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I really wish I would have seen the Cocoa Daisy October kit before it sold out! I would have bought that one for sure.

The only kits I have had memberships to were SC, Lityle Red scrapbook (now closed) and The Paper Bakery (now closed).
I was on the Scrapbooking from the Inside Out Design team a few years back and I would recommend them for sure. They aren't super cheap but there was always a lot of product and often some mixed media items.

I'm curious why this is? I've really only heard great things about them and I'm on the fence about getting them so I'd be interested to hear why you don't feel they're working for you.

I have one more month left with a Cocoa Daisy Day in the Life three month trial. I loved the first kit, September. It's why I signed up. October is decent, but it has lots of cutesy style illustrations of sweaters and foxes and they are on both sides of the cards. Not really my style. I'm not loving the sneaks for November at all. I'm thinking I'll let it go after this month.

I previously had a Blinks of Life membership. I like the clean, airy style to the cards but the kits are light on embellishments, embellishments are super flat, and many of the cards are repeats with slight variations from month to month. I love the thickness of the cards though. They now have two sided cards and the colors have more variety. They offer printable card in their shop but it's $19. That seems steep to me for what you get.

It's a great kit :-)

I get kits from Scrapbook Generation www.scrapbookgeneration.com They're page kits with directions/sketches/photos of the examples. There are a bunch of great options, but I currently get the Boy Crazy Kit (boy-friendly papers and topics) and just subscribed to the Generations Kit (usually these are more seasonal/ holiday themed).

I also almost always purchase an extra kit or two from their overstocks or from their Super Saver Kit Club to add to my kit box each month, just depending on what I love and will use.

I used to get the big, beautiful kits like some mentioned above and while I loved them, my stage in life right now calls for something different. I take a crazy amount of photos. I need two pagers to help me get the best of the best of those photos documented. I have a three year old boy, a traveling for work husband, and very limited scrapping time. I'm scrapping a lot more themed events like zoo trips and Halloween parties and the like where I love to use the cutesy and themed papers. I don't use the feminine lines and colors that often tend to be in other kits right now. The SG kits I'm getting help fill those needs!

I love that the kits use new, current product. They use brands I tend towards loving anyway, like Simple Stories, Echo Park, authentique, Carta Bella, etc.

Another thing I love so very much is I can throw in anything I want from their online store, and it ships with my kits with no additional shipping. It's like running into an LSS and just grabbing a few sheets of the newest line that just came in! I love it. Plus I can add one little thing at a time if I want and have all month before my kit ships to add goodies & shop. Pricing is competitive and they run good sales, too.

The customer service I've received has been outstanding. Almost every order has had a handwritten note or thank you or smiley face or something on my packing list. Nothing has ever been missing from my orders or kit packages. Packaging is safe and careful (never had bent corners or anything). Communication has been excellent and responsive.

I honestly can't say enough good things about them. If you're a page kit gal (and I realize not everyone likes this format) or have and use their sketchbooks, check them out And feel free to ask me questions!

I have subbed to Quite a few in the past. Overall, I liked Studio Calico (before the changes) and Hip Kit the best. I still like SC when they have a good kit that is more masculine (think Odyssey) but I haven't liked the majority
of their kits lately.

I had a great experience with Hip Kit. Their owner was very sweet when I decided to cancel - only bc kits were piling up. It is a great kit and was very happy with it.

I have also had good experiences with Scraptastic and Gossamer Blue in the past. They were just less my style.

I may try FJ but they seem to be kind of feminine at times. If she made two kits a month - one masculine and one feminine - I would be all over it! I like her style - just wish it was more useable for me.

ETA- after looking at the sneaks for FJ and watching an unboxing video for last month, I decided to sub... I think the one floral paper made the kit seem feminine but all in all, it was fairly neutral and next months kit looks good based on sneaks...

I've only ever subscribed to Freckled Fawn. I don't need paper. I have bought 2 one off Simon Says Stamp card kits. They come with a really nice assortment of paper and technique tools...and a dum dum!

So the package arrived yesterday and it was wrapped up like a beautiful gift. Gorgeous tissue paper wrapped with a big black bow. The owner hand wrote a thank you note on a tag! I absolutely loved everything in there. I must have looked at everything a dozen times. I was really surprised to see a double set of papers. Then I remembered there was a special that if you bought a kit or signed up for the sub you get a free paper pack. Super excited about that!

