Bev, Creative Memories is a home-based business (ie, you become a consultant for them, which means you represent and sell their products). I'm not a consultant for them, just a fan of their products. If you want to see more about them, their website is creativememories.com. (I don't know how to do the thing with the links, or I'd provide that for you). Anyway, I sometimes look at their website, and if you go to it, you'll see there's a British flag you can click on (that's how they break it out, you click on where you live, like I click on the American flag). I would guess they have British consultants from that.
I was at a party and someone mentioned Close to my Heart products too, although I don't know anything about them.
You seem like a really talented scrapper, and you might be interested in finding out more about consulting for one of these companies. It sounds like scrapping is virtually unheard of in your area, so someone could do a lot with starting it up there.
Anyway, Happy Scrappin