Sunday, February 24, 2008

Best and Worst Kit of the Day

Yep, it's Sunday my friends, and that means it is time for the best and worst kit of the day awards. The way I choose the featured kits is simple: I browse the first 4 or 5 pages of the new digital products section at DST and find one that rocks, and one that gives digi a bad name.


So, for the kit of the day, I present to you Zoe Pearn's newest kit. It's called Lush Blooms.
I really like the papers here and the elements look nice. I'm not sure I love the colors, but that is just personal preference. This kit looks like high quality and it is something I would probably buy if I had pictures to go with it. I am not sure about the bingo cards. I don't know what I would do with those, but other than that, great kit Zoe! Do you agree with today's kit of the day? Why or why not?


Okay, on to the worst for today.

I am not even sure what this one is called. I don't know who created it either. I figured it would be in the preview so I didn't bother to get the designer's name. So, if anyone can tell us the name of this kit and the creator, please enlighten us. This whole kit is just terrible. I can tell that the ribbons are Monica Larsen's commercial use ribbons. At least the two at the bottom are. The papers look like someone took the paint bucket tool and just filled in a layer with a single color. The flowers are totally flat and look like dover. Ugh, this is the epitome of why my friends think digi sucks. I need to show them the Zoe kit. Maybe they'll realize not all kits are bad. So, thoughts?

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm first! Okay I had to say that HA! Now, on to your choices...I LOVE that kit by Zoe. I bought it the moment I saw it.

As for that other one, why do people waste their time designing when clearly that is not up to par with what is already out there? Do people really buy that stuff????

Anonymous said...

Zoe's kit is way too cutesy for me, NOT my taste at all and I would not buy it.

The other one is ok, I would not buy that either, but does NOT deserve to be the "ugly kit of the day" or whatever you call it. I actually really like the colors and the flowers on it. It is fine, and I am sure whoever made it will sell it fine. Otherwise, they probably would not be designing. Money is the motivator here, I am sure designers don't just design for fun.

Anonymous said...

Zoe's papers are too busy for me, how are you supposed to use those??

Anonymous said...

The other one is ok, I would not buy that either, but does NOT deserve to be the "ugly kit of the day" or whatever you call it. I actually really like the colors and the flowers on it. It is fine, and I am sure whoever made it will sell it fine. Otherwise, they probably would not be designing. Money is the motivator here, I am sure designers don't just design for fun.


OMFG! You have got to be kidding! That is HORRID!

Anonymous said...

I like Zoe's kit. It is very cute. I would buy if I didn't already have a huge stash of similar kits.

The other kit is a joke, right? OMG! That's the ugliest shit I've seen in a long time.

Anonymous said...

The other kit is a joke, right? OMG! That's the ugliest shit I've seen in a long time.
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You sad, sad, people. A comment like this says a lot about you, that is for sure.

Anonymous said...

First Zoe's kit. I would use some of the elements but I certainly couldn't use all the papers. There are a couple there that I could use but the patterns are just too much for me. I like the colours. Her stuff is well executed but the kit just doesn't do it for me.

The second kit is far from being the worst kit of the day. I have seen worse.
Not all of the papers look like they are bucket filled. I do detect a slight texture. The elements aren't that bad. They are all different - not one element recoloured 50 million times. So she used a commercial action in her kit? There are big name designers out there who use the same actions. I think this designer is going to do really well with some more practice in her program.

Anonymous said...

I wouldn't get the Zoe kit not because it's bad, but because I already have a lot of things that are very similar. This is what the problem is, there really isn't a whole lot of eye catching, wallet grabbing stuff out there.

I agree with the posters who said that the second kit doesn't deserve to be ugly of the day. Sure, it's a very basic kit but you can tell, well some of us can, that this designer has potential. I've seen worse by known designers.

Anonymous said...

I agree. The second kit is not THAT bad.

Anonymous said...

Zoe turns out great stuff all the time, but I am not fond of this kit. I guess it is the bingo cards or the colors? I'm not sure, but I didn't buy it.

Now for the second kit - I think it is horrible. I wouldn't buy it and those saying "it's not that bad" - would you buy it and use it? No saying not my style to worm your way out of this one. It's ugly, unusable and I want to know who buys that kind of kit.

Anonymous said...

Zoe's kits just aren't my style so I wouldn't buy it.

As for that other one... no comment.

Anonymous said...

I just saw that second one at DST.... it's by Shadow Scraps at ScrapLair, and it's called Grace.

http://www.scraplair.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=10&products_id=129

Anonymous said...

omg, both these kits suck!

Anonymous said...

The Zoe kit is good quality but not my taste. The other one? Does somebody actually expect to sell that? What a joke

Anonymous said...

As for the first kit, the papers are too busy and I have no idea what you would do with the bingo card. But it looks cute and well-executed.

The second kit is not something I would buy, and looks like something a novice designer would produce, but it's not the worst thing I've seen. I've seen worse by some well-known designers.

Anonymous said...

See for me the whole point of the Zoe kit is that there is at least something in there for everyone. The point of a kit, for me, is not to use EVERYTHING in the kit, but to get some use out of it. I could definitely make a few LOs out of a Zoe kit.

But that second one is, I agree, what turns people off digi. It screams fakeness. Zoe's has realism. That is what grabs me in a kit. Realism.

And I am a simple scrapper, but I could still scrap with Zoe's. Just because the papers are 12x12, doesn't mean you have to use it as 12x12. Use a strip, or cut out a flower, or something! And she's included plain cardstock colors too so that would help.

The bingo cards are a 'what the???' moment for me...but I'm sure someone will find the perfect use for them...in fact I'm off to look...intrigued now...

Anonymous said...

I Love Zoe's designs. She rocks. I think your choices here are great.

Anonymous said...

The 2nd kit shows a base level of design skill but it's not at all my style...I have seen far 'worse' examples...