Digi Choosday Project | Honeypie Spring Lambs Mini House Album

This week’s Digi Choosday DT prompt is Easter and to use an image featuring a sheep or spring animal, so of course I had to create something extra sweet using the adorable Honeypie Spring Lambs.

I made another mini album (because I simply can’t stop), this time shaped like a cozy little house! Each page is lined with beautiful patterned papers from the Winnie Sunshine Delights Paper Pack, which adds the perfect bright and cheerful spring vibe.

Just like my previous minis, this one is available for you to recreate in Cricut Design Space. I’m sharing the exact template I used! If you’re a Cricut user, you can access the DS template here.

Not a Cricut user? No worries at all! You can easily create your own version by downloading a simple house template online or drawing one yourself and using it as a cutting guide.

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Materials Used

• Ring binder

• Pattern Paper – Winnie Sunshine Delights Paper Pack

• Digi Stamp – Honeypie Spring Lambs

• Ohuhu Colored Pencils

• Bearly Art Precision Glue

• Cricut Maker

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How I Made It

If you’re using a Cricut Maker, open the Design Space file I provided.

1. Cut the large house bases using white cardstock.

   
   
   
   
   
   

   • Cut as many as you need for your pages.

   • Resize if needed. I sized mine so I could cut 2 houses from one A4 sheet to maximize the page.

2. Cut the smaller house layers using patterned paper.

   • I used the Winnie Sunshine Delights Paper Pack for a bright spring look.

   • Don’t forget the reversed pieces for the backs of the pages!

3. Adhere the patterned paper houses to the front and back of the white cardstock bases.

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

4. Cut the embellishment pieces.

   
   

   
   
   
   
   
   

   • White elements from white cardstock

   • Colored elements from scrap patterned paper

     
     

5. Assemble and adhere all embellishments.

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

6. Color your digi stamp.

   
   
   

   • I used Ohuhu Colored Pencils for soft spring tones.

7. Adhere the colored Honeypie Spring Lambs to the front cover.

   
   
   

8. Punch a hole on each page, bind everything with a ring binder then finish with enamel dots for that extra pop of cuteness!

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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This little house mini album is perfect for Easter memories, spring photos, or even as a sweet handmade gift. I just love how cheerful and cute it turned out!

Be sure to join the Anything Goes challenge over at Polkadoodles Digi Choosday and share your Easter or spring-inspired makes! I can’t wait to see what you create! 

And don’t forget to follow me on my socials for more crafty inspiration:

Instagram: @my.cat.and.crafts

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Happy crafting! 

Miqueka Scrap | February Collection – Love

Miqueka Scrap’s February collection, Love, is such a sweet and dainty collection! It features really soft, light colors paired with the cutest embellishments. One of my absolute favorites from this collection is the bunny embellishments, they are just too adorable!

Honestly, this collection could easily double as an Easter collection because of those cute bunnies. I actually considered making an Easter album using the bunny embellishments and papers… but since it is February, I decided we should stay on theme and focus on love instead. Hehe!

For this collection, I made two mini albums.

Envelope Mini Album

The first mini album is an envelope album, an album where the pages are envelopes. Each envelope has inserts that can hold photos or journaling cards, while the empty envelope pockets are perfect for storing little keepsakes and memories.

For this project, I wanted to use some tools that I haven’t used in a while. That’s how the idea for this mini came about! I used my We R Memory Keepers 1-2-3 Punch Board to create the envelopes and bound the album using my Mini Cinch.

Here is a process video of how I made this mini:

Scrap-Busting Mini Album

The second mini album is my scrap-busting project for this collection. I wanted to use up all the remaining papers and embellishments I had from the Love collection, so I created a smaller version of my usual mini album.

My typical mini album size is 5 x 6.5 inches, but this time I made a 4 x 4.75 inch mini. And I have to say—I really love how handy and cute this smaller size turned out!

Here is a process video of how I made this mini:

And here is the flip-through video for the album:

Get the Love Collection

If you loved this collection, you can grab it from Miqueka Scrap’s Ko-fi shop.

Don’t forget to follow Miqueka Scrap on Instagram to see more beautiful projects made with her collections. And if you’d like to see more of my crafting projects, mini albums, and paper creations, you can also follow me on my socials:

Instagram: @my.cat.and.crafts

Facebook: My Cat and Crafts

Life Lately | Plot Twists, Healing, and Happy Planner Spreads

My Happy Planner layouts and Life Lately blog posts are finally back! Hehehe! Life and health happened, so I ended up missing three weeks of this series, but I’m happy to say that I’m back now, probably feeling my best since the year started! Hahaha. So yes, let’s just say the first two months of the year were practice.

One thing I learned (or maybe re-learned), and something a close friend has always told me, is that we really need to listen to our bodies. I’ve always thought my body had its own way of manifesting the stress I keep bottled up, but this time it turned out to be something different.

To cut the long story short, I thought it was just my asthma weighing me down. There’s been a lot of construction going on around our apartment building, and I even thought maybe the house, especially my craft room, just needed a good dusting. But it turned out to be more than that.

We scheduled a doctor’s appointment just to get a prescription and refill of my inhaler and other meds. During the usual triage checks, the nurses noticed that my pulse was quite high and flagged it to my doctor. He then asked me to get a blood test (ugh, I hate being pricked!).

When we came back for the results, it turned out that I was low on iron and had high uric acid.

Because of that, my doctor arranged for me to receive iron through IV every two weeks this month. Yes… more pricking!

One little moment from that day still makes me smile. Before we left for the hospital, Lucky suddenly plopped himself between my legs while I was sitting down. He rarely does that to me—he usually does that to my husband—so I was really surprised that night. Looking back now, I like to think he somehow knew I was about to have an IV hooked to me later that evening and decided to comfort me in advance. Cats really do have their own way of knowing when we need a little extra love.

The good news is that since starting the treatment, I’ve been feeling so much better. Imagine discovering all of that just because I needed to refill my inhaler and medications.

Anyway, here are my layouts from the past three weeks.

February 23 – March 1

For this spread, I used some stickers I got online, washi, and the Happy Planner Indigo sticker book. I chose the blue Indigo stickers because I was feeling a bit low that week, but I added flowers because I was hopeful about getting better (this was before the check-up!). Sadly, I wasn’t able to finish my journaling for this spread because after Wednesday I started feeling worse. At that time, I thought it was because of my new inhaler, which was stronger than my usual pink one.

March 2 – 8

This was mostly a sick week, but I still worked on the spread using Traci Reed’s new collection, Plot Twist, because it felt very fitting. I added some photos and will include short journaling for the week later on. This spread has some mixed media, and honestly, it was very therapeutic just splashing color around and gluing things together. I’ll also be making a separate post just for this spread.

March 9 – 15

This is my “I’m back” spread! For this layout, I used washi and two sticker books: the Happy Planner Neutral Watercolors sticker book and the Vintage Cottage Fields stickers from Simple Stories. I mixed neutrals with florals to reflect how I’m feeling now, calmer and finally getting better.

This post is already pretty long, so I won’t be adding the other projects I’ve been working on lately. For now, this is simply a little blog update to say that I’m back… and feeling better than ever.