Love Letters and 10 Years

Hello friends, Heather here with a fun project I am so excited to share with you using a set of 5x7 acrylic covers  for a special keepsake book I created in celebration of 10 years of marriage with my handsome hubby. I have to start by saying I absolutely love using acrylic in my books. I will add an acrylic cover or page in whenever I can because I love the extra weight it gives and there is something fun about the translucence of the acrylic.


In honor of my anniversary, I was inspired to take a trip down memory lane, finding old pictures and notes that we have written over the years. I realized that I had yet to make a book that documented just our relationship and this was the perfect opportunity. I wanted to keep this book simple, yet still have the personal touches I love, like hidden pockets for love notes, and extra tags to journal on. Hope you enjoy my mini and the step by step instructions so that you can make one of your own.

Start out by punching 8 holes in the acrylic covers. Leave the
 protective film on the covers until you have finished punching to protect
from scratches or cracking.

Continue to punch 8 holes on all of the interior pages

Use 3/4" Black O-Wire to bind the book. Since the book is 1/2" thick
and I added the additional tags and pockets, 3/4" O-Wire is a great
size to allow the pages to turn freely.

Here is the front cover, a picture from our wedding on top
(yes, I am the one smashing cake on him while he was being very sweet,
I could have sworn he was going to do it!)
and a more recent picture underneath. The pictures are attatched on
the 1st page, and I added a die cut and bling to the acryclic

A flashback picture from my Homecoming Dance when
I was a junior in high school

Another fun pocket inside of the paper bag to add notes and old pictures

Supplies:

• Bind-it-All Machine
• 5x7 Acrylic Covers
• 3/4" Black O-Wires
• Paper/Die Cuts: Crate Paper; Portrait Collection

Best,

Heather

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Easter Treats with Zutter Acrylic

I love spring and all the lovely flowers blooming and sun shining. With spring also comes Easter and yummy goodies. I made this container from Zutter Acrylic for an adorable Easter present for my son's teacher.

I used the Zutter Acrylic Covers to form a container and punched the holes (easy as pie to punch with the Bind-it-All!)  and threaded them with twine to make the box.

Then I added some colored jellybeans and made some paper flowers in fun spring colors. Now you can make a container out of chipboard, cardboard, even Zutter's Clipboard Wood (if you wanted to paint or cover to match a particular decor).  But the acrylic is awesome for this type of project because you can showcase the colors you place in the container!  Can you just imagine the possibilities with this?

I think my son's teacher will love this.....I know it will be a great way to brighten up her day!

Zutter Zister DT Member Fleur Smith

Wedding album.....

I have always been a big fan of clear acrylic pages! And I really love the Zutter's Acrylic Covers. For this album I chose the 8x8 size to make this simple but elegant wedding album. To keep it simple I went with just photos, a few embellishments, and a rub on.

I created the cover by simply putting a flourish rub-on and a bling word directly onto the acrylic!

The bride's colors were orange and red so I chose tulle in those colors to "bind" the page. Zutter's Acrylic Covers are thin enough for you to use a heavy-duty hole punch to place your holes where you would like, or you could punch multiple holes with your Bind-it-All and thread with more ribbon (or bind with owire).

The inside pages are made of more acrylic and photos. I overlapped my photos from page to page so there was the same "white space" around the photos on each page.

I hope you will give some Zutter Acrylic a try in your next project!!

Zutter Zister DT Member Shelley Haganman

My Pink Album (Happy National Scrapbook Day!)

Today, I thought I would share one of my mini albums that I recently created using some pretty Urban Swank paper and some WONDERFUL projects from Zutter.


By stacking the mini album with various layers such as Zutter Acrylic Covers, 13X13 Corrugated cardboard, and paper, it added so much dimension to my project.

For the cover of this mini album, I played with some of the latest Zutter Corrugated Cardboard! I teared back some of the cardboard to create a distressed look to my project. I also added an acrylic cover to the frontr to give the mini album more dimension.


For my inner pages, I added some Movable Pre-Punched Page Protectors! The best part about these pages is that you can move them to any part of your mini album. For this one, I decided to put them at the beginning:

To bind together, I, of course, used my trusty Bind-it-All! ...and yup, that is white owire you see! I have a slight obsession with white owires if you haven't already noticed! :)

So there you have it. If you are in a bind (haha, get it?!), try using different Zutter mediums (acrylic, corrugated cardboard, chipboard, clipboard wood, etc) to put together an album. The Bind-it-All will basically punch through anything! :)

Hugs,
sarah

Zutter Zister DT Member Sarah de Guzman

Fall Album with Acrylic Pages

I love Fall and all the changes that it provides to my senses. I love the smells, the colors, and the sound of crunching leaves beneath my feet. I wanted to create an album that celebrated all those things and I did it using the Bind-it-All and Zutter's  5x7 Tabbed Acrylic Album. Acrylic is one of my most favorite materials to work and I will show you why. First you will need the 5x7 tabbed acrylic album, some alcohol inks (I used Adirondack inks), cotton pad, Versamark ink pad, and heat embossing powder, silk leaves, and your choice of embellishments!

First apply alcohol ink to your cotton pad and "color" your acrylic pages. For my album I combined colors to get the ones I wanted to create a Fall palette such as green and orange.

To create the covers I used my Versamark and just stamped around the egdes of the covers to create a "window". Apply your embossing powder and heat. Be careful and let the acrylic cool before handling!

To apply the leaves I just punched a hole in the silk leaves. Next, I placed my back cover onto my book, added the leaves and then added the rest of the pages. Now your leaves are part of your album and will not come off!!! I then filled my album with my favorite photos of Fall and embellished it with letter stickers and other little goodies! Acrylic is so versatile and fun to color, stamp on, and emboss! Why not gather your favorite Fall photos and create an acrylic album of your own. Happy Fall!!

Countdown to the Holidays

Ahhh…the days after Thanksgiving are so FULL! And I am not talking about just my stomach, though there has been plenty of eating. The last days of November are always a countdown to the holiday season. We take out the Christmas decorations, marvel at the way I packed up everything last year (and not in a good way!), and enjoy eating leftovers while promising to get back on my diet on Monday. I also start a mini panic about making Christmas cards, making little gifties for family and friends and wonder where the time is going.

I did manage to start making some cute little gifts for some of my scrappy friends. These are post-it note holders using Zutter 4X4 acrylic and chipboard covers. Just cover the chipboard in your preferred patterned paper, trim the acrylic with paint, then punch and bind. I adhere the post-it notepad to the inside of the chipboard after binding so it doesn’t get in the way. A few quickie embellishments and voila! I will be cranking more of these out in the wee hours of the night when the house is sleeping. I try to buy cute colors of the note pads when they are on sale at the office supply and then find papers I like to match. Give it a try.

Tomorrow is December 1. Can Christmas be only a tad over three weeks away?!?! Yikes. Hope you enjoy your countdown to the holidays. And I WILL be back on my diet tomorrow :)

Footnote: The cover is acrylic, edged with brown paint with a ribbon and flower on the bottom front. The chipboard forms the back cover, and the post-it pad is attached to the inside back cover. The post-it pad is a bright blue, so may be difficult to distinguish against the patterned paper.