Things that bug you about scrapbook supplies.

My biggest pet peeve is the lack of variety overall. When there are breakout collections they are so popular, but they are few and far between. Pink Paislee's Hey Kid is an example of a line going in a better direction. Not necessarily with colors or patterns, but at least embraced the idea that girls like more than pastel bikes and are cute princesses and boys don't just skateboard and play sports. Pink Fresh has had a few lines that are much better, but overall the industry SUCKS at designing diverse lines. Color variety is one of the reasons I am so attracted to most of what Vicki Boutin has been putting out. Not to mention, it seems that all kids are young in scrapbook design world.

I have a daughter that identifies as a girl, but is also into science, is an EMT and firefighter, is going into med school, wears converse and Vans and lots of black concert tee shirts. She's not a pink/pastel girl. The current scrapbook lines don't cut it for me when I am scrapbooking her life. I have a son that is a student and loves computers. He's not into sports, skateboarding, retro rock and roll, or sports. Why does almost every line have to be so hyper stereotypical? As a result, I end up dies cutting and designing a lot of my embellishments for both of my kids, as well as my husband and myself, because he's not handy, loving cars, or having a mustache and I don't do a lot of cooking, gardening, riding pastel bikes, or sewing.

My peeves:
Pinks and soft pastels over and over again (I do like all colors, but come on!)
Ubber genderized icons and sayings
Only bright and happy words and sayings
Florals, so many florals and again in soft pastel colors
Scrapbook designers with both boy and girl children, seem to only design and show samples with their daughters (where are their sons and husbands?) and their young children in mind (except Shimelle, but she's done)

Sorry! I seem to have gotten in a bandstand here. But, you asked.

Glues that don't stick.

Stickers that don't stick.

Bottles that clog immediately after one use.

Paints that dry up and can't be revived.

4 by 6 cut aparts (Simple Stories has a lot of them) I can never get those to work on my layouts since they are usually larger than my photos...

Pink everything, and I have two girls...

There is not enough music themed scrapbook supplies, and since my kids are in orchestra, I don't need a trumpet, drum set, or clarinet along with my violin sticker (and one of my children plays the viola NOT the violin, where are the violas?). My oldest dd read the music on a piece of pp recently and told me the notes were all wrong and not to use it on her page

There are more days in the school year than 'first day of school and more months than September (and we sometimes start in August...)

Not enough science/math STEM themes.

Sports: variety (my kids do cross country, bowling, and track). Also my youngest ds (he's 6) soccer team lost every game, all that winner stuff doesn't apply...

I will stop now

Now see, since I took up memory planning I like teeny tiny stickers & diecuts lol

That I never have what I want? No matter how much I have I’ll be in the middle of a project & think ‘if I only had x’ that would be the perfect touch.

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Couldn't you turn them on their sides?  

I want a cut apart journaling card sheet with actual room to journal on the cards, not just phrases and icons!

More collections with one sheet that has a journaling lines b side like Shimelle has in each collection.

Me too! Except they work great for using in 12x12 divided sheet protectors.

And yes I miss Basic Grey too

I haven’t had to deal with this lately, but stickers that aren’t quite cut all the way through. Stickers that aren’t sticky. Cut apart sheets with no cards with space to journal on.

I’m tired of so many cut aparts and animals that most people are not seeing or having contact with in our everyday lives. I’d like to see more collections that are less themed and more daily life with a bit more subtlety . I don’t always want every paper in a collection to be so bold.

Also, I have to say that the price increases on embellishments make me less likely to buy them and more likely to make my own embellishments.

I don't like that a company comes out with something innovative, so you buy it. Shortly after that, five companies come out over time, with the same thing, with little changes that you like better. So, you want to by that one. On and on it goes. (Blending brushes is a good example)

I totally agree with you. Especially on the die cut packs. Why are there so many words? I don't need every other embellishment on my page to be a word.

First, the fact that the supplies multiply and move like lava into every available space.

Thickers and other stickers that fall off, or when you try to take them off the backing it pulls the adhesive off.

Ugly art work.  I have seen the ugliest unicorns and other art work that would make an otherwise nice piece of paper look terrible.

Tiny stickers are worthless unless you are under 5 years old.

Beautiful papers on both sides making it necessary to buy 2, except the individual sheet is part of a kit so you would have to buy 2 kits.
For example, Echo Parks Stateside papers - both sides can be equally used but you have to buy 2 entire kits to use both sides. So if I want both Indiana papers I would have to spend $40.

Papers that have cut aparts on both sides so you have to decide which one you really want more than the other.

I think 12x12 was a ridiculous size to make standard. 10x10 or even 11x11 is better than 12x12. I understand it equals 4 4x6 photos but the word cropping means to cut, so I think we could have made do with trimming and editing photos. Storing 12x12 albums is a nightmare, looking at them is unwieldy and you can't easily scan, print, or mail 12x12.

I'm coming back as I think of other things.