15 Tips to Chase Away Scrapbooking Burnout
Written by Post on July 12th, 2009 in Home & Family.
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. Learning a new scrapbooking technique can cure your burnout. Just try a new technique on one page layout today.
2. Is your photograph backlog keeping you from starting to scrapbook? Just choose a single photograph to be your focal point on a page layout. Just starting can get rid of scrapbookers’ burnout.
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. 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. Flip through scrapbooking magazines for inspiration. They are filled with great page ideas, techniques to try and information on the latest products.
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. Scale down your scrapbooking supplies. Give away or sell some of your stash and cure supply overload.
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. 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. Try digital scrapbooking. Learning how to creative scrapbook albums on your computer can be inspiring.
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.
