Confession time: I am terrible about scrapbooking holidays. Sure, I take a ton of photos and I have the best intentions, but time and time again they sit unused on my hard drive. It's not that I don't want to preserve those memories,  I'm just not inspired to scrapbook them. I was so thrilled when I bought The Creative Ideas for Events and Holidays e-book because I knew it would be filled with ideas to jump start my holiday scrapbooking.

I decided to take on one of the challenges in the book. The challenge was to create a photo collage from an event or holiday and scrapbook it. I chose to use photos from our most recent Valentine's Day festivities. I knew I wanted to include both detailed and portrait shots, so I new this would work well. Let's take a look at my results.

I don't have time to individually size each photo, that would have taken hours to size each one perfectly (a slight exaggeration) so I used an template that was pre-sized. By using to template designed for photo collages, I was able to quickly add my images to the file and then print. From start to finish this only took me about 15 minutes. Much faster than doing my all myself. I used Photoshop to create mine, but there are a host of programs out there that do the same things, some of which are free.

I loved using the collage because for the first time, I was able to capture the whole holiday in one layout. I love that I could include little details along with individual and group shots. I will be using this technique again as I conquer the mountain of holiday photos that currently live on my hard drive.

So, if you are like me and love to take photos of holidays and event, but have a really hard time scrapbooking them I highly recommend the Events and Holidays e-book. It is packed with over 30 ideas, challenges and prompts to help you break that scrapper's rut.