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My beautiful campus: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

April 15, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 4 Comments

My beautiful campus is a 1-photo scrapbook page that follows the April 15, 2016 Stuck?! Sketches sketch and uses papers from Pebbles.

Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our second challenge of April. Grab the sketch and play along for some great prizes from Lindy’s Stamp Gang and ScrapMatts.

April 15 2016 - Stuck Sketches

I was fortunate to spend four years earning my undergraduate degree at Ohio University in the 1980s. I don’t think there’s a way to work as hard as you have to when you’re taking a full load and holding down a job without having some difficult days. And I did. But mostly I loved my time there. I learned valuable stuff 😉 from some wonderful professors, made great friends, and matured from my experiences of being away from home.

And there was always one constant, on the good days and the bad: The beautiful campus made things better. On a day when I felt on top of the world and everything was going right, my gorgeous surroundings made me feel higher. And on a day when I hadn’t had enough sleep, was heading to an exam I knew I could never feel ready for, and was down in the dumps, being on that beautiful campus soothed my soul and lifted my spirits.

On this spring day in 1987, I’m posing with the cherry trees on the College Green, where the oldest administrative and classroom buildings are. It’s where the university started, and it’s where I felt at home away from home.

Product/technique notes

I used patterned paper from the Pebbles Garden Party collection. The title is made with Thickers alphas and a die cut from Shimmele. The bicycle sticker is from the Simple Stories Hugs & Kisses collection. The resin flower is from Fancy Pants.

Filed Under: Layouts based on sketches, My scrapbook layouts Tagged With: 1 photo, hand stitching, one-page layouts, Pebbles, Stuck?! Sketches, vintage photos

Here comes Peter Cottontail

March 26, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 3 Comments

Here comes Peter Cottontail is a one-photo scrapbook page with a photo taken on Easter 1971.

This Easter 1971 pic is from a series of photos my dad took of the family in our back yard after returning from Easter Sunday mass. Phil and I were 3 and 4 years old. Can you get over the cuteness of our Easter wear?

May you have a blessed and peace-filled Easter 2016!

Product/technique notes

The background papers and chipboard frames I used are from Crate Paper, and the patterned papers inside the frames are by BasicGrey. The title comes from the 1949 song best known as recorded by Gene Autry.

Filed Under: My scrapbook layouts Tagged With: 1 photo, Basic Grey, Crate Paper, one-page layouts, Silhouette, vintage photos

Heading out on our daily walk

March 19, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

Heading out is a one-photo scrapbook page made with the We R Notable collection.

Matt and I were heading out the front door to take our evening walk, when I made him stop so I could photograph our feet. He thought it was silly, but I thought it would be a great way to document this routine of ours. Nothing is too silly to do if you have a scrapbook page in mind—am I right?

Product/technique notes

I used patterned paper from the We R Notable collection and designed/cut the title on the Silhouette. The Meet me in the sunshine diecut is from Amy Tangerine, and the flair is from Panda Eight.

Filed Under: My scrapbook layouts Tagged With: 1 photo, one-page layouts, Silhouette, We R Memory Keepers

Just add color

March 12, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 4 Comments

Just add color is a one-photo scrapbook page using one piece of patterned paper and watercolor paper with Distress Inks.

It was Easter 1997, Matt and I were engaged, and my family got together at Mom and Dad’s house to decorate eggs.

This photo was one I almost didn’t scrap because it was an evening shot taken in low light. Too much shadow. Too much color cast. But then I decided to turn it black and white with color just on the eggs and the bag of Reese’s Easter eggs we were snacking on. That set my theme: just add color.

The background paper is from KI Memories (2008). I’ve held on to this paper for years just waiting for the right project to come along for it. This is the one. Its coloring book look was perfect for my plan.

I designed and cut out the grid of circles from white cardstock and then used a variety of Distress Inks to create the watercolor disks. When I began this project, I imagined making disks to put in each open circle. But once I got going on it I realized that I loved how the vines and flowers of the background paper peeked through. So I stopped at five.

I designed and cut the title on my Silhouette, and that was that. I didn’t think this page needed any more embellishment than the wild colors and patterns with the black and white.

I was inspired on this project by the Paper Issues March pinspire me mood board and the Shimelle circular scrapbooking inspiration challenge.

Filed Under: My scrapbook layouts Tagged With: 1 photo, one-page layouts, Silhouette, Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Curly locks: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

March 1, 2016 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

Curly locks is a one-photo scrapbook page based on the Stuck?! Sketches March 1, 2016 sketch.

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

Stuck?! Sketches March 1, 2016 sketch

There are no curls in Daquila hair. Not even a bend. That’s why I got my first perm in second grade. And that’s why Phil got this body wave in September 1985—just in time to start college. Just look at all that luscious hair!

Product/technique notes

I used patterned paper and stickers from Echo Park’s Note to Self collection and twine for the red accent circle.

Filed Under: Layouts based on sketches, My scrapbook layouts Tagged With: 1 photo, border punches, Echo Park, one-page layouts, Stuck?! Sketches, vintage photos

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