Scrapbooking Ideas to Chase Away Burnout
August 20th, 2009 at 03:19pm Under General
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. 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. 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. Go through and organize your scrapbooking supplies. Can you use your materials in a new way? Or can you create new color combinations?
5. Scrapbooking magazines are designed to bring inspiration. Read your favorite magazine today for new techniques or the latest products.
6. Take a scrapbooking course or workshop. This is sure to bring your some motivation.
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. Go shopping! Browse through your local scrapbooking store or craft store and get inspired by all the new products available.
9. Allow yourself to make mistakes. Trying to be perfect is a sure way to get scrapbooking burnout.
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. Join a scrapbooking community online challenge. You can find these on message boards and forums. Competing with others may jump start your motivation.
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. 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 these scrapbooking tips today and watch your scrapbooking burnout disappear.
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