Basic "Signature" Collage

Its no secret that I take a lot of pictures. I don't necessarily take out my camera every day, but when I do I take upwards of 50-200 pictures at a time. And weeding through those and trying to decide which ones to print for scrapbooking to best document that moment/time/event is a headache.

I started making this collage last Christmas, when I wanted to have a ton of Porter's first Christmas pictures on a layout but didn't have time or energy to devote to one layout and make it super creative. I knew every holiday and family event was going to be overflowing with pictures. I don't have the time or energy or creativity to do a zillion layouts for each holiday. What I do now is create a collage, and that documents important/special images and then I print a few additional 4x6's, 5x7's or other smaller scale collages to make separate layouts of specific, more detailed moments.

This layout is pretty simple. All images are 2.125" x 2.125". I know the width is 8.5" but not sure of the exact height of the total collage. I first open a 10"w x 8"h canvas and then crop 12 images to 2.125x2.125 and then drag/drop them onto the canvas. I flatten it and then print it as an 8x10. Super, super simple.

*You could also use this collage on a horizontal 11 x 8.5 layout... so the images will be 3 across and 4 high