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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.  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.  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.  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.  Join a scrapbooking community online challenge.  You can find these on message boards and forums.  Competing with others may jump start your motivation.

13.  Join the digital scrapbooking craze.  It’s a lot 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 tips will chase your scrapbooking burnout away.

Christine Perry is an avid scrapbooker and has over 10 years of scrapbooking experience. Her favorite scrapbooking subjects are her reluctant teenagers. She invites you to her website, http://www.intoscrapbooking.com for more scrapbooking ideas and how to find a scrapbooking crop online.

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