5×5 Bug Book Album

Hi everyone! I have a fun mini album to share with you created with Lori’s new Echo Park collection, Little Things Mean A Lot. It’s a fun collection, full of bright colors and lots of attention to detail with fun little critters. I thought it would be perfect to create a mini for a little guy that I know that will love to catch some bugs for the summer and his mama can add some pictures as they go.

I cut one cover, and then I cut four pieces to cover the inside and the outside of the cover. Three base pages and then 12 squares to cover those and one spine cover. You also need some twine or thread along with adhesive.

Here is all my pieces cut…lots and lot. Then my inside pages put together. Ink all the edges. The bottom left corner is your cover pieces and the bottom right is just a bunch or borders of Lori’s that I cut to add to my pages for fun and detail.

Top right you can see the inside of my inside pages, top left is the inside of my cover and the bottom picture is the outside of the cover.

Next, just line up the holes of your three inside pages with the holes on the cover and tie them in with twine or string. How cute it that spine on the cover!!!??!!

Then you get to just go to town embellishing and creating with the amazing collection. I had so much fun. I used enamel dots, ribbon, stickers, buttons and just had the best time creating this. I know he and his mama will love it. And how cute is that little bug catcher!?