Janice Daquila-Pardo

Blessed

November 23, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

Me and my paternal grandparents: Thanksgiving 1987

That’s me with my Nana and Papa on Thanksgiving Day in 1987. Our extended family in Pennsylvania always used to gather together for Thanksgiving at Aunt Doo Doo and Uncle Ron’s house, and when this photo was taken we had just cleared away the dishes after a fabulous feast.

I will always hold dear my memories from those years when we spent Thanksgiving with Nana and Papa at the head of our big happy family. We were truly blessed to have them and each other.

Product/technique notes

I created this page using Echo Park’s “Reflections” collection and a few stickers from their “Reflections Fall” collection. I designed the title and cut it on my Cameo.

I’d have it no other way

November 18, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

Selfies are some of my favorite photos.

The 15th sketch challenge has been posted at the SCRAP & MUSIC challenge blog! Head over to the site to grab the sketch and play along. This 15th sketch came with the song “Change the world” by Eric Clapton.

My layout

On this layout I used a photo that Matt and I took of ourselves on our 16th anniversary in October. I drew my inspiration from the lines in the song that say “If I could be king, even for a day; I’d take you as my queen; I’d have it no other way.”

Product/technique notes

Most of the products on this page are from My Mind’s Eye’s “Cut and paste: Adorbs” collection. The title area is a banner cut file from the Silhouette store that I outfitted with the words from the song before cutting.

The challenge

The challenges on this blog involve following the sketch and using a title on your layout with a line from the provided music. Below I’ve included the video as well as the lyrics for this song:

“Change the world” by Eric Clapton

If I could reach the stars
I’d pull one down for you
Shinin’ on my heart
So you could see the truth
Then this love I have inside
Is everything it sees
But for now I find
It’s only in my dreams

That I can change the world
I would be the sunlight in your universe
You would think my love was really something good
Baby, if I could change the world

If I could be king, even for a day
I’d take you as my queen
I’d have it no other way
And our love would rule
In this kingdom we have made
Till then I’ll be a fool
Wishing for the day

That I can change the world
I would be the sunlight in your universe
You would think my love was really something good
Baby, if I could change the world
Baby, if I could change the world

I can change the world
I would be the sunlight in your universe
You would think my love was really something good
Baby, if I could change the world
Baby, if I could change the world

Baby, if I could change… The world

Crib notes

November 14, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

Day 158 of my captivity. 😉

I was recently scrolling through my photo-organizing program looking for something compelling to scrap, and I found these two random pictures of me as a baby. They aren’t particularly good photos, and there’s no special story to tell about them because they really just capture me at about six months old wearing my stylish onsies. But I wanted to scrap them, so I decided to group them together and have a little fun with the journaling and title.

In case the journaling is too small to read, it says:
Day 158 of my captivity. My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. Do they really think those look like animals? In an attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on their clothing. They merely make ridiculous cooing noises and pat my back. The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape …

Product/technique notes

I followed this sketch from Juliana Michaels of Paper Bakery. And all the patterned papers are from Crate Paper’s “Little Bo Peep” and “DIY Shop” collections. I created the title in the Silhouette Studio Designer Edition software and cut it on my Cameo.
sketch challenge

Ghouls just want to have fun

November 7, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

The fairy princess and the wizard are ready to party!

I met Joanie in grade school at Immaculate Conception. She was the older sister of my classmate, Matt, and our friendship began not long before she graduated from eighth grade and moved on to junior high/high school. When I graduated and began high school elsewhere, that seems to be when our friendship really took off!

It was wonderful having a good friend outside of my high school circle. It meant that when we got together we could really catch up on what had been happening in our individual lives. I particularly remember enjoying the times Joanie had me over to her house to spend the night. I loved the contrast of spending time in her larger family (5 kids as compared to the 2 in my family), and they always made me feel quite at home. One time we even got snowed in while I was staying over (awesome).

In this photo I was about to turn 17, Joanie would have been 18, and we were heading out to a Halloween party. I don’t remember who threw the party, but I do remember us planning our costumes and getting excited together. What a good time that was, and what an important friendship hers was to me.

Product/technique notes

I followed this Creative Scrappers sketch #254 as inspiration for my page. the patterned paper is from Bella Blvd’s “Trick or treat” and “Too cute to spook” collections, an ancient paper from 2006 by KI Memories (the orange background with the text) and some random patterns not related to Halloween. I designed the title using the Nightmare Before Christmas font and also used the witch boots file (Design ID #12941) on my Silhouette.

More than words

November 3, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

On the gorgeous UNC-Chapel Hill campus

The 14th sketch challenge has been posted at the SCRAP & MUSIC challenge blog! Head over to the site to grab the sketch and play along. This 14th sketch came with the song “More than words” by Extreme.

My layout

One day this summer my mom, brother and I took a walk around the gorgeous UNC-Chapel Hill campus where Phil went to grad school and now works. It was a great day for photos. I especially liked this one of them with South Building (the university’s main administrative building, built in 1814) in the background.

I paired this photo with the challenge song, “More than words,” simply because I love these two more than words.

Product/technique notes

The patterned papers on this page are from Echo Park’s “Beautiful life” collection. Because of all that great open space in my photo I decided to add my title right on the photo with Photoshop before printing it.

The challenge

The challenges on this blog involve following the sketch and using a title on your layout with a line from the provided music. Below I’ve included the video as well as the lyrics for this song:

“More than words” by Extreme
Saying ‘I Love you’
Is not the words I want to hear from you
It’s not that I want you not to say
But if you only know
How easy it would be to show me how you feel

More than words
Is all you have to do to make it real
Then you wouldn’t have to say
That you love me ’cause I’d already know

What would you do if my heart was torn in two?

More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real

What would you say if I took those words away?

Then you couldn’t make things new
Just by saying ‘I love you’

More than words

Now that I’ve tried to
Talk to you and make you understand
All you have to do is
Close your eyes and just reach out your hands
And touch me, hold me close
Don’t ever let me go

More than words
Is all I ever needed you to show
Then you wouldn’t have to say
That you love me ’cause I’d already know

What would you do if my heart was torn in two?

More than words to show you feel
That your love for me is real

What would you say if I took those words away?

Then you couldn’t make things new
Just by saying ‘I love you’

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