Greetings!! We recently celebrated the Spring Festival (aka Lunar New Year) over here in Singapore, the most important traditional holiday celebrated by the Chinese. Besides diving into the new year cuisine and acknowledge annual practices, most family here usually carry out their annual Spring Cleaning.
This year, I had extra help. The Bind-it-All helped in its own little way! I am pretty much addicted to binding; why not since the Zutter is SO practical. So, here's what I did recently with the so useful gadget :
I bound :
1) Recipe Cards 2) Flimsy Paper Games
3) Kido's Flash Cards/Game Cards
4) Catalogues (I admit I am a horder of these advertisements especially book catalogues!)
It pretty much kept things in its place, nicely stacked. Neater. It definitely helps the creative process when working in an uncluttered area! Give it a try!
Please check out the Gallery for more inspiration ! Happy Zuttering !!
We do! And soon a few of you will too! We are giving away a cute little bottle of Zutter Rivets along with a Zutter Perfect Closure to THREE lucky blog readers this month! We demo'd the rivets and closures like crazy at Winter CHA in Anaheim (I think Victoria, Naomi and Jennifer still have hammers pounding in their heads!!), but there is no doubt that the rivets and closures add a "perfect" touch to the Zutter Cover-Alls and mini books. See Jennifer's blog entry below for the mega flower attachment!
Not sure what to do with the rivets? Check out last month's video tutorial below and get going!
Leave a comment on this post and we will draw THREE random numbers on February 17. Good Luck!
I am finally back home from all the fun at CHA and wanted to post my pics here for you. Of course the best part was the Zutter booth!
I LOVE all the new Cover-Alls and the Perfect Closures. During the show I took a couple of the leather straps for the Perfect Closures to the Rit Dye booth and had some fun dying them different colors - they turned out great! There are just so many creative possibilities for using and decorating our Perfect Closures.
Our make n take for the show was designed by our very own Nan Paturzo featuring Teresa Collins papers in a 3x4 Cover-All book and closed with our Perfect Closures. I helped make-n-takers set the rivets to attach the Perfect Closures to the Cover-All and to attach a flower to the front of the book. Here is what the sample looked like:
Several men came through the make n take line and one really stood at out to me. He wanted to layer multiple flowers and attach them with the rivet. Most people were layering two or three flowers but that was not enough for him. He wouldn't let me take his picture (hehehe) but he let me take a pic of his book:
Can you believe the rivets held that many flowers!! That is just so cool!! I am totally inspired to diecut some felt flowers and try them out with the rivets - I bet they will hold those flowers down like magic! And the reason I am saying felt flowers is because I love them but they are such a pain to adhere to anything - glue dots don't stick well and wet glue takes forever to dry. I'm thinking I'll attach the flower with a rivet and then glue a button on top of the rivet or something like that. Possibilities!
Three new releases at the show were the Spinner Album Kit, Display-It-All, and the Bind It All Around the World Idea book.
The Spinner Album Kit was designed by Vicki Flinchum, a member of our Design Team and the winner of the Idea Book contest. It is an awesome alternative to the 7Gypsies ATC Carousels as it retails for $24.99 and includes the tabs, pages, base, and binding wires. I love that the base is wood because that can be decorated too!!
Here is the Spinner Album Sample:
And this is what comes in the kit:
The Display It All is a black metal stand that any album can be attached to in order to display it vertically. I have visions of calendars, vertical recipe books, family member flip albums...there are so many possiblities as far as what can be displayed on the Display-It-All. And I definitely am thinking of picking up some spray paint and rub-ons to have some fun altering the base of the stand.
Above are some samples of books mounted on the Display-It-All. Below is my fave sample that Nan made using some Prima goodies - Love it!
And finally, the Idea Book!! I of course am excited because I have FOUR projects in the book but there are so many different designers with such amazing talent in the book that you will certainly love it too. The inner pages flip out in sections to reveal even more details about each binding project that is featured. Each artist included special notes about their projects and how they created them so that anyone can take those ideas to fashion their own projects. The best part is the book is bound with the Bind-It-All AND it is housed in a Cover-All. It's like a getting a free sample project with your book!
Some of the designers were at the show, such as Donna Salazar and Nan Paturzo, so here are some pics of us with the book:
Nan Paturzo and Donna Salazar admiring some of Donna's work in the book.
We have been having lots of fun at CHA in Anaheim this week. Tomorrow is the last day....and yes, my feet are sore. But it is so great to meet our retailers, designers and Bind-it-All friends from around the world!
