Simple Stories

Tahitian Terrace

May 16, 2018 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

The story

In 1968 Mom got on a plane with two babies in tow and flew to California to visit family. I was 19 months, and Phil was 5 months, so that must have been fun.

One of the excursions the family took was to Disneyland, where Mom posed for this photo outside one of its many restaurants.

Product/technique notes

Most of the products for this page came from the Simple Stories’ You Are Here collection, with a few diecuts thrown in from Dear Lizzy’s Happy Place. I created the title on my Silhouette.

I followed this sketch by Laura Whitaker from Stuck?! Sketches:

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.

Piece babing suit: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

July 1, 2017 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our first challenge of July! Grab the sketch and play along for prizes from Creative Embellishments and Charms Creations.

The story

My mom tells me that I was extremely excited to get my first bikini, which I always referred to as my piece babing suit.

In this darling 1970 photo, Phil and I are sunning and swimming at the city’s baby pool in our home town.

Product/technique notes

Everything on the page came from the Simple Stories Summer Vibes collection.

Smiles from ear to ear: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

March 1, 2017 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our first challenge of March. Grab the sketch and play along for prizes from Accent Scrapbooking and Crafty Ribbons.

The story

Our family flew out to California in the summer of 1976 to visit my maternal grandparents and aunt and uncle. I was 9 years old, so days like the one we spent at Disneyland really stand out in my memory of that family vacation.

File this under magic.

Product/technique notes

All the patterned papers I used were from the Simple Stories Say Cheese II collection.

Birthday boy: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

January 1, 2017 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 2 Comments

Happy New Year! Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our first challenge of 2017. Grab the sketch and play along for prizes from Accent Scrapbooking and Charms Creations.

The story

My hubby turned 50 in early December, and I grabbed some shots of him opening gifts. You have to commemorate the big five-o, right?

Product/technique notes

I used product from an older Simple Stories birthday collection called Happy Day with some Jillibean Soup diecuts that coordinated well with the color scheme and theme. The circle is made of red crochet thread.