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Post by wendifful on Feb 16, 2019 19:05:13 GMT
This is actually a design available in the Silhouette design store this week. I am perplexed by it because I can't imagine a scenario in which you'd use it! I guess you could use to "throw shade" at a relative in your scrapbooks, but...if you feel like that about a relative's relationship habits, would you really take the time to scrapbook it?
Anyone else feel that this is a weird design? Or can you imagine a scenario in which you'd use it?
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Post by pancakes on Feb 16, 2019 19:11:51 GMT
I would never be into this, but I could see some people who either use it snarkily, as you described, or because they’ve been divorced so much despite their best efforts, can now joke about it.
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Post by FurryP on Feb 16, 2019 20:11:08 GMT
I can see how *someone* may find use for it, but this just seems kind of weird. It is geared for a very, very specific audience.
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Post by mrssch on Feb 16, 2019 21:00:07 GMT
No judgement.
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Post by refugeepea on Feb 16, 2019 22:16:06 GMT
I immediately thought of two people this applies to in my life. Still, I wouldn't want to put that type of snark in a scrapbook album. Maybe in a journal like a traveler's notebook. Still, I'd rather write it in pen than buy a cut file.
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Post by joblackford on Feb 16, 2019 22:17:24 GMT
Yeah, that seems very odd to me. I mean, it happens, but not a lot of people celebrate/want to keep doing it.
But I guess there's a person out there for every design... ? But I can't even see breaking it up and using only part of it.
I'm trying to imagine the page where someone collects pictures of their relative's many spouses and puts that in the center >.< Maybe after the 6th or 7th wedding you'd had to buy a gift for?
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 16, 2019 22:32:19 GMT
Maybe it’s more suitable for a t-shirt than a scrapbook page? But still, who on earth would actually want to wear it?
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Post by Linda on Feb 16, 2019 22:38:50 GMT
well....it would have well applied to my late BIL who was in the process of divorcing wife #4 when he died or my late SIL who married and divorced her 2nd husband multiple times (they were divorcing for the 4th time I think when he died)....but I have no intentions of documenting either in my scrapbooks (now my genealogy database? sure but I don't need a cut file)
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 16, 2019 23:25:37 GMT
The design is made by a graphic designer from Greece. Maybe there is less of a stigma on marrying or divorcing multiple times in Greece? Who knows. Seems like a very specific audience. Or maybe it for that person who wants to have a card to slip into their soon to be ex's lunch.
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Post by pennyscraps on Feb 16, 2019 23:46:56 GMT
Weird. Not for me.
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Post by joblackford on Feb 17, 2019 0:56:17 GMT
my genealogy database? sure Oh, wow. That would be confusing for the poor family tree software !!
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Feb 17, 2019 2:26:13 GMT
I hold no judgement for that design.
As someone who has been married and divorced twice, I can understand where it might possibly be used in a scrapbook. And not just for throwing shade, either.
Not everyone has a perfect, cookie cutter, fall in love, marry, til death do us part life. f
I wish I did, but it didn't work out that way.
But I could see myself using that die cut sometime in the future, when I stopped being so bitter and heartbroken. During a time that I could joke about life's twisted road.
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Post by wendifful on Feb 17, 2019 4:00:30 GMT
I hold no judgement for that design. As someone who has been married and divorced twice, I can understand where it might possibly be used in a scrapbook. And not just for throwing shade, either. Not everyone has a perfect, cookie cutter, fall in love, marry, til death do us part life. f I wish I did, but it didn't work out that way. But I could see myself using that die cut sometime in the future, when I stopped being so bitter and heartbroken. During a time that I could joke about life's twisted road. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it is a bad thing to have been married and/or divorced multiple times. I guess I just thought about how I'd feel if I'd been divorced (FTR, I've never been married) and I can't say that I would ever be at a place where I could joke about it like that. It's not that it's a bad thing to get divorced, but (to me) the sentiment makes it sound like it's no big deal and I know I personally would be hugely affected by getting divorced, because I react very emotionally to life. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and I apologize if I was insensitive.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Feb 17, 2019 4:04:01 GMT
I hold no judgement for that design. As someone who has been married and divorced twice, I can understand where it might possibly be used in a scrapbook. And not just for throwing shade, either. Not everyone has a perfect, cookie cutter, fall in love, marry, til death do us part life. f I wish I did, but it didn't work out that way. But I could see myself using that die cut sometime in the future, when I stopped being so bitter and heartbroken. During a time that I could joke about life's twisted road. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it is a bad thing to have been married and/or divorced multiple times. I guess I just thought about how I'd feel if I'd been divorced (FTR, I've never been married) and I can't say that I would ever be at a place where I could joke about it like that. It's not that it's a bad thing to get divorced, but (to me) the sentiment makes it sound like it's no big deal and I know I personally would be hugely affected by getting divorced, because I react very emotionally to life. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and I apologize if I was insensitive. You weren't insensitive. I was just offering another view.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2019 6:12:33 GMT
Perhaps our current POTUS' scrapbook?
