2R's Report

[GrammieMame]

Visited last week. I was so glad I had been prepared on this board, or I would have been terribly disappointed instead of mildly disappointed. I'm not in the market for albums, being a former Creative Memories consultant who loaded up before I stopped. I have bought just about everything Disney that's in the scrapbook stores and on-line, so I was looking for some unique Disney stuff that couldn't be found elsewhere. I did buy some rolls of stickers with very small Disney characters, and one stricker pack that had the characters on theme park rides. They apparently have 12 x 12 scrapbook kits, but the only ones in the store were baby, princess and something else that I couldn't use. The two that I would really like to have are the theme park and especially the icon pack. The CM said they couldn't keep the icon pack in the store, they sold so fast. The staff seemed very uninformed about when and if they would be getting more in. I took the phone number and will call periodically to see if they have some, hoping they can mail them to me.

But even those kits were a little disappointing in terms of design and quality. The colors look dull and washed out, and not very imaginative. I can think of dozens of paper designs tht I would love to use in my Disney albums, but the papers seem to be dark and very "busy". It's interesting to me that Disney does so many artistic and imaginative things so well, but doesn't seem to be able to generate high quality scrapbook supplies. I was really excited about this store when I first heard about it, but it just didn't meet expectations.

 

[Pammy jo]

Thanks for the heads up. I'm heading down next week and won't plan on spending much now.

 

[DiznEeyore]

We're just back, and I agree. I would've loved to have at least seen the icon pack, but they were sold out. I did buy the 12x12 princess kit because I liked some of the paper, frames & stickers. The rest just didn't do much for me.