New collections

It's that time of year again - many many new releases. What are people loving int he the new releases at the moment.

I am loving the NEW DAY collection from Echo Park and Simple Stories Indigo Garden

When i went to a crop recently, in the uk (yay, a rare treat for me) a lady next to me was making an album for a kenya trip and she was using stamperias savanah (sp)range. It was to die for and lovely ruch colours. I would love to buy that except well, no suitable photos and no kenya trip on the horizon either unfortunately, however it would suit your cats Karen!

I am loving stamperias papers generally, the vagabond lady and mechanical sea ones are super for art journalling and the latter is a bit steampunky. My current fave of theirs is the alice in wonderland one but that might be just me, i am a big fan of anything alice. So for me, stamperia, but i dont know if they are new or not. Im very out of touch here in france.

Also at the crop we had a kit which used something called jane padfield, they were nice bright florals....right up my street.

I love graphic 45 too but find them rather difficult to use.

Oooh I might look for that Maria. I’m not usually a fan of Stamperia other than for mini books but that sounds lush.
I too am a big Alice fan and have resisted that one as I don’t know what I’d use it for but it would be nice just to have

Yes I find graphic 45 difficult too … I usually end up with LOTS of fussy cutting

I’m so glad you got to a crop.

I found most of the stamperia ones are better in 8x8 or smaller, as I rarely use them for actual scrapbooking

Ooh that stamperia savanna looks good. I still have most of my South Africa trip to scrap so well worth thinking about :)

My favourites at the moment are Cocoa Vanilla - Daydream, and These Days. They have been just perfect for Evelyns baby album. I’ve done lots of fussy cutting so the papers have gone a long way in the A4 album, been using them for a year and I still love them. I’m fancying the No Limits range if I can still get it now we have a boy in the family too

I’m a bit behind on new ranges, simple stories is my usual go to, but I’m really trying to use up some of the stash I already have :D

Just had a peek at the echo park ‘New Day’, that is gorgeous!
I’m getting the feeling this is going to be an enabling thread :lol:

Maria, did you buy much crafty stuff while you were here ?

er yes.... I had ordered a fair bit to be sent to mums to bring back (so difficult to get stuff posted here since brexit, so many charges) and one of my lovley teamies sent em a huge pack of scrapping bits to do a travellers notebook. Plus i raided mums stash a bit too.... it needed raiding, plus a few kits i had ordered before and had too much luggage to bring back last time.

I love Daydream too and bought a few bits if no limits

Yes I fear this thread could be expensive

Just waiting for Elaine and Susie to pop in, they know all about enabling :lol:

Well done Maria, have fun playing with all the new stash :)
I used to bring back loads from the States when we were visiting regularly

Oh me too Alison … usually at least one suitcase full

I bought a couple of kits from sponsors Papermaze and am looking forward to using them. They are a mix of Simple Stories and Vicki Boutin. I have so much old stash to use up though, and I'll feel guilty using the new stuff first. I must check out some of the ranges above.
I've only been to the US once, and it was before I got into scrapbooking - what a missed opportunity!

Another Cocoa Vanilla fan here and also Paige Evans, but my number one go-to at the moment is Vicki Boutin. Her bold bright colours are perfrct for me.

Margo I am with you on the guilt bit - totally

Sue I love the Vikki Boutin but sometimes I struggle with brights

Yes I always feel guilty buying more when I have so much old stuff, might be time to move on some of the older bits and pieces

Brights are your signature Sue, like Karen I can struggle with them