*NEW* Echo Park & Carta Bella - July release (incl. holiday)

There are a couple of b sides in the EP Halloween line I quite like and might consider buying.

Neither of the autumn or Christmas lines appeal to me.

It's a no from me, for all of it.
Seems like a lot of the same old stuff, same old style, same old colors.

Not just these two lines, but lately (in the last year or so) I am feeling like too much is being crammed onto a sticker sheet, as well as the stickers are smaller in size....looking like sticker sneeze. 
I would prefer a bit bigger on the stickers, even if less fit on a sheet.

pantsonfire-thats because the designer Steven Duncan designed for OA back in the day

Well I used the freeship code and 2000 cherry points to pre order quite a bit of the Halloween Fun line. Excited to get it next month and use it!

First off, I got 61 cherry points looking at these, so that is a plus.

Like always, I get excited when 49 & Market and Simple Stories release knew stuff, but Echo Park and Carta Bella are usually underwhelming.

I do not like their stamps, ever. Sometimes there will be one stamp in a package that appeals to me, but the rest seems to be random filler. I'm also not a fan of their die cuts- they use the same dies for every release and I'm tired of those shapes. Their stickers are much better because the shapes aren't so square-ish. I do like their stencils - I buy quite a few of those.

That being said:

Echo Park
EP - Sweater Weather - No, no, no. Oh my gosh this is so boring. I've seen it a hundred times.
EP - Spooktacular Halloween - I don't like the style of art. The only thing that is interesting is the Boo! stencil.
EP - Winnie The Pooh Christmas - I don't need it, but it is cute. If the kids were still little I might consider it. Ever since the E.H. Shepard images became public domain, scrapbook
companies have gone crazy with it.

Carta Bella
CB - Harvest - I like this better than Sweater Weather. I'll probably get a few of these papers, even though I don't need it, because I have a huge amount of fall paper and I never take enough fall photos. The colors and images are very pretty.
CB - Halloween Fun (by stevenduncandesigner ) - Nope. He has done Halloween much better in the past. I do like the tuxedo cat with the pumpkins, though. I have a ton of photos of my darling tuxedo Gus (RIP) I can scrap and I've never seen a tuxedo cat on Halloween stuff before. I'll get a few pieces that have the cat on them.
CB - A Vintage Christmas - Nope, nope, nope. I've seen it before- it is boring, with one exception. I desperately need the holly garland washi tape. I actually gasped when I saw it- it
demands to be mine.

So, once again, Echo Park and Carta Bella are meh.

I'm excited about this one! I've been scrapping for a very long time. Certain themes I try to stick with the same color palette, so I can add to my stash. This is perfect for me.

I’m with everyone else…the holidays are definitely not on my mind right now.
But like artbabe, I have a tuxedo cat and the Steve Duncan Halloween line is really tempting!

I like the dark green in the harvest collection,, but other than that, it feels similar to previous collections.

I like the blue in sweater weather. This collection is a maybe

Pass on Halloween, but I like the light blue/ teal mixed in the EP one

Love Winnie the Pooh, but I don't know if I need the Christmas collection

I have no use for Halloween or autumn themed kits, and I really really dislike traditional Christmas colours and vintage Christmas stuff, so those are a definite no from me.

I like sweater weather and Pooh Christmas but I don’t need either.

Same!!

Too early for Christmas and since we don’t have much of a season change in SoCal no need for the autumn items.

I’m curious about the wood grain. I’m wondering if some of those papers could be used with a tree die. Hmmm. I’ll look more closely.