Continuation on the ALS Project

Nothing worth telling has been happening in my life recently, so I'll just show you some more scrapbooking I did.
It's taken me a week to complete the 20 pages I made with the ALS method and I'm rather happy with the outcome - to my own surprise, I must admit! I'd never really bought into this idea of making blank pages, then finding photos and finishing them. There are drawbacks, of course - well, mainly one, and that is the problem with doing printed journals on something that's already stuck together. I tried a handwritten journal - which would be the obvious thing to do with this kind of LO - but really didn't like it (it's not very well visible in the picture but it's readable on the original - I just don't like my writing!!!). So most of the other LOs, where I wanted more extensive journals, I used scrap bits of paper to print them on. This looks all right, but it's more awkward and will not suit every LO. Have to think about it...
Anyway, the two LOs below are both for a pet challenge at the Club Scrap Yahoo group. They are both 2-page LOs but I'm showing them separately for better visibility (because of the width limit of this blog). They are both of Sandie, one of my first cats many years ago in Germany.

Credits: everything used is from Club Scrap SR kit "Fizz"

The text above tells about Sandy having been with me for only a short time (5 years) because I got her from a rescue home rather than as a kitten. During that time we moved house 4 times and she was always brilliant, always happy - she even loved travelling in the car!

Credits: again everything from the "Fizz" kit except for the aubergine-coloured background papers
which are from another Club Scrap kit but I can't remember which.

The text refers to the quote below it: "Happiness is a direction, not a place." It says that for Sandie, happiness definitely had something to do with places - I found her in the most unusual ones!!! (like my filing trays, child car seat, the washing machine, drinking out of the loo...and in the car she liked to sit on the hat board behind the back seats - people must have taken her for a plush toy!) It also says that of all the cats I've ever had, Sandie was my absolute favourite. She was by far the most interesting!

My first ever ALS production

So, finally I've finished the kit I was talking about below. I managed to get, lo and behold, 20 LOs from it, by only adding 9 plain pages, 4 brads, a piece of artwork from a Valentine's card a friend sent me, and some bits from a wedding card we received (because that page will be for my wedding album...). I'm really chuffed with that effort and it was quite good fun (although I admit I will only be converted once I've finished the LOs off with photos, titles, journalling etc and STILL like them!). But anyway, for the time being, here are all the empty LOs I made (first bunch is made using the ALS instructions for the kit; second bunch is using the instructions for another kit; last bunch is just my own ideas with the leftovers/extras).

all above from kit ALS instructions

from JR kit instructions

my own ideas with leftovers

This is still left of the kit (plus 2 sheets of 8 1/2 x 11" paper).

Right - I'm back

Grrr, it's been ages since I last posted. Had problems getting into my Blogger account, which is apparently now a Google account--??? Wished they'd stop changing things...

Times have been busy anyway, working away on a few projects for church as well as privately, and not getting much scrapbooking in either. I did, however, give the ALS idea a try (this is "Assembly Line Scrapbooking" a la Club Scrap - it means you try and finish off a whole kit in one go, just making empty LOs and finding photos for them later). I'd always thought it odd, but I knew that one day I had to try it, and since I didn't have any ideas whatsoever on what to use this "Fizz" kit, I thought it's a good time to try. I'm still not convinced it's the thing for me - but at least I've got some LOs done (still no idea as for photos and not yet finished all the kit - when I get there I'll show you all the LOs and you'll see what I mean...).

This is the Club Scrap SR kit "Fizz"

The Scotttish Dancing season is finished until September; the canoeing season is in full swing I suppose; and I've started a new (old) hobby - yes, I know you'll think I'm crazy since I haven't even got enough time to do the things I'm already involved in, but a friend invited me to a TaiChi class. It was rather peculiar to start with as I hadn't done it for about 9 or 10 years...! but I liked it, so I think I'll keep going. It's on Saturday mornings, so I suppose it doesn't interfere with too many other things...

So much for an update - here at least a couple more LOs I made of our Easter holidays: both were for challenges at TSG (top for a summer lyrics challenge and bottom for the Year-at-a-Day challenge).

Credits: quickpage by Stacey Carlson; font: SF INTOXICATED BLUES; lyrics: Cliff Richards ("Summer Holiday")

Credits: kit "Blue-tiful Sea Breeze" by Maryse Vincent; netting element by Tracy Blankenship;

Rolodex template by Cheryl McCain; Fonts: VAGABOND and SNELL