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I'm not a big button fan.
Kits without greenery if there are flowers.
and I rarely use purple.
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me too, gotta have leaves, michi!!!! and I love love buttons but not too crazy about flair
 
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I don't use buttons very often either, especially in a cluster, but it seems most kits have them. I don't like spoons and other utensils, I find it odd and don't know what to do with them unless I'm scrapping a page with food.
Certain color combinations make me cringe too, I adore the color orange, and the color pink, but not together....ewwwwuck! I would have a very hard time scrapping with them, and yet I see many kits, so I am one of the few that don't appreciate that combination of colors together. I keep hearing my mom in my head saying "you can't wear that, it clashes", lol.
I'm not a fan of big chunky frames either, I feel like it takes up too much of the page.
I think I can work with most anything else. So much easier to list what I like, lol. Good thread
 
I'm in the "leaf club" too! I need to have at least a few of them in a kit and I hate if I don't find any..
 
Ha ha - I love buttons! Probably because I refuse to use flowers on my boys' pages, so buttons it is - because they are so common in kits. But I agree, I love when they have thread/stitching in them - much better than w/o!

Oh shoot, this was supposed to be what I hate....

Ok- Boy kits that are LOADED with flowers! Its a boy kits - not many boys love flowers - so bring on the boy ellie!!
 
I agree Trina-I want stars, metals, etc in a boy kit--not flowers!
I'm not a huge button fan, but it drives me crazy when there aren't any ....dang! can't think of the word..."attachable" elements; like staples/brads/buttons/eyelets/etc
 
Something I don't like is when a kit does NOT have an alpha with it (even if it's small and only lower or upper case with no numbers etc). If there is no alpha, I think it should at least have some word art. Otherwise I struggle with creating the perfect title.

I also don't like "people" in kits. I really struggle with how to incorporate them onto a page.

I like buttons either with or without the string, it really doesn't matter to me. But my CT have "highly" encouraged me to NOT create a kit with "bare" buttons. So you'll never see a "bare" button in my stuff. They will always have string or something included with them. LOL!
 
I agree with Toni, I'm not a big fan of chunky frames. When I see them, I end up cropping it down. When I do use them, I end up using them in the background, as a mat for clustering...lol.
 
Haha Ginger!!!

Love reading this thread and ditto on the leaves and buttons. There aren't too many things that I shy away from...I guess the only thing that sticks out to me is baskets and clay pots and strange elements like that...I just don't usually have any spot for them on my pages.
 
I'm the same with the boy kits! I hate when you get one and it has pink/purple or flowers in it! Its like a waste to me because my boys are "all boy" and there is NO way I'm putting flowers on their pages ;)

Another thing I don't like is when you have a "theme" kit (ie, Lego or something) and you have elements who have nothing to do with that theme
 
I'm a big string/ribbon user. I don't like when there aren't enough variety LOL. I also am one who doesn't like when a kit doesn't include an alpha. Even if the designer throws a plain black/white alpha in, that fine..but I need those letters!

I also don't like non textured solids. I used bazzill like a fiend when I paper scrapped and love the textured look. :)
 
What I don't like is a kit or paper pack with the same paper or element in 5 colors. I just see that as wasting space on my drives. All of our programs allow for easy recoloring, so duplicated papers and elements are not needed.
It really bugs me when the leaves are not in a natural color....which plant has blue or hot pink leaves?
I don't like flat papers or elements either.
 
Oh wow, so much of you like or NEED alphas?!? I rarely use them... I prefer to use different fonts and setting it on my own style or clipping papers on the font. But the alphas...puh, to much work :)
 
I don't like when theme kits have hardly anything of that theme. If I wanted plain paper and regular flowers - I got those - in SPADES! If I am getting a boy kit, it should have boy stuff. If I am getting a car kit, it better have car elements and papers. I also prefer to have papers that are specific to the kit - a fall kit should have papers with fall leaves on it, etc.
I also don't like cutesy people in my kits. I won't ever use them.
OK, one more - kits that are vague or generic. They end up getting filed away and never see the light since I prefer to use a themed kit or I pick a kit based on it's colors.
 
Really Melly, you don't use alphas? i LOVE alphas and think they add so much interest to a page...Look at this one, i adore how she created the title with the alphas
 
I have a weird addiction for fonts and alphas! LOL. I like to have my title pop, so if the alpha is stunning or fits with my layout, it's the alpha. If I have a kick butt font that makes the layout shine, I use the font! :) But I do love my letters! :)
 
I hate it when a kit doesn't have flowers and leaves. I used flowers on every single one of my pages (even for my three boys!). I don't think flowers are girly. I've even used pink flowers on photos of my boys.


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I love using flowers even on my boy pages. I don't like when there are only 2-3 flowers in a kit and definitely don't like when there is no greenery. I prefer a variety of papers. I don't like when any items are recolored several times. If it is a theme kit, I want to see items that go with the theme rather than generic.
 
Interesting topic. I was just thinking about this this past weekend. I hate hate hate holiday themed kits a month before the holiday rolls around. I scrap AFTER the holidays pass because that's when I have the photos to use. So I'd much prefer my Christmas kits to come in January. It drives me bonkers to only see "fall" kits during September -November. What about the 90% of the world that doesn't see the change of seasons at the same time that North America sees it? Or January kits with snow? There are a lot of places that don't get snow. I was so relieved to see that a few designers took a leap and did not make Halloween themed kits for the buffet this month. THANK YOU!

I do love flowers, everywhere, always. I don't care much for greenery but I do tend to throw some in. I don't really like photographed images that have been "cut out" as elements, especially flowers, they just don't look real to me. I like my pages to look like if I had used real items to scrap them with. I want people to touch my pages and wonder if it's 3-dimensional. That's how I know if I have done a good job or not.

I don't care for little paper doll type of figures. I never use them, they are a waste. My kids are not tiny anymore so they don't appeal to me at all.
 
I was happy to see that some of us do use flowers on our boys pages!! :) I do--I love them! My grandsons pick flowers for their moms all the time!! And flowers give an "outdoorsie" feel to the layout I believe! My grandsons love climbing trees, so the greenery is great too! sometimes I'll just use ivy without the flowers.
I DON'T like alphabets by the sheet. I prefer individual letters--I don't use alphas a lot--hate to take the time to use the sheets--and if I do, then I make a REALLY SHORT title!! --like HI or something!! HATE those sheets!!

I appreciate the thread in the buttons. LOVE buttons!! love SEVERAL flowers of different style in a kit--not just recolored items. love fasteners--but not particularly staples. I have a hard time using journaling cards, but am getting better with those. I've been using them to layer with, or clipping onto small parts of a template--or something, but rarely use them as journaling cards!! I don't like templates with VERY SMALL places for the photos. I prefer BIG photo templates--that is what the layout is supposed to be about.
I like the patterned paper to have a variety of size of prints--I was a quilter before scrapbooking--so using all the same size patterns of really bothers me. I like a striped paper in every kit.
 
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