when the new topic for blog entry of scrapping challenges was brought up, i laughed because frankly, my major challenge with scrapbooking lately is well… scrapbooking. too tired. too busy. too lazy. no mojo.
most scrappers i know have gone through a drought in scrapping. it just so happens that mine has lasted the last two plus months. literally, i’ve done one page.
so i have three suggestions for you during your scrapping drought. these ideas have helped me in the past. and hopefully, they’ll help you.
my first suggestion: don’t scrap. i know, didn’t we just talk about scrapping and getting back into it? right. but, the thing is, sometimes you just cannot scrap. so, don’t. instead, go through your stuff. i know that for myself, even when i’m not scrapping, i’m still buying and collecting supplies. and i know that sometimes the most inspiring thing for me to do is to go through those supplies. so do that. rearrange your supplies. purge some supplies. or make some page kits – put together some stuff old and new that you love and think would be fun together. this all usually makes me feel good and makes me more inspired to scrap. make sure you keep a pen and paper nearby in case you get inspired and want to sketch some ideas!
suggestion numero dos: scrap about how you cannot scrap. or why you cannot scrap. sometimes just letting go and doing gets the mojo going. here’s a page i did awhile ago when i just started working full time and was too tired to sit down and come up with ideas.
suggestion number three: scrapbook challenges. i, for some reason, work really well with challenges. if someone challenges me to do a page, i usually like how they turn out much better and can do them much quicker. i think it’s the guidelines that must help me. so my suggestion to you is to get together with some friends and challenge each other or if you’ve got no local friends that scrap, check out some of my favorite challenge blogs:
