PaperAngel
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Post by PaperAngel on Jan 13, 2024 2:55:28 GMT
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pantsonfire
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Post by pantsonfire on Jan 13, 2024 3:11:58 GMT
Oh!! I really like Sunny Bloom. Lovely colors. Perfect for dd.
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pantsonfire
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Post by pantsonfire on Jan 13, 2024 3:12:58 GMT
Whatevs is giving me a headache. Too bright and a clash of like cool stuff and early scrapbooking days.
The other is okay. Only 1 paper I like. Have no need for the other stuff and won't buy just 1 paper.
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Elsabelle
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Post by Elsabelle on Jan 13, 2024 3:55:41 GMT
It'll be easy to pass on all of these. Whatevs has a very dated look.
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Post by joblackford on Jan 13, 2024 4:51:06 GMT
Meh, nothing much I like at all. The only thing that I might add to a wishlist (but will probably forget about) is this bunny paper in Sunny Bloom.
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breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Jan 13, 2024 4:58:16 GMT
Sunny Bloom has both a frog with headphones, a very happy avocado, and earthworms. I would buy whatever ephemera pack has those things in it, not so sure about the rest of the collection or the papers though.
Cedar House has me scratching my head trying to figure out how cassette tapes and animal skulls are in the same collection, pass.
Whatevs does not appeal to me even a little.
ETA: apparently Sunny Bloom does not have an avocado, an earthworm, or a frog. Somehow I was directed to the wrong collection. No Sunny Bloom for me.
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Post by lg on Jan 13, 2024 5:27:55 GMT
Whatevs is just … so … whatevs. There is no chance they are designing these collections for me! I might grab the paper with cassettes on it in a sale but that’s it (I have a prob and have to buy anything with that motif on it!)
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Jan 13, 2024 6:10:42 GMT
Cedar House is a bit of mash up of images. I don't mind the darker tones, and I quite like a couple of the b sides. I so wish there was a paper with those records though, I'd love to have that design to fussy cut.
The other lines don't really appeal to me.
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Post by Linda on Jan 13, 2024 13:09:23 GMT
Cedar House doesn't seem cohesive as a collection but there are individual pieces that I like.
whateva - is an easy pass
Sunny Bloom is a litle cutesy for me but I like a couple of the papers
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Post by mikklynn on Jan 13, 2024 13:50:57 GMT
I like some of Whatev's embellishments, but not the paper. It's way too bright for me to try. I don't care for the other lines, except for the bunny paper joblackford likes. I like that a lot.
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anniebeth24
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Post by anniebeth24 on Jan 13, 2024 14:14:13 GMT
Whatevs looks like they took a Shimelle collection and cranked up the color palette.
Cedar House has me confused, too. I do like the overall colors. I guess I should be happy they didn't just slap "dude" phrases on it just because it's mostly masculine.
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Post by mom on Jan 13, 2024 15:23:38 GMT
Whatevs looks like they took a Shimelle collection and cranked up the color palette.
Cedar House has me confused, too. I do like the overall colors. I guess I should be happy they didn't just slap "dude" phrases on it just because it's mostly masculine. I was coming to say the same thing, but it's not a Shimelle collection...it's a recolor of several lines. The B side of this is a AC Halloween paper. This is a recolor of another paper that Joanns carried (maybe from Maggie Holmes). This is a very similar to a paper from Jen Hatfields Reaching Out line.
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Post by mom on Jan 13, 2024 15:29:46 GMT
I like some pieces of Cedar House and Whatevs (the floral is pretty!). The rest? Hard pass.
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kitbop
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Post by kitbop on Jan 13, 2024 15:51:36 GMT
There are some pieces in each collection that I really like, and others that leave me Overall...I'm actually pleasantly surprised that it feels like they've tried to be a little different, even if it is a mash up. I like the phrases in "whatevs", but the colours/design actually feel more like Amy Tan than Shimelle to me. And Cedar House has so much Heidi Swapp in it. It feels like...AI designed it?
