Scrapbooking Ideas to Chase Away Burnout

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 scrapbooking technique can cure your burnout.  Just try a new technique on one page layout today.

2. Ignore the backlog of photos and just scrap one photograph.  Choose a favorite photo, and make it your focal point. Sometimes getting started is all the motivation you need. 

3.  Organize and clean out your photos.  Start going through your photographs and get rid of the blurry or poor quality ones.  Your backlog will start shrinking.

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.  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.  A trip to your local scrapbooking store to see all the new products can also inspire you to start creating scrapbooking pages.  

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.  Try it page by page.  Don’t set a goal of creating a scrapbooking album a night.  

12.  Take a scrapbooking challenge. Many online scrapbooking communities organize challenges.  The participants all follow the same basic guidelines for a page, and then show off their creations in the community gallery.

13.  Have you tried digital scrapbooking?  Digital scrapbooking is becoming more and more popular among scrapbookers.  It’s certainly 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. 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.  

Try these scrapbooking tips today and watch your scrapbooking burnout disappear.