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

20 Minutes to a Mixed Media Zutter Cover-All Mini Album

Jennifer Priest here with a super easy mini you can create in less than 20 minutes! I created a really easy mini book with various sized pages from different materials and made two videos showing you how easy it is to use your Bind-it-All to make custom books from just about anything. This book has shipping tags, kraft tags, vintage flash cards I got at a flea market, Zutter Acrylic Covers, Maya Road Kraft Envelopes, and more, all neatly packed into a 6x6 Zutter Cover-All.

Here's the first video:

And the second part:


 Here's a peek at some of the details on how I embellished the book.  You can also check my blog for more details.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope that this inspired you to think of new materials to add to your mini books! And look at how easy it was to add all those different sized pages to the book -- if you make a book like this with tags and ephemera worked in as pages in your book, please post your project to our Facebook Page so we can see it!!


Happy Binding :)
Zutter Zister Jennifer Priest
http://hydrangeahipppo.blogspot.com