Scrapbooking Ideas to Chase Away Burnout
7 October 2008Are 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. A new scrapbooking technique may be just what you need to spark your imagination. Grab some photos and try one out today.
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.Â
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.Â
6. Take a scrapbooking course or workshop. This is sure to bring your some motivation.
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. Â
9. Allow yourself to make mistakes. Trying to be perfect is a sure way to get scrapbooking burnout.Â
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.Â
11. Try it page by page. Don’t set a goal of creating a scrapbooking album a night. Â
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. 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. Â
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. Â
Just a few of these tips will chase your scrapbooking burnout away.
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, http://www.intoscrapbooking.com for more scrapbooking tips and how to find a scrapbooking crop online.
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