Tracyshappyplace: 10/01/2011

Friday, October 28, 2011

{ PPC #39 - Masculine }

Happy Friday All! It is time once again for another Playing In Paradise Challenge. This week's hostess is...moi! I decided to give you all a Masculine Challenge...

And boy was this a challenge. I always struggle with this. I needed a thank you card for a man in my life and of course I wanted to keep adding bling and other girly stuff, but I restrained myself. It's simple and I think fairly masculine...I hope!

I sure hope you can find sometime in your week to play along with us. Be sure to stop by the Scrapbooker's Paradise blog HERE for all the details about this weeks challenge, deadline and what's up for grabs for this weeks winner. And for some extra inspiration be sure to stop by the other design team members blogs!

Allison F

Kasia

Merlie

Nancy

Friday, October 21, 2011

{ PPC #38 - Halloween }

Happy Friday to you all. It is that time once again for another Playing In Paradise Challenge. This week our hostess is Angie with a Halloween Challenge.

Now for most this is probably not too much of a challenge. However, for me it is. I am not a huge Halloween lover. And I don't really have any Halloween crafty things. Luckily I found this image that I was RAK'd many moons ago. It came together quite quickly and I am happy with the way it turned out. Once again? Not so happy with the photo. I really need to get some better lighting in my craft room...or a new camera! I will work on it. You can't tell from the photo, but I used my Copics to color the image and add some glitter to the stars and moon. And but of course, I had to add some pearl bling!

Friday, October 14, 2011

{ PPC #37 - One Layer Card }

Happy Friday to you all! It is time once again for another Playing In Paradise Challenge. This week our hostess is Nancy, with a one layer card challenge.

When I first saw this challenge, I thought...no problem. I had an idea or two floating around in my brain. I thought easy-peasy. But then I sat down to create and nothing worked out like I had hoped. This was a real struggle for me. I generally like to layer. A Lot! So this turned out to be a big challenge. When it was all said and done? I was not overly thrilled with my creations. They were okay. Not horrible. Just nothing to make me overly excited about. I asked Nancy which one she liked best and she told me to post both of them. So here they are!

This first one, I like the idea of. I have hardly picked up this stamp since buying it and thought this was the perfect opportunity. I colored the image using CHALK. It gives it a nice soft look. And of course I had to add some BLING.

This last one I made another cloud background using a scalloped punch and used an older sentiment I had purchased from a Breast Cancer set a few years ago. It is very simple, but I do like it. I think perhaps my issue is more with my photos. Gotta work harder next week to get some better pics for you all!!

Friday, October 07, 2011

{ PPC # 36 - Sketch Challenge }

Happy Friday Everyone. I am late. I apologize. This week has been crazy at work. I worked a 13hr day on Thursday and well, my intention of creating for this weeks challenge kept getting put off due to the long hours this week and Thursday did me in. But I managed to create something tonight. This week's hostess is Allison with a sketch challenge.

This one really was a challenge for me. But once I got through some issues with it, I was happy with the result. I am terrible at bows, so when I saw Miss Merlie's creation this week. Well, I started thinkin'. I have these crochet flowers sitting around that I have not really used much at all. Added a button and done! Thanks for gettin' my creative juices flowing this week Allison.