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Too cute to spook

October 30, 2017 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

The story

In 1972 my brother and I were fortunate to have had Mom as our pre-school/kindergarten teacher! She held class in our basement and taught the two of us and several of her friends’ children who were all of the same age. We always had parties for the various holidays throughout the year, and this photo from our Halloween party shows Phil as Superman, Andrea as Little Bo Peep, and me as Tinkerbell. Squee, so cute!

Product/technique notes

I used several patterns from the Jillibean Soup Witches Brew 6×6 paper pad to create my “quilt” design, then I backed it all with the owl and moon patterned paper from My Mind’s Eye. I stamped the bats (from a Recollections Halloween stamp set) over the moon and added google eyes to the title.

Hello GR8

September 30, 2017 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

The story

Phil and I went to grade school from first through eighth grade at Immaculate Conception School in Willoughby, Ohio. Although we wore uniforms throughout the rest of the year, we were always allowed to dress up for the first day of class. This was our first day of eighth grade. Can you get over how skinny we were?

Product/technique notes

I used patterns from the Shimelle Go Now Go collection. The chipboard is from Crate Paper, and the glitter alphas are Thickers. I based my layout on this sketch from The ScrapRoom:

Busch Gardens 1976: Blog hop with Stuck?! Sketches & My Creative Scrapbook

September 15, 2017 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 20 Comments

Hello friends. Stuck?! Sketches has something special going on for our September 15th challenge. Along with the reveal of a new sketch challenge, and two amazing sponsors, we have loads of bonus inspiration for you, in the form of a blog hop with our generous friends at My Creative Scrapbook.

We are teaming up with My Creative Scrapbook to bring you a super fun blog hop, to share loads of inspiration from both design teams, and to give you an extra chance to win their prize. The My Creative Scrapbook design team members will be using a variety of their fabulous September kits to showcase our sketch. Each of the blog hop commenters will earn a ballot and have the opportunity to win one of My Creative Scrapbook’s gorgeous September main kits (shown below). Read on to find out how you can earn a second ballot to win this prize.

As usual, we also have a second sponsor. Thank you also to the amazing, supportive, and long-time friend to Stuck?! Sketches, Creative Embellishments, who is sponsoring this challenge with a $25.00 gift certificate to their online shop for our second randomly chosen winner.

ALSO, we want to show you how much we appreciate that you play along with us and share your designs and talent with us, so we will be choosing one scrapbooker from this challenge to guest with us for our November 15th challenge!

Of course, we still need to share our sketch with you:

And here is the layout I was inspired to create based on the sketch:

And now here is the list of participants in our blog hop:
Stuck?! Sketches
Lee-Anne Thornton
Ashley Smith
Wendy McKee
Debbi Tehrani
Yvette Weber
Helen Wallace
Tracy McLennon
Janice Daquila-Pardo—That’s me!
Angel LeBouef
Kelly Barron
Jenifer Evans
Lisa Moen
Aimee Kidd
Monique Liedtke (belongs to both teams!)
Shona Keehn
Natsuko Suzuki
Sandra Brimelow
Marielle LaForge-LeBlanc
Laura Whitaker (belongs to both teams!)
Maja Nowak
My Creative Scrapbook

You can also earn a second chance to win the My Creative Scrapbook September main kit by playing along with our September 15th sketch challenge and linking up your entry as usual. As always all winners will be chosen randomly, though we will be doing a random manual draw for the My Creative Scrapbook prize, and our usual random.org draw for the Creative Embellishments prize.

Happy hands: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

September 1, 2017 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our first challenge of September! Grab the sketch and play along for prizes from Accent Scrapbooking, Altenew, and a class from Scrap and Plan with Lea (we’re offering a bonus prize this month!).

The story

I still have this rocking chair. Mom and Dad tell me I loved it, and with that open-mouthed grin I’m sporting who can dispute it? Can you see how my toes are splayed with joy and excitement? And you might not be able to see it, but my tiny hands are folded into what has become a signature posture for me over the years. When I am tense or excited, I tuck my thumbs in and fold all my fingers around them. I still do it today, but I never know it until someone points it out. Some things never change.

Product/technique notes

I have had this photo in mind to use with these papers for quite a long time. I wanted to do a design that used a lot of the patterns in this older Pink Paislee collection. I was just waiting for the right inspiration to come along in the form of a sketch. Enter Laura’s October 1st sketch at Stuck?! The resin flowers are by Fancy Pants.

Ready to fly: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

August 15, 2017 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our second challenge of August! Grab the sketch and play along for prizes from ScrapMatts and The ScrapRoom.

The story

For so many reasons, Phil and I were extremely fortunate to have attended college together. One of the many graces of being there for the same degree at the same time was that we knew so many of the same people. It meant a lot that we could hang out with them then, just as it means a lot that we can reminisce about them together now.

These photos are on the Ohio University campus in June 1989 after our commencement ceremony, with our friends Rich O, Phil M, and Dave K.

Product/technique notes

Most of the patterned papers on my page came from the Memorandum collection by Pink Paislee, but the pattern in the top left portion of the background is a 2009 paper from BasicGrey’s Basics White collection. I cut the feather outlines with various Silhouette store designs. The title is made up of Thickers (black) and Jillibean Soup (yellow).

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