AC Photo Real Paper Pads

I find these types of papers difficult to use too, for the most part. I do like the wood grain and painted papers, as they give a fairly neutral background for certain types of photos, but for the most part papers featuring flowers and landscapes and sunsets I find are difficult to use.

I also don’t like the pattern papers that have quotes printed in the middle of the page, that fill up most of the page. Aside from framing the paper and hanging on the wall, I don’t really see how you could use this. If you put any sort of photo on the page it would cover part of the quote. Very strange.

I like ones that are just all trees, rocks, candy, seashells, things like that. I use them to matte photos so only a little bit is showing. I don't use the whole piece because I think it is distracting and the photo gets lost on the page.

I will use a wood slats or a brick wall, or something like that for a background.

I agree, the ones with the huge snowman, etc. leaves me puzzled. What are you supposed to do with that? It leaves no room for creativity.

Hmm- so we're all in agreement that we don't use the big snowman photo real paper (or any other large item centered on the page). Are there any good examples of how we ARE supposed to use them? You'd think the manufacturers would give us some tips and page layout ideas to use their stuff.

I have a few photo real pps that came in stacks with regular pp- an old Christmas DCWV pad that has blue/white photo real snowy pine trees. Still in the pad, never used, no idea what to do with it. What was the designer planning on us doing with that one?

Ah, but you're confusing USING a product (our focus) with BUYING a product (AC's focus) and I can see all kinds of people who love beautiful colors and images being convinced that they'll find a use for such a bounty of beautiful images. Especially people who don't take great photos, aren't particularly artistic, who don't actually scrapbook - people who don't make their own beautiful things, in other words. Not to say all people who buy these are those things, not at all. But I think a LOT of people who buy these pads will never use more than a sheet or two of them. Especially if they're on the racks at Joann's for 40% off.

I am totally one of the people who would have, at one time, been drawn in by these. I could barely even see the collage fronts of them on their site and my !Must-Collect-Beautiful-Colors! sense was activated. I got the heart eyes going and would've loved to page through all the designs. But now I know I'll never find a use for them unless I start wallpapering rooms with them... and I'm not into buying stuff I won't use any more.

But anyway, I don't think AC thinks hardcore scrappers like most of us here will use these for scrapbooking. But I think they'll sell to craft store wanderers.