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Archives for October 2011

It’s here….

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Our Anniversary Celebration is here!!. We are loading challenges and giveaways all weekend.  Rather than go into all the details which would be really long. I am just going to post a few links that you can hit all weekend and find out all the great happenings to participate on.

 

Our Newsletter link – there is a freebie listed in the newsletter and some screamin’ deals for our celebration.

 

Our Anniversary Section of the Forum… the go to place for every challenge added. Skim through all the pages and see everything going on.

 

And I am offering all my files an additional 30% off. So if you search through my files you will find some really good deals as this is an additional mark down to some prices. You need to add the items to the cart to see the discount.

 

Thank you again to everyone for supporting me throughout the year! My family and I really appreciate it.  When you support me, you help me support my family. Words would never be enough to express my gratitude. Thank you!

 

Enjoy our Anniversary celebration and have fun all weekend!

Enjoy!
Chris

 

PS. Visit www.iloveknk.com tomorrow for an awesome drawing! Thank you to Sandy for her continued support of our site!

 

 

VDBC 3rd Anniversary Challenge

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Another challenge being held over at VDBC is being run by Jan of Sam and Hailey Designs. It is a Colour Challenge. Well, you all should know that I love Colour Challenges…. seems like I just need someone to present me with a colour palette and I am rushing off to start up Photoshop and see what I can come up with.

and with a new digital scrapbooking kit and a file from Chris, I created this layout. A few years ago we went on a boat cruise out of Victor Harbour, South Australia. We were hoping to see Whales, but got Dolphins and Seal Lions instead. We still had a wonderful time, I love being out on the water, and if you look closely (and I mean really closely LOL), you can see two dolphins surfacing in my pic! The star speckled Dolphin is CD00584 – Sparkle Dolphins available HERE . I have added styles and textures to Chris’s file to create the effect you see here.

Created to show that Cutter files can be used very successfully digitally.
Thanks for looking,
cheers, caz

Digi-Cutter Files offered in SCUT, GSD, KNK, WPC & AI (SVG) at www.visualdesignsbychris.com

Halloween 2009 using #CD00770

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I used patterned paper I have been hoarding *smile* from My Minds Eye and Making Memories.  The crow was cut from Visual Designs by Chris #CD00770.  I added some black bling for his eye and a few other places.  I love using photo collages!  The layout sort of evolved.  I accidentally cut the upper right paper too short which led to the black strip of paper.  So I matched it on the other side with an orange strip to ground the pumpkins and the crow.  The strips led to the buttons (black threaded with orange and orange threaded with black).  Which led to the black swirly bling.  Love a happy accident!
 
This catches up my Halloween album!!

~Angie~ (Missouri)
~I am blessed!!~

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“the Gift” QMC file & Anniversary Celebration Days

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The link party is happening stil til Wednesday. Scroll down to the post before this one or Click Here! Look forward to anything anniversary you have party celebration! Recipe, diecut, photo. lots of fun. And we are already hopping in the forum as Challenges are starting to load for our Anniversary Celebration day! Jump on in.

The Gift QMC is in the forum and the next file uploaded was this file for a clothespin picture board. An easy way to switch out new photos and I also included the title for God-children. so fun.

I had this wooden plaque in my stash and some mini clothespins. So I cut the vinyl. Added some rubons and glued the clothespins on with monkey glue. I love this stuff. However, I looked away to chat with my helper this week while school was on break and woops. To much monkey glue. The clothespin slid off and glued itself to the counter. I turned around and couldn’t figure out what happened to the clothespin. Only to find it glued to the counter top. Great conversation piece? I pondered it for a bit and giggled while I did my best to pry it off the counter. Yes, be careful with the monkey glue. It works!
The file uploaded in the QMC forum. I’d love to see what you come up with.  
On to life…
This past weekend, I got to spend some wonderful time with my hubby and son.We enjoyed our day of watching horses and then hit the rodeo. A hometown rodeo with lots of fun. We spend alot of time in the little town and know the kids that run around. My son got a chance to sit and BS with the “guys” his age. They were yacking and yammering about mutton busting and “this one time….” The stories were quite cute. To get a visual you have to imagine they are all in about the second grade so all of them are short a tooth or two or more. If you stand and listen to some in rodeo, there are always a few digits missing off the ropers, a few teeth off the rough stock riders a little something here and there missing. As my hubby and I stood with our son a few feet away in his group of “guys” and just a few gals because they can mutton bust to at that age. As I sat and watched I had to giggle, the scene was so reminiscent of a group of grown men BS-ing. It just made me smile from my heart. I leaned back against my hubby and he wrapped his arms around me and we watched the rodeo. Love my life. Cherish every moment.
Enjoy!
Chris

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Add your Party or Celebration Post!!

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We are on countdown to the VDBC Anniversary Party! The time of year, we celebrate and party in the forum. So here is how you can start and get in the mood.

I am interested in any craft project you have posted on your blog that is Anniversary, Birthday, Celebration, or just a great party! It can be an appetizer recipe, a decoration, a card for a birthday. I am not super picky. The only picky is you will need to have the VDBC logo in the post  or a link to my blog here and that you are celebrating with us. So others can join in as well!! or if is an older post you just need to add the VDBC logo in the sidebar of your blog. (Here is the URL to upload it from our site http://webadmin.automatit.net/user_files/30205/avatar200.jpg  Thank you for your supporting our partying!)

So the options are wide open and full of fun. Invite others to join us in the celebration! We love to see new faces.

My posts to celebrate are here.

My Sister at a family birthday party. haha for her daughter. Cute. Couldn’t resist reposting this one. Okay it’s not really homemade but it was a Princess Party.

