2" smaller).

One shown in photo. Trim paper to 7 1/4"X51/4". Trim second paper to 6"X4 3/4" adhere.

Stitch on sewing machine, add lace, stitch on machine. Repeat for back cover page. 

Step 3. Adhere cover pages to book cover- using strong adhesive. 

Step 4. Embellish cover as desired. 

For inside pages:

Step 5. Trim out several pages to desired size. 

Step 6. Using Zutter Bind-It-All punch out holes for O-Wires.

Step 7. Using insert page- punch out holes for O-Wire remember 

to use C-setting as shown in photo. 

Step 8. Using Zutter Wire Cutters- trim O-Wires.

Step 9. Flip insert page to front of pages, insert cut 1" O-Wire.

Step 10. Set Bind-It-All to 1" setting to accommodate 1" O-Wire. 

Press handle firmly. 

Step 11. Flip insert back over to back of pages. 

Step 12. Insert into Cover-All. 

When you are completed your book will look like this!

Ready for all those special memories and photographs, to be preserved for a lifetime. 

 I really hope you enjoys the post today, please come back and say hello.

I would love to hear from you all!

Pinky- Official Zutter Zister

Vocabulary and Some Chalk

              Hello Friends! Heather here with a super quick project you can make in under 20 minutes that will get your kids excited about learning for the new school year. I have a kinder and a 5th grader this year, and have already been inundated with papers of sight words and vocabulary words that they need to learn this year. Instead of just having my littles write out their words on flashcards and hope they don't lose 40 cards, I thought it would be fun to give them each their own book to help keep everything together, and make it a bit more exciting to learn their new words.
     
            So today I have two projects to share, a 4x4 album I made for my son who is getting ready for kinder that contains his sight words, and a flashcard album for my daughter going into 5th grade so that she can write the word on one side and definition on the other. 

I wanted something very simple for their books, but wanted to add a little extra something to make it fun for them, so I attached some chalkboard paper to the front of each book and tied a small piece of chalk to the O-Wires. 

I love that these books are so compact that I can throw them into my purse when we are headed out on a day trip, and they can practice while we are in the car. Hope this inspires you to make a fun project for your  little's for the upcoming school year.

Best,

Heather 

Supply List:

1" Silver O-Wire
4x4 Pages
Chalkboard Adhesive Sheets
Flash Cards
Ribbon
Chalk
          

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Go for the Gold! Crafting Gold, that is!

Go for the GOLD with your Summer Crafting!   

SHOP HERE

Spinning Round and Round

Hi everyone!  Nancy here today to share with you something a little different that I made with some of the super fun goodies from Zutter.  This month I decided to make something completely different with my chipboard, wires and bind-it-all.

I  started by cutting a piece of a chipboard cover into a tea cup shape with my Cricut and attached a closed one inch pink OWire that I had gently stretched to the lip of the cup.

 I closed a number of other pink OWires and attached them to the saucer of the cup,
 and then went crazy with the embellishments.

 This cute little mobile is what emerged.

I had so much fun with this and can't wait to share it with my niece.  It will be perfect for her room.

Supplies Used:

Hugs.

Nancy Keslin

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Flipping Fifty Birthday Card

 

Hello Zutter Fans!  Cheryl Boglioli here with a fun quick and easy birthday card.  I have a dear friend turning 50 this week.  Many of us hate those big numbers and as we age, we realize we still don’t feel like the numbers represented. 

I thought creating a flip chart with numbers was a fun and clever use of some Zutter O-Wires.

I stamped Just Rite Numbers on black cardstock squares with Versamark and embossed them with ClearSnap Mix’d Media Inx in Jasmine. 

Of course I needed to add some distressing to this Flipping Fifty birthday card, so I used the Distrezz-It-All to distrezz the edges of the flip cards as well as the embossed card front.

My flip cards are 1.5” x 2”.  The 1.5” width was the perfect fit for 3 punched holes.  I lined the cards up between the halfway mark and the inner ridge mark as you see above and punched each flip card.

I used Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive to glue down my O-wire to the card front embossed layer and covered with ribbon. I then carefully pinched the O-wires only partially closed with my hands.   Now they can be changed to be any age she wants.  0-9 on each side are included!  I’ll have to make her another when she turns 100!

Here is a better close of the card front put together with the extra embellishments.

And here is the inside of the card!  I printed this on my printer and cut out the label using my Spellbinders Label 8. 

O-Wires can be used for more than binding albums.  What is something original you’ve done with your O-wires.  Share here and on the Bind-It-All Facebook page so that we can see.

Other Supplies Used:

Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

ImpressArt Metal Stamps - Bridgette Font

ImpressArt Metal - metal butterfly

Papertrey Ink cardstock

Couture Creations Embossing Folder - Timeless

Ranger Distress Ink 

Claudine Hellmuth Black Gesso

Seam Binding

Co'ordinations cardstock