What motifs are you sick of?

[Scrappy Pat]

Arrows
Birds
Birdcages
Bunting
Butterflies
Cameras
Chevrons
Clocks & Watches
Clouds
Cogs
Cupcakes
Doilies
Dunce caps on vintage images!
Featureless faces
Feathers
Flags
Flourishes
Hearts
Hexagons
Keep calmand carry on....
Live love laugh quote
Moustaches
Owls
Paint splats
Stars
Tickets
Trees and leaves
Wings

New ideas!

Lightbulbs
Glasses
Hedgehogs
Clubs, Spades

[Scrappy Pat]

What about light bulbs as the new motif. I could think of lots of 'light' (of my life) or 'bright idea' kind of opportunities to work those into a layout or a card

I like this!

[Little Nat]

I think lightbulbs could catch on - wasn't there one in a stamp set recently? A Dear Lizzy one perhaps?

[leanie]

Me too!

Wish I didn't get one

new trends to try
Hedgehogs

Liking this, have been making little felt ones

?..faces with no features...

Ditto

ScrappyPat, that's some list. What do you use instead?

I agree, very long list, and some things on there I feel are basics- but, I think your list reminded me that most things can be done to death if they are thrown on for no reason other than trend.

I am fed up seeing 'Keep Calm and Carry On....'

Just had this conversation with someone else she felt the same, but as I haven't used it yet I don't feel it's over until I have

New ideas!

Lightbulbs
Glasses
Hedgehogs
Clubs, Spades

Also loving lightbulbs, printed out lots of those recently for journalling. And wellies.

[Mollymoo]

hasnt tim just bought out light bulb embellies?

[stillcrafting]

Mollymoo, if he has, someone else will soon have something almost identical for a fraction of Tim's inflated prices. I love some of his stuff, but as with most top (???) designers you're paying for his name.

I am fed up seeing 'Keep Calm and Carry On....'

Yep, I'll agree with that one.

[krafty1]

I think I can wait for flies being the next big thing

LOL!!!

mustaches- just don't get em!

Me neither

A lot of the tim holtz stuff baffles me, and just couldn't think where I would use most of it.

The thing that really annoys me is the whole 'Keep Calm' thing arrrgggh!!! just grates on me


Next big thing/theme??

Possibly:-

Moroccan
utee/resin embellishments
leather
giraffes
Cameras
Cactus
Beards

[Mel @ ATDML]

Can't say this enough times - faces with no mouths - UGGGH!

Totally with you on this one - or faces with no nose or mouth... just alarming!

Mel
x

[Dragonfly Jane]

Things I've started to dislike

Arrows and pointing hands
Bunting and flags
Maria Antonieta
Cupcakes
Dunces Hats (never liked these)
Wings on old photos
Featureless faces

Things I still love

Lamp posts (still my favourite die)
Cogs, gears and clocks
Butterflies
Retro Office - typewriters, telephones, date stamps
Teapots and teacups
Cameras (the old kind)

Things I'd like to see more of

Light bulbs
Victorian Scientist - Magnifying glass, microscope, lab bottles etc.
Ferns

[elainevking]

Jam jars are getting popular too I've noticed!

[beanpole]

Love the list! I haven't really got round to using many of them anyway - they don't really 'fit' with the kind of things we do.

I do love...

Sea horses and mermaids. And shells. But they're not exactly new.
And books, of course.
And I'm another fan of ferns.

[RED HEAD]

I like ferns too.
What about anything to do with trains , tracks, station signs ect, or has that already been done!!!!

[WearCraft]

I am tired of owls, wings and bunting - even though I use bunting a lot! I really like it... I just want something new!
I love ferns too... I like the idea of shells and fossil images and da vinci images (like the horse and the man with the maths bit drawn on!). Quite like the whole Darwin botanical sketch thing and old maps... really old ones with mediaeval names and saxon names on them.
Oooh love the hedghog idea... but not cutesy ones.
And what about cup cakes - I am a bit over cupcakes!
Quite like the idea of wrought iron anything still (gates etc).

(My eldest goes skiing for a week at the weekend and I am a weepy mummy who needs to get over herself - hence the forum hopping! lol)
Jenx

[Crafty Lady]

I don't get the mustache - definitely won't be using them - EVER. Not keen on steampunk, tho I don't mind clocks. I LOVE butterflies, never tire of them. Cupcakes and bunting I can take or leave.

[pmk]

Moustaches I'm ok with - several friends grew them for Movember so that led to lots of publicity photos and kids catching on to the charity theme by buying t-shirts with moustaches on. Means I get to use the embellishments!

Not really sure there is anything at the moment I'm really fed up with. Maybe that's a sign I'm not doing enough scrapping!!