Let's talk about flowers

Hold on, there are designers who put zero flowers and foliage in their kits? I have one CT member who has really taught me to get a lot of foliage into my kits as well as the flowers. But if you know me, it's never at the cost of lacking other elements. LOL LOL.

Lori, your kits are always perfection.
 
I use flowers because they are there, not because I love them. I'm also generally scrapping boy pages and would LOVE more gears, metallic bits or buttons, bolts, rivets, rusty brads, washers, or any other bits and pieces included as well.
 
I love flowers even on my boy pages. I love them for clustering and tucking themed elements into them. I didn't like the doodled ones until I started playing with Amanda and Laura's kits and now I enjoy adding them to pages for a different feel. :) Always up for learning something new or trying something new.
 
I use flowers on every page I scrap- even for the guys. I'm not designing clothing for them, I'm making a memory page, and similar to how I decorate our home for all of us I am making that page beautiful. Flowers are nature- they don't have a male/female connotation in my opinion.

I greatly struggle with kits that don't include enough variety in flowers and foliage. I like to have different shapes and colors to layer and draw interest to areas of the page. That's the mindset I use when I design my templates also.

That being said, there are all sorts of scrappers out there and the super-flat element scrappers and designers exist for each other! Lori, I don't see why any customer would complain to you about too little or too many of a certain element... the burden is on them to read kit descriptions and study the layouts and preview to kind of get a feel for what's there for them to use on their pages. As a customer, too, I understand the disappointment of opening a kit and realizing it wasn't what you hoped it would be... but then that's how we make better decisions next time we shop and choose "our designers" who click with our preferences and always have the stuff we reach for when we scrap. As a designer- we can't be everything for everyone! :D
 
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Lori, about your kit I don't think there's not enough flowers. Well each time I played with it I didn't feel a missing elements!lol!
Now in more general way, I love flowers and greeneries, I need both.
I love there's different shape, different textures and various colors.
I used it on my boy layout, he loves flowers even pink one and I don't think it's a problem. As Brooke just said, it's nature elements for me too, don't see any connotation. The greeneries are important too because it helps me build my clusters, love when there are different greens and differents shapes too.
That is said but I know some designers don't add tons of flowers but their kits are great too.
Sometimes I struggle a little at first but then have fun too because it makes me go out of my comfort zone and I have layout totally differents.
Also if I really struggle with a designer style I just don't choose her products because I know I will be lost or having struggle and it's not my style but not mean it's not beautiful!
I think all style are good!:)
 
YepBrook said:
I use flowers on every page I scrap- even for the guys. I'm not designing clothing for them, I'm making a memory page, and similar to how I decorate our home for all of us I am making that page beautiful. Flowers are nature- they don't have a male/female connotation in my opinion.

I greatly struggle with kits that don't include enough variety in flowers and foliage. I like to have different shapes and colors to layer and draw interest to areas of the page. That's the mindset I use when I design my templates also.

That being said, there are all sorts of scrappers out there and the super-flat element scrappers and designers exist for each other! Lori, I don't see why any customer would complain to you about too little or too many of a certain element... the burden is on them to read kit descriptions and study the layouts and preview to kind of get a feel for what's there for them to use on their pages. As a customer, too, I understand the disappointment of opening a kit and realizing it wasn't what you hoped it would be... but then that's how we make better decisions next time we shop and choose "our designers" who click with our preferences and always have the stuff we reach for when we scrap. As a designer- we can't be everything for everyone! :D
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Everything you have said it true. I don't mind feedback, even if it is not always positive, because it makes me think about the choices I make while designing. But at the end of the day, I can only do me, so that is what I do. :D
 
Lori, love your kits, they are so pretty :wub:
Regarding the question, I'm a flower lover
 
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