I'm also a bit leery about signing up for a kit club with only exclusives. But I really love the papers she designs. They are right up my alley and I can't find any other company that makes something similar. I feel like I would have to pick and choose from various lines to get the same look in her kit. And I love that you get a large stamp set and they are pretty versatile. The embellishments seem to change enough for me not to become bored. So all in all I've decided to sub and if there are other lines out there that I love I'll just pick things up here and there. 

I have been meaning to hop on this thread and give my review too, and just now found a few free minutes to leave my 2 cents

After dropping my SC PL sub, I signed up for a 3 month with Cocoa Daisy. October was my first kit. I just finished up my September pages and used up my last SC kit

I haven't started in on my October kit from CD yet, but thought I could still share my initial impressions of the kit. SC turned me into a paper snob and I have loads of BH PL branded cards that I know will never get used now that I have experienced heavier weight cards. CD weren't as heavy, but still a nice weight. The thing I noticed was how smooth the paper is and how much more crisp and vibrant the colors are compared to SC. I am actually hoping that the slightly thinner cards will work better in my typewriter anyhow. The designs were a little bit repetitive like someone else already mentioned and it did seem kind of odd that they didn't put the alternate color schemes on the front and back of the same cards like I am used to at SC. I did recall there being a misprint of the 4x6 kit cards onto 3x4's, so I think they must have thrown those into the kits as well which made it seem even more repetitive than it would have been otherwise. The other odd thing was that they did 2 cards with the exact image of the phrase stamp that came with the kit. So I really have no need to use both of them. The colors were consistent throughout the kit, so putting together spreads will be easy. But I do miss the cards being a little more eclectic like SC's kit (sometimes maybe too much though)- so it is from one extreme to the other. There were nice embellishments and a new to me alpha style (which was nice compared to SC using the same alpha over and over and just changing the color). There were some neat original labels and such on a sheet in the kit too (reminded me of what I would have to add in a printable from SC). And I didn't realize it when I subbed, but I also got an email with links to digital files for the kit as well (haven't really even looked at those yet actually). I did get some extra ephemera, phrase stickers, etc. to include. I guess the perks of them using a fair amount of existing product lines is that I can easily add to my kit if I want.

I wasn't too sure about November from the sneaks. But after seeing the full kit last night I am feeling a little better about it. I was really thrown off at first by the non-traditional fall colors in the kit. But the themes are still there that you would expect for the holiday and time of the year. I do have a son and daughter with birthdays next month, so the bright pinks and aqua/teal will probably work out even better for me than I am anticipating. Happy to see 2 alphas in it as well

So far customer service has been pretty good. They made a mistake and accidently sent me a September kit when I signed up, but I wasn't supposed to start until October. They just asked me to write refused on it and put it back out for the US Mail (so better than the last SC shipping debacle). And my October kit came with a nice little welcome note and a free stamp which was a nice surprise. Not sure yet if I will continue with them past my 3 months but excited to have options!

I ordered my DD kit from Citrus Twist and am excited to see how that goes. I had also ordered a few shop items at the same time and they contacted me to see if I wanted to pay to ship those now or wait and have them ship with my kit for no additional charge. I thought that was nice of them to offer. Lord knows SC wouldn't have been able to keep track of that and hold my purchases to ship at once.

I am definitely keeping my eye on what Scraptastic and Paper Camellia have for PL too. Love hearing everyone's experiences with the different clubs after spending so long married to my old subscription!

Love hearing everyone's reviews!

I've also had great experiences with Citrus Twist. I have a 3 month trial sub going at the moment and my 2nd kit just arrived. Nice selection of current products from a range of manufacturers which is one of the things I've missed with SC.

Trina is so helpful and friendly. She emailed to let me know this month's kit would be delayed a couple of days while they waited for one extra item I'd ordered to arrive and asked whether I wanted the kit sent ahead. It's those little things which really matter, I think. CT also do a small welcome gift when you first sign up which I think is a nice touch.

Lot of great kit club options out there, so I think it's just a matter of finding one which fits your style.

I'm not into planners at all, but I agree the Planner Society kit is fabulous scraphappyinjax!

I started years ago with, my all time favorite now closed, My Favorite Memories. Tried Little Red Scrapbook, 3 scrapy boys, and Scrapology (I think it was called. It was good!)

Left kits for a while,
then came back to Scraptastic and SC.
Enjoyed that for 2 years...I actually let go of Scraptastic for a while and was just with SC,
but SC started to lose value big time, so I quit a year ago and resubbed with Scraptastic.

Boy am I glad I made that decision! Scraptastic is good value, I like the choice of 2 kits and some of the exclusive products. I'm sticking with them.

Trying hard to resist because I seriously do not need any more stuff at the moment!