its the little things...

just a quick post tonight as it is survivor night!!!  me and the kiddos are all gathered for our weekly viewing party ;)
this is a card i made for the CASe this sketch challenge, and the moxie fab color medium challenge.I know it is a bit of a loose interpretation of the sketch......i just didn't like it when i centered the panel, so I pushed it over to the side a bit. And I used distress paints this time on my stamps....thought it turned out nice! im very limited in my colors as I only have like 5 distress paints....haha....so it wasn't hard to pick a color scheme!!!
So  here is my card:





details of the coloring


Challenges:
CASe this sketch #47:




Moxie Fab world, the color media challenge:

 

Thanks for visiting my blog tonight! (fyi.....im soooo excited!!!!!! for world card making day.....i will be KID FREE!! we have 5 kids and they will all be gone this weekend! my ex will have my girls and the boys are going to the beach for the weekend with they mum-mum!! bring on the card making!) ~tracey

Love you to pieces!

I've been away for a few days.....haven't had much time to craft or even visit my friends here in blog land!!!  I'll tell ya why after my card post...its exciting!

I made this card tonight , of course using Jon as inspiration !
I can't decide which way I should photograph it though, I always struggle with this part....should it be this way:



or is this way better:

 

 Either way, I'm entering it in MUSE #36, featuring this lovely card by Karen M:

and also entering it in Dynamic Duos #72...

And now for the exciting part!!!
For those of you who don't know me personally, you may wonder why my blog is titled 'scrappin'  trackside'...the scrappin' part is probably easily explained....was for my scrapbooking (before i turned more to card making!)  But the trackside part....that is for my love of nascar!  Ever since I became a working mom, I haven't had time to attend races as much. I used to go several times a year, to see my favorite driver, and friend, Brian Scott race!  Now...I'm lucky to go once a year. Well, yesterday, I went to Dover to see him race!  Brian is an awesome guy as well as talented driver!  He hooked me up with some sweet passes so I got a behind the scenes view of the race. Here are a few pictures....I had a great time!

 This one is me, my girls and Brian before the race

 Me and Jon

 Me and my friend Valerie hanging out in Victory Lane

 Brian with his little girl before driver intros....sitting next to Joey Logano, who ended up winning the race actually...

 Me and Valerie in our AWESOME seats :)

 one of the million pictures of I took during the race....was pretty cool seeing the pitstop up close and personal!!

So yeah...that was a good fun day!! Looking forward to my next race which will be...oh....in about a year;)
thanks for visiting my blog today!
~tracey

With Gratitude

At work, on my lunch hour, I sometimes sit at my desk and eat. I use this time to peruse blogs....searching for motivation....so that when I do get home, maybe I'll have an idea of what I want to do. My time is so limited these days!! Today, I saw a few challenges for fall colors and leaves....and so many BEAUTIFUL inspirational cards from all different gals who are either on design teams, or have entered in challenges. Quite frankly, it is intimidating! I think to myself....why should I even bother entering this in a challenge when all the cards already entered are SURELY going to win!! There is so much TALENT out there!!! But alas....creating is a relaxation mechanism for me, and being a full time working mom ( I'm a chemist...I work in a lab all day developing methods for extracting drugs from bodily fluids....yes....sounds fun eh?!) with five kids at home....I need my paper crafts! So anyways.....here is my card, to be entered in the challenges listed below the card:

This is a detailed shot of the card, as I used distress inks, which I blended on the stamp randomly, sprayed the inked stamp with water, and then stamped it onto watercolor paper :



 Here are the challenges I would like to enter this card in :

1.  CAS-ology: week 63, AUTUMN

2.  CAS-ual Fridays, Fall colors and a leaf!

3.  Moxie Fab World, Handmade Cards Week: the Color Media Challenge

(I have included the details of my 'watercoloring' with distress inks above....I hope that qualifies for this challenge!)

Thanks for visiting my blog to everyone who does, I am greatful for each and every one of you!  I'm wanting to get more involved in my blog as some of you do and I enjoy reading about you and seeing all of your personal photos you post.  I'll leave you tonight with a family photo, so you will see who I am with my family. We are a big bunch!!! This is from our vacation to disney in early August.

 

This is me and Jon, my boyfriend, Alexis is right above my head, she is my oldest, Caitlyn is my youngest right next to her, then Austin and Nathan, Jons sons, and JJ is in front. JJ has cerebal palsy, but is one of the happiest kids I know!  This past year, me and my girlie girls merged with Jon and his boys to become one big happy family of 7 living under one teeny tiny roof!  (you think I need my craft time?!!) 

Thanks again for visiting my blog!

~tracey