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Post by FurryP on Feb 17, 2019 7:47:59 GMT
Perhaps our current POTUS' scrapbook? <iframe width="16.300000000000068" height="3.4399999999999977" style="position: absolute; width: 16.300000000000068px; height: 3.4399999999999977px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none;left: 15px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_61846005" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="16.300000000000068" height="3.4399999999999977" style="position: absolute; width: 16.3px; height: 3.44px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 763px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_18090387" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="16.300000000000068" height="3.4399999999999977" style="position: absolute; width: 16.3px; height: 3.44px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 15px; top: 112px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_40245376" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="16.300000000000068" height="3.4399999999999977" style="position: absolute; width: 16.3px; height: 3.44px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 763px; top: 112px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_78559714" scrolling="no"></iframe>
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Post by KelleeM on Feb 17, 2019 10:04:35 GMT
If I had a silhouette I’d totally be buying this and using it on a page about my wedding!! I’m my husband’s FIFTH wife!! Yup...with four divorces under his belt I married him!! Just a bit of the story...he married the first time at 19, had two kids and was divorced in less than 10 years, married #2 and they were together for over 20 years, #3 and #4 were both short marriages. When I met him I was 45 and he had just turned 60 and said “never again” but I guess I was just too awesome to not marry, LOL!!! We were together for over 5 years before we married and we’re probably two of the happiest married people you would ever meet.
FTR, I do find the cut file a bit odd and can’t imagine there’s a huge market for it!
And in case you’re wondering, I was married once before. 😊
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Post by sleepingbooty on Feb 17, 2019 13:05:00 GMT
Looks like a divorce party or second/third/umpteenth bachelorette party T-shirt design to me. I've seen "older" bachelorette party attendants wearing divorce-remarry pun gear before. I think it's fun they allow themselves a bachelorette night out (especially as these were far less a thing decades back) and are having a laugh about the whole thing.
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Post by LisaDV on Feb 17, 2019 14:06:44 GMT
What I find weird is the REPEAT. Because you're repeating all 3 lines, including the divorce. So if you use it on a new marriage, aren't you saying you expect it to end in divorce? I could totally see it working on Linda's late SIL who married and divorced her DH several times. I do know of a couple like that although I think they only married 2x, but we're always on again, off again.
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Post by edie3 on Feb 17, 2019 14:27:24 GMT
For Ross on Friends?
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Post by nicolep on Feb 17, 2019 17:25:47 GMT
Not for me.
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 17, 2019 17:33:09 GMT
If I had a silhouette I’d totally be buying this and using it on a page about my wedding!! I’m my husband’s FIFTH wife!! Yup...with four divorces under his belt I married him!! Just a bit of the story...he married the first time at 19, had two kids and was divorced in less than 10 years, married #2 and they were together for over 20 years, #3 and #4 were both short marriages. When I met him I was 45 and he had just turned 60 and said “never again” but I guess I was just too awesome to not marry, LOL!!! We were together for over 5 years before we married and we’re probably two of the happiest married people you would ever meet. FTR, I do find the cut file a bit odd and can’t imagine there’s a huge market for it! And in case you’re wondering, I was married once before. 😊 So perhaps a "The fifth time is the charm" cut file is for you. I really think people have different opinions of divorce and I think that is what hangs some people up. One of my very favorite people has been married four times and she swears never again. I am glad she can joke about it. I am of the live and let live opinion of life.
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Post by anniefb on Feb 17, 2019 19:44:21 GMT
I can see how *someone* may find use for it, but this just seems kind of weird. It is geared for a very, very specific audience.
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Post by joblackford on Feb 17, 2019 20:09:06 GMT
What I find weird is the REPEAT. Because you're repeating all 3 lines, including the divorce. So if you use it on a new marriage, aren't you saying you expect it to end in divorce? That was the bit that was bothering me too!
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Post by scrappyem on Feb 17, 2019 22:09:17 GMT
My mom's best friend has been married 5 times. I love her current husband (didn't care for the rest, I knew husbands 2-5). She didn't meet him until she was 60. They met playing an online card game. She didn't want to get married again but it was important to him so she eventually gave in and did it. She got married the first time at 19, which was the norm. I think if it had been okay to live together instead of get married, she'd have done that with husbands 2 & 3. She'd probably find this funny but only because she finally met the right person. They are really happy and it's the cutest thing.
