Always Take the Scenic Route – Scrapbook Page. Some of you may know that my Papercraft passion started with creating Scrapbook pages, but I seem to have less time to do any now. Well, I am going to see if I can change that, and I want to bring some Scrapbook pages to my followers.
Scrapbook pages are a great way to record both important events and the everyday. There is actually part of me that thinks the everyday is almost more important to record than the important events. Important events will probably be recorded as a matter of routine, but who records the everyday? How will future generations know about the everyday if we don’t record it? I love looking through old family pictures and seeing what we got up to.
Today’s page features a photo that was taken about 30 years ago (which is scary of itself). I took a holiday of a lifetime to Sri Lanka. When I was very young my Father was a Tea Broker, in fact after he did his National Service, he went straight into Tea Broking. He lived in both India and Ceylon (as it was then) before he married my Mother. When I was very young he would go back for what seemed like months. He would always return with a new party dress for me, generally with the most amazing embroidery or smocking on the front.
So, it seemed destined that one day I would go to Sri Lanka to see all the places I had heard so much about when I was a child. October 1987 was when it happened. Three weeks in the most fascinating part of the world I had travelled to. I travelled with a small group of people I had not met before, but we got to know each other well over the trip. We went off the tourist routes much of the time, spending time on both Tea and Rubber Estates, as well as in small Rest Houses. Some how we managed to miss the troubles that were going on at the time, just.
A truly amazing holiday. Have I inspired you to start your collection of Scrapbook pages?
There is still just enough time to order the July Craft Box, perfect if you would like to sample some Stampin’ Up! products. I am taking orders for the July Craft Box. Orders MUST be paid for by 25th July 2018. To see what you get for only £20 delivered, take a look here:
Today’s project used items from the Craft Box, plus the optional extras, but of course you can buy the items separately too.
The Designer Series Paper is one of the ones in the July Buy 3 get the 4th FREE offer:
To make sure you never miss a blog post, please subscribe to my blog by email. Just pop your email address in the box on the sidebar of this page (below the social media links), go through a couple of standard security bits (to protect YOU), and you will get an alert in your Inbox every time I post!
If your order is over £25 (plus P&P), please use the Hostess Code:
E39CUKNW
To share in the Hostess Rewards for this month AND become a VIP. If your order is over £150 (plus P&P), please don’t use the Hostess Code as you will get to pick your own rewards, but don’t worry, you will still become a VIP Reward Member.
The Starter Kit is ALWAYS the best deal in the Catalogue and great value at just £99 for your choice of £130 of products (with no additional P&P), but during the whole of July, you also get to add a full set of Ink Pads from any one of the Colour Families. That’s an additional £63 of value, bringing the value of your Starter Kit to an amazing £193 for just £99, and FREE Delivery.
Once you are a Member of this great Family, you get a discount on your future purchases. You also get income from sales you make to other people; Win,Win Right?
Leave a Reply