It happens to every scrapbooker. No matter how long you’ve been scrapbooking, you’re going to face scrapbooking burnout at some time. There can be so many reasons for it. Maybe you just can’t decide what papers to use or which embellishments. Here are a few tips to help you overcome your scrapbooking burnout.
1. A new scrapbooking technique may be just what you need to spark your imagination. Grab some photos and try one out today.
3. Is your photograph backlog keeping you from starting to scrapbook? Just choose a single photograph to be your focal point on a page layout. Just starting can get rid of scrapbookers’ burnout.
3. Clean out your photos. Why are you hanging onto blurred or poor quality photos? Give yourself permission to toss them, and watch your backlog shrink.
4. Go through and organize your scrapbooking supplies. Can you use your materials in a new way? Or can you create new color combinations?
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. Take a scrapbooking course or workshop. This is sure to bring your some motivation.
7. Attend a scrapbooking crop. Either sign up for one at your local scrapbooking store or plan one yourself and invite your friends and family
8. Go shopping! Browse through your local scrapbooking store or craft store and get inspired by all the new products available.
9. Stop trying to be perfect. Thinking every page you create must be a work of art only stops you before you ever get started. Give yourself permission to make a less than perfect page layout.
10. Sell or give away some of your scrapbooking supplies. Scaling down can help you overcome supply overload. Sometimes too many choices can keep you from taking action.
11. Don’t try to take on too much. Are you trying to create a whole album in one night? Try to scrapbook just one page at a time.
12. Sign up for a scrapbooking challenge. You can find these online in scrapbooking community message boards. Joining the competition and excitement will start your scrapbooking creativity going again.
13. Join the digital scrapbooking craze. It’s a lot less messy than traditional scrapbooking.
14. Read online scrapbooking message boards and peek in their members’ galleries. Just reading about the excitement of other scrapbookers may jump start your own creativity.
15. Put your scrapbook albums on display. Let your family and friends enjoy your page layouts. See their faces light up as they appreciate your pages will motivate you to get scrapbooking again.
Try just a few of these ideas, and chase away your scrapbooking burnout today.