what are your thoughts on covid themed scrapping supplies?

I have pretty much all the covid related supplies that came out and I am using them. But I chose indifferent for two reasons.

First, some of them are poorly done and not relevant. Like the CM COVID Kit. Papers are awful and stickers are mostly stupid and look bad.  Another kit I bought, possibly by photo play or reminisce has very idiotic sentiments on it and most of them I cannot use.

One kit has church at home and I took a photo of my mom watching church on tv just to use it. But otherwise it seems as though companies jumped on the supply and demand wagon so quickly they executed very ill thought out products.

So yes I use them but not because they make me feel better. I use them because I am  theme scrapper and they somewhat fit he bill.

I love the idea. The IACB stamps are cute, and they're a really great low cost option to make your pages even more relevant for this year.

I know a lot of people want to try to avoid scrapping the virus to try to make their holidays feel more "normal." But for those who want to document the holidays more realistically, it's great that the supplies are available.

That said, I wouldn't be the target customer as I don't do Christmas, and I don't do much with stamps. I did buy a couple of the papers in the  Pinkfresh line, but I bought primarily for the B-sides.

Are there other manufacturers doing the Covid Christmas theme too?

I think it depends on your experience with Covid. If you lost someone to it, maybe not. If you have been cooped up with small children, it might be perfect. For me, I have so many supplies already that I can do a page or two without needing them.

I bought one or two sheets of paper and the die cut pack from the first covid line that came out, was it photoplay? I also bought some papers and the cardstock stickers from Pink Fresh Let's Stay Home. I think it helped me tell the story of my life in 2020 for sure. I don't see myself buying a whole lot more of it, because now it's just become our lives. My album will just have pics of us in masks and hardly any family pics and I don't need to keep drawing attention to it anymore. I did see that covid xmas line, and that looked cute, but I will wait and see how the holidays unfold. I try not to buy products until after just incase I don't end up taking pictures, or any other reason that I don't feel like documenting something.

myboysnme are you talking about the Creative Memories line? Love One Another or something? I saw that one, and I think they came out with another one. I didn't buy it, but I didn't think it looked too bad. It really all depends on what you are scrapping, I suppose. Their papers are super thin though.

Yes, the first one. I hadn't seen the second one. I do not think paper with hearts, dots, squiggle lines and graph paper is particularly covid themed. I probably have sheets of that in my stash. The stickers are odd shapes with thick white borders. I do not like stickers like that. Life is better with my tribe, love my CM family, a mixer? They can do better.

Yeah, the one thing I remembered was not liking the color scheme. Red, white and blue. Boring.  I'm trying to think if all their stickers have the white border, but I don't remember, they might. 

I haven't bought any specific supplies but I did pick up some of the digital freebies and I've been using them to scrap my monthly pandemic pages as well as (sparingly) on regular layouts where they seem to fit - like virtual schooling and working from home.

I have printed a few - mostly early on. I received a few things in my Hip Kit club. I don't want to spend my money on them, though. I don't scrap a whole lot about it.

I don't do project life, so I have not scrapped any COVID-related pages, but I did buy the Kelly Purkey B&W Christmas kit to complement the "regular" Christmas kit I'll be using. Our holidays are going to be so very different this year due to the pandemic, and I want to make sure that years from now when my grandchildren look through my DD's, they can see the difference and understand why this year was celebrated so differently.

I've picked up a couple of embellishments from the Pinkfresh line which are versatile enough to be used in more general everyday life and used quite a few of the downloadable freebies that were offered in the early days. Like others I've also focused on using home themed stuff from my stash, and have been getting some mileage out of some stamps that have more real life sentiments. I've chosen the love them option in the poll because while I don't love everything, I've enjoyed having some specific things to include in my album.

I gathered a bunch of freebies when all of this first started and have them in a folder ready to use. I have used one occasionally, but come to think of it, those I've used have been the "stay home stay safe" kind of theme rather than the more medical themed images. I use my PL (and my Christmas Journal) to record "life" as it is right now and as a result, yes, CV figures feature in there as do bits and pieces about life right now. I smiled yesterday when I flicked back to a week in July when I was looking for something else and found "Getting (slowly) back to normal". How things change, eh?

sleepingbooty I read about your new lockdown last evening and the horrific events in Nice and Avignon and thought of you. Stay safe, stay well, stay sane dear friend.

I voted indifferent as I downloaded the freebies but don't intend to purchase anything. While I'm documenting this time, I don't want it to be overwhelming. Plus, I'm praying this is over soon and I won't need any of these products.

I am a reality scrapbooker, so I appreciate the various products to help tell the story. I get that a lot of people only scrapbook happy memories, but that would feel so fake for me. I had someone in my family pass away from Covid19, so I don't see it as being "funny", but the other things that have happened regarding work from home and toilet paper shortages and such can have some humor to them. To me, it's ok to try to find the good/humorous in a not great situation. I also think its important to record the reality for history's sake, so in my storyline chapters book I will record the pandemic numbers and other headlines regarding it.

My great-grandfather actually died from the 1918 flu pandemic...I had some information on it, but going through this has made me research more. It would be so valuable if someone in the family had recorded anything about that. The only circumstances I know are what is on his death certificate.

These are the kind of things I think about when I scrapbook...like what do I wish I had/knew from my family members, like what do I wish they would have journaled about and left behind.

Having a senior moment. Can someone remind me what IACB stands for? Thx