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My 1st Christmas: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

December 1, 2015 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our first challenge of December. The sketch is beautiful, and the prizes from May Arts ($25.00 gift certificate) and Evalicious ($20.00 gift certificate) are great. Why not play along with us?

Because I was born on Thanksgiving Day, when Christmas Eve came around I was exactly one month old. These photos were taken at my Nana and Papa’s house (Dad’s side), and I really love that Mom had already made me a stocking that matched hers and Daddy’s that was hanging in readiness for Santa Claus.

Product/technique notes

I used patterned papers and stickers from the old BasicGrey Figgy collection because the colors matched so well with these vintage photos. The die cuts are from Pink Paislee’s Snow Village collection.

Note: I’m submitting this to the Paper Issues Owl I Want for Christmas link party.

Everything still turns to gold: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

November 15, 2015 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 6 Comments

Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our second challenge of November. The sketch is beautiful, and the prizes from 7 Dots Studio and Freckled Fawn are great. Why not play along with us?

For this challenge we are partnering up with Scrap it with a Song, and they have chosen Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin as their inspiration song. You can find out all the details about how to play along with their challenge over on their blog.

I had another listen to Stairway to Heaven so that I could decide how to use its inspiration on a layout. And when I got to the line “Everything still turns to gold” it made me think of autumn leaves. So I pulled out this photo I took two years ago on a trip to see the fall colors up in Lost Maples State Natural Area in Texas. Isn’t that spider web glorious against the colors of the turning leaves?

Product/technique notes

The background paper on my layout is from American Crafts. I loved it for this page because it imitates the structure of a cobweb. The rest of the patterns are from a BasicGrey Indian Summer 6×6 pad. The die cuts are from Crate Paper, and the Feels like fall fabric sticker is from My Little Bicycle. The circle built of leaves is a cut file from the Silhouette store, and I designed and cut the title on the Silhouette as well.

Our own dear boy

November 13, 2015 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

We lost our wonderful Toby to cancer in June 2014, and I have been wanting to do a tribute page about him ever since. But it’s difficult to scrap some pages until you’re ready. So I waited.

I was recently shuffling through some photos that I had printed to scrap, and when I came across this one of Toby before he was sick I wanted to scrap it. So Toby finally has his tribute page.

He was such a loving, gentle good friend. We miss him every day.

Product/technique notes

I used papers from the BasicGrey Hipster collection and diecuts and other embellishments from Crate Paper, Jillibean Soup, K&Co and The Paper Studio.

Texas Book Festival

October 31, 2015 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 7 Comments

Because I am participating in National Novel Writing Month for the first time this November, Matt and I attended the Texas Book Festival in downtown Austin. It was the 20th anniversary of the festival this October, and we spent a lovely day down at the Capitol among book lovers and enjoying beautiful weather.

Product/technique notes

I am participating in the ScraptoberFest challenges, and with this page I have created a layout combining all (4) challenges on one layout for a chance to win the BONUS prize! I created it using papers from Crate Paper’s Notes & Things and BasicGrey’s Fiction collections. The flair is from BasicGrey’s Aurora collection. The washi tapes are both from Studio G. The frame is from another Crate Paper collection. And I designed the title to look like the Texas Book Festival logo and cut it on my Silhouette.

Scraptoberfest challenges

Glued to the tube

October 12, 2015 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

This 1978 photo, which captures a very ordinary moment in a child’s life, makes me extraordinarily happy. It reminds me how fortunate I am to have this lifelong friendship with my brother. Love you, Philly!

Product/technique notes

I followed My Scraps & More sketch #115 and used the BasicGrey Highline collection. I painted the title with watercolors and scanned it to create the Silhouette cut file.

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