Breaking Out of Scrapbooking Rut

For a while there I wasn't scrapbooking very much. It wasn't because I didn't want to. It seemed like I was at a loss creatively. I'd put some things onto a page, move them around, and nothing looked good. How did I break out of my scrapbooking rut? By not scrapbooking. By giving myself a break and not put pressure on myself to create. By doing lots of other things that inspired me. I took photos with my new camera. I read magazines and books. I wrote in my journal. I knitted and crocheted. I organized my desk. Then I made a list. :) I made a list of things to do on a scrapbook page. I thought if I just incorporated one or two of the ideas I wrote down on my list, then at least I had ideas I could concentrate on each page I tried to create.

Things to do on a scrapbook page:

• Vary the size of fonts in titles
• Vary the size of alphas in titles
• Hand-write journaling
• Use stitching
• Use photoshop brushes
• Vary the size of elements on a page
• Use thought/speech bubbles
• Place a title sideways
• Do the layout, then tilt everything at an angle, except the background paper
• Journal around the layout border
• Put white borders around all the photos
• Crop photos in interesting ways
• Use doodled borders

Those are just some of the things I thought of.  Things I sometimes forget to use on pages, but I always like when I see other people use them.

I also read a great article by Ali Edwards called "Breaking Out of a Creative Rut".  It's a guest post here on Kelly Rae Roberts' blog.