Zebra Mini Album – Tutorial part 1

This is a great way to start learning the process to make a few of the pages of this Zebra Mini Album! Make sure to check it out!

If you want to get a snapshot of all the pages you want to make check out it all started here!

The most fun album ever. These precut chipboard albums are the cutest way, ever, to present memories and unfold your life. As presents, they are memories in themselves; the gift of time and love. Once you start, the process keeps presenting new ideas for the next page.

Zebra Mini Album Tutorial – DIY Chipboard Crafting Guide

Most of this album was foiled. The chipboard album was from Michaels; very easy to work with. On some pages, I couldn’t get the little hole punch through the pages and resorted to my Zutter Bind It All. By the time I got all the tags and envelopes onto the pages, it was so thick I divided it into two albums and used the Zutter Covers for a second album.

Today is the larger pages with the covers that came with the album. The rest of the paper is a shiny, wonderful paper from Paper-Papers.com. Luckily, the foils and the papers were a pretty close match and they drifted into each other very nicely.

The great animal print paper is from Recollections at Michaels, also Hot off the Press at Amazon. The copper tape is from Crafter’s Companion. The fun little buckle was Tim Holtz. The patent leather belt was redone from an old belt. The Zebra on the front was designed by DragonArtz.net. The back page zebra is an adaptation of several pictures, taken off a quilt.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did. Seems like a lot of work when you first start, but you will be so sad when it is done and you will start thinking about your next album. So many ideas, so little time.

This tutorial will cover the front, back, and insides of the cover pages, without the tags. I will cover the individual tags on the inside front cover in the next tutorial. Find here our Tutorial #1 – 4 page print-out of detailed instructions.