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 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.  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. 

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.  Start organizing your supplies.  Just seeing all the cool materials you have to work with may spark your creativity.

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.  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. 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.  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.  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.  Put your scrapbook albums on display.  Let your family and friends enjoy your page layouts.  See their faces light up as they appreciate your pages will motivate you to get scrapbooking again.  

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

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