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 technique can spark your creativity.  Just find some photos and try out the technique.  It’s always best to try a new scrapbooking method as soon after you learn it as possible.

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.  Give yourself permission to throw out poor quality photographs.   Your backlog will start to shrink and just looking through your photos may inspire you.

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

7. Gather your friends together for a scrapbooking crop.  There’s inspiration and motivation in numbers.  If you prefer not to set up a party of your own, check out your local scrapbooking store for a group crop.

8.  A trip to your local scrapbooking store to see all the new products can also inspire you to start creating scrapbooking pages.  

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.  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.  Check out the message boards and galleries at online scrapbooking communities.  The excitement of the members and seeing their ideas and pages provides plenty of inspiration.  

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.  

Just a few of these scrapbooking ideas will chase your scrapbooking burnout away.

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