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Good day sunshine: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

May 1, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 4 Comments

Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our first challenge of May. Grab the sketch and play along for some great prizes from Wycinanka and ScrapMuch.

There’s an amazing resource called Carolina Tiger Rescue, which is a nonprofit wildlife sanctuary whose mission is saving and protecting wild cats in captivity and in the wild. Fortunately, it’s in Pittsboro, NC, which is only half an hour’s ride from where my Mom and brother live. So while I was visiting them in August 2013, we made the trip to see the big cats. They were wondrous!

Of course, I took tons of photos of the gorgeous, majestic, magnificent animals. And I fully intend to do a page with a few of the best of those shots. But this one that I took of Mom and Phil as the group was moving into the sanctuary for the tour made the cut first. Why? Because it shows my loved ones looking happy and healthy on a day full of sunshine and adventures taken together. And that makes me wildly happy.

Product/technique notes

I used patterned paper from the Pebbles Family Ties collection. The title is made with Thickers glitter alphas and a chipboard piece from American Crafts. The dies cuts are from Shimelle, the glittered bird 3D sticker is from Little Yellow Bicycle, and the doily is from the Silhouette store.

It’s okay to shine

April 30, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 3 Comments

Tomorrow would have been my sister-in-law’s 40th birthday. To celebrate her life, rather than dwell on how we lost her far too soon because of a drunk driver, I created this page using a photo of her from her high school days. She was a beauty.

Happy birthday, Thyia. I miss your shy smile, our long telephone calls, and getting the opportunity to know the 40-year-old woman you would have become.

Product/technique notes

I followed the April 18th sketch from Let’s Get Sketchy and used products from the Echo Park We Are Family collection (6×6 pad) and Shimelle (die cut title circle).

Wake up every morning with the thought that something wonderful is going to happen

April 29, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 7 Comments

I had this selfie of the two of us in my to-be-scrapped pile, but I wasn’t sure when we took it. After I had done everything else to design the page, I looked up the date of the photo so I could write my journaling. I was surprised to find out this was from Valentine’s Day of 2015. So, instead of being an obvious V Day page, it’s more about how we dream of having many more of them together.

Product/technique notes

I followed the April 25th sketch from Let’s Get Sketchy and used products from the Teresa Collins Something Wonderful collection (6×6 pad), American Crafts (background paper), and Heidi Swapp (epoxy stickers).

Nice news

My page was chosen by Let’s Get Sketchy as one of their featured artists! Thank you. 🙂

I’m losing my sole

April 25, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

I got up on a rainy Wednesday morning in February to attend the monthly Catholic Business Network meeting. I parked my car, grabbed my purse, and started walking across the parking lot. And I walked right OFF my left shoe. I literally stepped off the sole of my shoe! I picked it up and hobbled into the meeting. Then I felt the sole of my right shoe crumble, too.

It was just like in Joe Versus the Volcano.

DeDe: Hi Joe, what’s with the shoe?
Joe Banks: I’m losing my sole.
DeDe: Yeah.

Product/technique notes

I used products from Pebbles Garden Party collection and Pink Paislee’s Hello Sunshine 6×6 pad, plus die cuts from Hello Sunshine. I designed and cut the title on my Silhouette Cameo.

Every single time

April 19, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

Normally, this photo would be a throwaway because of Matt’s closed eyes. But when I saw it I had an inspiration to instead record for all time the phenomenon of the “Pardo first-photo blink.” That is a scientific fact in our lives. Ever single time Matt poses for a photo, he blinks for at least the first one. He’s ridiculously consistent about this, which is annoying and funny at the same time. And that seems like the right kind of everyday story to tell in my scrapbook.

Product/technique notes

For this page I used a combination of Crate Paper (the wild background pattern and the strip at the top) and the BasicGrey J’Adore 6×6 paper pad. I cut the title on my Silhouette, and sprinkled sequins about.

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