This is how the booth looks at one end. We have a nice wall of product displays and a whole host of roll-up floor banners with the specials and product features. This banner shows the THREE new products at this show....BIND-IT-ALL AROUND THE WORLD idea book, the DISPLAY-IT-ALL mini album display stand (I will blog on that soon), and the SPINNER ALBUM KIT. All the new items are shipping in March (actual shipping date may vary!!)
There is lots of excitement for BIND-IT-ALL AROUND THE WORLD, and it was fun to have some of the designers see their projects in print -- in the ONE copy we have on display...and it was tied to the wall so it couldn't walk away!
This is Jennifer Priest of the Zutter Zisters BIA DT - she helped demo at the show too!
Sally Lynn MacDonald is a long way from home in Connecticut; she has a project in the book, and is on the Zutter Zisters BIA DT.
This is Helena, a retailer in Sweden. She isn't in the book, but she KNOWS our Zutter Zister BIA DT member Jenny Svensson in Sweden, who IS in the book! We both love Jeja!! Yeah Jenny!!
This is Faye Warriner of Nevada - she has two projects featured in the book!
And, if you can't tell from the looks of these pictures. I very rarely take a photo that is serious.....just seriously goofy. If you can't have fun at "work" (wait....is this really work??? nooooo!!), then why bother. It's always fun at Zutter!
Take your custom binding projects for a SPIN!!!!This is one of the new products we are introducing at CHA this week in Anaheim. It’s so COOL for a lot of different reasons! But without further delay….this is the SPINNER ALBUM KIT!!
It is a completely customizable spinner album, on a completely customizable wooden spinning base. The album itself is bound together with the Bind-it-All, using the large 1 ¼” Owire, which fits over the dowel in the center. It is so fun to put together and has endless creative possibilities. Take a look at the video .
Isn't it AWESOME!!?!?!? The kit comes with an unpainted wooden base with dowel, 10 - 4X4 tabbed chipboard pages, 10 - 4X4 square chipboard pages, 40 pages 4X4 white cardstock, and a length of Zutter Owire. YOU take it from there and make an album to suit a theme, room decor or your mood. What fun!!
Now, another reason why this is so cool is because this kit is based upon the winning project in the Zutter project contest by Vicki Flinchum, one of our current Zutter Zisters Bind-it-All Design Team members. Vicki entered the contest long before she was part of the DT. Her project won over the judges, selecting her as the grand prize winner of the contest, and her project (and four of her other projects) are featured in the upcoming Bind-it-All Around the World Idea book. The picture above is how it appears in the book. Now the Spinner Album Kit will be one of the new releases at CHA – AND her project is featured on the product packaging. We are so proud of Vicki and pleased to have her on the creative team!
Ok, Vicki….you can bask in your glory and talk all about it now! Poor thing has had to keep it a secret up until now!!!
Watch for the Spinner Album Kit in your local stores and on our website. Coming soon…..
Here it is! We have been working on this for a loooong time! And, I think it’s been an even longer wait for the participants who submitted projects for inclusion in the book. But here it is! We are launching it at CHA this weekend – the NEW project book from Zutter Innovative Products!
BIND-IT-ALL Around the World!!!
125 pages 50 projects Special section by Guest Designer Teresa Collins Invited designers like:
Donna Salazar, Stephanie Ackerman, Zutter Zister Design Team members! Winner of Zutter Project contest: Vicki Flinchum
(we’ll be blogging about her winning project A LOT soon!) Finalists of Zutter Project contest – from around the World! The book is being published in a Zutter Cover-All! It’s very cool! Retail: $19.99
Ask your store to place an order. Anticipated delivery by March 2009!
Not that it wasn't cute enough, but how about making your Bind-It-All even cuter?!
I was recently cutting some vinyl on my electronic diecutting machine and had an idea to cut some items to decorate my Bind-It-All. I cut my name and some little daisies and voila!
I put some daisies on the back and sides. I think I will fill in the rest of this area with some crystals or maybe some more daisies.
This way I know it is "mine". This font is LD New Arrival Bold.
I plan to add some pink and black Swarovski crystals too at some point. And then there is the blue Bind-It-All that needs some decorating love as well!
Now I can make personalized mini books with my personalized Bind-It-All! And I'll never be confused about which one is mine when at crops or classes. Here are some other ideas for decorating your Bind-It-All:
