To Infinity and Beyond!

You never forget your first love.



This was my fourth birthday. I loved that bike. I even remember the day I rode it without training wheels. My dad was running down the street holding the back of my bike and suddenly I was riding it all by myself! My dad re-gifted this bike to me on my 8th birthday. He refurbished it adding a sparkly banana seat, an orange flag on the back, reflectors that made a popping noise when I rode and a water bottle holder! Flash forward 40 years and I still like my bicycle gadgets. I have flashing lights for riding at night, a rear view mirror, a pouch for my repair kit and Iphone, AND a water bottle holder! 

Today's post is part of the Club Scrap Pattern Play blog hop. I love the designs in this kit! I rarely make things for myself and it has been a loooooong time since I have made a scrapbook page with paper instead of digital. I don't remember taking this photo, but I sure do remember my first love and it deserves it's own page!



I colored the wooden word art navy blue to match my dress and tied it together with the little blue buttons that came with this month's Club Scrap Deluxe Pattern Play kit.



I pulled out my trusty Club Scrap® Idea Deck for the sketch. These things are awesome...the cutting instructions are on the back so you don't waste a scrap of paper!



I had plenty of paper left, so I decided to make something else. Club Scrap® has so many fabulous projects, I just had to peruse my collection of Scrap Raps and found this tutorial!



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I used the cutaparts and stamp images from the kit and that AWESOME black print card stock! 

The next stop on the hop is Kelly!  Be sure to share your Pattern Play creations by joining the Linky Party on the Club Scrap blog. One lucky contributor will receive a Club Scrap® gift certificate!

Here's to biking, scrapbooking and card making! Enjoy the journey!



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Club Scrap June Hopes Blog Hop!

Welcome to my stop on the Club Scrap Hopes Blog Hop! If you started on the Club Scrap Creates Blog, you are in the right place. If not, keep in mind that you can access the whole list of participants from there at any time.
My Dad just had his 62nd birthday and took my boys to Omaha for the College World Series. Of course that was “scrapworthy”! My sister took most of the birthday pictures with her iphone using  Instagram . My sisters and some of my closest friends introduced me to the Instagram and Hipstamatic apps for the iphone. The apps have a bunch of cool filters and effects for creating a cross-processed, textured look to your photos, with an added online sharing component. The photos print in cute little 4*4 squares, perfect for small photo albums.  I love playing with the filters!  I’m a digi ALSB scrapper, so I got out my Idea Decks for this project and I found three layouts that had square sized photo mattes for the Instagram photos. (The ALSB Digital Layouts tutorial by CS Jac opened my eyes to digi scrapping!)

I made templates out of the Idea Deck layouts so that I can use the layers as clipping masks for quick and easy layouts later.


Birthday dinner and the airport send off!

A little somethin’ extra if you use PSE …. I really like the vintage look that some of the photography app filters give my photos and wanted to reproduce the look for some of my photos not on Instagram or Hipstamatic. I subscribe to Photoshop Elements Magazine and I highly recommend “The Instagram Effect” tutorial parts 1&2 to recreate two popular Instagram filters for your photos, Toaster and Earlybird.  The possibilities are endless! I  saved my filters as PSD files and can use them over and over. 
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Next stop is  Deb’s blog at http://debduzscrappin.blogspot.com/.  Have a fabulous day!

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