Easy Picture Collage

I'm all about journaling...usually.  But what happens when you scrap the same event every year?  You start to run out of things to say!  Every summer our family goes to a church camp called Reunion.  So when it came to scrapping this summer's Reunion I decided to go for quick and easy!

Since I typically use solid cardstock for my background I decided to use patterned paper.

Before I knew how to make my own collages in Photoshop I used an awesome feature at bighugelabs.com called mosaic maker.  It's awesome, it's easy and it's free!  What could be better.  Create your collage with a few clicks, download to your computer and print it out!  They have lots of other fun toys on this site as well.

My scraproom is organized by color.  Inspired by Stacy Julian's color podcasts.  Love this way of scrapping by the way!  When I pulled out my blue bin I found these word tags.  I added a cute charm to accent.

To balance the pictures on the left page I cut a white box the same size.  Used the remaining photos I had from Reunion and tried to figure out what to do with the remaining white space.  I could, of course, have added journaling.  But after 5 years of scrapping the same event I didn't have much to say.  Then I remembered that I had more word tags in other colors.

Just so happened the tags were in green and yellow.  Which matched the colors on my paper.  How lucky was that?  I love the look these tags give the layout.

Simple, fun, and for me...different!  Gotta love that!