12x12 layouts using 6x6 paper

Imp

March 16, 2014 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 12 Comments

My title was a no-brainer, considering that imp was the first word to occur to me when I saw this photo.

This is just a photo of me at around two years old, in my pajamas, grinning for the camera. I don’t mind saying I was pretty cute!

Product/technique notes

I used the March week 2 sketch at Let’s Get Sketchy when creating this page. The papers are a mix of older American Crafts for the background and Jillibean Soup’s “Blossom Soup” collection 6×6 pad. I created the outer edge design with a Martha Stewart punch set and designed and cut the title on my Silhouette Cameo.

Updated 3/20: How cool is this? My layout was featured on the Let’s Get Sketchy site. Thank you!

My 2 guys

February 21, 2014 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 3 Comments

I'll admit that the hand stitching I did on this page almost maimed me.

While my baby bro was visiting us in Austin at the beginning of the year, the three of us took a walk through our neighborhood and shot photos along the way. I really love this one of my two favorite guys in the whole world. And that’s it: I love the photo and I love them. And that’s more than a good enough reason to do a scrapbook page!

Product/technique notes

Even though this is a simple design, quite a lot of technique went into completing it. I created the sunburst shapes and cut them with the Silhouette. Then I hand stitched around all the edges (I asked my husband to remind me of the great pain this caused me if he ever hears me mention planning to do it again) with gray embroidery floss. And then I cut the 2 and the cloud, again on the Silhouette Cameo. The background pattern is an ancient (read 2007 or so) Cloud 9 design; the rest of the patterns are from a Crate Paper “Story Teller” 6×6 pad; and the 3×4 card is from Teresa Collins’ “Family Stories.”

Wild thing, I think I love you

February 12, 2014 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

Wild thing ... you make my heart sing ... you make everything

Following the triangle trend that’s raging in scrapbook design right now, I pulled out a corner punch and a 6×6 pad of patterned paper to create this really simple page. That’s our sweet kitty, Lucy, whose ruff was looking especially wild the day I took this photo. Aren’t her eyes gorgeous?

Product/technique notes

The background paper is from an older Crate Paper collection, and the 6×6 paper pad is their “On Trend” collection (I used almost every pattern). I created the title on my Cameo and added a little border of hand stitching to hold it all together and direct the eye.

One is silver, the other is gold

January 8, 2014 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, the other is gold.

I thought I had just about finished this layout with a photo of me and my baby brother in front of this cool gold artifact wall in downtown Austin. Matt and I had just picked up Phil from the airport for his week-long visit from Durham, NC, and whisked him to Torchy’s Tacos for lunch. As we were leaving we stood for a few minutes marveling at the work that went into making this artist’s vision a reality and then decided to snap a photo in front of it.

It was when I sat staring at my almost-finished project that I realized what it needed—a gold artifact border! Burning with the desire to see this happen, I pulled out a slew of old rubber stamps and started stamping in gold pigment ink. Yes, it was time-consuming, but it was also lots of fun. I just don’t stamp on my pages often enough, so this felt great.

Once my border was finished I started rethinking my plan for a title. It had been my intention to go with something about keeping Austin weird. But focusing on the gold motif made me think of that little children’s song, “Make new friends.” Remember it? Well, I went looking for the words to it and decided it was just perfect for a layout about my bro because he’s my oldest and goldest friend.

Make new friends
Make new friends,
but keep the old.
One is silver,
the other is gold.
A circle is round,
it has no end.
That’s how long,
I will be your friend.
A fire burns bright,
it warms the heart.
We’ve been friends,
from the very start.
You have one hand,
I have the other.
Put them together,
We have each other.
Silver is precious,
Gold is too.
I am precious,
and so are you.
You help me,
and I’ll help you.
And together
we will see it through.
The sky is blue,
The Earth is green.
I can help
to keep it clean.
Across the land,
Across the sea.
Friends forever
we will always be.

Product/technique notes

I had such a good time creating this layout. I followed the sketch below from Creative Scrappers and used patterned papers from Crate Paper’s “Snow Days” 6×6 pad. Then, because I really loved that crazy artistic wall of gold artifacts in the photo, I pulled out a ton of old rubber stamps and created a border of gold icons around the whole page. I also pulled out my gold lame Heidi Swapp Color Shine and created the ampersand in the title block and the Christmas tree in the bottom left.

You can see where I pencilled in a border on my kraft background paper as a guide. Then in the interest of time, I decided only to use rubber stamps because cleaning and putting away clear stamps would take a lot more effort. I gathered a group of larger images from my collection and stamped those first.

After stamping with the large rubber stamps, I filled in around them with smaller ones.

Open mind for a different view

December 30, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

If you haven't tried ziplining, you're missing out on a lot of fun!

The 18th sketch challenge has been posted at the SCRAP & MUSIC challenge blog! Head over to the site to grab the sketch, which I’m proud to have designed, and play along. This sketch came with the song “Nothing Else Matters” by Metallica.

My layout

When Matt and I were approaching our 15th wedding anniversary last year, we discussed how we should spend the day to celebrate it. We really liked the idea of trying something new together and finally settled on ziplining. Exciting, right? It was a terribly cold day for early October, so we layered up our clothing and headed out to Wimberley, Texas for our adventure.

What a completely fun time we had! Our little group of fellow zipliners were cool people, the young men who were our guides through the whole experience were very patient and helpful and the 10 zipline runs we each got to make were awesome. Exhilarating. A touch challenging. And absolutely a do-again activity. If you haven’t yet, do yourself a favor and try it.

Product/technique notes

I used several patterns from the Crate Paper “Acorn Avenue” 6×6 paper pad to create the layers on this design. The stickers in my title are from Jillibean Soup, October Afternoon and Thickers.

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:

“Nothing Else Matters” by Metallica

So close no matter how far
Couldn’t be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters

Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don’t just say
And nothing else matters

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know

So close no matter how far
It couldn’t be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know

I never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don’t just say
And nothing else matters

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they say
Never cared for games they play
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And I know

So close no matter how far
Couldn’t be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
No, nothing else matters

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