BasicGrey :: Winter 2010 CHA report
Five new collections debuted at the BasicGrey booth, with their releases in February and April.
The Green at Heart collection hits stores in February. Bright tones of fuchsia and spring green with hedgehogs and other cute creatures, but these appear mostly in a few embellishments so the papers remain very versatile, true to the BG look. New in the embellishment ranges are the ribbon doilies (my must-have, I think!), cozy posies (flowers made with pipe cleaners), pieces (labels and journaling die cuts), canvas (printed and eyeletted die cuts on fabric), bloomers (stitched flowers with buttons) and more journaling accents.
The Kioshi collection will also be available in February. At first glance, I thought the lavender made it a very cutesy-girly set, but a better look at the papers revealed blues, browns and aquas in patterns that will definitely work for boys too.
Then three new lines for April release: Capella, Max & Whiskers and BG Basics.
Capella is a formal collection but much more delicate than the Black Tie set from a few years back. I’m sure the two could work together if you still have Black Tie in your stash! This will work obviously for weddings and heritage pages, but grey is very trendy now for other things too — so I’m interested to see it paired with other colours like yellow or turquoise for pages that are far removed from formal topics.
Max & Whiskers is a pet-themed line, but again with plenty of pieces that aren’t necessarily puppy dogs and kitty cats, so you can use this line for anything really. Rich browns, reds and yellows with a shot of turquoise — which is the colour of the year, after all!
A little bummed to wait to April for this, but when it arrives I hope they have plenty printed: the BG Basics collection. White, brown and cream sets of barely-there patterns like notebook paper, grids, ledgers, dots and handwriting mean you can use these as your background and entirely eliminate that difficulty that comes with adding BasicGrey patterned papers to a stark sheet of cardstock. In addition to the papers, there are label, border and letter stickers to coordinate with each colour. Something so simple and yet so very important — I’ll take a collection pack of each please!
And as if there weren’t enough photos in this post, how about some more pictures from around the BasicGrey booth?
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