Janice Daquila-Pardo

Origami leaf wreath

November 19, 2011 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

This has been add-on week on Sketch Support, and today my project is live! Please head over to grab the sketch so you can use it in your own crafting, and while you’re there I would love it if you would leave a quick comment for me. 🙂

Here is a look at the add-on project I made.

The origami instructions I used were quite easy to follow.

This add-on sketch made me think of origami because of the lines radiating from the center. So I searched online for instructions for making origami leaves similar to the sketch, and I chose this one: Origami flower leaf. I wanted to make enough leaves to create a fall wreath for our front door, so I rummaged through my stash for patterned papers that would go with it and found an older pad of Cloud 9 papers that included the russet of our door mixed with brown, turquoise and gold. I started folding!

The leaves were rather easy to fold, though I would caution that if you’re going to try this yourself you should consider using patterned papers that are on the lightweight side. I used these sturdy double-sided papers (because the colors worked for me, and I wanted to make sure that if the undersides showed they would look good), but my fingers paid the price. 😉

Once I had enough leaves in an assortment of patterns and sizes, I hot glued clusters of them together before arranging and hot gluing them to the wreath base (which I purchased at Hobby Lobby). Hot glue is such a great tool for projects like this; it made quick work of the assembly.

I then created a few rolled flowers using cardstock, misted them with iridescent gold Glimmer Mist and nestled them in among the leaves. And now it decorates our front door! Here’s close-up of a few of the leaves.

I used 3- and 4-inch squares of patterned paper to make these leaves.

CowParade

November 15, 2011 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 12 Comments

Sketchabilities has revealed its latest sketch, #59, and it’s a great one! Be sure to head over to the site to grab the sketch, then create something and link it up! 🙂

Here’s my Design Team layout inspired by the sketch.

Artist-decorated cows were displayed all around the streets of Austin.

CowParade is the largest and most recognized public art event in the world. These exhibits, held in 75 cities in 30 countries to date, have produced more than 5,000 cow canvases by local artists. The exhibits have been viewed by upwards of a half billion people.

And from July through October CowParade came to Austin!

CowParade Austin included 74 sculptures. Matt and I wanted to be sure to partake of this public art display, so we took a few hours one Saturday in October to see as many of them as we could. We walked up and down Congress Avenue and photographed these big bovine beauties. There were many that we didn’t get to see in person, but the ones we did see were beautiful and clever!

Just this weekend the sculptures were auctioned, raising $1.49 million for The Superhero Kids Endowment at the Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas!

The one with no turkey

November 12, 2011 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

This has been two-page layout week on Sketch Support, and today my layout is live! Please head over to grab the sketch so you can use it in your own crafting, and while you’re there I would love it if you would leave a quick comment for me. 🙂

Here is a look at the layout I made.

This layout is based on a sketch from www.sketchsupport.com.

I loved this sketch and followed it quite closely. The only changes I made were to use a wider variety of patterned papers in the strips that form the background and to add a hand-crocheted edge at the bottom (for a cozy “sweater-weather” feel).

The journaling reads, “We had started a special diet in October and were doing well on it, so we agreed to forgo the traditional Thanksgiving dinner for a long walk around Town Lake. Although we missed the turkey and fixins, we spent a really lovely day together being thankful and healthy! 11-26-2009”

Here’s a closer look at a few of the details.

I punched evenly spaced holes along the bottom edge of the background and used cream crochet thread to add a simple border.

Be sure to visit the Sketch Support site to pick up this fabulous sketch to use in your own scrapping. 🙂

Us girls

November 9, 2011 By Janice Daquila-Pardo

Twisted Sketches has revealed its latest sketch, #127, and the twist is “chipboard.” Be sure to head over to the site to grab the sketch and see all the other design team members’ beautiful examples, then create something of your own and link it up! 🙂

Here is what I created using this great new sketch:

We're window shopping in Frederickburg, Texas.

Photos of Mom's 2006 Thanksgiving visit show how much we resemble each other!

I chose to use four 4×3-inch photos rather than the two 4x6s that the sketch called for because I liked how these shots really highlighted how much we resemble one another! Over the years people have mentioned the similarity, but I usually don’t see it as well as I do in these photos.

It was 2006 and Mom had come from North Carolina to spend Thanksgiving and my birthday with us. On this day we took a little drive to nearby Frederickburg, where you can get a good dose of German heritage and antiques shopping. So we spent a lovely day window shopping. 🙂

Because of the chipboard twist on this sketch, I decided it was time to pull out my never-used Tim Holtz distress crackle paint to antique it a bit. It was fun! After the paint dried into small cracks, I rubbed Tim Holtz distress inks (in iced spruce, evergreen bough and crushed olive) into the cracks to highlight them. Here’s a closeup of the result. I will certainly be using this technique again!

One crackle paint and three distress inks later, here is my result.

November 5, 2011 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

Hello! If you’re here for my stop on the Young Crafters Unite blog hop, you can find it here.

Guest design for Sketch Support

This has been card week on Sketch Support, and today my card is live! Please head over to grab the sketch so you can use it in your own crafting, and while you’re there I would love it if you would leave a quick comment for me. 🙂

Here is a look at the card I made. You can read all about the steps I took on the Sketch Support site.

I turned the card into a Thanksgiving Day booklet for our dinner guests.

Rather than making this a 5.25 x 4-inch card that opens from the bottom (which is what the sketch called for), I made mine 6 x 6 to open from the right. I went with the larger size because I decided to use this as a Thanksgiving Day booklet. When our guests arrive that day, this booklet will be sitting on the table to act as both a menu and a guest book. We will pass it around and ask each person to sign it, and if they are so inclined, to add a note about what makes them thankful.

Here is a peek at the inside:

Here is a look at our planned menu for Thanksgiving.

Thanks so much for visiting today. I would love to hear what you think of my project!

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