If you’ve been scrapbooking for a while, you know how easy it is to get burnout and lack of motivation to create pages.  It seems we still tend to pile up a stack of photos just waiting to be placed in an album, but we haven’t found just the right paper or embellishments yet, or maybe we can’t decide what scrapbooking techniques to use on them.  Here are a few ideas to help overcome 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. 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. Your supply stash can bring inspiration.  Organize your supplies, and see if you are inspired to mix embellishments or papers in a new way.

5.  Scrapbooking magazines are designed to bring inspiration.  Read your favorite magazine today for new techniques or the latest products. 

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. Browsing your local scrapbook or craft store may encourage you to start scrapbooking again.  Try buying a scrapbooking kit that has everything you need to make a complete album.  

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.  Have a scrapbooking supply sale of your own.  Give away or sell some of your scrapbooking supplies.  Sometimes have less is more.  You may have so many choices you don’t know where to start. 

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

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

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.

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