Mini Album -fold out

This is a card, which can also be a mini album! I am still working on it, and LOVE the ICE CREAM PARLOR Designer paper from the Sale A Bration! I'm taking advantage of the lovely colors to create a fun album that was inspired by one of my many books that I have in "my library". This one is going to be a pop up album, so as I get them completed, I will be able to post more photos from this album.

I used the flower die from the Spring Mini, called Fun Flowers. I folded them after embossing them using the texture plates and sponging the edges

This week has been a very tumultuous week. Yesterday in Japan, there was a huge earthquake. It was an 8.9 and caused a Tsunami which caused a lot of devastation and then the waves traveled across the ocean and caused damage to the California coast. It was amazing to see the force of nature to cause so much damage. Although we didn't have the destruction that Japan had, it nevertheless was horrifying to watch the way the water tossed buildings, trucks, and trains like they were nothing.

I know it is going to be a long time before those areas recover. And then to top it off, a nuclear emergency with 2 nuclear power plants in Japan, as they can't get the system to cool off.

I'm amazed at how much we were able to see what was going on over there. I know that in CA, we're never quite ready for the earthquakes, but we need to prepare, and get ready for something like this. I'm only about 15 minutes from the ocean, and if it happened to Japan, then the area I live in, would be damaged by the water as well. We're at a higher elevation, but it still would be some danger......

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