*NEW* Echo Park & Carta Bella - JULY release (holiday)

Honey Bee is giving mid 2000s Simple Stories vibes with the grungy creamy color palette!

The fall, Halloween and Christmas lines are all lovely but not distinctive enough from previous lines for me to justify buying more.

I'm a huge Winnie the Pooh fan, but I don't really have a need for seasonal Winnie the Pooh or birthday (thinking of the new SS one).

Not a fan of the grungy Honey Bee collection. Also, how many bee collections do we need?

In general, I like EP and CB collections but probably won't buy any of these.

The Fall/Americana mash up is definitely not my vibe. I do like the CB "It's Fall" line. Fall Pooh, nope. More boring halloween and christmas lines. And lastly, Honeybee is just yuck.

Before I even looked at them, my first thought was "probably nothing will go on my wish list", but I did go look just in case they came out with something different for a change.

CB - Americana: With these brands it's all about the B-sides for me, because their fronts are just too busy for me all of the time. Unfortunately, the colors seem a bit drab to me, so even the B-sides don't speak to me.

EP - Christmas Express: I don't love X-Mas lines that are pretty much just bright red, green, & white.

CB - Christmas Village: While I did see a few extra colors, this line still didn't inspire me.

EP - Ghosts & Goblins: Nothing for me here.

CB - Honey Bee: Although typically the honey bee/hive theme wouldn't be one I'd be enthused about, I do really like deeper yellows, and I like the dark green and black as well, so I'll get several sheets here for the b-sides, AND I actually do have some bee pictures to scrap from last year so I can even use a few of the a-sides, too.

CB - It's Autumn: I got the drab feeling with this line also.

EP - Winnie the Pooh: Autumn: If I wasn't buying anything else, then I wouldn't start an order just for anything here, but since I do have an order started, I did see a few b-sides in brown, green, and orange that I would buy to add to my general color stash.

B sides only for me if anything on a few of the Christmas papers to increase my red patterned paper stash... otherwise seen it, didn't like it the first time, not going to pay full price for it but may put it in the cart if I need a minimum order value.

It’s a really popular baby shower and nursery theme, in my circles.

I think EP typically have had better b sides on their Pooh themed lines but there's nothing in this one I particularly care for. The CB autumn line has a couple of nice b sides that I might add to a future order.

The Honey Bee line is very drab, I don't like this direction they are going. I would have been all over the yellows in this if they had been less dingy.

I'm surprised to say there are a couple of really nice b sides in the Christmas lines, I really like the dark green stars and I always love a good red dot. I feel the same way about the Americana line.

The halloween line is just not something that appeals to me.

Americana - pretty, love the yellow and red in the line but I hardly use autumn papers. I just grab a few for our pumpkin patch trip. I believe I have enough for this year.

Christmas Express - the deer is stinking cute!! Also interesting that some of the 12x12 stickers are white outlines and some are black. Zero interest in the papers but might get the sticker pack for card envelopes and to make tags.

Christmas Village - I like the Santa Washi. Not my style so pass.

Ghosts & Goblins - I REALLY like the cute ghost dies. I might grab those at some point.

Honey Bee - lovely but not my style or thing

It's Autumn - the scarecrow is cute. I love the burnt orange but that peachy color is throwing me off. Odd color to add. Zero need for anything

Winnie the Pooh: Autumn - zero interest. Was never a Pooh fan

The only line that remotely interests me is Honey Bee. I have some perfect pictures for the B side papers. Everything else is so repetitive.

I actually added Americana to my "look at my LSS" store list. A lot of it fits perfectly with the local apple orchard we go to almost every year (except for the peaches).

The rest of it (including the ones from the other post) are all "meh". Don't like most of it and don't need it either.

Me neither! That being said, there’s nothing piquing my interest in these collections.

There are a few cute things scattered here and there in all of these lines, but nothing that really excites me! I do like the bright purple in Ghosts and Goblins! The star paper and the checkered paper are usable.
I honestly don't know how Echo Park continues to turn out SO MANY collections all the time and actually make money. Everything is so the same all the time! It's just repeat of a repeat. I guess if it's working for them, then great, but it doesn't work for me.

The Pooh falling out of the tree paper made me literally laugh out loud.  Not sure that I will use it, but I am amused by it!