Scrap Your Trip 20% Off National Scrapbooking Day S*A*L*E
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Minutes or Moments? This was the theme of a Hallmark card I saw in the pharmacy while I was waiting for my latest prescription (an asthma inhaler to try to calm the inflammation in my lungs – I can’t go more than two minutes without coughing, but at least I don’t have pneumonia!). I’ve really been thinking about this ever since. Minutes? These are the things of work and to-do lists…laundry, dishes, groceries, paying bills, making sure the kids brush their teeth before bed. Life is full of minutes…after all, these things have to get done, right? But Moments? This is where the joy of life occurs. A moment of connection…of love…a memory made that makes that day worth all the minutes you had to put into it. Maybe it’s a longer than usual embrace from your spouse…a moment that you realize how much they mean to you. Maybe it’s a phone call or an email from a friend, or something funny your kids did or said, or a moment when you realize how fast they are growing up. Maybe it’s even a moment at work, where you know you did something to help someone. But these moments, they’re fleeting. We think we’re always going to remember them. But those minutes, they just keep coming and the laundry piles up and the dishes have to get put away and the moment fades away into the distant past. This is why scrapbooking is such an incredible gift. It allows us a way to capture those moments and record them so we don’t forget. It can be in a 12×12 layout, or in a homemade card to someone you love. It can be on paper or in your computer. It can even be on a calendar. It just needs to be something. Otherwise, the moments of your life…the ones that made life meaningful when they occurred… are lost in the recesses of your mind. This Saturday, May 2, is National Scrapbook Day. How will you be celebrating? Attending an all-day crop? Trying to squeeze in a few pages? Spending some time organizing your stuff? Sharing the scrapbooking gift with a non-scrapper? Journaling some moments you don’t want to forget? However you choose to celebrate National Scrapbook Day, we have products to help make your memories of your moments shine. To help you celebrate, we offering a coupon for 20% off your entire order! Just enter coupon code NSD2009 at checkout. The super duper Creative Imaginations sale of 50% off select products is still going on – click here to check out all the items: www.scrapyourtrip.com/creativeimaginations50.html(These items are already at a great price, so they are not included in the 20% sale.) We currently have two coupon promotions going on: FREESHIPPING, the coupon code for free shipping on orders over $59 (a $8.10 value) and NSD2009, the coupon code for 20% off your order – pick whichever one is a better deal for you! (Cannot be used on previous orders. Only one coupon per order. Coupons cannot be combined. )
And remember, if you can’t find what you’re looking for, we can always make it custom just for you! Click here to see all our custom options: http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/custom.html.
As always, thanks for your business. I hope you have a weekend full of moments.
Julie Swatek, PresidentScrap Your Trip®
www.ScrapYourTrip.com
‘cuz life is a trip worth scrappin’®
14 Comments
1. Kathy Nies&hellip | April 29th, 2009 at 8:00 am
I placed an order last night and used my 10% card I received from my last order. Today I get an email that you have 20% off. I know my order has not been picked or shipped, is there anyway I can take advantage of this offer? Thanks as always.
Kathy
2. Cheryle&hellip | April 29th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Thanks for the extra coupon!
Your store gets better and better all the time! It is the “one stop shopping for my travel needs!” thank you!
I sure hope you have more Philadelphia SYT papers! examples….Fairmont park, Pat’s Steak, Market Street, South Street, the Walt Whitman bridge.
Love the Independence Hall page!
Thanks!
3. Glenda Schoon&hellip | April 29th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Do you have any stickers or embellishments that say “We will always remember?
4. Julie Wilson&hellip | April 29th, 2009 at 8:20 am
A newbie here! If you are reading this and live in Northern Illinois, on Saturday, June 6th (raindate June 20th) 8-4, there is a Scrapbooking-Paper Crafters Flea Market at 122 Brookhaven Ct., Sugar Grove. The admission is $5 or 8 non-perishable food items. Sellers are welcomed (please let me know) @jkw12111957@yaho.com and this benefits a new food pantry being established locally. You will want to come to get some great deals on items individuals are clearing out of their inventory as well as some hand crafted items! Any other questions?
Contact at the e-mail address given.
I love this site, it has everything I need!
5. Nancy Bearden&hellip | April 29th, 2009 at 8:33 am
I am spending National Scrapbook Day with Heidi Swapp in Houston Texas at By Design Scrapbook Boutique – I am sooooo lucky!! I will be taking advantage of the 20% offer. Scrap Your Trip is the best site for your On Line Scrapping Needs!!!!
6. Lucia&hellip | April 29th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Your store does keep getting better and better. I have told several people about your website. Thanks
7. Susan&hellip | April 29th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Thanks for the awesome sale! And thanks for telling us how much the free shipping saves on that $59 order….it saves me having to think a little bit in figuring out which is better.