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Post by scrapnnana on Feb 18, 2019 2:41:12 GMT
Okay, I have a slightly different take on this because I used to design cutting files for sale, although not through Silhouette. I had to create a minimum number of designs each month. Designing files can take time, and sometimes I did not always have a lot of time to spend on design work.
It is definitely an advantage to offer designs that you think will have popular appeal. The more designs you sell, the more money you will make. I got paid a set amount per file every time someone bought one of my files. Sometimes the designs I did for my own pages and projects were versatile enough to offer for sale, but not always. Sometimes I just had to sit down and create something based on the season or whatever seemed likeliest to sell. Depending on how my life was going that month, sometimes I did not have time to design something that had a wider appeal, and I might just offer something I had created for me, even if it was not as likely to have a wide appeal.
The design shown in this thread does not seem like a design that a lot of people would buy. Perhaps the person who designed it had created it for a friend or customer, and figured it could also be offered through the Silhouette Design Store and just see if it sold. If Silhouette designers have a quota to fill, it would totally make sense to me.
I was surprised to see it, since I didn't think it would have a huge appeal in general, but it doesn't hurt Silhouette or the designer to offer it. The worst that would happen is no one, or almost no one will buy it, and it will at some point be eliminated from the Design Store.
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Post by lilacgal on Feb 18, 2019 13:08:04 GMT
What I find weird is the REPEAT. Because you're repeating all 3 lines, including the divorce. So if you use it on a new marriage, aren't you saying you expect it to end in divorce? That was the bit that was bothering me too! Same here. Repeat implies you know you're going to divorce who you just married...just seems odd to me.
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Post by Prenticekid on Feb 19, 2019 18:15:14 GMT
A little off topic, but kind of the same thought:
What is with all the hateful and rude SVGs? "My nana is better than your nana." (Since we all think that, doesn't it cancel yours out? And, you couldn't say something about your grandmother without dissing other babies?!) "My kids think I like the other one best...but I don't like any of them... my grandbabies are my favorite." (Or words to that effect). Why not leave out the "but I don't like any of them" - that isn't even funny. Then there are the "I drink because I have kids" sort of sayings. Some are funny. I get it. But some are heartless and beyond mean and make the (mother) sound like a stupid ass drunk.
I'm not even talking about the ones that are downright repulsive or stupid ("I was almost swallowed" on a onesie). I'm just talking about the rude and mean ones that are just not funny at all. I feel like I have to wade through hundreds of these things and they creep me out.
And, I have a reasonably dark sense of humor!
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Post by 950nancy on Feb 20, 2019 3:33:16 GMT
A little off topic, but kind of the same thought: What is with all the hateful and rude SVGs? "My nana is better than your nana." (Since we all think that, doesn't it cancel yours out? And, you couldn't say something about your grandmother without dissing other babies?!) "My kids think I like the other one best...but I don't like any of them... my grandbabies are my favorite." (Or words to that effect). Why not leave out the "but I don't like any of them" - that isn't even funny. Then there are the "I drink because I have kids" sort of sayings. Some are funny. I get it. But some are heartless and beyond mean and make the (mother) sound like a stupid ass drunk. I'm not even talking about the ones that are downright repulsive or stupid ("I was almost swallowed" on a onesie). I'm just talking about the rude and mean ones that are just not funny at all. I feel like I have to wade through hundreds of these things and they creep me out. And, I have a reasonably dark sense of humor! Okay, I laughed out loud... perhaps even snorted at the onsie SVG. I haven't seen that one. I wouldn't use it though, but we all know that SOMEONE would. I think the line between funny and tasteful often gets crossed and if people will buy it, it sells. So many of the same SVGs show up year after year, so people are out to be different and make money.
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Post by jackofallcrafts on Feb 23, 2019 18:08:11 GMT
I was browsing the Silhouette design store yesterday and didn't see this file. OMG! It's...odd, to say the least. I feel behind the times...I'm still on husband #1 and we've been together for a quarter of a century, lol! What struck me is that the designers who work for Silhouette all seem to think scrappers are a bunch of wine-swilling louts. In looking for a simple grapes design, I had to wade through about 200 designs that said things like "it's five o'clock somewhere" and "wine is how I get through the day" and stuff like that. The whole time, I'm thinking, "If all scrappers are alcoholics, wouldn't all the layouts look drunken and be glued to the table or the cat?" I ended up designing my own grape cut file.
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