Echo Park

Poison Ivan

August 22, 2020 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

The story

Because I am over-the-top allergic to poison ivy, Matt always points it out to me when we’re near it and makes sure I don’t get close. But we like to have a somewhat wild back yard because it attracts more animal life, so we tend to also get an occasional overgrowth of the stuff.

Last July we had a lot of poison ivy in our back yard. A lot. Matt decided it was time to pull it all up, so he went to the hardware store and bought this painter’s onesie—with hood and shoe covers—to protect himself for the task.

I love this dork.

Product/technique notes

I created this page for the 5 Ingredients Challenge during the Victoria Marie August online crop, which called for using patterned paper, chipboard stickers/die cuts, fibers (I used twine), textured element (I used a cork arrow), and frames or pockets. I used products from the Echo Park Jungle Safari collection.

I also followed this PageMaps sketch:

Crafty & happy: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

March 15, 2018 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our second challenge of March. Grab the sketch and play along for prizes from Creative Embellishments and Scrapbook Nerd.

The story

Our mom is a K-8 teacher, so growing up we always had lots of school and art supplies at the ready for a crafty session or a school project.

What I love about this October 1973 photo she took of us painting is 1) how focused we are on our projects (very serious faces), and 2) all the little details I remember so well about our basement that we spent so much time in. In the front left corner is a blackboard that we wrote on constantly. In fact, I often kept it filled with the newest menu items at my make-believe restaurant. In the back left is the desk where I remember Daddy writing checks and doing other adult tasks. The dress hanging from the ceiling is one of many that Mom lovingly sewed for me over the years. The chest of drawers that you can seen beyond me was where Mom kept all her fabrics, patterns, and sewing notions. The white brick chimney framing the right side of the photo is where they used to shovel in the coal to heat the house (when it was newly built—not when we lived there!).

Product/technique notes

I used products from Echo Park’s I’d Rather Be Crafting collection, DCWV’s Spring Bloom stack, Crate Paper’s Craft Market collection, and The Paper Studio. That camera flair is old American Crafts.

Frosty winter walk: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

February 1, 2018 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our first challenge of February. Grab the sketch and play along for prizes from Accent Scrapbooking and Scrapbook Nerd.

The story

All I know about this photo is that it’s 15-year-old me out on a winter walk. I don’t know exactly who I was with or where we were. But I like it, so I scrapped it.

Product/technique notes

I used patterned paper and stickers from Echo Park’s Wintertime collection. The snowflake circle is a cut file from the Silhouette store, and I designed the title to cut on my Cameo, as well.

Santa Claus is coming to town

December 22, 2017 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 7 Comments

The story

Every year on a Saturday morning before Christmas our neighborhood is treated to the strains of Santa Clause is Coming to Town blaring over the loudspeaker of a vintage fire truck with SANTA CLAUS sitting on top! It’s a sweet tradition.

Product/technique notes

I created this layout with products from the Echo Park Tis the Season collection and American Crafts Deck The Halls Joyful die-cuts. I also followed this sketch from Let’s Get Sketchy:

Bathing beauty

August 7, 2017 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

The story

Mom and Dad married in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, on June 19, 1965. Then they drove to the Pocono Mountains for their honeymoon. Dad snapped this photo of his bathing beauty at the lodge pool.

Product/technique notes

I used patterns and stickers from the Echo Park Paradise Beach collection, and I cut the title on my Silhouette. I based my layout on this older Creative Scrappers sketch: