Can we talk about words?

I just wait for the right layout to use the words paper. I just used a 9x12 section of the 12x12 Heidi Swapp Sun Chaser Moments paper today because it fit in exactly with the layout I was making - DD going down North America's largest mountain tube slide. Some of the words on the paper are: play, beautiful, discover, breathe, dreamer, wander, enjoy, moments, chill, happy, sunshine, hooray. I have had this paper for awhile and knew it would be used for a fun, adventure type layout for one of the kids.

Anyways I combined it with the sun burst type paper from the same collection. Having just about 1/2 of the 9x12 layout with the word paper helps cut down on words. It also allowed me to have the title stick out as it wasn't competing with other words.

For other papers I have cut out strips of word bubble and used them as embellishments. Or on cards. Even for pocket page embellishment cards.

So you dont have to use the paper as a full sheet. You can get creative with how you use it.

I never use words just because they are in a collection. Nor do I consider the words a word salad. They might apply to someone, but sometimes not me or my pictures. If if is something like ephemera, thickers, or any other type of embellishment that has a bunch of words, I will not buy it if most of them are not to my liking or need. So I guess I am saying they don't bother me.

I almost never want(ed) to use the words that manufacturers made and I don't like my pages to say things I would never ever say in real life.

I have a lot of fonts on my 'puter and a lot of 8¼x11 shipping labels, clear and white.

Exactly! I’ve always thought if I needed to I could make my own. But the collections come with them. Would be a waste not to use🤣. 

I feel the same way about my own pages. I wish companies would include more icons and less words. This is why my favorite AE collections are the ones that include some icons and not just words (or the same word(s) repeated over and over). I don't mind it on other people's pages and often can see how a word or phrase can add just the right pop of color or fill out a space. On my own pages though, I can't use a word/phrase unless it goes along with my journaling/story I'm trying to tell. It bugs me.

I know I've lamented about it before, but I also wish the would expand the language they do use. There are thousands of words out there in the world, pick something besides the same ones that have been in the last 5 collections.

I usually skip over words on papers unless it is like a bookprint type print, with rows of tiny text that reads more like a background design rather than something where the words are important to the page. I'm not a huge fan of some of the word packs, there seems to be a fine line between having 50 versions of "happy" in my stash, or getting all the words I just can't use like "blessed". I do try to choose carefully when I'm shopping to make sure I'm buying things I will use. I've noticed a whole lot of layouts using the Spectrum Sherbet line with the starburst design paper where each ray has a word in a matching colour (Shimelle did it in a recent live but I've also seen several other examples), and that kind of page is really not my thing.

Marketing. That is why I hardly follow any DT members. I don't want to take what I just bought and only get 2 layouts from the products lol

I guess instead of word salad it is product salad ?

Not my thing either.

I don't want my story or photo(s) to get lost in a cluttery vomit of stuff.

I do wish companies hired more (for lack of a better phrase) real life, every day scrapbooker.

I personally think they would appeal to more scrappers/crafters by doing so.

This is why I really respect Ali. She is all about the words. I mean yeah I get that they are trying to feature products. But as far as inspiration goes, I'd rather have a sketch with a journaling block.

I don't care for collections with lots of words. Most of the time, I know I won't use them. I'd rather stamp a word on a diecut.

Letter stickers? Want to buy a vowel?
I have a whole drawer of them. All the vowels are gone except 6 u's and 4 i's, and no more r,s,t,n,or d's.

I feel the same way.

If there are too many words and/or other items that I am unlikely to use in a package of ephemera/embellishments, I won’t buy the package. If it comes in a discounted pack from Tuesday Morning, I’ll overlook it and buy it if the rest is worth the price to me, but the words rarely, if ever, get used.

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