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One step closer

August 11, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

Matt is jumping over the fire obstacle as he gets one step closer to the finish line in his second Spartan Race.

The eighth sketch challenge has been posted at the SCRAP & MUSIC challenge blog! Head over to the site to grab the sketch and play along. This eighth sketch came with the song “A thousand years” by Christina Perri.

My layout

In May my husband, Matt, participated in his second Spartan race, a 5-mile run sprinkled heavily with obstacles. It was actually his idea to use this photo of him jumping over the fire obstacle to go with the words to this ultra-romantic song from the Twilight: Breaking Dawn movies. He’s a true romantic!

Product/technique notes

The patterned papers I used on this layout are from the Bo Bunny “Trail mix” collection. I designed and cut my title using the Silhouette Cameo and also cut the arrow and barbed wire borders on the Cameo. I added some hand stitching around the edge of the circles to make them stand out more.

The challenge

The challenges on this blog involve following the sketch and using a title on your layout with a line from the provided music. Below I’ve included the video as well as the lyrics for this song:

“A thousand years” by Christina Perri
Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave
How can I love when I’m afraid to fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow

One step closer

I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don’t be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I’ll love you for a thousand more

Time stands still
Beauty in all she is
I will be brave
I will not let anything take away
What’s standing in front of me
Every breath
Every hour has come to this

One step closer

I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don’t be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I’ll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I’ll love you for a thousand more

One step closer
One step closer

I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don’t be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I’ll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I’ll love you for a thousand more

Dear photograph

August 1, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

When setting up this photo, I took care to line up the counter tops in both shots.

Have you heard of or seen the website, Dear photograph? Their tagline is “Take a picture of a picture, from the past, in the present.” So, you take an older photo back to where it was first shot, hold it up in front of how the spot looks now and take another photo. Then you write a little message to go with it.

It’s a cool concept, and some of the photos that people submit are so great. Many times the person that’s in the older photo is no longer living, so the “dear photograph” message they write to go with it is about that. Sometimes the two photos just highlight how much or how little has changed in the intervening time.

Last Christmas my brother gave me the book version of “Dear photograph,” and ever since I’ve wanted to do a layout based on the same concept. On the last day of Phil’s Christmas visit to Austin this year, we stopped at a little coffee shop to kill time before going to the airport, and we took photos of ourselves there. I thought this shot of Phil in front of the coffee bar would make a great DP-style photo. So we recently went back to the same coffee shop and set up the shot. See how the lines of the counter line up in the two photos? Coolness, huh?

And the message I wrote to the photograph is: “That coffee shop was a lot more fun when Phil was there with us!”

Product/technique notes

I created this layout using all products from the Fancy Pants Designs’ “Memories Captured” collection, which suited my photo just perfectly both in theme and color scheme! I designed this page specifically to participate in the Fancy Pants Designs/Gossamer Blue guest designer contest. Wish me luck! Oh, and I designed the title and sunburst background cut files on the Silhouette Cameo. My hope is that the sunburst pattern subtly suggests the feel of a camera flash.

Dotted swiss

July 31, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

Little me posing in one of the many beautiful dresses Mom sewed for me, September 1971

I just loved wearing the beautiful dresses Mom made for me over the years. She sewed me a new dress for the first day of just about every year I was in grade school. She made my gorgeous First Communion and Confirmation dresses. She even made me dresses to wear in my piano recitals. It was such a caring thing to do and always made me feel quite special.

When I found this photo of myself from September 1971 the first words that popped into my mind were “dotted swiss.” That’s because I remember loving this aqua dress that Mom made me not only because it was pretty but also because I loved the name of the material. When Mom told me it was called dotted swiss fabric because of the raised dots, I just loved the name. Dotted swiss. Dotted swiss. I think I rolled those words over on my tongue a good number of times, as I still do when I like a word or phrase.

Product/technique notes

I created my page using a combination of products from Little Yellow Bicycle’s “Poppy” and “Just Because” collections. I designed and cut my title on the Silhouette Cameo and then embossed it to make it resemble dotted swiss fabric.

Mentor Headlands Beach

July 13, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 4 Comments

When this photo was taken I was 23, living back at home after finishing college, working full time and dating Hansel.

This layout features a photo of me in June 1990, at the beach with my boyfriend, Hansel. We had just taken a long walk and then plopped down on the sand to watch the sun set.

Mentor Headlands is the beach my bro and I grew up going to, so of course I always took it for granted. But in reading the beach’s website I found this bit of info quite interesting:
“The trademark of Headlands Beach State Park is its mile-long natural sand beach, the largest in the state. In addition to its popularity during the summer season with picnickers and swimmers, the area is home to many plant species typically found only along the Atlantic Coast.”

Product/technique notes

I created this layout based on sketch #7 by Juliana Michaels for The Paper Bakery and am entering it in their sketch challenge. The patterned papers I used were mostly from Simple Stories’ “Summer Fresh” collection, with a bit of October Afternoon and My Mind’s Eye thrown in the mix to make the Polaroid element (which was a free cut file from The Paper Bakery as well).

Little Miss Firecracker

July 4, 2013 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

From my July 4th, 1969, self I wish you a happy July 4th, 2013!

Obviously I already knew how to celebrate Independence Day as far back as 1969 because here I am dancing to the beat of my own drum at our church picnic. And I don’t seem to care a bit that I have no dance partner!

I hope all of my American friends enjoy a lovely July 4th, rich with patriotic feelings, good food and fun with friends and family.

Product/technique notes

I created this layout with patterned papers from the Pebbles “Family Ties” collection. I also designed the cut files for the title and the two-layer star/circle border and cut them on my Silhouette Cameo.

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