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Celebrate 75: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

October 1, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our first challenge of October! Grab the sketch and play along for prize opportunities.

The story

Last July we celebrated Mom’s 75th birthday! She certainly doesn’t look her age, does she? Phil took these shots of the birthday girl blowing out her candles after the lovely dinner they shared.

Product/technique notes

The patterned papers are from Shimelle’s True Stories collection, the stickers are from Carta Bella’s It’s a Celebration collection, and the chipboard is from Crate Paper’s Confetti collection.

Bloom & grow: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

September 15, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our second challenge of our anniversary month! Grab the sketch and play along for lots of prize opportunities.

The story

My husband’s mom was raising her family of five (aged 3-14) in Detroit in the 1970s. Sick of the poverty and danger surrounding them, she decided that she wanted to give them a better life. So she packed up their belongings and started driving toward Atlanta.

While traveling through the mountains of North Carolina, they stopped at a campground to stay the night. But when they arose the next morning, their car wouldn’t start. Matt clearly remembers living out of their car for a couple of weeks while their mom found a waitressing job so she could make the money to have the car fixed.

While all this was happening, she fell in love with the area and decided not to move on to Georgia after all! Instead, she bought a house in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains and stayed there quite happily for the rest of her life.

In these circa 1979 photos, she and the kids were planting their first round of tomatoes in their new yard.

Product/technique notes

The patterned papers are from the Simple Stories Bloom and Grow collection. I designed and cut the title on my Silhouette.

Stuck?! Sketches and Clique Kits blog hop

September 11, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 28 Comments

Hello and welcome, blog hoppers! As part of the Stuck?! Sketches month-long 3-year anniversary celebration we are holding a joint blog hop with our sponsor, Clique Kits. Half of our design team and some of the Clique Kits DT are supplying inspiration for you along this hop. And Clique Kits is offering a prize specifically for our hoppers, so be sure to visit all the links that follow and leave some love along the way. One winner will be chosen from among those who comment to receive a September kit from Clique Kits!

Thank you to Clique Kits for sending our team members a September kit to use for the projects in this hop.

I just couldn’t help myself when I saw that dream catcher design on one of the KaiserCraft Boho Dreams papers in the kit. I thought of my mother-in-law, who loved dream catchers, so I had to use it to document this 70s-style selfie she took in a vehicle’s side mirror. I used colored pencils and fussy cut it to make it the centerpiece of my page. In addition to all the CK kit supplies, I also used flair (just to the right of my photo) from another of our sponsors, Accent Scrapbooking.

Here is a reminder of our sketch:

And here is the hop order:

Stuck Sketches: http://stucksketches.blogspot.com/
Aliza Deutsch: http://peopleofthescrapbook.blogspot.com/
YOU ARE HERE:
Janice Daquila-Pardo: http://theconstantscrapper.com/
NEXT on the hop:
Caroli Schulz: http://www.carolinaschulz.com/
Monique Liedtke: http://moniquesscrapbook.blogspot.ca/
Jenessa Frank Franco: http://www.jenessafranco.blogspot.com/
Leeann Pearce: http://thepaintbrushgoesspottie.blogspot.com.au/
Kerryn Fry: http://www.harrysscrappinmum.blogspot.com.au/
Maryam Perez: http://maryamperez.blogspot.com/
Danie Ramirez Diakun: http://scrappydanie.blogspot.ca/
Nicole Martel: http://nicolemartel.blogspot.com/
Vivian Lake: http://www.viviansdesk.blogspot.com/
Clique Kits: https://cliquekits.wordpress.com/

Thank you so much for joining me as part of our hop today. Be sure to leave comments at each stop on the hop to be eligible for the September kit from Clique Kits. You can read our sketch reveal post to find out more about the other prizes being offered for this challenge.

Bicycle built for two

September 9, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

I have lovely memories of Mom teaching us classic children’s songs while swinging on our back yard swing set. We learned songs such as Frere Jacques, I’m a Little Teapot, Home on the Range, Oh Susanna, and A Bicycle Built for Two (and many more). Good times.

When it came time for Phil and me to dream up a gift idea for our parents’ 25th anniversary, we decided to go for charming and romantic and bought them this bicycle built for two. We were so excited to give them a gift straight from our childhood memories!

Product/technique notes

I designed a template for the sunburst and cut it with my Cameo, then traced and hand cut each pattern based on the template pieces. The patterned papers are from the Adorn It Wildflowers collection. The couple on the bicycle came from the Silhouette store.

In case you can’t tell from the image of the layout, I wrote the lyrics to the song all the way around the edge of their photo.

Move-in day

August 30, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 6 Comments

We got married in October 1997 and bought our first home in August 1998. At the very same time, Mom and Dad decided to move to a different neighborhood within the same town. We ended up buying our houses within a mile of each other, and I think we even moved in within the same week. What an exciting and tiring time!

In this photo, Matt’s older brother, Tom, is helping us unload more stuff at our new house. My brother, Phil, was also helping and probably took this shot.

Product/technique notes

I followed the Creative Scrappers sketch below and used patterned papers from Pink Paislee’s Hometown Summer 6×6 pack and October Afternoon’s Campire 8×8 pad. They’re both older collections, and I love how well they worked together. I created the background grid of pinked-edged circles and cut it on my Silhouette.

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