Same old thing, different collection.

I loved the original gnomes, but then it went too far for me.

I love the Simple Stories Vintage lines and bought three of them. Now they aren't making that line anymore and that disappoints me. I guess is just is hit or miss and companies got with what sells or who they can keep as a designer.

When my kids were younger, I bought so much Echo Park. So, so much. For me, it was one of the few companies that was geared towards more masculine colors and icons. They had lines with pinks and flowers, but it wasn't incorporated into most of their lines.

Every week I look at the "one buck Wednesday" digital sale items at Snap Click Supply. There's usually a theme based on the season. Just recently the fall collections were on sale...every single collections from Carta Bella and echo park looked nearly identical. Not just the looks either, but the names. "Welcome Fall", "Welcome Autumn"... so yeah, new yet old just slightly different.

Not sure if it is that we need the scrapbook industry to change, or that we need to adopt new designers and lines as our scrapping needs change. When I started out, I was looking for baby lines and little girl lines. Lots of pastels and pinks and cutesy.

When I was scrapping really little boys, I loved My Little Bicycle and BoBunny for their bold colours and fun icons. They worked for the little girls, too as they became toddlers and moved on to pre school and onwaard. I have since collected a ton of little boy and outdoor play papers from other companies like Photo Play and Simple Stories and Bella Blvd.

As the older group of dgk's became teens, I began collecting lines that reflected their interests.

I love it when one Cocoa Vanilla boys' line goes with an earlier one so I can mix and match. I still have a bunch of boys to scrap, so it works for me right now.

I enjoyed playing with Simple Stories and how they coordinate so well with the new 49& Market b/c my kids' families go hiking and camping and send me pic's to scrap. KaiserCraft has some lines that work well with these as well.

I scrap alot about our dgk's adventures on the farm and for awhile there were no farm lines at all. Of course I grabbed up the first ones that arrived in the stores. Now I have such a stash, I really don't need any more, but how would the companies know that?

Also my skills and style have changed. Where I used to use alot of themed papers, I find myself now creating a lot of my own backgrounds with inks. Sometimes I like to take the easy way and b/c I like the look, I will buy the lines that give me that.

My dgk's are almost all into one sport or more, so I am now collecting papers that work with that, but finding that because I can cut my own shapes and titles, I am now more often looking for cs in the team colours. And I am loving the mini lines put out by PhotoPlay for the different activities.

I like that I can pick up just the papers I want, not the whole collection. I wish I could pick and choose which die cuts I could grab. I have bison on our farm, and of course I grabbed the Doodlebug line with the bison, but I had to get a whole ton of things I won't use to get my hands on a couple of bison!

Sorry for the ramble. I guess we just have to keep in contact with our LSS's and other suppliers, requesting what we need at the moment, and hope that the industry can keep up as our tastes change.

Add Doodlebug to the the list. Every line is the exact same shade of the exact same color as last year's [insert theme here.] Bor-ing.

I can't even tell what lines from Echo Park I already own when looking online for deals, since it's all the same colors/theme and patterns.

I feel like EP and CB are the most guilty of this and have been for quite a few years! I'm glad that they are still in business and churning out product, but it's ALL the same over and over and over.....

I stopped by the (not so local) LSS, and while I liked the papers I saw, I knew that I had similar papers in my stash, so I left empty handed.

I don’t know what I would tell the paper companies and/or designers, but I prefer versatile papers. Cute little characters, such as gnomes, llamas, or _______ (insert trend here) may work for some shoppers, but at this point, I really don’t want to add paper to my stash that is limiting. I have far too much of that type of paper already.

I have definitely noticed it whenever someone here shares the new lines. Christmas lines in particular - it's not very often that I see a new and interesting Christmas line.

It's nowhere near as repetitive in the digital scrapping world, because there are so many designers creating new collections every week. But having said that, I am buying less and less each month, and will only buy a new kit if I love the colours, and there are at least one or two pieces of paper that I love and are different from what I already have, and the element packs (embellishments) have several unique elements in them.

I've felt that way for a long time, especially on brands like EP and Doodlebug where I can't tell one year's release apart from any other (or in the case of EP's Christmas lines, I can't tell one line apart from the other). I've noticed lately on the new line share threads that I just sort of glaze over when looking at the EP releases.

I think my level of tolerance is definitely tied to how much I like/use a company's products. I know CV are very guilty of recycling patterns. I have a leaf print in three different colours from three different collections. I really like their products so I tend to accept it, but I can easily see how someone else might be bored with the repetition.

Undoubtedly some of the repetition is tied to previous success, or customer expectation. Every year on the DD thread we have peas lamenting the inclusion of pink or some other non-Christmas colour, and others bored by the traditional red and green lines.

A broader variety of designers would help. The success of Simple Vintage, and the 49 and Market lines that Katie Pertiet designed shows there is a desire for something different.

Yes, this. I get tired of seeing the same designers everywhere. There is a core group of influencers/designers/artists who are on all the popular companies' design teams, and everything looks the same. I'm finding more inspiration from European companies and designers lately, as well as mixed media artists.

I appreciate it when a paper company sticks to the same colors for awhile but has no designs.

The one thing I love about CP and CV is that you can use older papers with newer lines.

When I have a sheet or two left, I like to be able to use them up.

There are certain paper designs I like though every time - stripes, dots and small circles, and gradient type or distressed.

I feel like the stay/evolve thing is a complicated line to walk for businesses in general. There will always be customers who want things to more or less remain the same: They want to keep ordering their favorite dish on the menu, buying that specific flattering cut of jeans, seeking another coordinating piece in a collection, etc. Change can be very unsettling to them. And then there are the people who want to be inspired by what is fresh, new, and different. They get bored of consistency, and if a company isn't offering anything new, they move on. While I can see repetition in the scrapbooking world, for sure, I feel like it bothers me less than when a scrapbook company evolves their aesthetic away from what initially attracted me to them. (Top of mind: Bo Bunny to all vintage, Ali Edwards' clean to messy patterns) Because I'm a please-stay-the-same person.