For this week’s Digi Choosday, our DT prompt was wraparound, and I had so much fun creating a pretty Triple Panel Card with a Belly Band 💐
First off… let me gush a little about the PolkadoodlesFloral Meadow collection. It is so pretty! The pattern papers are full of soft florals, and everything coordinates beautifully—from the ephemera to the sentiments. Honestly, it’s a must-have in your stash! Even my husband was impressed—he actually stopped, picked up the floral paper, and examined it closely 😂 That says a lot!
So yes… take my word for it—go grab Floral Meadow. You’ll thank me later!
1. Trim your plain cardstock to 4.25 x 5.5. This will be your card base
2. Trim a plain cardstock to 11 x 1 1/4. This will be your belly band.
3. Score your belly band at 4 and 8 3/8.
4. Trim your back-to-back pattern paper to 12 x 5.25.
5. Score your pattern paper at 2, 5, and 8, then fold along the score lines.
6. Adhere the pattern paper to your card base.
7. Trim your white cardstock to 2 pieces at 2.75 x 5.25 and 1 piece at 1.75 x 5.25.
8. Adhere the white cardstock to the inside panels (first, third, and fourth panels). Adhere the ephemera to the panels with white cardstock.
9. Fold and glue your belly band. Make sure to wrap it around the card before adhering so it’s not too tight - leave just a bit of wiggle room. Add ephemera to your belly band.
Add your sentiment. I cut mine from the Floral Meadow collection using my Cricut Maker and adhered it using transfer tape.
And that’s it! Such a fun, pretty and somewhat interactive card, and the wraparound element really makes it extra special.
I hope this inspires you to create your own version - and of course, to finally grab that Floral Meadow collection if you haven’t yet!
Don’t forget to join the Digi Choosday Anything Goes challenge over at Polkadoodles - we’d love to see what you create!
And if you’d like to see more of my projects, feel free to follow me on my socials!
This week’s Happy Planner layout is like a little celebration spread that is colorful, summery, and a bit quite funny considering I don’t really like summer. I’m not a beach person, and I don't really like the heat. Apart from it being, well, hot - I have really sensitive skin that burns easy. Buuuut with less than two weeks before our vacation, I figured a summer-themed layout was fitting anyway as summer kind of associates with vacations, right?
Instead of using my usual Happy Planner sticker books, I used an Echo Park Summertime Sticker Book that I rarely use. I paired it with a colorful striped washi tape then layered stickers like “summer dreams are made of this,” “sweet summertime,” and “hello summer” throughout the spread. I also added floral stickers from the same book to pretty-fy everything and make the pages feel extra pretty, bright and happy.
I also added little sticky notes from my Happy Planner Checklists page for all the TO DOs before our trip - things for the house, projects, packing, things to bring, etc.
For life lately updates, the biggest highlight of last week was definitely my back-to-back wins during Bee Happy’s anniversary weeklies announced last week. I’m still ridiculously giddy about it even now. If you haven’t read about it yet, definitely check out my post about it because the whole thing was such a good-vibes experience from start to finish.
Of course, wins call for celebrations. Our first celebratory dinner was at my favorite pizza place, D’Oro Pizza, followed by dessert at Poem, a new coffee place we decided to try.
Celebratory dinner calls for a face photo here in the blog!
Lasagna
Bruschetta Doro - personal fave!
Formaggio
Pepperoni
New Coffee Shop #1
The next night, we ended up dining out again with Jay and some colleagues, we ate at Baytoti again, the Chinese restaurant we tried the other week. After everyone left, the husband and I continued our little café adventures and tried 8oz Coffee. The coffee and cake were really good, though I think my drink may have been slightly too strong because I stayed awake until 4:00am. But I'm not complaining as it worked out well for me. I managed to finish my Miqueka Scrap Design Team deliverable which evolved from one mini album into FOUR mini albums. I even managed to film a tutorial reel while caffeinated out of my mind. So thank you, me and 8oz Coffee. Hahaha.
New Coffee Shop #2
Cute sip cover has 80z on it!
1am ganap on my crafting table
Another exciting thing from this week was joining my very first blog hop with Printable Cuttable Creatables. The giveaway is still on going until tomorrow so you can still hop through everyone’s projects starting from PCC’s blog post. For my project, I made an etched jewelry box, which was fun because it was also my first time trying etching cream.
I’ve also wrapped up my final PCC project for May and will start working on June projects this week. One of the required themes is summer, while my two chosen themes are cat-themed and cooking/baking-themed projects.
One of my smaller but very satisfying wins this week was finishing all my June Kendra’s Card Challenge #22 cards in just one afternoon. That’s one major DT task checked off my “before the trip” to-do list! I used Traci Reed Designs’ Story Foundations: Milestones collection for all the cards and I love how they turned out. Plus, that means 15 more cards added to my stash for future pop-ups. I also made a little promise to myself to intentionally create more occasion-specific cards (and stash for future pop ups!) instead of defaulting to generic ones. The cards are already scheduled to go live on my socials every Monday throughout June.
Speaking of Story Foundations: Milestones, I also shared the birthday scrapbook layout I made for the husband using the same collection this week. Another mini album I created for Sweet Steals using Our Story Matters - still one of my favorite TRD collections ever - also went live recently along with the flip-through video.
And of course, just because I won the anniversary weeklies twice doesn’t mean I’m stopping with the regular Bee Happy challenges. This week’s prompt was “Proudly Pinoy,” and I made shrink plastic Philippine flag earrings designed by my husband. It is extra special because we actually made them on our anniversary, so unintentionally, it became an anniversary project too.
For our 11th wedding anniversary, we had dinner at Braira Hotel and did a little shopping afterward at Al Ahsa Mall. The buffet happened to be Indian-themed that night, which meant there weren’t too many things I could (would) eat, but I did discover this mini lumpia-like veggie roll that became very good after I mixed together vinegar and chili from the salad bar into my own dipping sauce. Resourceful Filipino mode activated!
Anniversary photo
My DIY lumpia and sawsawan
Display or part of dessert?
I decided it is part of dessert. hehehe
Another small but important victory: I tried recreating Rodic’s Tapa after watching a food influencer make it online, and surprisingly… it actually tasted like Rodic’s. Maybe even better because mine didn’t have litid. Hehe.
As for reading… well. I’m still working through the same book I started earlier this week. Hopefully I finish it tomorrow and maybe squeeze in one or two more books before the month ends. We’ll see.
Overall, it was one of those weeks that felt extra full in the best possible way - lots of creating, little celebrations, unexpected wins, coffee-fueled productivity, and moments that made me reflect to take a moment and feel genuinely grateful. Now it’s time to start preparing for June projects and our upcoming trip!
But before I go, here are Lucky photos from last week!
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