12x12 layouts using 6x6 paper

PageMaps’ My Little Shoebox sketch contest

June 13, 2011 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 4 Comments

Every once in a while I run across a sketch that really makes me yearn to pull together some photos and products and get scrapping. This PageMaps sketch had that effect on me when I saw it on their blog. It’s their June contest sketch, and I knew I wanted to play along.

PageMaps June 2011 sketch for contest

A few of the reasons I like this sketch so much and can see using it again are that it features four photos (so you can really tell a story with them), calls for a few nice pops of patterned paper and still leaves a good amount of white space for the eyes to rest a bit while looking at it. It accomplishes a lot in a 12×12 canvas!

This is the layout I created based on the sketch. The photos are from Memorial Day weekend, just a few weeks ago. When Matt and I started talking about the kinds of things we could do during the holiday weekend, Matt suggested, “We could drive to Fredericksburg for the day so you can go to that scrapbook store you like.”

Here is my entry for the PageMaps June 2011 sketch contest.

Now if that’s not proof of love, I don’t know what is. 🙂

Sketches for Scraps: Blossom

June 9, 2011 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

Do you love to buy the 6×6 paper pads that many companies are issuing when they come out with a new line? Me too! They’re much less expensive than a full 12×12 kit, and I usually like the patterns in the reduced scale.

So I am always on the hunt for ways to use pieces of patterned paper that are 6×6 or smaller on my 12×12 layouts. When I find good ways to do this I will share them here as “Sketches for Scraps” in case you, like me, have several 6×6 paper pads or a bin full of scraps waiting to make it into your designs.

This week’s Sketches for Scraps is just so simple. It will take you no time at all to complete a design using your scraps and this sketch:

Sketches for Scraps sketch #2

A simple design can be so effective.

Sketches for Scraps: Leaving his mark

June 2, 2011 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

Are you ready to dig out your scraps or 6×6 paper pads and play? Well, I’ve found a lovely PageMaps sketch from last October that highlights one vertical photo really nicely and will use up lots of bits and scraps. Here is the sketch:

This PageMaps sketch is perfect for using scraps (or 6x6 paper pads).

And here is the layout I created from the sketch. That’s my brother at a photo installation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He took the photo that’s in the frame while in Thailand on a graduate school trip a few years ago. His photo was one of those chosen to grace a building on campus, and there was a little party for the people whose work was installed.

My brother's photo was chosen to grace the wall of a building at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Keep buying those 6×6 paper pads, and I’ll be back next Thursday with another sketch. 🙂

Sketches for Scraps: First overalls

May 19, 2011 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

Today’s sketch for using scraps or 6×6 paper pads follows a well-established grid structure: nine of any shape. In the sketch (and my example) I’ve used three-inch circles. I filled one of my circles with a photo and the rest with patterned paper. Of course, the beautiful thing about a sketch like this is that you could use more than one photo in the grid.

The really fun part comes in sprinkling little embellishments strategically abound the page to amplify your theme. I hope you enjoy this sketch, and please link up any pages you make using it.

I created this sketch, which you can use with one or more photos.

I followed this sketch to complete a layout of a photo of me in my first pair of overalls. 🙂

I used this sketch to do a page about me in my first overalls.

Sketches for Scraps Thursday: Easter duds

May 12, 2011 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

I found a sketch by Shimelle that I just love for using up some of our patterned paper scraps. It’s for one photo, and I like its versatility for embellishing.

Find this sketch at http://www.shimelle.com/paper/949/scrapbooking-sketch-of-the-week/

Here is the layout I completed with it, all from scraps 6×6 or smaller.

My mom is an excellent seamstress and made many an outfit for me, including this tulip dress for Easter 1990

It’s a photo of my family (sans Dad, the photographer) right after Easter Mass in 1990.

It’s one of those photos that was taken from too far away and includes distracting background details. But I love it because it reminds me of important things. Like that my Mom, who is an excellent seamstress and has made me many, many special outfits over the years, made the dress I’m wearing in this photo. The fabric featured bright-colored tulips scattered across a black background. I wore that thing to death because I really felt good in it and loved that it was homemade.

I also like that Phil, having fun being a bit uncooperative, insisted on eating his after-church snack even though I’m sure my mom moaned at him to get rid of it. And don’t you love to be reminded of the cars your family drove at certain periods?

Yeah, this photo isn’t good; it’s great. Because technically good photos just cannot trump great memories.

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