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I have one word for you… and then many more of course in explanation…

February 17, 2009 By Chris Durnan

EXHAUSTION

I am so tired. Wow. A new puppy can wear you out. Here is a picture of the late night tormentor and her new favorite partner in crime.


Isn’t she cute?? Yeah not so much at 2 a.m. in the cold wind outside looking at you like. Yeah .. now you and I know I am gonna pee as soon as we walk back in the house could we just speed up the cycle a bit and not come outside for so long. ha!

Oh and have you ever given a puppy pepto bismol? We have a small case of Puppy Diarhea because I didn’t have puppy chow on hand the first night and just stress from leaving a litter of 7. So she really should get minimal minimal amount of it because she is tiny. So I thought well lets try it the easy way first. Put a teeny bit on my finger. Bright Pink stuff. So Bright you almost gotta wonder about radiation who comes up with a color that pink. Anyways. She isn’t gonna lick it off my finger like my other dog who is now 15 and watching this process and rolling her eyes. So I open her mouth and rub the stuff off my finger on her tongue, roof of her mouth anywhere I can get it in the mouth. Now she pulls back I look at my finger and those little teeny marks of deadly puppy teeth and look at her snout and realize… I shoulda brought my camera we coulda done a Got Strawberry Milk commercial. Well at least it isn’t everywhere and she is doing better and seems to be past the puppy tummy issues. thank goodness.

However, my older more mature pound puppy. A spry 15 is not so happy with me. I wouldn’t be either if my favorite blanket just walked itself down the hallway. I heard a snip and looked up and couldn’t see the puppy, just a blanket being triumphantly carried down the hallway and taken and dropped in front of her kennel. Ha! However, this gave me a thought maybe I will switch the two blankets so she has one that smells like a dog in her kennel… hmm have to think on that further..

However, the positive of this whole experience. My son is just soo thrilled. He has been outside running around so the puppy can chase him. He has been playing with his cars on the carpet with the puppy. (Apparently the puppy’s favorite is the race car she keeps stealing and putting in her kennel). Just to see his grin makes it all worth it.

Our two outside dogs are not thrilled, but when she gets a little older they will be fine. Another dog to bark at the coyotes and keep them off the property. Can always use that help around here.

And as for me Iwill keep an eye on the things walking down the hallway… Like the Metal coffee can we use to feed dog food. Apparently for the puppy, she found out this morning it is a little large for a hat and in fact fits almost your whole body. And barking in it because you can’t figure out how to back out can be quite frightening. So frightening you walk into the wall with a large clang and then quickly figure out how to back out, but for good measure just bark your little heart out at it because your person is laughing so hard she is sitting on the floor and can’t help out. Just bark at her to for good measure too.

Ahhhhhh loving life!!

Enjoy!

Chris

AND YES I AM CLOSING THIS QUARTERS QMC SHORTLY!
If you want to get in Now is the time.
The designer of the original QMC – aka Chris’s Cutter File Club. Files available in SCUT GSD KNK WPC & AI. Multi-layered, Test Cut files. 20 plus files, but every membership so far has had 29 files for $10. Join today and get that icing on the cake of 9 extra files over 20 for $10.00
Don’t miss out before it closes!

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Nature’s Child

February 16, 2009 By Chris Durnan

This layout is of my daughter in the Spring of 2008. I love these pictures of her because she is not posing or hamming it up for the camera which she loves to do on occasion. I used the Butterfly Edge 4 file from Chris to create the corners and the butterflies. The font was cut on my Silhouette and then all of the pieces were embellished with glitter from Martha Stewart.
Digi-Cutter Files offered in SCUT, GSD, KNK, WPC & AI (SVG) at www.visualdesignsbychris.com

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Cutter File Challenge Entries

February 16, 2009 By Chris Durnan

Here are some of those awesome Cutter Files Challenge Entries! I will post more later or tomorrow. I am tidying up a bunch of new files for the QMC. If you haven’t joined, you’ll be missing out on quite a collection of files.

AWESOME Entries! Thank you to everything. If you want to participate there is still time. you can scroll down and read the details on the right hand side of my blog. Just let me know if you’d like to join in!
Have a wonderful day!
Enjoy!
Chris

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February 16, 2009 By Chris Durnan


Here’s the Valentine card I gave my hubby this year. I used the same swirly heart to make a matching gift bag. I lined the cut out with a piece of pink cardstock. Hubby thought it was very crafty.