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Post by joblackford on Jan 13, 2024 15:57:39 GMT
There are some pieces in each collection that I really like, and others that leave me Overall...I'm actually pleasantly surprised that it feels like they've tried to be a little different, even if it is a mash up. I like the phrases in "whatevs", but the colours/design actually feel more like Amy Tan than Shimelle to me. And Cedar House has so much Heidi Swapp in it. It feels like...AI designed it? My first thought was that Whatevs was an Amy Tan collection and that Cedar House was Wolf Pack crossed with some old Pebbles collections that I got from Joann. I suspect that the paper pads for these collections will be available at Joann for years and years and will sell well to the "average" scrapbook paper shopper.
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artbabe
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Post by artbabe on Jan 13, 2024 17:03:01 GMT
American Crafts - Whatevs - I love it. It is really different and the colors are great. Pinkfresh is the only other brand I know of that uses this "not so great" theme.
American Crafts - Cedar House - I also love this one. It is also pretty different than other releases. The brick, wood, cassettes, records are all my jam.
Pebbles - Sunny Bloom - Pretty boring. I like the plaid paper and the bunny paper, and that is it.
Edited to add:
I always write these before I read other people's opinion. I'm shocked. Both of the American Crafts lines are calling me. I think they are wonderful. I can't wait to scrap with them. I guess I like bright colors. I love the mixture of images on Cedar House. Some of you said it isn't cohesive and to me it is an awesome mix of images/papers I love to scrap with. I saw both of those and thought "finally American Crafts is thinking a bit out of the box."
Huh. Opinions are interesting.
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alleyscrap
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Post by alleyscrap on Jan 13, 2024 18:09:12 GMT
Each collection has a paper or two that I like but would probably only pick up if it was a single sheet at Joann or an LSS and easily accessible. I do like the floral in whatevs, but I’ve rarely met a clean floral I didn’t like. I like a few b sides in the pebbles collection. The map b side in Cedar House needs to be mine. When I saw the Cedar House collection I actually laughed out loud. The whole collection seems uncohesive but every element in it was trendy during the height of the “hipster” aesthetic: the cassettes, the geometric animals (always a fox and deer), the skulls, the warm grunge look. Looking at it now, the colors are nice but the icons seem so out of place for this day and age, except 2014 me would have been all over this. It reminds me of the constant use of dated icons in baking and school collections (50s kitchen appliances and apples). At least those have the benefit of being nostalgic and “vintage”. This is not as dated, but still dated. You’re almost there American Crafts. Just skip ahead a few more years…
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Jan 13, 2024 20:27:08 GMT
I will pass on all of it.
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kitbop
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Post by kitbop on Jan 13, 2024 22:19:08 GMT
Have to add: Whatev ephemera includes the phrase "trying my best". I could have used this for so many life situations. I've not seen it before in a SB collection?
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Post by giraffemom on Jan 14, 2024 4:15:39 GMT
I like some of the papers in Cedar House, but none of the embellishments. Whatevs looks like a mash up of Amy Tan, Shimelle, and Vicki Boutin "but make it for seventh graders". I will say I love all the embellishments in this line - especially the words & phrases.
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Post by Night Owl on Jan 14, 2024 4:32:17 GMT
Whatevs reminds me of the "how do you do, fellow kids?" meme with a middle aged Steve Buscemi
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Post by jameynz on Jan 14, 2024 5:55:59 GMT
I like some of each collection. -paper and cut aparts But not enough to buy the whole collection
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Post by wendifful on Jan 14, 2024 6:09:51 GMT
Whatevs looks like they took a Shimelle collection and cranked up the color palette.
