How to Chase Away Your Scrapbooking 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. 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. Flip through scrapbooking magazines for inspiration.  They are filled with great page ideas, techniques to try and information on the latest products. 

6.  Sign up for a scrapbooking class.  The excitement of a class is a terrific boost to motivate you to get more pages done.

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. 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.  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.  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.  Let others see your scrapbooks.  Show your pages to your friends and family.  Seeing how others react to your albums can motivate you to create more albums.  

Try just a few of these ideas, and chase away your scrapbooking burnout today.

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.