Creative Burn Out || Easy Art Journal Starts

You can still love what you do and feel burned out. That is certainly the case for me! I absolutely love my job, but I find. myself feeling creatively stuck and burned out. When I get that way (because creative burn out has happened before and it will happen again), I tend to take creativity back to the basics. In this video, I am chatting about what burnout feels like and some of the simple tasks I do to try to overcome a creative rut.
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[@annsmith5625]

When I get a creative block I change to another craft or read. Reading is very calming (most of the time, unless it's a great thriller). ⚾️

[@ScrappyWife]

Yes, I agree - I've been enjoying reading more recently.

[@mushroomglade]

I love the colour treasure hunt idea, not that I travel but just to do at home with my stash. Finding the acrylic paints is the first step though...that might not be easy.

[@ArleneAdkinsZell]

Thank you for sharing, most of us hit a wall from time to time, sometimes rest is what is needed. If I am in a rut, I color something that appeals to my childish side (last time was tweety bird), fussy tear it out and mount it on a simple acrylic painted background. By the time the matte medium is dry, I am out of the rut and dragging out supplies. If I am in a funk, I declutter and organize, handling all the supplies gets me jump started again.

[@ScrappyWife]

Decluttering and organizing is one of my other go-to techniques to break out of a rut.

[@debbiet0719]

I tend to get a bunch of ideas at once then forget them when I sit down to create! I’ve started to jot down the ideas in a notebook as soon as they pop into my head. This helps me with creative block.

[@ScrappyWife]

That is a great method to follow!

[@audreymcgill3529]

What helps most of the time to get out of a creative rut is just doing something sort of like you did here in this video. I am a scrapbooker, card maker, and art journaler. I concentrate on doing backgrounds that can be cut up or used in whatever way I want. That has helped in the past. I will be doing that on Saturday, so I will have to see if it still works.

[@ScrappyWife]

I agree - that has worked for me in the past as well.

[@Elainewith4]

I’ve also been in a rut!! This looks fun and easy to get back to the groove.

[@ScrappyWife]

Sometimes it just helps to just put some paint on the page.

[@jenwerner6237]

Maybe a photo a day. And then add diffrent embellishments and quotes that go with the photo and a quick journaling to write about the photo . Not sure how many pages are in it but you could do a whole month in one book if there is enough pages.

[@ScrappyWife]

That is a fun idea!

[@lynnstone6998]

❤

[@ScrappyWife]

Thanks for watching Lynn!