Are you suffering from scrapbooking burnout? Are your photos and scrapbooking supplies piling up and you don’t have the motivation to create a single page layout? Here are a few ideas to help you cure your scrapbooking burnout.
1. Learning a new technique can spark your creativity. Just find some photos and try out the technique. It’s always best to try a new scrapbooking method as soon after you learn it as possible.
2. Don’t think you have to get through your entire photograph backlog. Just pick one photo today, and showcase it on a page. Just getting started may be just what you need.
3. Give yourself permission to throw out poor quality photographs. Your backlog will start to shrink and just looking through your photos may inspire you.
4. Start organizing your supplies. Just seeing all the cool materials you have to work with may spark your creativity.
5. Your scrapbooking magazines are a great resource of inspiration. Read one today for review of the latest products and ideas for page layouts.
6. Enroll in a scrapbooking class. The excitement of taking a class can often spark your interest to start scrapbooking again.
7. Plan a scrapbooking crop for your friends. If you don’t want to plan one yourself, attend a crop at your local scrapbooking store.
8. Go shopping! Browse through your local scrapbooking store or craft store and get inspired by all the new products available.
9. Allow yourself to make mistakes. Trying to be perfect is a sure way to get scrapbooking burnout.
10. Have a scrapbooking supply sale of your own. Give away or sell some of your supplies. Sometimes have less is more. You may have so many choices you don’t know where to start.
11. Try it page by page. Don’t set a goal of creating a scrapbooking album a night.
12. Join a scrapbooking community online challenge. You can find these on message boards and forums. Competing with others may jump start your motivation.
13. Try digital scrapbooking. Learning how to creative scrapbook albums on your computer can be inspiring.
14. Join a scrapbooking community online and read their message boards and forums. Most of these communities have galleries where members upload their scrapbooking pages for others to see and make comments.
15. Show off your scrapbooks. When was the last time you pulled out your scrapbooks when family comes to visit or let your children read through your albums? When you see all the pages you have designed, you just may be motivated to create some more.
Just a few of these tips will chase your scrapbooking burnout away.
