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I like the Homegrown collection, but will probably skip the others. I like the woodgrain in Make it Merry and might get a few pieces like the foam stickers. For me, pink mixed in with Christmas is a hard pass.

Christmas lines aren't bad, but not my favorites--something about the light blue seems off to me--and I'm one that usually likes Cmas lines that have more color than red & green. I do appreciate how all three coordinate colorwise, especially if you want to add just a small part of the Ugly Sweater line. I don't care for the Cmas vintage one, the red appears to be too orange for me. Oh Holy Night is nice and simple, but I have pieces of the Echo Park lines that are very similar.

Vintage Fall is Meh, but I really like the Halloween line. It's cute without being cutesy. It's Halloweeny without being creepy. It would be perfect if I still had Halloween pictures to scrap.

I really like Homegrown, but I don't have a use for a lot of it. It's borderline cutesy, but better than other farm lines that are too vintagey.

I like that blue-green in Oh, Holy night. It reminds me of TH Iced Spruce just a little more blue. That’s all I got. SS hasn’t appealed to me for quite a while. I do like their alpha sheets though and bought tons of them back in the day.

I've decided I'm difficult to please because all the new lines shared recently leave me feeling underwhelmed. I don't mind bits and pieces across these but overall I didn't see anything that I felt absolutely had to come home with me.

This is how I feel. Maybe a sheet or two of a line but nothing more than that. 

I’m not wowed by anything but I’ll probably grab Homegrown since we live on a hobby farm. I could use it from our daily life as well as fair days since mine are in 4H.

I also like Oh Holy Night. But I don’t need anymore Christmas stuff. It’s a maybe for me.

I’m currently working through my stash as I’m catching up on old albums so I’m trying to not buy more until I know I’ll use it.

I added a couple sheets of Spooky Nights to my cart along with the cardstock sticker sheet from Happy Hanukkah. There are a lot of them I won't use in my albums, but I can stick the extras on gift tags so they won't go to waste.

I do not need more Christmas but like SS collections. I still have some items from last year so with the exception of the Ugly Sweater stickers, I will be taking a break from their lines this year:(

I will passing on all of those. The Homegrown line is my favourite one and I may pick up a sheet or two if I see it in person at my LSS but the rest are not really my thing.
Christmas lines seem to be super heavy on the red and green combo this year.
I am most curious about the page templates, I have never used them before but I remember they were a big thing when I first started 20 years ago. Everything old is new again.

I 100% absolutely do not need anymore Christmas paper, and I already decided that the new Vicki Boutin Christmas line is definitely coming home with me, so I was hoping that these would be an easy pass for me, but I do like Make it Merry. I am using Hello Today for my PL this year, and I think I can make the Make it Merry line coordinate so I will be getting at least a few sheets to supplement that. Also, I am loving that bright green ledger and the typewriter key paper in this line.

My problem with the “cream” in SS collections is that it’s never the same, sometimes within the same collection. Some papers will be yellowish, and others greenish-cream. I prefer white base.