How to Chase Away Your Scrapbooking Burnout

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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Don’t think you have to be perfect. Scrapbooking doesn’t have to be complicated. Allow yourself to make mistakes and make simple pages. Not every page needs to be a work of art.

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 make an album tonight. Just make one single page layout. One page a night leads to many completed pages over 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. Try digital scrapbooking. Learning how to creative scrapbook albums on your computer can be inspiring.

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 these tips today and watch your scrapbooking burnout disappear.

Christine Perry is an avid scrapbooker and has over 10 years of scrapbooking experience. Her favorite scrapbooking subjects are her reluctant teenagers. She invites you to her website, www.intoscrapbooking.com for more scrapbooking ideas and how to find a scrapbooking crop online.

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