Have you ever sat down with those photos that you really want to scrap, but your Scrapbooking muse just won’t come? I have to confess that happens to me a lot. And it’s so frustrating when the mood to scrap is there but the inspiration has gone missing. Well here are some ideas to help get that mojo juice flowing again. Give one of them a try when you next find yourself confronted with the dreaded Scrappers’ Block.

10 Top Ways to Rekindle your Scrapbooking Inspiration

1. Go for a walk! I’m blessed with a great public park at the end of my street and when my mind feels cluttered (pretty much every day) I take myself for a good walk there and let the fresh air blow the cobwebs away. I find it’s good to set a brisk pace and just focus on walking. That helps to relax the mind and get rid of the clutter. Then after about 10 minutes I start to think about the photos I want to scrap and just let my mind present me with pictures of how they might look. I use this technique for thinking about blog articles too. 2. Scraplift from layouts you admire in on-line galleries. Often just having the picture of what your scrapbook layout might look like will be enough to stimulate your mind to make its own interpretation. Layout galleries in Scrapbooking magazines are good for scraplifting from too. If you publish your layout, don’t forget to credit the original layout with your inspiration. 3. Even better…Scraplift from yourself! Don’t underestimate your own work. Pick some of your favourite scrapbook layouts and turn them around. Literally. Try turning them on their side or upside down and looking at them from that angle. The new perspective can be just what you need to rekindle the inspiration that created them in the first place.Read the rest of this Article