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Plan on being my favorite always

May 21, 2018 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

Plan on being my favorite always

The story

This is my mom and dad celebrating their first Easter as a married couple in 1966. They were pregnant with me and spent the day with family in Pennsylvania. In this shot they had just finished dinner at Nana and Papa’s house. I love their sweet faces.

Product/technique notes

Several years ago I made a layout using a folding technique taken from a Cathedral Window quilt design. The page is called “The Lord God made them all,” and I loved it enough that I decided to scraplift myself for this one. I wanted to let the folded design steal the show, so I kept the rest simple—just a stamped title and a tiny blue butterfly. The patterned paper is from the DCWV Spring Bloom stack.

Filed Under: My scrapbook layouts Tagged With: 1 photo, Die Cuts with a View, Easter, one-page layouts, paper folding, vintage photos

It came upon a midnight clear

August 17, 2011 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

Twisted Sketches has revealed its latest sketch, #115, and the twist is “clear.” Be sure to head over to the site to grab the sketch, then create something and link it up! 🙂

Here’s my Design Team layout inspired by the sketch. I decided to use the word “clear” in my title.

ChristmasStory1992_Daquila-Pardo

Every year as Christmas was nearing we would choose a holiday book or story for Dad to read to us.

Every year as Christmas was nearing our family would choose a new holiday short story or book to enjoy together. Often it would take us a couple or several evening readings in a row to finish it. Mom, Phil and I would sit around the family room in our jammies while Daddy read to us. This is such a strong and happy memory.

It sure was fun to pull out some of my wintery/Christmasy products to play with while we’re having temperatures of 103 here in Austin! I do hope you’ll clear some time in your week to go participate in the sketch challenge.

Filed Under: Layouts based on sketches, My scrapbook layouts Tagged With: 1 photo, banner, Christmas, Die Cuts with a View, one-page layouts, Silhouette, Twisted Sketches

Snoopy came first

June 29, 2011 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

I love, love, love using vintage photos from my mom’s attic. The precious ones on this layout are from the late 1960s, when I was a tiny baby and my brother was still baking in Mom’s oven. 😉 They highlight my parents’ relationship with Snoopy, the beagle they adopted before starting to have us kids. You can tell with certainty that they were ready to be parents, can’t you? I mean, just look at how my dad has him swaddled in two of the photos. Darling much?

SnoopyCameFirst_Daquila-Pardo

Mom and Dad had a darling beagle named Snoopy before they started having children. Can you tell they were ready to be parents?

I created this layout based on this sketch that I found at the Sketch Support site.

two-pagemarch

You can get this sketch at the Sketch Support site.

Filed Under: Layouts based on sketches, My scrapbook layouts Tagged With: 6 photos, Die Cuts with a View, Doodlebug, Making Memories, Recollections, Silhouette, two-page layouts, vintage photos

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