So I've been trying to hunt down Patriotic themed freebies, and they are HARD to find! Especially non Vintage, and interesting, NOT BUSY papers. Almost all the freebies are gone, and there is nothing new really. I've had to scour the blogs, and everything I find is one piece...no kits. I wish I could afford to buy a bunch of kits, but there's no way. I have downloaded some stuff from this site, but a lot of it isn't clean and modern enough for me, or cute. So I've just been piece mealing things, and what I want is a really usable kit, with papers, stars and stripes, ribbons, flairs, fireworks (I've downloaded some, but again, I'm piece mealing and it's driving me nuts), maybe some patriotic bears or pups (the cute factor), frames, a flag or two, some borders. What I don't want are flowers or Vintage, NO cream colored anything :). I love shiny, blingy things as well. It would be great if it could be used for Memorial and Veterans Day as well, my dad was in the Navy as a corpsman. One last thought is something about freedom, though I'm not looking for quotes or a whole lot of word art, but I haven't seen Freedom in any of the kits I've looked at. I hope I've been specific enough without going TOO overboard, haha.

It would be wonderful if maybe some of the older basic elements could be changed up to more modern/prettier elements.

I often start making a layout, Ithen search the site for the elements I need, but...if I am making a Vintage or a Feminine layout, sometimes I struggle to find a prettier version of that element to fit in with a layout. Unfortunately, I then have to go and find one on other websites.

I would dearly love to to see a selection of basic elements, but also pretty some pretty versions of the basic elements. I know this probably comes across as sounding ungrateful, but it is not meant that way. I think some of the basic elements just need tweaking up a bit.

Surprisingly, nothing actually exists on any major design store for actually /just/ visiting a cave* (last year I went to the Mark Twain Cave). Because the cave is lit with colorful LED lights, I'm also looking for something that has a good range of colors, but also a good range of neutrals-- (like a kind of complementary color palate, like with blue violet, blue, orange, and red, red-violet but with way more pale tan and orangey neutrals added). Added is some of the best pics I took to grok the color palate I'm looking for.

*(I got many irrelevant Man Cave and Cave Man search results on many stores and I'm frankly over it. I just want my Cave Tour kit) lol