Janice Daquila-Pardo

The measure of a man

June 15, 2014 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

My layout won the grand prize in the PageMaps 8th anniversary celebration!

I created this layout about my dad back in May because I wanted to submit it to a sketch contest. But I decided that I would wait to share it here on Father’s Day because it’s meant to symbolize what a great man I think my father was.

My dad taught me by example what men ought to strive to be: intelligent, humble, kind, funny, loving, respectful, helpful and always learning. He was a wonderful and involved father to Phil and me, a gentle and loving husband to Mom, a kind boss at work and very involved in our church. I’m quite sure that without knowing it I have always measured other men against his example.

Because of the topic, creating this page was a joy for me. And then I WON the contest with it!

Becky Fleck spent May celebrating the 8th anniversary of her popular sketch blog, PageMaps. The month of giveaways and special content ended with a sketch contest. The rules were just to choose any of her sketches from 2013-14 and submit a new layout based on it, and you were only allowed to submit one entry.

Knowing how popular Becky’s sketches are, I thought it likely that this contest would have many entries. Add to that the fact that the prize was a $150 gift card to A Cherry On Top! So I spent a few days on this layout because I knew the competition would be stiff. But we all know you cannot win if you do not play.

Product/technique notes

I chose to use the sketch below from PageMaps’ May 2014 release. My background paper is from We R Memory Keepers’ “Happy Campers,” and the rest of the patterns are from the My Mind’s Eye “Lime Twist” 6×6 pad. I added lots of hand stitching and a title designed and cut on my Silhouette Cameo.

My month in the Creative Scrappers birthday bash sketch contest

June 3, 2014 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

You may have noticed that I spent the month of May participating in the Creative Scrappers birthday bash sketch contest. I’ve always been inspired by the CS sketches, and I decided to use as many of them in May as I could. In fact, I submitted layouts for 6 of the 10 sketches—not bad! And I hope it’s not too proud of me to say that I’m very happy with the pages that I created with the sketches. It was a good month of scrapping!

Then it became a great month of scrapping when I won the contest!

Yesterday the site named a few of their favorites from the 128 layouts, and my page “Sweet mother love” was in that list. Cool! But when I scrolled to the bottom of the post is when I received my big surprise—my “Bobcat mom squared” layout had been chosen as the sketch contest winner. What a thrill!

And now I have $50 to spend on scrap supplies to the store of my choice. Woot! Thanks for the inspiration and the shopping spree, Creative Scrappers!

Good help is hard to find

May 31, 2014 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

Oliver, sensing that the work at hand is both urgent and important, gets right on it.

Oliver, like most cats, loves to curl up on the newest at least semi-horizontal addition to his environment. So when Matt set up our computers on the dining room table one evening to rebuild them, Ollie found one of the keyboards irresistible. Thankfully, Matt called me into the room to see it, and I snapped these photos.

Product/technique notes

I followed this sketch from the Creative Scrappers Birthday Bash and used papers from Simple Stories’ “24/Seven” collection. The embellishments are from BasicGrey, October Afternoon, Panda Eight, and Studio Calico. I created the title on my Silhouette and added some hand stitching on the diagonal seam.

Meeting the girls

May 23, 2014 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

Isn't little Ella adorable?

A few days ago I shared a layout about an old friendship of ours with a man named Jeremy, who both Matt and I worked and were friends with several years ago. Today’s layout features photos of Jeremy’s family from last November when they came to town. It was the first time we had met his new wife, Emily, and little girl, Ella. They were delightful.

Product/technique notes

I followed this sketch from the Creative Scrappers Birthday Bash and used papers mostly from BasicGrey and October Afternoon. I created the title on my Silhouette.

Greenfield Village

May 20, 2014 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

I did a little reading about Greenfield Village while I was creating this layout, and it made me want to go back as an adult!

I’m so grateful that Mom and Dad always put in such effort to plan fun and educational summer vacations for us, like this one in August 1978 that included a day at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. In the left photo Phil and I are posing with a statue of President James A. Garfield, and in the right photo we’re being dramatic in a gazebo that was used for musical performances.

Product/technique notes

I used the following sketch from Creative Scrappers’ Birthday Bash and papers from the My Mind’s Eye “Miss Caroline” collection. I created the title on the Silhouette and added a bit of Studio G washi tape and a Martha Stewart butterfly punch.

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