Holidays are one of the best forms of product - ie. photos - for scrapbooking. We come home with a wealth of memories just waiting to be recorded and a mountain of photographs which we snapped along the way. The daunting task is often how to scrapbook such an amount of photos. You may be fine with 1 or 2 photos per layout and the magazines (which we all love to browse through for inspiration) are full of layouts like this, showing all the great techniques and embellishments we can use. How do you tackle the task of scrapbooking a holiday?

I’m going to step you through some great ideas which will help you get started and complete some great looking holiday albums.

The tip for today is: Do a collage page. I did the layout above as a title page for a trip we took.

I know collage pages may have a bad reputation and can look amaturish at times. But. . . they don’t have to. Obviously you won’t do every page in a collage of several photos or this would look rather boring. A collage done effectively with balance and creativity can look very stylish.

Points to remember:

1. Keep to a theme. Use photos from the same event or similar colours. Keeping the consistency in a collage is important.

2. Keep it simple. Don’t try to use every photo you have or a dozen different techniques on the same page.

3. Overlap photos to cut out distracting elements. Only use the part of the photo which has meaning.

P.S. If you want even more great layout ideas for your holiday . . . Click here . . . They are great.

Watch for part two - coming soon.