AC New Releases- what do you think?

Here are the links for reference:

Vicki Boutin - Sweet Rush
Paige Evans - Splendid
Maggie Holmes - Round Trip
Bo Bunny - Willow & Sage
Bo Bunny - Beautiful Things
Jen Hadfield - Live & Let Grow
Heidi Swapp - Sun Chaser
K & Company - Antique Garden
Obed Marshall - Especial
DCWV - Paper Stacks
Damask Love - Life's A Party

All shipping in April, except Damask Love, which should be here in January. We R Memory Keepers also has lots of new tools coming over the next few months (we're still working on getting some of those posted).

Interesting!! A VB collection that I don't 100% love. That's actually ok with me, lol. The stamps are a must have though, that torn notebook stamp I love. Heidi Swapp Sun Chaser is meh for me too...very washed out and pastel looking and not different enough from her other stuff, even though I love beachy paper. Maggie Holmes and her obsession with swans...Obed M. too pink/pastel, Jen Hadfield, meh...

I'm sure I sound like an old crank, but it is all so so pink. Maybe that is just a feature of Spring collections. Oh well, guess that means I can focus on FernWood, lol. 

Oh my lots of new goodies! I like some of these. I love the MH travel one, but I have literally no travel pics or plans. I actually like the vintage garden one too, but again, no need. The rest I wouldn’t mind picking up bits and pieces of whenever they go on clearance (and when my spending freeze is over).

Swans and travel though! Swans and planes, strawberries and roses. Sounds about the same as SC January kits:)

I like parts of VBs line but not all of it. Heidi's new line gives me the vibes from a pale version of Studio Calicos Sundrifter collection. I *loved* that line!

I adore the VB line! I hope it makes it JoAnn's. I loved getting lots of Color Theory during the paper sale.

I'm liking DCWV Color Pop to make cards with. I like the navy blue.

I like the blue/purple and green papers in the Maggie Holmes collection. I’m currently frozen, but would thaw a smidge just for a couple sheets of paper…

There are several that I like and that I will probably buy when they go on sale at JoAnn's.

There aren't any that I need to pay full price for. I still haven't used the VBs Color Study I bought last year apart from just a few sheets.

Thanks for the links!

ETA, LOL, I ended up ordering 5 sheets of the new stuff with ACOT. But just 5, and only because I needed to pad a purchase I had already decided to make, in order to take full advantage of the shipping before it jumped to the next bracket. I wanted to get some very pretty P13 paper that's been in my cart for a very long time. And it doesn't really count against my spending freeze (chill) because it's going to be either my Valentine's Day gift or my Mother's Day gift ( I haven't decided which yet ). #justifiedwastefulspending

I'm really interested in those of you who are saying AC is not your style. American Crafts is all over the place- I see a half dozen styles, from very graphic to very vintage. So many styles...

For me, to explain why nothing caught my eye, all of the colours are warm toned even if they are cool or pastel shades… warm pastel colours (even if they are blue or green), warm orangey papers, mustard yellows, peach and peachey pink everywhere… even the rebel paper stack has warm reds which I hate. I lived through the eighties once and don’t want to go back. I also can’t stand the current boho vibe and trend in clothes etc so a lot of these won’t suit me. The ones that are cool colour based (Vicki boutin, Paige evans to a degree) don’t have patterns or themes I like at all - Paige Evans is very pretty and floral and Vicki boutin is very abstract and artsy. And I’m neither of those, although if I was to choose I’d go with Vicki.
I don’t like weird animal graphics, not into rainbows, have enough floral papers and don’t like vintage in any way except b sides from random collections that are okay colours… but I buy those on sale 😁
Literally the only thing I’m into from everything listed is the roller skate page from the last link, same collection as the disco ball, and even then it’s definitely the wrong colour but I’d probably get it as we skate as a family (yes me included!) so I grab skate based paper when I can. If only they had a purple roller skate paper to match my taffy moxi Lolly skates 😍 and what would I use for pages for my little boy out of all of these collections? I’m not saying I have to use blue and traditional “boy” things but I also don’t want his album full of rainbows and flowers when he’s into football and sport etc…
Also not enough black. I like black and am a black based scrapper not a white based scrapper (ie my photos are matted on black backgrounds not white ones etc) 🤣

Wonder if they will have a Crate Paper collection?
And yes, there is a lot of floral element in AC collections. I usually love the florals but you can use so many of them on layouts. I wish there was an everyday collection, the hybrid between Ali and AC, also I don’t get why all these collections do not have simple papers, it seems they are all designed to be used in pieces, with cutting machines and on white backgrounds. I love simple papers from FJ, for example, and do not get why these companies do not have simple backgrounds and more basic papers that can be easily cut to 9x12, etc.

the colours or maybe the colour combinations rarely seem to work for my photos/scrapping. If I'm going to have images on my paper - I want it to theme at least tangentially with what I'm scrapping...rainbows rarely feature in my scrapbook and random animals or other icons don't usually work either. Even the florals - and I like florals - often aren't the right scale or colours.  

I dunno - it just seems that I rarely like never mind love collections from AC