Has anyone taken a hiatus and restarted??

Lisa is right about me. I scrapped from 2000-2008. My life fell apart and it took me two years to get back to scrapping. I started again in 2011 with digital. I did that until 2016 and now I'm back to paper. Those two years I took a break? I just threw my photos in a premade Shutterfly album because I did not want to relive them.

Yes, after my divorce I took a three year hiatus. I didn’t have kids with my ex so it just felt like all the scrapbooks I had made were a waste and I didn’t even know what to do with them. I kept all of my stuff, but the desire was not there.
Project Life got me back into scrapbooking. I think OLW would also have been a good project to do. It really helped me through times of transition. The Project Life app is good imo and doesn’t require a space or huge product investment.

Yep, almost 3 years! I stopped in 2010 during an illness, then I started back in 2013.

I have. I stopped in 2011 when I got divorced and just started up again in late 2017. Having my first grandchild helped bring the mojo back. I don't scrap any faster than I did in the past, but my love for the hobby is still there.

I have in the past.

I took a pretty long break. I finished up my wedding/honeymoon album in 2007 and didn’t touch anything again until 2011. Aside from traveling I didn’t have a lot that I scrapped and until we had a baby didn’t feel the need to get back at it. I used to be a 12x12 scrapper CM multi-photo and multi-page layouts scrapper. Things really changed during that time, most of the LSS closed and CM was on the way out. I was introduced to PL and pocket scrapping and have fairly successfully gotten back into a routine of documenting ever since. I will say that my style and priorities changed a lot, which took some time to adjust to for me. I wouldn’t say that I completely got my groove back in terms of creativity and enjoying creating, but I have really done a better of journaling and story telling this time around. And as I have mentioned before on other threads, when I got back into it I was literally sitting on an exercise ball in the playroom closet working on a rolling storage cart. I have my own space now, but there are always ways to make it work.

I am in the same boat, scrapped until the divorce and thinking that a project life type of album will get my mojo back. I mostly did mini albums in the past, but took a few years off. I’ve been looking at options for doing an album for 2019, and think that just creating a space and getting the album prepped will make me want to start. I’ve been saving memorabilia in case I want to go backwards and create minis for the missing years.

 I too went through a divorce 7 years ago and didn't scrap at all for almost 5 of those years. All of my stuff was packed in storage and life happened. I got back into it a few months before I found this board back in 2016!  I have never looked back. I have a small guest room that I scrap in and even though it's small and cramped, I can't NOT be creative. I missed it SO much those 5 years!

Yes, I stopped for about four years. I’m glad I came back...I really get a lot of enjoyment out of this hobby.

For the past 8 years or so I have been on and off. Had a difficult time with my mojo even with taking photos. I feel like the past few months I am ready to get back into it. I had a good size scrap room but didn't use it much. I set up a small table now in the family room and it is great for now. 

When we started renovating our home in order to move (doing a lot of the work ourselves), I did almost no scrapping for about 4 or 5 years until we were in our new home and mostly unpacked. I tried. It was just really hard to find time or energy.

I did occasional card making during that time, but not that much card making, either. Even after unpacking my supplies in my first dedicated scrapbook room, I had trouble scrapbooking. What got me interested in scrapbooking again was a family trip to Disney World.

Sometimes you just need to start with a project you can be really excited about, whether a trip, a new grandchild, or some other special event that you want to scrap.  Something fun. If you don't have anything you really want to scrapbook, maybe you should plan a special outing, take some photos, and then go find papers and supplies to go with those pictures.  Sometimes it's just getting started again that is hard. Once you get past that hurdle, it's easier to keep going.

I haven’t scrapped in years for various reasons. When I wanted to restart I found instead that I enjoyed cardmaking and art journaling/mixed media instead. One day I hope to scrap again and incorporate these new techniques into my layouts that will be featuring my now adult children.

I have. I've gone months and months, almost a year without touching it. Mostly because life gets busy and other things take priority. Sometimes, it's just the ebb and flow of life.
I scrapbook in chronological order. It is always there waiting for me. It will get done, when it gets done. 
When I scrapbook nowadays, I still love it just as much as I did back when I first started(Fall 1996). 

Edited to add... I think my scrapbook slow down happened when I switched to digital camera. I am slow to print photos. 
I think having the piles of photos sitting there, inspires me to scrapbook. 

2018 was a tough year for me. I did not take a lot of photos. I did not scrapbook at all. I want to start again in 2019. Trying to renew my energy and get some joy back from a hobby that I do truly love.