8. Gail Brandt&hellip | April 29th, 2009 at 10:21 am
I have just opened my order this morning – OMG – the papers are so awesome – I abolutely LOVE the custom names on the beach – that is so cool – I cannot wait to use them! You have by far THE best papers available – I love shopping on your website!
Thanks for all the great coupons too – I will be sure to make use of them.
9. Deb&hellip | April 29th, 2009 at 11:33 am
I enjoyed reading your thoughts about minutes and moments. Recently our second daughter was visiting; she and I had taken a trip to Lake Tahoe. She had never been there and was caught up in the amazing beauty of the lake and mountains iced with snow. We drove by a place that she wanted to stop and take a picture, and I said we’ll just stop on the way back. My daughter has traveled and lived an interesting life. She has had great moments and some really sad moments. She touched my arm and said, but Mom we might not be back this way. Something could stop us, or it might change in an instant. So, I turned around and we went right back. That moment has changed me. She’s right we need to see what’s there now, remember, record soak it in. We may never have the oppurtinty again to experience things just the way they are at that moment. When we were driving home it had snowed alot and the trip through the Sierra’s was a little tough. I pulled off on an exit and asked my daughter, right or left? Left she said. Right by the side of the road the Trukee River was roaring and spilling through a crush of snow laden trees. It was a moment that took our breathes away. When I scrapbook those pictures our shared moments will be part of my journaling.
Thanks again for sharing your thoughts.
10. Debbie Elander&hellip | April 29th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
You are right, little “moments” sneak into our lives. Yesterday, my husband and I went into our local mall looking for something he needed at radio shack. I saw they had a camera I have been wanting at the best price AND IT WAS IN STOCK! We have had some plans of ours fall apart on Monday, he knew I was upset. So he got it for me. We were walking back down the mall when I told him how happy I was, stopped and pulled him down to give him a quick kiss-there was an older man sitting near by. He laughed and said “That’s the way to go! Keep it up- my wife and I have been together 52 years now” we laughed and walked on. At home last night, I had to write it in my journal, because it was a special moment in my life- it was nice to think someone thinks we are doing something right these days!
I plan to be scrapping all the pictures I intend to take with this new camera using your wonderful selection of stickers and papers- LOVE the die cuts! you all are awesome!
11. norma&hellip | April 29th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I am comig to Orland next year and wondered if
you have a store on if everything is on line?
12. Liz Lowe&hellip | April 30th, 2009 at 9:45 am
We recently came back from a great week in Washington DC. There is SO much to see in our Nation’s Capital !! It got me thinking to your “moments” comment…
While we were in DC admiring all the sights and soaking up all that history, both my husband and I could not help but notice how many people were talking on their cell phones and texting on their Blackberries instead of looking around at their surroundings and being in the MOMENT !! They were all staring down at the sidewalk either talking or texting. We also noticed this talking/texting thing in museums and at lunch/dinner. When these couples/families are together enjoying a meal, WHO are they talking to ?? What does this say about the importance of your spouse/kids??
Thanks for letting me get this off my chest !! I feel better and more IN THE MOMENT !!! Enjoy EVERY moment for you never know how many you have left…
13. DIANE BARRETT&hellip | April 30th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
I have a bridal shower to attend this Saturday and after reading your exquisite essay on “Minutes or Moments”, I took the theme and used it to make a more personal gift typing the following on a pink floral and lace paper and putting it in a 5 X 7 frame to accompany the coffee pot. She does scrapbook and even though I do not anymore I LOVE to get your newsletters to hear updates on your family. It makes me feel as though your customers really KNOW you and your family along with the struggles, happy MOMENTS and living everyday life-not just a name of a company. Thanks for being vulnerable and for putting all the time and effort into you company to make it personable.
PS I hope your coughing is better. Take care.
MINUTES OR MOMENTS?
Minutes? These are the things of work and to-do lists…laundry, dishes, groceries, mowing in the summer and shoveling in the winter, paying bills, vacuuming etc…. Life is full of minutes…after all, these things have to get done, right?
But Moments? This is where the joy of life occurs. A moment of connection…of love…a memory made that makes that day worth all the minutes you had to put into it. Maybe it’s a longer than usual embrace from your spouse…a moment that you realize how much they mean to you. Maybe it’s a phone call or an email from a friend, or something funny your future kids will say or do, or a moment when you realize how fast they grow up. Maybe it’s even a moment at work or church, where you know you did something to help someone. But these moments-they’re fleeting. We think we’re always going to remember them. But those minutes, they just keep coming and the laundry piles up and the dishes have to get put away and the moment fades away into the distant past. Make sure you capture the MOMENTS and treasure them in your heart & life. Write them down, scrapbook them & thank the Lord for them. My prayer for Ryan & Becky is when you look back on your lives that it will be filled with many, many memorable, enjoyable & blessed moments as you trust the Lord and all that He brings into your future as husband and wife.
14. heather&hellip | May 1st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Just enjoy those precious moments because kids grow so fast.