Monday, March 18, 2024

31 Days of Crafting - Day Eighteen - Be Fearless

I don't really like CAS cards.  I don't honestly really even like this card, and I'm the one who made it.  But here it is anyway.  I'm not really inspired today at all, can you tell??  (I'll be honest again, I almost entitled this post, Spring?  Bitch, please.  So yeah, mojo went on vacay today.)




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Sunday, March 17, 2024

31 Days of Crafting - Day Seventeen - Gingerbread Christmas Wishes

The only thing I like better than a Christmas card is a Christmast cocoa card!!!  (Or coffee or tea!)  I actually made peppermint hot cocoa the other morning because it might be March, but Michigan weather doesn't know that. 




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Friday, March 15, 2024

**ANYTHING GOES** New Challenge with The Creative Crafters!!

Happy middle-of-the-month!  It's the fifteenth and that means it's time for a new challenge at Creative Crafters!  As always our challenge is Anything Goes!!!  I just found these Anna Griffin dies in my stash, so I wanted to play with them.



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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

31 Days of Crafting - Day Thirteen - He's JUST Ken!!!

Look, ya'all.  He's JUST Ken.  This "I am Kennough" BS really pisses me off.  He's the boyfriend.  The side piece.  And let's be HONEST.  In the movie, Ken is portrayed as douchey and a complete and total waste of Barbie's time.  (And NO I haven't seen the movie but I do have eyeballs and a brain so I can think for myself, thank you!)  And maybe you didn't come here to hear a diatribe on all the things that are wrong with the Barbie movie (there are a lot of them!), you came here to see a card.  And we'll get to that.  But as it is MY blog, I can rant if I want to.  And I'm going to!

I mean in the pictures I've seen, the movie captures many of Barbie's sides.  I don't recall a creepy, douchey Ken doll that looks somewhat stuck in the 1980s, do any of you??

I make a card for Barbie every year, but I haven't made one for Ken in awhile.  Five years, in fact.  It's not that I dislike Ken, because I don't.  It's just that, well, it's NOT ABOUT HIM!!!!  It's about HER. BARBIE.  That's how it's always been and that's how it always should be!  And the way the movie twisted and turned everything makes me kinda sick.

There will be more at the bottom of the post if you so desire to read further ranting.  Otherwise, here's my card!

Yep, I put Barbie on it too this time, probably because original Ken, while reflective of the times, is not cute at all.



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**I haven't watched the Oscars in years, but the fact that everything at said Oscars was about Ken is just barfy.  My SIL wanted me to watch Ryan Gosling's "performance" and I really have no words.  Everyone says "Oh you can tell that's his voice!" to ignore the facts that A) he can't sing and B) he can't sing and C) the song sucks.  All valid points that everyone seems to ignore.  NOW a friend wants me to point out that Ryan's "singing" isn't as abysmal as say Billie Eilish or Taylor Swift, and I will admit that, okay?  But he's still an actor not a singer, and you can't change that.  But REALLY.  What was his hair in the movie?  His wardrobe?  And why should we feel bad for Ken?!?!?

**SPRING INTO CARDMAKING IG HOP** Week One - Birth Month Flowers

We're back!!  Welcome to Week 1 of the Spring Into Cardmaking Hop hosted by @kellysantidesigns!  Each Wednesday we will share a themed card focusing on the joy of spring.  This week's theme is Birth Month Flowers.  If this theme inspires you, please share your creation on IG using the hashtag #springintocardmakinghop.

I actually had so much fun making this card.  I had to research what November's birth flower is, and it's chrysanthemum, and then I had to raid my stash for something I could use.  I got this set from Unity Stamp Co. along with some astrological stamps last year and had forgotten all about it.  The stamps are TINY but I made it work.  And I just love this card sketch, you might see different variations of this card in the future :)



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Monday, March 11, 2024

31 Days of Crafting - Day Eleven - Baby Boy Joy

Happy Monday!  I hope you have something fun to do today, I'm off to a baby shower!!  (In the evening.  I have no idea why this was planned this way, I think it's kind of weird myself.)




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Saturday, March 9, 2024

31 Days of Crafting - Day Nine - Bombshell Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARBIE!!  My favorite doll turns 65 today, and as always, I made a card to celebrate it!

I also want to note that while I have been posting birthday cards I make to honor Barbie here on my blog since 2014, I don't really know that the world made such a big deal out of "National Barbie Day" before the whole movie/speech/Kennough thing.  (Want me take on all of THAT?  Scroll to the bottom, or wait until my post on Wednesday!!)



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***BARBIE PSA HERE*** As a lifelong Barbie lover, I have made the not-at-all difficult decision not to watch the movie.  It's nothing against Margot Robbie who, from what I've seen on television, plays the part--despite that RIDICULOUS SCRIPT--quite well.  She has the look and the personality to embody the doll we all grew up loving.  But that's where all the good about this movie ends.  Let us not forget too, that Greta Gerwig initially wanted that COW^ Amy Schumer to play this role!  The movie is just not what Barbie is about.  And look, it's CALLED Barbie, and yes, it features many, many, many Barbies (one of the better aspects of the film), but it's too much about Ken.  Poor Ken.  Oh get over yourself!  Women have taken a backseat to men everywhere since the beginning of time, and she goes and makes the Barbie movie about KEN?  Are you kidding me?  And then there's Gloria and her "speech".  Have any of you seen or read the speech?  It's RIDICULOUS.  It may have held some water had it been written in 1959 when Barbie was introduced, but today?  It's utterly indulgent and insulting to women everywhere!!!  I've seen women in shirts with this speech printed on it, and I just shake my head.  Do they actually agree with all that BS, or do they just support it because they think they're supposed to?  UGH I hate it.  I hate it all.

^I apologize to cows everywhere for that analogy, I think most of us would rather have a real cow in our homes than be anywhere near Amy Schumer 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