With all the non-love for the sneak peaks - what DO we want?

SO sick of pink and gold!

Where are the grandma sofa papers?  Is it just grandma looking floral patterns?  Can you give me a link?

I'm so done with pink. I like pink but I scrapbook little boys and I'm running out of ways to incorporate pink into their pages. More blues, reds, and greens would be great.

Also, I agree about the images on boys lines. My nephews don't like sports or vehicles. That knocks out most of the boy lines. I don't want to scrap them "themey", I just want some color combos that aren't so precious.

I have two boys.  When the youngest started dating and I started taking pictures, I was kind of excited to use some pinks.  She's not a fan of oink and likes blues.  I have one prom layout that I did a 4 pager for because her dress was a shimmery coral/pink.  I don't like pink either, but I had some pretty Simple Stories paper with pink in it.

I wish designers would acknowledge the fact that we don't all vacation at the beach with palm trees and other tropical items. Some of us vacation in the city or by water that is not ocean. Even when we do the beach, it is Lake Erie...not a palm tree in sight.

And for every day or home life, again, some of us live in the city. So much of that type of stuff is country or rustic.

Younger grandmother stuff. Even my grandmother wasn't as "old" as designers seem to think. She didn't own an apron or a rocking chair.

You know I love pink and teal and could happily buy both until the end of time BUT... The pinks and teals that are out right now are really ugly pinks and teals. They're really muddy colors. I like vibrant colors.

My vote would be for basic patterns, smaller in size, and in bright or jewel colors I might actually use. Does anyone remember the Watercolor papers that Making Memories had eons ago? Designs like that, such as tone on tone dots, gingham, plaid, stripes in colors that coordinate with each other. I still have some in my stash and every time I purge I refuse to get rid of it because no one has done anything like that for years.

A really beautiful color combination is navy and lavender. Another is navy and yellow or black, grey and yellow. I could go for a whole line surrounding daisies with navies and a plethora of other blues. I'm a ginger so I can barely get away with reds but yellows and oranges don't look that good on me. Since my kids are all bi-racial, statistics won for their hair and they are all brunettes (they all started with blue eyes, my boys' eyes changed around 2 1/2...so I expect the same with my daughter eventually) and my daughter looks absolutely STUNNING in yellow, so I buy a LOT of beautiful floral themed (usually polka dots with a floral around the chest or skirt of a dress) and they make me so incredibly happy. They are gorgeous and vibrant and so very rich. My eyes are so happy when I dress her in those outfits because I adore the color combinations and the rich saturation of colors. I also like daisies because they are a very simple and graphic design, they aren't overly dainty and ornate. They are simple and beautiful on patterns and I just can't get enough.

The purples I keep seeing are DIRTY, they are not bright in the least...or they are watercolor bleeding into pink for half of the image so the purple is barely even there. I can deal with pale purples because they do go with darker and more vibrant contrasting colors well (my daughter's room is light purple with a very bright and bold turquoise and it looks amazing), but why does it keep getting paired next to pink (so I have to add the pink or cut around it EVERY. SINGLE. TIME) or so dull that it hardly registers as purple?

Mine as well.  I told my husband how disappointed I was.  You don't have to make it political or about your views on something to agree that it was an absolute tragedy and to say you're sad about it.  I told him that no matter what company it was, had I seen someone say something that day, they'd have a customer for life in me because it would have made that much of impact after the deafening silence I saw that day.

I've never felt like I truly fit into the scrapbooking mold because I'm anti-religion (not so much an atheist, more like I believe religion is the root of much of our division as humans), but the more I'm involved in various communities, the more I realize that there is a lot of diversity.  After the legalization last year I saw so many people make PL app pages, mixed media journaling pages, pages about their children who were gay with their partners, etc...it really warmed my heart...several of my groups were flooded in rainbows last June.  So, maybe it will be sooner than we think, but longer than we'd like.

Me too! Smaller size basic patterns, stripes, dots, small scale chevrons and nice bright, clean colours. The black & white chevron from Amy Tan's Sketchbook is one I'm thinking of, the smaller scale of the chevron is perfect for an accent strip here and there. Just make patterns smaller, like the size on the 6x6 pads but printed 12x12.

Oh and bring back Scenic Route!

crazy4scraps it's so funny that you would mention Making Memories Watercolor papers because I just used two (hoarded) sheets of it last night and it was perfect. I love that they did the Watercolors in two series: one with really bright saturated colors like lime green, and the second series was darker jewel tones like olive green. The papers I used looked like watercolors that had been rained on and I've had them since I started scrapbooking in the late 90's. I only have three sheets left: I still love them and they still look timeless. The MM Watercolors did various techniques within a color: one was sponged on, one was splattered, one was striped, etc. Tone on tone: YES definitely bring those back! I also loved Sharon Sonneff's watercolored poemstones look.

If I had to ask for something a little more current, it would be to change the scale of patterns. Maybe use the scale of print on a 6x6 pad to a sheet of 12x12: a teeny tiny chevron instead of a big honkin' chevron.

I'd like a barely-visible newsprint in a nontraditional color, like turquoise swimming pool newsprint: hard to tell the background from the printing. I'd like to see one of those circa 1600 old world maps (like 4 pieces across) in really bright nontraditional map colors, like cobalt blue. And no more distressing. Faux distressing is why I haven't purchased patterned papers in a very very long time. If I want it to look wrecked and ruined, I can muck it up myself, thanks.

I can't seem to find a dark-enough cherry red, I can't find crayola crayon sky blue, red-violet, or periwinkle colors: I'm looking for deep, rich saturated tones (like dark violet or chocolate brown) and colors that look like texture but are actually physically flat. Like an ice dye background, not tie dye. Please, no lumps but a decent thickness of weight to the paper, like watercolor weight and thickness, the way K&Co. used to do. I refuse to buy anything with cartoonish animals, mustaches, eyeglass frames, donuts, or best day ever. I'm a grownup and my kids are grown and the scrapbook manufacturers are really missing a huge market share if they think the only scrapbookers out there are young moms with toddlers. I've got money to spend but nothing worthwhile to buy.