I'm bored. Is there anything new?

Are you into mixed media? Now that can open up a whole new world! I don't even look back anymore. LOVE mixed media!

You sound so like I was. I hated messy, loved perfection. Now if I can paint with my fingers everyday and get messy, I am in heaven!!!! I found my style and passion. I do it more than scrapping, and now if I scrap I have to include paint and messy. I am SO glad I went out of my comfort zone. I started about 7 years ago and haven't looked back.

Hee hee! My kids would tell you, LavenderLayoutLady, that it is not safe to say, "I'm bored" around me! I would always give them WORK to do!

If you can't find a new line or a new product that excites you, maybe try doing something different. Maybe using the ones you have in different ways? Try making embellishments from things around the house? Or learn some new techniques you've never tried before? Sign up for a small kit club that can surprise you each month without blowing your budget?  Or a techniques class?

I know you may not have the luxury I have to play with mixed media, leave each layer out to dry, then attack it the next day with something else. Even though I have the space to play with it and leave it to dry(down on the chest freezer, not on my scrap counter) I still don't use it that often until I see something on a blog or on Pinterest that I think I can do, and then--because I don't do this all the time--it feels new and exciting, as long as I can let go of the desired result (which I don't have the skill or probably all the products and definitely not the patience to achieve), and just glory in the PLAY!!!

I started out in scrapbooking when there were very few embellishments, and I was a little disappointed that as soon as I learned a technique to get a new look (like texturing with pen and texture plates or stuff around the house, hand embossing with a stylus using old letter stencils or ones I had cut with an Xacto knife, or fussy cutting parts to paper pieced multi layer images) then the "Industry" would start mass producing stuff with that effect that looked better than mine and that everybody could slap onto their projects with no effort at all. The trend continues, because I spent a lot of time and effort and wasted product learning how to apply foil to my cards and pages, and then not only did the Minc come out, but the next season almost every line had foiled elements in it! So instead of learning how to MAKE stuff, I had to learn how to USE it in new ways.

I hope you find something soon that brings the fun back into this hobby for you. I miss the "good old days" too: would love to walk into a drugstore and see seven different papercraft magazines on the shelf, or drive home from the post office in a state of high excitement because of the pizza box sitting on the car seat waiting to be opened and let out all its glory. And I fall into the trap too of wanting to be surprised and also wanting complete control over what my money is going for!

Maybe you could try DIY embellishments. I've seen lots of videos on youtube and pins on Pinterest. That could help you feel creative without getting messy. I'm not one for the messiness of mixed media stuff either.
Or you could try a new-to-you mini album style.

me too! nothing out there grabs my interest right now.

Find a paper you love and try to recreate it w/stamps or paint or ink?

I had an idea - what if instead of a new product you got on something like Photoscape and played around with photo editing, like borders and collages and stuff.  There are some fun new things you can do with your pictures.