When I saw the theme of Tears and Folds come up as a project call for the Design Team I knew it was one for me. I add paper tears to almost ALL of my projects!! I love the texture they give … fast forward to my project … not a paper tear in sight!!! For some reason when I stood at my craft table I suddenly remembered a mini book I made years ago - created from folded cardstock. I remembered how much I loved that album… and that was it!!

One reason I went with a mini book was because I LOVE the Wildflower collection from Traci but had bizarrely started to hoard it (erm, it’s a printable collection … I can just print more!!!) so that reminder made me decide to use LOADS of it!!

To Create Your Pages

• Gold card stock in half diagonally
• Turn and repeat
• You now have an X fold on your card
• Turn and fold in half vertically
• Pinch the vertical fold and push inwards. The page will fold into a triangle.
• Measure 3 inches from the outer point and fold inwards.
• Repeat for all 4 corners.
• Unfold and now as you punch and fold manipulate those corners so the also fold in.
• You are left with a folded pentagon shape
• Repeat for as many pages as you want - I have 3 pages.

Create and Decorate

I opted to work with the gorgeous Wildflower collection for these photos of a springtime adventure with my hubby.

• Work from the bottom layer outwards.
• Remember those folds - either fold your papers, trim them smaller, or only adhere to one side of a fold so they act like a pop-up

Assemble your book

• Adhere your three pages together
• Opt to only stick 4 of the 5 sides if you want a pocket between pages. I did this for extra photos and hidden journaling.
• Create a cover that is 6.5 inches square.
• Add some to ribbon to tie closed your book before adhering the cover to the first and third pages.
• Embellish the cover
• Bask in the glory of your mini book!!

I created a little video to show you how to fold the pages. I also wanted to show you my finished book. It’s my first You Tube video so bear with me on that one!!

Click here to watch that video!

I hope you enjoy this project and the others the Team have put together.