While looking for a tutorial on the Double Display Card (Thanks Brenda!), I stumbled upon several examples of a tri-shutter album. I really like mini albums since you can actually get them finished in a short amount of time. Decided to try out this technique using some new paper by Basic Grey. Ended up making it a sample for Island Scrapboooking by adding in photos of events over the past year that I've been helping out at the store. The photo at the top of this post is what the album looks like when its closed up. I added a belly band since it would hold it closed better. Since there are multiple folds that the band could get stuck on, I attached it using some velcro dots. Here's what the album looks like when its fully opened. I was able to add 3 vertical photos and 4 small horizontal photos. Here's the first panel... Made that flower using my new large scallop circle nestibilites and just cut slits where each scallop ends so that it looked more like a flower. Here's the middle section of the album. For the smaller panels, I decorated them with dew drops, punched flowers and the new MS flower patch border punch. The two blank panels were left blank so that we could add in "Island Scrapbooking". Needed Michele's help with that, so she's going to see if she can cut it for me. Used butterfly punches to accent photos since they can be placed anywhere and seemed to go with the floral theme. Here's the last panel...

Happy Friday! Wow- only 2 days of work this week and I'm already burnt out! Glad its Friday and I have the weekend to do more crafting- yay! Still need to prep my cards for Hospice- did half of one card but gotta finish cutting the kits; finally designed the 2nd card, but haven't even started on the kits for that one! Good thing the meeting isn't until 1:00 on Sunday- I'll have Saturday night and Sunday morning to finish. K.I... don't worry- I'll get it done on time! Wanted to do another tri-shutter card since I didn't get the first one quite right. Here's the end result... I just love this bee!! It's from one of the Hello Kitty deco strips from Sizzix. I've been meaning to use it, but just haven't had any inspiration until now. I thought he'd match perfectly with this new DP I found at Island Scrapbooking. I replicated the flowers on the paper by cutting out similar shaped flowers using my Spellbinder dies. Since I don't have any of those clever "bee" type phrase stamps, I printed my own on the computer. Thank you for "bee"ing a great friend! Special thanks to Michele, Tracy and Kelli at Island Scrapbooking, who helped me put this card togehter. For some reason I had a hard time with this one. Kelli- see? I decided you were right and I did end up adding the additional layer. Sigh, so much for saving on paper! I decided that being that she is a bee, she should fly right? So I added some fishing line to her and had her dangle from one of the folds. When you open it up, she moves around randomly like a busy bee. Tried to take a photo up close here so you could see that she's dangling and not attached directly to the card. Supplies used: Bee- Sizzix Sentiment- Printed from my computer Leaf die- Sizzix Flower dies- Spellbinders circles- Marvy Uchida punches cardstock- Bazzil DP- TPC Studio (paper is double sided and I used both sides) Glitter paper- Doodlebug Designs fishing line Well, hope everyone has a fun weekend. My mini vacation is over and my baby is going to Kindergarten today! (tear)