*NEW* Echo Park/Carta Bella - March & April 2025 releases

I am going to have to get the EP summer break puffy stickers just for the station wagon. That’s my childhood car right there. 😂🤗

I like the aesthetic of "Firefly" quite a lot, but the ephemera is way over-the-top "talkie" for me: I do NOT need motivational quotes or cutesy sayings on my layouts. Some of the pps in "Summer Break" are my style and I'll pick up specific ones. .

I like Yankee Doodle and the Pooh Baby collection. I am thankful for Echo Park keeping the scrapbook industry alive by consistently coming out with new products. But being a long time scrapbooker to me it seems like their stuff tends to look similar to their older collections.

There are actually quite a few paper and embellishments I like. I like the sticker book from Summer Break. I can use it in my planner/journal.

The Cowgirl line is cute, but too distressed for me.

Yankee Doodle: I tend to always buy a few papers from 4th of July lines because I use a lot of blue when I scrap.

Firefly : Again, I'll take a minute to check out the blue papers, here. And I definitely will get some of the firefly paper/elements just because I don't have anything like that and we do have a ton of fireflies here in the summer.

Cowgirl: I do like some of these B-sides.

I wanted to like Beach Town, but the colors were just not what I look for when scrapping those type of photos.

Otherwise, it's just always the same issue with EP & CB--at a glance, they all look primarily the same over & over again to me.

I love Cowgirl, not because I need or want it, but because it is so strongly October Afternoon that I might get it just for that lol! babylou I could not agree more!

I am surprised but I really like Summer Break. It’s the summer line that fits us- not all pool and beach themed and has a lot of the things my kids do/have done. It does have a bit of retro theme but I like it and the colors that I’ll grab it.

I also like firefly- colors and designs. I’m just not sure how much I’d use it apart from the few times the kids chase fireflies in the summer.

Sadly so much of EP seems to be on repeat again for me on these releases.

I like Beach Town and the colors in Firefly.

March
CB Beach Town (by stevenduncandesigner) - I really love the colors and the style of art but there is a palm tree in almost every image and my beach is not tropical. I think I can make a couple of the pieces work, however, and I really love the vibe.
EP Born To Travel - Centered on world travel, with all of the typical images. Fine but not very useful for United States travel.
EP Have A Great Summer - It is fine. Nothing really good or bad about it.
EP Winnie The Pooh Baby (revealed/discussed in this thread) - No more Pooh!

April
CB Cowgirl (by stevenduncandesigner) - This is really pretty but I have no use for it.

EP Firefly - Not my jam and yet I love that one piece of blue fireflies.
EP Summer Break - This one is good- nice colors and useful images. I'll get this.
EP Yankee Doodle - Not interesting enough to buy any.

I like summer break- I will get some pieces of this.

I don't need or want any of it.