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Love story and guest designing for Artful Delight

April 11, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

LoveStory_Daquila-Pardo

I created this page using part of the April Artful Delight kit.

Today I am honored to be guest designing for Artful Delight! Using their April kit and sketch, I’ve created the layout above. It’s a photo of my parents on their honeymoon in the Pocono Mountains in June 1965. Aren’t they darling together?

I wanted to create a look reminiscent of 1960s decor, so I designed a simple linked-circles background that I cut out of wood grain paper (using my trusty Silhouette Cameo) and then tucked everything in and around it. I also sprinkled those tiny hearts—the ones left over from punching the top border strip—across the page diagonally, which put a sunny finishing touch on this fun page about part of my parents’ love story.

Thank you to Artful Delight for asking me to be their April guest designer. I look forward to sharing a few more projects throughout the month using their beautiful April kit.

Artful Delight's April sketch

Filed Under: Layouts based on sketches, My scrapbook layouts Tagged With: 1 photo, American Crafts, one-page layouts, vintage photos

Never too old for the Easter Bunny

March 29, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

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Notice that the Easter Bunny is very wise, as he realized what a 17-year-old girl would want in her basket!

Isn’t it just awesome that the Easter Bunny, who continued to use the basket I received from him on my very first Easter, still knew what I would like to receive as a teenager? If you look closely at the contents of my basket, you’ll see eye shadow and banana chips, among other harder-to-distinguish gifts. Pretty cool how he keeps up with tastes and trends, isn’t it?

Product/technique notes:
I created this layout using products from the Echo Park For the Record 2 line. And the sketch is from Club CK. I created the title and cut it with my Cameo.

Club CK March sketch challenge

Filed Under: Layouts based on sketches, My scrapbook layouts Tagged With: 1 photo, Echo Park, one-page layouts, Silhouette, vintage photos

Out & about

March 25, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

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Building my whole layout around tags was new for me, and I'm really happy with the look.

This layout was fun to pull together! I gathered four photos of Matt and me just out doing our thing in Austin last December. The north photo is of us waiting for our friends’ wedding to start; the east photo is when we were waiting outside the Alamo Drafthouse before seeing Les Miserables; the south photo is us waiting for our lunch to arrive at Cheddars; and the west photo is when we scored the fireplace table at La Madeleine.

My friend, Laurie, published this cool sketch on her blog and is running a contest with it for her birthday. Isn’t that a great idea? I decided to use the tags as my main focus but configure them a little differently by arranging them in a circle. I’ll tell you, using the Studio Calico cloud background paper with the grid really helped make aligning everything easier. I cut the eight tags out of another piece from the same SC “Here & There” collection and then embellished each. To bring it all together I created a circular title treatment on my Silhouette. I really like my final result, and I would’t have come up with this idea without Laurie’s sketch for inspiration.

Happy birthday, my friend!
Laurie's sketch

UPDATE: The happy news is that I won this sketch contest! Thanks for the Amy Tangerine stitching template kits, Laurie. I can’t wait to use them on my pages. 🙂

Filed Under: 12x12 layouts using 6x6 paper, Layouts based on sketches, My scrapbook layouts Tagged With: 4 photos, Basic Grey, one-page layouts, Silhouette, stamping, Studio Calico

Me and my peeps

March 24, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

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Don't you love the floppy ears and carrots?

In 1973 when Phil and I were in Mom’s kindergarten class that she held in our basement (described in this post), we always made a big deal of the holidays. For Easter we all made our own bunny ears to wear, and then Mom captured our cuteness in this photo.

Here’s what I love most about this adorable moment that Mom captured:

  • How some of the paper ears are flopping over.
  • That Mom handed us each a real carrot as a prop. I wonder, did we eat them after the photo was taken or put them back in the bag?
  • My outrageously cool go-go boots. Can you get over how stylish I look in those, paired with that little aqua dotted-swiss dress that Mom sewed for me? I doubt I’ve ever been that cool again.

Product/technique notes:
I created this page following the sketch below from PageMaps, and I’m entering it in their Imaginisce sketch contest. The products are from WeRMemory Keepers and My Mind’s Eye. I had a great time tucking those little peeps die cuts in here and there, and that title makes me hoppy!
PageMaps sketch

Filed Under: Layouts based on sketches, My scrapbook layouts Tagged With: 1 photo, one-page layouts, Silhouette, vintage photos, We R Memory Keepers

You make my heart sing

March 17, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

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Just chillin' with Daddy in front of the television, March 1967.

This is one of those photos that I can just sit and stare into. It’s quite imperfect, as far as photos go—with the bad lighting, crooked angles and muddy colors. But it’s a beautiful photo to me.

It allows me a glimpse into Mom and Dad’s apartment before they bought the house I grew up in. In fact, some of that decor (the round table, tan chair, lamp, pocket watch under a dome and afghan) stayed with us for a very long time.

In it I get to see my dad as a 33-year-old new father, obviously pretty comfortable with the whole new baby thing. “Ain’t no big deal.”

And I really love that Daddy is acting as a human recliner for me as we watch TV together. Just look how well I fit in the circle formed by his legs and how he has me tipped back at the perfect angle for maximum viewing enjoyment. Speaking of that, what could we be watching, I wonder? I mean, it looks equally riveting to both a four-month old and a grown man. It must be something on PBS!

Product/technique notes:
I created this page following the sketch below from Artful Delight and products from American Crafts, BasicGrey, K&Company, My Mind’s Eye and October Afternoon.
PageMaps sketch

Filed Under: 12x12 layouts using 6x6 paper, Layouts based on sketches, My scrapbook layouts Tagged With: 1 photo, American Crafts, Basic Grey, My Mind's Eye, October Afternoon, one-page layouts, vintage photos

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