Firstly; Happy 6 months birthday to my blog, woo hoo.
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​Well I have been a busy bee these last two days crafting and scrapping for the Torn Apart Paper Crafts challenges.  You buy in to a secret group for the bargain price of £17 and then are sent a scrapbooking kit of papers & embellishments, including a Stampin' Up pad and pen.  You then take part in a fun weekend of challenges, competitions and tutorials in the group and share your work in their albums ready for a prize giving on the Sunday.  I've had so much fun. Today I will share my 12x12 Scrapbook page and on Wednesday I will post my Pocket Letter, so be sure to subscribe for updates. You can however use any scrapbook paper.
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​Have a browse here 12x12 scrapbook paper​

I recently got in to 'smash booking' in my Lyradori Traveler's Notebook and I must say I love doing them.  I really don't have the patience or time to create full scrapbooks and layouts, so much prefer the stick anything any way you choose method.

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As you can see from the videos below a smash book is like a scrapbook, but following no set structure and it doesn't have to be painstakingly neat and organised.  I love that you can save receipts, tickets, photos and other keepsakes and just glue them to a page to keep forever.  I often journal alongside mine as a way of remembering special days and events.

• Smash / Scrapbookblog posts​
• How to Create a Travel Journal

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Let's talk Travel Journals... I will guide you through creating a beautiful memory keeping book of your holidays, my pre holiday set up's, what to take with you and what to collect and save whilst on holiday. I will share some of my travel journal / smash book style pages in my two completed journals; my handmade and my Moleskine Notebooks cahier journal.

​I now have a total of two fully completed travel journals of my holiday adventures.  I always set them up before I go on holiday so that they are ready to be easily filled in whilst there.  So grab your scrapbooking / smash book stash and get creative.  The possibilities of different layouts are endless, just let your creative imagination run wild and get sticking!