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My 1st Christmas: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

December 1, 2015 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 1 Comment

Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our first challenge of December. The sketch is beautiful, and the prizes from May Arts ($25.00 gift certificate) and Evalicious ($20.00 gift certificate) are great. Why not play along with us?

Because I was born on Thanksgiving Day, when Christmas Eve came around I was exactly one month old. These photos were taken at my Nana and Papa’s house (Dad’s side), and I really love that Mom had already made me a stocking that matched hers and Daddy’s that was hanging in readiness for Santa Claus.

Product/technique notes

I used patterned papers and stickers from the old BasicGrey Figgy collection because the colors matched so well with these vintage photos. The die cuts are from Pink Paislee’s Snow Village collection.

Note: I’m submitting this to the Paper Issues Owl I Want for Christmas link party.

Styling

November 18, 2015 By Janice Daquila-Pardo Leave a Comment

While I was staying with Mom to help out after her knee-replacement surgery this summer, I washed and styled her hair (in a different way than she usually does it). She seemed to enjoy being pampered, and we really liked how her ‘do turned out.

Another little life moment captured.

Product/technique notes

I was inspired by the Paper Camellia November sketch and the Paper Issues mood board below. I used patterned papers from My Mind’s Eye Paper Cottage Collection and frames from We R Memory Keepers Indian Summer collection. It might be hard to tell in the photo, but I adhered gold sequins to the center of every doily in the patterned paper.

I’d like to be out to sea: DT layout for Stuck?! Sketches

November 1, 2015 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 7 Comments

Happy November! Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our first challenge of the new month. Why not play along with us using our November 1st sketch for some wonderful prizes?

For this challenge we are partnering up with Scrap it with a Song, and they have chosen Octopus’ Garden by the Beatles as their inspiration song. You can find out all the details about how to play along with their challenge over on their blog.

I took a lot of inspiration from the song challenge on this page. My photos are from a Caribbean cruise we took in 2005. The products are water- and beach-themed. And my title is a variation on the first line of the song, which goes “I’d like to be under the sea, in an octopus’ garden in the shade.” This was fun!

Product/technique notes

The background paper on my layout is from Crate Paper’s The Pier collection, and the rest of the patterns and stickers are from Echo Park’s Walking on Sunshine collection.

Texas Book Festival

October 31, 2015 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 7 Comments

Because I am participating in National Novel Writing Month for the first time this November, Matt and I attended the Texas Book Festival in downtown Austin. It was the 20th anniversary of the festival this October, and we spent a lovely day down at the Capitol among book lovers and enjoying beautiful weather.

Product/technique notes

I am participating in the ScraptoberFest challenges, and with this page I have created a layout combining all (4) challenges on one layout for a chance to win the BONUS prize! I created it using papers from Crate Paper’s Notes & Things and BasicGrey’s Fiction collections. The flair is from BasicGrey’s Aurora collection. The washi tapes are both from Studio G. The frame is from another Crate Paper collection. And I designed the title to look like the Texas Book Festival logo and cut it on my Silhouette.

Scraptoberfest challenges

Cub Scouts circus

October 29, 2015 By Janice Daquila-Pardo 5 Comments

My brother and I were in Cub/Boy Scouts and Brownies/Girl Scouts in the 1970s and learned so much by participating. These photos are from a circus that Phil’s Cub Scouts pack put on for their families in October 1975.

Go ahead, you can say it: That’s 40 years ago this month! You can remember things from that long ago? I know. I amaze myself, too.

Phil is the cute little clown in the photo on the right. So, that explains a lot.

Product/technique notes

I followed the October 9th ScrapMuch sketch below and used patterns from the Jillibean Soup Witches Brew 6×6 paper pad. I created the title on my Silhouette (using the Big Top font for the word “circus”) and folded some rosettes as embellishments (they seemed circus-y to me, too).

I am also participating with this layout in the Scrap Our Stash Scraptoberfest challenge:

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