Hello crafters and welcome to May! Today marks the start of a new challenge on the Scor-Pal blog and I have something you can put together, perhaps for Mother’s Day, to help mark the occasion.

For this month we want to see your handbag or purse creations.
We are making some changes to the challenges this year, we will have a theme that the Design Team will follow, and we would love you to follow too, but if you don’t want to you can do an “Anything Goes” creation as long as it follows the general rules
Each month we will have a different theme and you will have a month to create and enter your projects. As well as the theme you will need to make “More Than One Score” and tell us where you used the Scor-Pal on your project. So a single fold card won’t count but an Easel, Gatefold, Stair Step, etc will.   Also we love to see your “Anything But a Card” projects, just as long as you make “More Than One Score”
We have a ton of inspiration on our Projects on the Scor-Pal website and also on our Pinterest Board to get you eager to enter.

You can find the Scor-Pal here.  Check out the detail of the challenge on the Scor-Pal blog here.

I decided to go with the “Anything Goes” category and created this mini album with a concertina fold.  It was the first time I had done this type of album and I really like how it turned out.  It’s perfect when you want to have something to remember a special day – small enough to not take up much room, but space for a number of photos.

The album folds in an accordian type folder but on the diagonal.

Here is how to make the album.  First – decide what sized paper you want to use.  You will need 3 sheets of paper, cut to squares.  In my case I used 3 sheets of double sided scrapbook paper cut to 8.5″ square.

For each piece you will do three scores.  At the center  – in my case the score would be at 4.25″, then turn once and do another score at the center.  So you have a vertical and horizontal score at the center.  The third score would be on the diagonal.  Do this for each of the three pieces.

Then fold and burnish on all the score lines.

Next you are going to put together the three pieces.  You will want to use good adhesive for this  and Scor-Tape is perfect.  You can find Scor-Tape here. 

Place the paper as shown in the photo below.  On the diagonal the first and third sheets should have the diagonal fold be “mountain” folds with the center piece having the “valley” fold.  Also note the middle piece gets adhered on top of the first piece, and the third piece gets adhered to the second piece.  You only need to tape the triangle sections that overlap – nothing else.

Once the pieces are put together you can fold it as follows – start with each end first then work on the center – see photo below.

Burnish all the folds and then add photos and any other embellishments.  For this project I placed some pieces of white paper where I intend to add photos later.

To embellish the front I used an assortment of dies with paper from the same scrapbooking paper pad I used for the album itself.  I tied it up with some raffia – I attached the raffia only to the front to allow the album to be fully opened up.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope you check out the Scor-pal blog and the projects that the design team has created.