Cedar House has me confused, too. I do like the overall colors. I guess I should be happy they didn't just slap "dude" phrases on it just because it's mostly masculine. I was coming to say the same thing, but it's not a Shimelle collection...it's a recolor of several lines. The B side of this is a AC Halloween paper. This is a recolor of another paper that Joanns carried (maybe from Maggie Holmes). This is a very similar to a paper from Jen Hatfields Reaching Out line. You know what's interesting, there was a new DCWV paper pad ( Urban Street) that had caught my eye a few months back. I went to look at it again today by pure coincidence and I realized that several of the patterns and a few cut aparts are identical to the Cedar House line (with recolors), so it seems like maybe this is AC's new modus operandi? (In image below, the "hello" is the same design, just different colors; same with the pointy finger label. And I count at least 5 of the same papers, taking into account B sides.) I actually like the DCWV paper pad a LOT better, because although I love the general design aesthetic/colors of Cedar House, it feels like it's trying to be three different things: retro (cassettes), rustic (bison/skulls), and sarcastic/hip with the phrases. The DCWV paper pad is much more cohesive IMO. I have to wonder if all of AC's future non-designer lines will be amalgams of past collections. It will be interesting to see. There are definitely some older papers I wouldn't mind seeing again, but not when they're mashed together into a nonsensical collection with weird colorways and themes.
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Post by mom on Jan 14, 2024 6:16:42 GMT
wendifful I've said it for while now but I *think* AC is having money issues. They seem to be cutting costs by recoloring, not using designers, not having a Crate Christmas line, etc. With these new lines (particularly Cedar House, it seems like they took several mini themes and stuck them all together, hoping that someone will buy at least part of the line and find it useable (even if the rest of the collection is nothing you would need). It all screams to me that their finances could be shaky. Maybe I am wrong but I have heard others think the same thing.
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Post by chaosisapony on Jan 14, 2024 7:53:35 GMT
I like the one bunny paper that has been posted, it's really cute. I suspect that I might like more of that Pebbles line in person but the photos seem very dull.
I hate that I always feel like such a negative Nancy on these threads but seriously, why is scrapbooking stuff so darn ugly these days? Like I can appreciate the idea behind Whatevs. It's a response to what many have been asking for with realistic phrases, things not always being the "best ever!!!!!" but it's just SO UGLY. I've bought a lot of printed vinyl this past year and I often wish the patterns were available as papers, so I know there are designers out there capable of making fun, fresh designs in a 12x12 printed format. Do scrapbooking companies just not look past the boundaries of their traditional designers? Or maybe, as another poster mentioned, they are trying to save money by not hiring designers at all.
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Post by KikiPea on Jan 14, 2024 11:26:20 GMT
Cedar House is a hard pass, and I don’t care much for the other two, except for the alpha’s in Whatevs.
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Post by hoopsfn on Jan 14, 2024 16:23:36 GMT
There's not much catching my eye in those collections. Maybe a pp or 2 in each line. However I do like the alphas but they're puffy stickers and for whatever reason, I can't make myself like puffies. Thanks for showing us PaperAngel.
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slday
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Post by slday on Jan 14, 2024 16:30:55 GMT
None of these are appealing to me. But they do make me happy that I have a healthy stash that I can pull from. Whatevs is definitely a no.
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artbabe
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Post by artbabe on Jan 14, 2024 16:42:36 GMT
I guess I'm weird. I instantly loved the first two and not one other person on this thread does.
Of course, I knew I was weird socially. Now I'm weird scrapbookily...
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Post by scrappyrabbit on Jan 14, 2024 16:55:35 GMT
Another one who is not a fan. I hate the color scheme of Whatevs, and I also would not use those types of phrases in my scrapbooking. Maybe once or twice, but I wouldn’t need a whole sticker sheet or ephemera pack dedicated to negative phrases. I also instantly recognized some of the patterns as a repeats of shimelle. AC has been doing this a lot. I guess I’m just whatevs about it!
Cedar house has some versatile backgrounds etc but I’d rather pick up a discount paper pad with the exact same things. I don’t need to pay AC prices for wood grain.
The Pebbles one is classic spring and I do like it.
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