Scrap Your Trip Adds 273 Items + Imaginisce/Cloud 9 Pre-Order
I just love to travel! But you probably wouldn’t have guessed that from someone who started the first travel-specific scrapbooking website, huh? Some people work to play sports, some to fish, but my husband Tony & I both work to travel. I love to see the diversity of the planet and realize that there is so much more than just my little tiny corner of the world. When we were at Bryce Canyon in Southern Utah, my daughter Lauren and I were sitting on a bench overlooking the canyon. I said, "Can you believe that these rocks have been here for millions and millions of years? Even all the trees are older than us. You know what I think about when I sit here and look at all this? Our life is so incredibly short compared to the time it took to make this canyon look like this. We’re only on the planet for such a small amount of time…We have to make sure that we live the best life we possibly can in the short time we’re here." I know she’s only eight, but hopefully she will remember this lesson someday.
I posted some pictures of our trip below and on the blog (only 10 out of 378). 
If you ever have a chance to go to Southern Utah, take it! This is our second trip and it is absolutely spectacular scenery. I actually prefer the Colorado Rockies to the Utah Rockies, but for "red rock", Southern Utah, can’t be beat.
If you ever have a chance to go to Southern Utah, take it! This is our second trip and it is absolutely spectacular scenery. I actually prefer the Colorado Rockies to the Utah Rockies, but for "red rock", Southern Utah, can’t be beat.We have a really wide variety of new items this week. EK Success has been hard at work redesigning and adding to the Jolee’s line and we have over 80 new embellishments, ranging from travel to sports to wedding, even one for scrapbooking a job interview! We have a beach collection from Flair and four new collections from Creative Imaginations – Asian Fusion, Germany, Australia and Canada. We have both boy and girl pirate collections from Rusty Pickle and some awesome new outdoors and hunting papers and stickers, including some new Realtree® papers. We have also done the work of matching Bazzill cardstock colors for you and each line has a coordinating Bazzill pack. Of course the SYT Design Room was hard at work, designing die cuts for summertime and travel, color guard, choir, dance, bowling (including a custom bowling jersey). My favorite this week is the red-eyed tree frog. He’s so cute! Click here to see all the items: http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/60408.html
We also have the Cinnamon Stick and Cocoa Mint lines from Cloud 9 and four new lines from Imaginisce for pre-order. The estimated ship date is June 25th, so if you need your other items sooner, please place them in a separate order. Click here to see the pre-order lines: http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/cl9imaginisce.html. Today is the last day to pre-order Crate Paper and Scenic Route collections. Click here to see: http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/preorder.html.
I just unpacked, but I’m going to have to pack again because I’m headed to Chicago this weekend on a business trip. One part of the trip is a user group meeting for our back-end software so I can learn how to run our business more efficiently. The other part is the Internet Retailer Conference where I am speaking on "Practical Tips for Small Business". It’s the largest conference of the year for people who sell online and I can’t wait to learn all sorts of new things to keep making Scrap Your Trip better and better. I can almost taste the Portillo’s chocolate cake shake already!
As always, thanks for your business
Julie Swatek, President
Scrap Your Trip®
‘cuz life is a trip worth scrappin’®
Lauren & I hiking down a steep hill at Kodachrome Basin. This place seemed like we were on Mars!
Lauren wanted to use the camera. Usually she’s a much better photographer than this!
Lauren, Logan and I at Bryce Canyon. At the top of this canyon was a plaque with the following inscription from Henry David Thoreau – “I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill… to see the forms of the mountains on the horizon – to behold and commune with something greater than man.”
We all went 4-wheeling on ATV’s – one of the highlights of our trip. When we went to get on the ATV’s, Logan was really mad because he wanted to know where his was! Tony “let him drive” for a bit, but he said the front was “too scary!”. I slid around a corner and half took out a tree, but only minor damage to me and the tree.
A slot canyon we were able to visit on our ATV tour.
This was a road named “Main Street” that the GPS told us to go down!
Tony and the kids at the Sundance Resort.
Tony and the kids goofing off back in our room.
The kids at the “sand cave”. The sandstone walls of this cave had sand of all different colors…red, orange, purple, black, white, tan, even green. The kids made layered sand bottles. This place was really cool!
The sign the SYT staff made that was waiting for me when I got back. We get a lot of use out of our laser!
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