Sussann

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

http://www.visualdesignsbychris.com/3234/

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Happy Sunday.. Puppy.. Daytona.. Dirt Cheap Deal.. QMC Poll… wew…

February 15, 2009 By Chris Durnan

Hey Hey.. hope your having a great weekend.
Thought I would scoot in before we go to pick up our puppy and say there is a poll running in the forum for the QMC. Today is the last day for the dirt cheap deal for the Halloween collection (scroll down for more info). And then I am off to watch Daytons and celebrate my brother-in-laws birthday. Should be a busy and fun day! So for now have tons of fun!!
Enjoy!
Chris

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A Valentine for my Sweetie!

February 14, 2009 By Chris Durnan

I created this Valentine for Jeff using two of the Visual Designs by Chris files: #CD00129 Alpha Jumble and #CD00308 Heart Jumble. The placement of the letters were perfect for this Valentine card but it could also be a cute thinking of you or birthday card. I just used a black sharpie so the i and u stood out. Pop dotted the heart cut from the heart jumble file, created a visual triangle with a few of the other tiny hearts from the inside of the larger hearts and added a gemstone for the dot of the i. A little ribbon at the bottom and I had a quick and easy card. A happy mistake that you can’t see on the inside of the card: My scrap of ribbon wasn’t long enough so instead of tying it in the front like I had intended, I tied the knot and had the ends meet in the back. I cut a little slit on the folded edge so that the ribbon could slip through. The ribbon ends were about a 1/16 of an inch from meeting so I used one of the solid hearts from the heart jumble file and popdotted it over so you could see the ends. Perfect! And looked intentional. Also put one of the hearts like on the front on the upper right of the inside of the card. And used a white chalk marker to write my sentiment and sign the card.

Angie (memrybug)

~I am blessed!~

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

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February 13, 2009 By Chris Durnan

I whipped up this card for my son’s orchestra teacher. I used a few scraps of paper and created this really cute card. I used Chris’s Classical Frame

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

http://www.visualdesignsbychris.com/3236/

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Dirt Cheap Deal for this week… Halloween Collection

February 13, 2009 By Chris Durnan

Hey Folks!

How are ya? Ready for the weekend?? I almost am…. ALMOST… not quite but almost.

I have a few things to do. Like get some new QMC files up and also our Dirt Cheap Deal!

Some of you may think the Dirt Cheap Deal looks familiar if you have been with me for a while. It is. It is one of my older collections I got together for the store and added SCUT files to the other types AI GSD KNK & WPC.

But I thought why not offer it one more time Dirt Cheap for the set of 10 and one of those in the set have 7 titles in them! Wow. A few jumbles (mesh) a few card fronts and more. Lots to choose from. For more details on the dirt cheap deal visit here.

And tomorrow I hope to post some of those awesome pictures others have created with this set of files… woohoo!!

Okay I am on the final tweaks for a few more QMC files. Yeah Yeah!! We are at 15 that means I have 5 more to go to hit the promised 20 and of course 9 more for the icing on the cake!! Want to join the QMC and get those files? Get in while you can. We will be closing the doors for this quarter soon. We close them one month prior to the end in order to give everyone time to download. Oh yes you can buy them afterwards in the store, but not for a couple of dimes a piece!

And I am off to find a recipe for swordfish for dinner and then on to more files. Everyone have a wonderful evening!

Chris Durnan, designer
The designer of the original QMC – aka Chris’s Cutter File Club. Files available in SCUT GSD KNK WPC & AI. Multi-layered, Test Cut files. 20 plus files, but every membership so far has had 29 files for $10. Join today and get that icing on the cake of 9 extra files over 20 for $10.00
Don’t miss out before it closes!

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February Sketch Challenge Entry

February 11, 2009 By Chris Durnan

Ok here is my layout using the files for the February Sketch. I used the Journal Box and the Pen tool line file. The distressing was achieved by using a lighter. The shimmer on the flowers was achieved by using Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist. This was a really fun sketch to do, and everything came together quite easily this morning when I started working on it. The Patterened Paper is from My Minds Eye, Flowers from Petaloo, Glitter from Martha Stewart.

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Just a Note card

February 11, 2009 By Chris Durnan


How about a card? I used Chris’s Music Mesh file (found here) to make this Just a Note card. I matted the mesh on a piece of white card stock and layered that over the stamped Just a Note phrase on a beige card.

~Sussann

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