Today is all about product trends. I'll address each trend separately and provide a few examples of each so you can see what I'm talking about.
Daily Memory-Keeping
This trend, spawned by Project Life, is taking the scrapbooking world by storm. So many companies are jumping on this bandwagon! I'll pick a few that are new or newer to it with this show:
October Afternoon is launching Daily Flash:
Echo Park launched their Photo Freedom system as a mid-season release this fall and is following up with several new collections debuting at this show:
Basic/Monochromatic Collections
I'm noticing an upswing in the number of companies that are offering lines with mostly monochromatic products that mix and match with their other lines. These lines, can, of course also be used on their own.
Echo Park is one of the companies debuting this type of product, with four different color collections as part of their Mini Themes collections. Each of these four collections offers patterned papers, journaling cards, and stickers:
Pebbles is part of this trend as well with their new Basics line, featuring patterned papers and a variety of embellishments:
Bella Blvd has long been a trailblazer with this trend with their Sophisticates collection. This time around they have added the Freestyle Sophisticates patterned papers:
Paper Bags
I'm picking up what looks like the start of a trend here. These will be fun to use for tucking in journaling cards or extra photos or could be used as mats for smaller photos (or as patterned paper). I'm seeing a surge in mini envelopes and library pockets, which have similar properties/uses, but the bags are a newer idea so I'm going to focus on those.
Webster's Pages' Alison Kreft Sweet Notes and Composition & Color collections include bags:
Fancy Pants is also including bags with several of their new collections, including Trendsetter and Park Bench:
Crate Paper's Party Day collection includes these vellum bags and envelopes:
See-Through
This was a huge trend a few years back and it's returning. We're looking through things, whether clear (transparencies, acetate, overlays, etc.) or opaque (vellum). The Crate Paper vellum Party Day bags I posted above are a part of this trend, which includes 12 x 12 overlays, embellishments of all sorts, and alphas. Here's a look at some of what's out there:
Basic Grey has an acetate alphabet set as part of their Hipster collection:
Maya Road is showing several different transparency shapes, including these Our Town ones (alongside their kraft partners):
Crate Paper's DIY Shop collection includes these photo overlays:
Roller Stamps
We've seen date roller stamps emerge as a trend in the last year or so (hey, I've got five of them!), but a new addition this time around are phrase stamps. I am really loving this trend, as it means you can have the fun phrases without having to pair it with a date. Here are some of the date and phrase roller stamps releasing soon:
October Afternoon has both decade stamps and phrase stamps coming out as part of their new Daily Flash product line (eagerly awaiting individual images for these!):
American Crafts' Amy Tangerine Yes, Please collection includes this stamp:
American Crafts' Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm collection features this phrase stamp:
Die Cut for You
With the proliferation of die cut machines, especially Silhouette models, die cut shapes and titles are all the rage in scrapbooking these days. What to do if you don't have a machine or want the look without the fuss? Turn to pre-die-cut shapes, of course!
KI Memories/Hampton Art has some of this in their Mini Celebrations collection:
Jillibean Soup's Wise Words offer a little bit of a different take on this trend with two sets, each available in four different colors:
Simple Stories has some fun die cut pages for their Sn@p albums, including these from the 24/Seven, Vintage Bliss, and Urban Traveler collections:
Studio Calico has combined a zillion trends with these ombre die cut vellum frames (in case you were wondering: ombre, arrows, and geotags from yesterday's trend post plus vellum and die cuts from today's trend post - polaroids also fit into the camera trend I blogged about yesterday):
I'd love to hear about product trends you're noticing, especially if you're on the show floor and have a different perspective!
Come back tomorrow for my wish list. Or, rather, wish lists. I want it all! :)
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