Scrapbooking: L is for London and I is for Ireland

The Alphabet Adventure continues! True to form, we've not been going in order. Where's the fun in that??

L is for London

In February half term (weeks before the terrorist attack), Bren and I took a trip into Central London. We used to spend lots of time in London while he was going to university there, but I'd never seen the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben or Westminster Cathedral. We also had to rescue Bren's bag that he'd left in Kensington the night before after a few too many drinks...!
This was an easy page to scrapbook once I'd chosen the backing paper and label materials, and I had a packet of London themed embellishments from which I chose the flag, bus and tube sign.

L is for London

I is for Ireland

I is for Ireland was far harder to scrapbook. We actually went to Ireland in October half term (it's taken me this long to get the photos printed!) and did a 5 days tour of Dublin, Galway, Killarney and Cork. Long story short, I had 100+ photos to choose from - so I had to edit. Even as I was making the pages I was editing based on lack of space!
I chose the baking paper from a "Wild Flower" scrapbook backgrounds pad that I bought from Hobbycraft on Friday. I like to use the same background for the same event, and there were only 3 of these in the pack so I'd challenged myself to fit the photos onto 3 pages. (All of the other letters so far only have 1 page by the way!)

"Wild Flower" background paper

Then, after A LOT of experimenting, I settled on these pages.

I is for Ireland: Dublin

I is for Ireland: Dublin to Galway to Killarney

I is for Ireland: Killarney to Cork to Dublin again.

Stickers that I found by chance in Hobbycraft - seemed appropriate!

These pages almost don't do it justice because of the number of pages I left out, but I'm still pretty happy with the results.
Also, I took that photo of the sheep as it was standing on a grass verge next to our car, and it wasn't zoomed in at all. We think it was hitchhiking!

I'm not sure what the next Alphabet Adventure will be yet - we still need letters A, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, M, N, O, P, Q, R, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. Post your suggestions please!