All things Becky15 Higgins/beggy Higgins

This is the Cherry core kit...






Funny, seeing this, I still think I would have preferred the Cherry kit.    (Although I did get creative with the Amber cards after a while.)

This was the first official scrapbooking product I bought. I remember getting the cube type box in the mail and being surprised the paper quality wasn’t better. I think a few kits after that they changed manufacturers.

It is nice, isn't it?

I actually got the photos from ebay, so if you want it, you can still get it.

The latest IG post and stories seem oddly combative (speaking about not being interested in the ways things have always been done). I do applaud the innovation of the app and I’m crossing my fingers this means they’re focusing again on scrapbooking.

flamingo I agree, Becky's stories were definitely combative. "Some companies feel stuck". Says who? She stuck with rounded corners for most of a decade because that's what she likes, not what customers want. She shouldn't preach about business when hers is on the decline. Now her post is making me combative!

Make pretty, thoughtful, well executed products and stop blabbing about it! I liked seeing her new Project Life products (and will likely pick up the woodgrain album) but the rest is just noise.

Becky on IG stories talking about how CHA/Creativation has slowed down, some brands have stayed stuck (wow, way to go bashing your industry fellows who have managed to stay afloat all these years) and then showing off her earrings because, allegedly, she got so many questions about them (of course, there was a special Becky code to save 10% at checkout #whatakoinkidink).

What's clear is that she has no clue where to go. She keeps babbling about thinking about what to do next with her business. There just is no direction. At all. She is talking to fill the emptiness of her brand. Like that annoying "friend" who's trying to make their unoriginal and uninteresting business happen and just keeps yapping in the hopes to become top b*tch. And you're stuck wondering who the hell brought this person into your social group and what kind of revenge you can plot to make them pay for adding this uninterrupted noise ("Oh, I guess I now have a basic understanding of how annoying living with tinnitus is!") to your socialising.

Also, they could be doing better with the kits. They just could. I see money possibilities and I see myself throwing money at a value kit - heck, even a core kit - despite the floppy paper quality if the designs really win me over. Not going to lie: slightly disappointed in the Click edition despite loving Krista's work. It's just not versatile enough. Same happened with Liz Tamanaha's Project 52 Fresh edition: there were not enough basics to write down everyday stuff and lists in comparison to filler cards I wouldn't use more than a couple of times. Why are they resisting this avenue? Make an actual great core kit. Don't think that if you do, people will never buy another core kit. Repeat the same with a slightly different design, different colour scheme and we'll be sucked in all over again. Do a higher end 4 seasons core kit, even with floppy paper: add foil finish, replace one stack of cards with ephemera, incorporate the major holidays like Christmas and Easter, add a stack of single 3x4 designs with loads of funky holidays (international coffee day, sibling day, Earth day, etc.) and general themes that can easily be used to illustrate meeting up with special people and venturing out (which is the actual stuff of our lives we document). Yes, that would mean paying your designer more because of more designs (but hey, American Crafts have an in-house team you should totally make work more to get a better product #JasmineJoneswillsell). Price it up because of how special it is ($5 extra). Less cards, more quality content. It'll sell.

"I'm interested in doing what isn't already being done"

Really? Seems like everything she's tried to do in the last year was already being done to death by everyone 🤔
Notebooks, signs, sister wives dress, podcast......done, done, done, done.

Exactly, and she finally showed her products when the show was over and they had turned off the lights! So many companies were sharing stuff the whole time but nope not her.

I read her post on FB this morning and on rereading it, it still makes no sense. It is like a rant of a crazy woman, putting down others while saying ambiguous things about herself. Weird

I'm probably an ideal customer for PL right now. I haven't scrapped in years, I want to get back into it, but I'm overwhelmed with where to begin. I want something simple, easy, coordinated and quick for me to put together. I'm not ready to commit to a monthly kit because I'm afraid it'll be a fluke and I'll lose interest. I'd love to find a core kit, or maybe something a bit smaller, that is fun enough yet basic enough for me to scrap all kinds of photos. I wish we could've seen more of the products vs. a quick glimpse. And where will it be sold, now that the big craft stores aren't carrying PL?

Midnight and Seafoam are the best core kits she made. They are both neutral enough to use as is or punch up with embellishments. Midnight is particularly good for adding an accent color.

I want to echo what everyone else has said here... it really is a shame how far she's fallen. I just don't get waiting until after Creativation is over to share images of the kits? And also, just a quick picture of the back of the box? Why not flip through all the cards like they used to do? She has like 40 IG stories active right now and about 5 of them are showing the kits... after the show ended! I just don't get it. She needs a PR person. And the very first thing that person needs to do is set a IG stories limit on her... say she can have 6 active stories at a time. She is so out of control that I clicked through all her stories to see the PL sneaks, then watched a couple other people's stories and then, when I exited out of stories, she had MORE new ones up. How??? WHY???

Also, why is she advertising that she is late sending out the weekly email for her class? I get that it was a holiday and she was at Creativation, but she probably should've scheduled that to go early. But, if she didn't, why not send a direct email to everyone in the class explaining? Why advertise it on stories that she is late with the weekly email and then try to sell the class in the next story.

I am disappointed in the Click kit now that I've seen a little more of it. The designs of all of her recent kits just seem so childish and trying too hard to be "trendy." I think for a scrapbook you should try to go for timeless. Yes, some current events references are fun, but those should be in your stories, not in the products. At least that's my opinion.

sleepingbooty I bought the Project 52 Fresh Edition in the PL app because it's only $1.99 and I just export the cards and print them myself, with square corners. You can do that with any cards from the app. It's a pain, but since her kits have poor print quality/paper anyways, I might as well print them myself. Plus then I can change colors, type on the cards, etc., all the benefits of digital, and I don't have a huge box of 400 cards sitting around. I agree that lots of the designs were lacking, but it was worth it for the 2 dollars. The last core kit I bought actually wasn't that long ago--it's the "Currently Edition" I believe designed by One Little Bird. I love it, except it still has round corners and that's really kept me from using many of the cards, other than cutting them up.

Believe me, I don't say this to bash BH in any way...

It sounds to me like she may be having some heavy anxiety and/or depression going on. If so, it is completely understandable and happens to a great many of us.

This is why you have talented people who work for you, so that they can take up the slack and see to things like emails and product display. The fact that no one is doing those jobs tells me that BH has insisted on keeping control and then been unable to handle it.

Again, this is not a criticism of Becky. It's an observation by someone who hasn't paid Becky much attention in a number of years and who deals with complex anxiety herself.


I don't want to wade through a bunch of random shots to see her latest products carelessly promoted. Who is going to do that? No one.

If no one steps in to help her business right now, it's done. 

If she's able to redeem her name, Amazon is a fine place for her to base her product. Frankly, I'd rather buy from them than from other online places anyway.

I can't remember the last time I've even been near an actual scrapbook store, and I've been living in 3 distinctly different parts of the country for the past several years.

It's box store, online, or nothing.





That Amber kit took a lot of creativity to use!