Okay so here is a homemade celebrate image from a baby shower I went to for a friend and her sister who is also my friend made the cake. Super Cute.

Can’t wait to see what you have to come up with. This will close on Wednesday, October 12th. So you have a few days to share in the fun and get read for the party.

Have a wonderful weekend! Enjoy! Chris

Fine print: need to have VDBC badge in post or sidebar (Right click on VDBC image in this post and save for your blog or use this url http://webadmin.automatit.net/user_files/30205/avatar200.jpg, if you are trying to sell digital cutter files with your submission please just enjoy others entries and refrain from posting, and if you don’t have a blog and can figure out how to link to it, you can upload to our gallery and post from there. This is my first time, but if it’s possible you are welcome to it! I’d love to see all entries.

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3D Pumpkin from October Grab Bag

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Yesterday,  I posted on my facebook page about a coupon from Bic Mark-It. I use these pens all the time. I have a little tin pail of them. My son loves them as well. I use them in the Scout meetings. I will post one of those pics soon.

I used the Bic Mark-It pens on this 3d pumpkin from the  October Grab Bag. I wanted a 3-d pumpkin to use for some decorating and I wanted a 3-d one to put in the middle of a card for my Dad. Here is a photo of the 3-d version I made into a table place holder with a toothpick and name and pen on it. And I mentioned the Bic Mark-It pens because I used them to color the edges of the popcorn after glueing to cover any white spots. Also the orange was just a little darker after coloring which give each pumpkin cut a nice trim. There are instructions inside the file on how to create this 3-d pumpkin. And also a fall leaf mat for any project you might have. If you create one of these I would love to see it in the October Grab Bag Challenge in the forum.

You can see the other files included in the October Grab Bag and purchase it here for only $7.00.

Friday you will want to stop by my blog. Think Anniversary, Party, celebration, Birthday. Do you have any of those type of projects you have a picture of? Keep them close at hand!!

Have a Terrific Tuesday!
Enjoy!
Chris

PS other anniversary party tips. clean up that Wishlist in the store. Also, make sure you have subscribed to my facebook page and/or the followers on this blog. Past participants know about all the challenges and fun! Enjoy!



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1st file of the QMC and the orange glitter saga!!

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 Welcome to Monday! Thank you to everyone who has joined the QMC . I have entitled this one “the gift” as I am focusing on gifts we can make for the holidays. So the files will have those intentions. An already loaded file is this Roadway Monogram which I have posted about previously on my blog and decided to add it to the QMC. the full alphabet. I made each letter individually for this set and I hope you like! You can join the QMC here to start out with this  file!

Here is mine above on a magnet board with some magnetized party favor cars.
And below is the file in use from Sussann. You can see she posts about the file in the forum here.
So fun I love Sussann’s work! Thanks Sussann.
Also, I am a designer for this month’s grab bag.
Here are one of my files for the grab bag…

This is what I needed the orange glitter for. The one above has a battery operated tea light inside. and below it doesn’t. This is my Mason Jar love post. I love Mason Jars. I have them everywhere. These ones are old and from a box of craft supplies my Mom gave me.

So for the orange glitter jar. I took the premise of the glitter ornaments from a few years ago that were made with glitter and added it to a jar. So first I took the Pledge with future shine and put a squirt or two in the jar. Swirled it around so the whole inside gleamed with this liquid. I then took the glitter and dumped some in and put the lid on  ::key step:: lid on. haha. Now shake it like crazy until you get the coating you want then I let it sit open to dry for a day and overnight. Then dumped the lose glitter out. In retrospect I might not use so much glitter so the battery operated tea light would glow better. I personally would not put a candle in this. yikes! But the Pledge future shine dries well because it has an acrylic finish. I have read in other places folks have done the same thing with diamond glaze. If you are interested in the two images for your halloween projects. One is a spider web and spider and the other is a cat, tree and moon scene which you can use as you’d like.
So thank you to everyone who helped me with the Orange Glitter search. I now have extra for anything else glittery I can think of! Yeah! Hope you like the file. It is now in the grab bag which you can purchase here along with a bunch of others. And Lori’s first week bonus file!
Okay have a fantastic Week! Enjoy! Chris

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World Card Making Day Inspiration & Showcase

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It’s World Card Making Day!! What does that mean? Well you make cards or just look at them for inspiration and pizzazz and just plain old creative fun.

And after you are done here you can visit… Ginger,  then  Ileana &  then Lori. They plan to post some inspiration as well. It’s a VDBC Designers and Friends. We should do this more often How fun! Let’s plan on it. If you have a card posted on your blog today. Comment below I would love to see.
Also, the newsletter is coming out today. Don’t forget to look for that. or I will post the link on my facebook. I worked on it all day Friday. woohoo. It’s full of good stuff.

Now for my card and more….

I wanted to share with you a file from my new QMC loaded to the store. He is a floating Santa. So cute.
I have this file to Caz as a special projects for holiday cards and she outdid herself by opening up the digital file and instead of cutting it she created a digital card first and then she cut the card afterwards and did a traditional one as well. How fantastic!!!

Here are the Cards from Caz and I will post some more info on them next week.

Isn’t this Santa cutey! You can find him in the new QMC. And here is some info on that. There are some change so please read the description carefully in the store. And I have already loaded a few files. Like the whole Roadway Monogram Set.

And, also, don’t forget the new October Grab Bag is here. you can see larger images in the store, Buy it in the first week and you will get a bonus Halloween file.
We have so many goodies it is our own kinda Trick or Treating.

It is so full of fun files. I think an October Grab Bag Challenge is definitely in order!
First week buys get the extra file! Don’t be late. Enjoy!
Chris

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My files in the store can be located here. Thank you for stopping by!