Which embellishments?

Maybe stickers, die cuts or chipboard--depends on what I think I might need or actually use as to which of these 3 I might buy. But usually I need to have a project in mind before I buy anything other than paper.

I tend to skip brads, enamel dots, washi, stamps, etc.

An ephemera pack and sometimes the sticker book if there is one and I think I'll use most of it.

I think chipboard and enamel dots are $$$ for the amount you get.

I don't buy the stamps and dies because I always think I can download something and cut it on my Silhouette for less...

I usually just get the collection pack - I'll occasionally get the ephemera pack if I see it marked down but I don't typically. Same with the enamel dots

I almost always buy chipboard, ephemera, and enamel dots. I almost always pass on stamp sets, die cut sets, washi, brads/epoxy items, and flat sticker books.

Often buy:
Die cuts and stickers
Thickers if available and I like them

Sometimes:
puffy stickers
layered stickers
enamels dots
6x8 or 6x6 paper pad

Never buy:
Washi - No more washi!
decorative paper clips or dangles/charms
Sticker books if they are the thin ones.

If I get anything, it'll be an ephemera pack. But typically I don't buy anything. I'll fussy cut out of the pp or print something or stamp something or die cut something. My pages tend to be photo heavy so I don't have a lot of extra room for embellishments anyway.

Depends on what is included. Almost always I buy the chipboard pack, stickers, and cardstock die cuts. Sometimes I will get both sticker packs if 2 are offered.

A few times I haven't bought one of the items because I don't like what is included and feel I will waste my money for 1 or 2 stickers, chipboards, or die cuts.

I hardly ever, if at all by embellishments to match collections.

I have lots of plain brads, buttons, washi tape, stickles, plain chipboard, etc in my stash. I can find something to match.

None. As a simple, clean, linear, cardstock-intensive, mostly flat, story-focused/journaling-extensive, archival-conscious, & theme-challenged scrapper, I rarely purchase embellishments. I wish that "element sticker" sheets &/or an ephemera pack in each collection consisted of versatile, solid or classic pattern borders, labels, tabs, tags,* etc. in its color scheme, rather than the same heavily & specifically themed images repeated on all other embellishments, patterned papers, stamp sets, etc.

[* Shout out to Simple Stories for the recent addition of Tags Paper (link is an example from the August release, Homegrown, at ACOT) to its full collections; note the versatile, non-themed tags on the reverse.]

I'm a polar opposite scrapper from you, but I also love the full sheet of double-sided tags that Simple Stories have been doing. I first noticed in the fall collection (Cozy Days?) and really loved the addition. I'm glad to hear they're still doing them!

I love embellishments so much I will even buy them without the paper! Just placed a SB.com order for embellishments without buying paper. (When they offered the free 6x8 Simple Stories Sunkissed pad, I placed an order just because I wanted a number of those embellishments.)

I almost always buy
Chipboard! (IF not excessively "wordy with images from the collection"--a style often seen from EP and CB)
Ephemera/die cuts pack
sticker sheet

I am always considering and sometimes buy
puffy stickers (if the icons are unique enough compared with other sticker packs already purchased--if they are this is a definite buy)
sticker book
washi
enamel dots
Thickers (too often the words are things I don't want and are overused, so basic letters in a cool font are much better for me.)

And when it is a pretty themed paper collection, I definitely prefer for some of the embellishments to be less heavy handed and/or wordy with the theme and more generally versatile. Definitely use some great icons from the collection, but plenty of pieces that allow use of the collection beyond a theme like "lemons" or "zoo" or "beach" or whatever.

My stash is very piecemeal, when I started I couldn't afford to buy a collection + matching embellishments, so I had to work out how to mix and match things from different collections so I could get the bits I loved the most, and now I find it hard to scrap any other way. So that means I'll often buy papers with no matching embellishments, or just the embellishments from a collection. The only real exceptions I can think of are FJ and CVS, because I love so much they put out.

My favourite things to buy are die cuts, especially if there's a floral pack, stickers, and thickers (both the embellishment ones and the alphas). I now buy enamel dots based on gaps in my stash, I separate my packs and store by colour so it's easy to tell I have eleven million aqua/blue/green dots but hardly any true red or the right shade of yellow. Washi has to be amazing to make me buy it, I don't have an especially large stash but I'm also not great at using it. I try to steer away from things I don't really use any more, like brads, or products that don't have a long lifespan, like rub ons or epoxy. I'm not a huge fan of the big chipboard pieces most companies put out so I steer away from that too. I try to look carefully at how much of an embellishment pack I expect I'll use before I buy it, as a way to keep my stash from completely blowing out of control, and also helpful for my wallet too!


This really annoys me, and to be honest, I would probably buy more embellishments if I wasn't getting the same super specific designs in every format.

Stickers and die cuts.  I like to use pop dots to lift die cuts.

Enamel dots if the colors are more unique and I'm unlikely to have a good color to match.

I’m with you on the epoxy - it ALWAYS yellows. I’m always tempted by Doodlebug’s cite epoxy, but have to remind myself that no one wants a yellow snowman!