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Thanks for joining us during our CHA coverage. We are not quite done... we still have giveaways for days, and more on a couple new companies on the horizon. But we wanted to get you thinking about trends for the coming season of craft.Please feel free to leave your comments and opinions... your favorite crafty manufacturers are reading!
Best All Around Scrapbooking: Sassafras, all the new lines are super cute and trendy... and our readers are clearly excited by them!
Best New Paper: Cosmo Cricket, Earth Love
Best Embellishments: Websters Pages Whimsy Threads and Cameos
Best Rub Ons: Hambly Screen Prints (doily rub ons)
Best in Cute: My Little Shoebox
Best New Scrapbooking: Kiki Art. The first trilingual paper line. We love how they march to their own drummer. Their designs won't be for everyone, but that's the idea! Here are some quick images... a full report is coming soon!
Best in Stamps: We have to give props to Papertrey Ink for a huge showing at the supershow... but to be honest, we never made it into the booth! Too crowded! We hope to see more in stamps a the Winter show! Shout out to Unity Stamp Company for their Donna Downey collaboration.
Best in Inks: Clearsnap's Smooch line
Best in Electronics: eCraft by Craftwell
Best in Table Top Tools: Letterpress by L/QuicKutz
Best in Hand held Tools: I-Top Brad Maker
Best in Jewelry: Bead n' Spin Bead Loader by Beadalon
Best in Notions: Protect and Grip Thimbles by Clover
Best in Fashion Craft: Simply Silkscreen by Plaid.
Best in Photography: Jill e. Camera Bags
Best Booth Babe: Scrapblog
Coolest Fake Product: Gold Plated Cricut Expressions.
Trends
Birds: Trend toward real birds and vintage-inspired birds... not retro, but vintage, and more Audubon-inspired. Realistic and hand drawn.
Games: Flash cards, playing cards, plastic game pieces and game boards.
Kitchen/food: Yum! Who doesn't love to eat!
Japanese Kawaii: Cute, like Hello Kitty cute.
Vintage: Flour sack cloth, milk caps, illustrative, 1930's - 1940's.
Woodland: Not going anywhere... owls, squirrels, tree stumps, logs, mushrooms, faux bois, etc.
What about Earth Love by Cosmo Cricket... I see woodland, vintage, birds... it's a hit!
What's next (or should be)...
Simple 12"x 12" art papers. With the trend being toward mixed media and DIY, using tools like electronic die cut machines, QuicKutz Letterpress, screen printing tools like the Yudu, and stamps to create your own background papers, I would love to see some super high quality 12"x 12" watercolor papers, thick letterpressable fine arts papers, canvas, and handmade papers in trendy colors, or even just in neutrals. A company that marketed their papers toward this trend would do well.
Fairy Tale inspired images. Brothers Grimm, Hans Christan Andersen, etc. I personally would like to see more "dark" themed lines, like Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Humpty Dumpty. Darker colors, hand drawn, etched.
Retro Crafting: Wood burning and leather tooling... old scouting crafts!
Vintage children's illustrations: Mary Blair, Tasha Tutor, Eric Carle, Beatrix Potter, Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein. I want it on paper.
80's: Neon... real neon. Checkers, stripes, blocks of color, black and white. Rubber and lace embellishments anyone? I think a few companies hit on this a few years back (Bam Pop for example) but perhaps it was too soon? I am ready now. I have Electric Boogaloo two pages to scrap. We did see neon tones in polymer clay with the Pardo line by Viva. Good sign!
So that's our story and we're stickin' to it! Opinions... thoughts? Share them here!
7 Comments:
I have been into paper piecing lately - so I am loving the small print varied colored papers.
I am tending to agree with you about all the die cutting tools and options now - give us something to use with them!
thanks for all the peeks - I have enjoyed it
Sandra
I completely agree that we need more spooky vintage this and that. Fairy tales are a good start, creepy baby dolls, etc. Don't forget your gothy crafters people! :)
This post is awesome! I love the "best in" posts! Anyway, you are right on with your comment about Eric Carle, Maurice Sendak, and Shel Silverstein. I would have to say "Goodnight Moon" too. Such a classic, and it would work so well with papers and embellishments! I like the idea about the darker fairy tales too . . . interesting!! I wish there was more Nightmare Before Christmas too. Jolee's did some a while ago, but definitely not enough, and I don't remember seeing paper. Excellent Best of the Best post!!
Goodness - congrats to all the best of the best - interesting take on the trends and what will be coming!
I love all of this new product goodness. It always amazes me that they can continue ot come up with new unique stuff. Thanks for sharing all this - look forward to using some of this new porduct
Oh, I sooo agree about the fairy tale theme. Can that be next? :)
I think the you are so spot on with this trend watch.
I keep looking out for more nursery/fairy tale themed paper.
I loved the tattoo goth lines of paper that were out a few years ago, I think somethin along those lines again, but maybe a bit less tattoo images and more hair band.
Would love to be a paper trend predctor. I think that I would rock it.
Also, would love to see an animal print themed line. Zebra, cheetah, giraffe, etc. Maybe even in differnt colors or with different color hight lighted. Teal with the zebra for example. This would have to be well done or it could/would look cheap/kitchy.
Maybe one of the newer more streamlined paper companies.
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