**NEW** Shimelle - Box of Crayons

Looks like a glitter girl rehash. It's cute but not very innovative which seems to be a recurring theme with AC: keep regurgitations the same designs/motifs since they were such a big hit 6 mos/1 year/2 years ago.

* regurgitating

I like some of it, but I'm a rainbow loving person. I also have a lot to document for my kids who are all elementary school age, so that definitely helps.

Check out Shimelle's Instagram stories. Much better images. I don't typically like her lines (too busy) but love these colors and will buy most of it. ❤️ The 6x8 pad is really cool.

That's a no from me. Looks like a mishmash of AC lines.

I feel like she's stepping on Amy Tan's toes with the toucans. I'll have to check out her Instagram story to see the b-sides. The border paper has a great red & white polka dot paper that I would love as a full sheet.

So much pink - and I like pink!

I feel like the mash-ups of paper that AC puts up in their blog posts don't do these lines justice. That's no knock on you, Chinagirl828 - it's all AC. They make the line look like a hodgepodge instead of something that would go so well with the simple papers everyone already has. Like the example at the top of their blog has Shimelle's kid on that cloud-and-dot paper and it looks cute, but you'd never get that impression from their "throw everything on a table at weird angles" promo shot.

Cute stuff in there for summer, I think. I like some of the B-sides and the phrase stamp. But I kinda like Simple Stories crafter-themed line this year a bit better. This does look better for scrapping kids, though.

my first reaction is "WOW that's bright!"

I went and watched the stories and now I need the navy phrase thickers, the alpha thickers, and the specialty paper. Those definitely look useable!

I just watched the Instagram stories - I don't think I'll need anything of this collection. I really like Shimelle but I'm having a hard time using her designs.

msliz when you are following Shimelle on Instagram you should see a little circle with herself in it on top when you open Instagram, then just click on it and you see a little video of her box with some of the collection items - this video is the Instagram story.

It's kind of hard to judge most of the paper. I'm a sucker for a dog print, though, so I'm sure I'll get that. The glitter shaker stickers look interesting too. Don't need most of it, though.

I'm finding that's true of many of the newer collections - cute stuff - some to my taste, some less so - but not enough basics...I'm a basics kind of gal for the most part.