New Year's Use Your Stash Blog Hop

 I hope you enjoy our little blog hop today. Each hopper will share techniques, tools, tips all while using up their stash. If you have come from Judy's blog, you are hopping right along. This hop is a round, so when you get back to the blog you started from, you have seen them all.

Today I am sharing the first tool I needed to get off the shelf and dust off, Zutter Bind-It-All. The Bind It All is a small binding machine, just right for mini albums.

I purchased this when I first started my scrapbook business, six years ago. I used it for a couple of months straight and then, as the way of many of my tools, it was in the closet (scrappin' closet).

Of course, if I purchase a tool, I love  storage and a carrying cases for my tools, and Zutter's was great at providing these tool accessories. If I had known they would put out a pink one, I may have waited.

Thanks to my Naughty Santa friend, I received a great Bind It All Book.

 So how does it work, or better yet how do I like to use it.

My artwork is twofold. I like to do a 365 album each year, a place to share my yearly adventures with family. This year I am basing my album on my daily walk with the Lord.

I created a little mini album with enough pages for each month.

Binding the mini album was easy. Find the center of your project, slide the page into the slot on the machine and carefully hold the machine while you pull hte handle down. This creates the tiny holes for binding.

Take each page thereafter, and using the first page as a guide, punch holes in all your mini album pages.

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Put the wire binding through the holes (the wire binding is easy to cut). And slide the project into the front slot and pull the handle to tighten the metal binding.

The project is complete and I am ready to create another bind it all project.

Enjoy your hop by visiting Rachel's blog next.