Popular trends/products you have never tried/used?

Single Photo spreads that have a ton of product on them. I enjoy looking at pages like this, but I can’t get into making them.

Mixed Media pages.

I have tried distress inking a background, but haven't liked the results enough to use it for a page.

I haven't used paint to stencil a background, I did try texture paste, I can't remember if it actually made it onto a layout.

Cut files - where you cut out 12x12 word or whatever and overlay it on a background page.

Stitching (by hand or machine)

Page kits

Glaze/paste/spackle

Alcohol inks

Distress stuff

Gesso

Watercoloring

Mixed media, giant cut files, and one tiny picture on a 12x12 layout.

I haven't tried mixed media paste. I have bought some but it hasn't made it on a page yet. I need to try that this month.

My mixed media is limited to stencils and ink, splatter, rubber stamping, and Nuvo drops. I tried watercolor once but I don't like how it warps the paper so I didn't use it. I don't want to do the real messy stuff, either, because my job involves messy stuff and I like to get a break from it.

I like trying trends so I've done most of the other stuff mentioned.

I’ve tried most trends. A few that weren’t for me were the whole page cut files, actual stitching on a page, and the one tiny picture pages. I have only tried glimmer foiling because grammadee let me try hers. I haven’t tried the Better Press. Actually foiling in general was a trend I jumped on and then never did much. My Minc is very dusty.

I love the look of foiling, but all the different ways I have tried to apply it myself have wound up under used. Can NOT get the Spellbinders Glimmer System platform to easily release when it is hot, and what started out as a fun experiment ends up a frustrating experience. Have lots of ideas, but I need a helper to achieve anywhere near what I am looking for. My Minc collects dust, like justjac's b/c I don't have a laser printer, and the different gels work great with stencils (though hard to clean off), but don't foil a stamped image neatly. I even bought the equipment to foil with my Silhouette, but it's not on speaking terms with me now, and I never got around to trying the pens. Speaking of pens, I have tried a couple that heat up and are supposed to help transfer foil to paper, but the foil always wrinkles and my results are a mess.

I like doing artsy things like paint, ink splatters and stitching on LO's. But I haven't tried anything digital or hybrid. I like the look of typed journaling inside shapes, but I don't know how to do that. I also don't have the patience for backing super complicated cut files like Paige Evans, so I haven't done that either.

Giant cut files since I don’t have an electronic cutter
Foiling with a machine

I've never tried machine stitching or foiling. I did one texture paste layout with a white, glittery paste and a star stencil. It did turn out pretty good.

I’ve never tried foiling and don’t have any desire to.

Just said no to: Foiling, letterpress, gel printing, dry embossing/embossing plates, quilling, December Daily, Project Life

I have done a couple of layouts with a single tiny photo on a page because it was all I had for that story.

I have done one of the large cut-files where you fill it in with patterned paper.  I like the look, but not so much my style. 

Foiling-you have to buy a laser printer to go with the other stuff?

Using my die cut machine-honestly it seems like so much work. I bought a Gemini Jr and have hardly ever used it. Do y'all do die cuts in batches? I haven't figured out embossing folder idea either.

backing large cut files with pattern paper-that goes along with using a die cut machine.

I dabbled with my gel plate but my results were pretty sub par.

I do like mixed media-that's my fastest favorite way to make a background page-paint splatter, maybe a stencil with glaze/distress oxide ink!

Alcohol inks (tooooo messy)
Foiling (although I own the machine an many many foil rolls)
Gel plates (tooooo messy)
Letter Press (although I have the platform, plates, dies, inks and papers)
Mixed media backgrounds (although I own all the inks,sprays and oxides takes too long and too uncontrolled)
Enamel Dots ( I never like where I place them)
2nd, 3rd 4th etc generation stamping (too messy)
Splattering ink on my layouts (I just can't bring myself to do it)