Here’s my version of the Feb. sketch challenge. There is still time to participte. Find out all the details on the forum.

Supplies used:
Pagemaps sketch
DCWV cardstock
Bo Bunny papers
Bazzill Rick Rack
Beloved Keepsakes title
Chris’s Durnan’s journal block and tab
Lil Davis designs Chipboard
Stickabilities stickers

Rosalie

Well most would think I am a big ‘ol wimp, but I miss my hubby. I feel for those who spend gobs of time apart from their loved ones. My hubby and I work together in both of our businesses and we spend the weekend playing on horses. We really enjoy eachothers company. I have dinner in the oven baking. So when he gets home there will be something to munch on if he is hungry. And I am excited. I have those little butterflies flitting around. Silly it was only a few days. but it doesn’t matter to me.

My hubbies time spent at my Dad’s the last few days has been fun for my little one and I as well because we kept getting emails from Dad’s blackberry of pictures of them ice fishing and riding snow mobiles. My little one realized that there were only boys there! And he was a boy! And next year he is going! ha! He is good at stating the obvious and making you go DUH!! and observing the obvious. 🙂 ( I will post those pics sometime this week)

But he and I had fun to. We went to my sister’s house and played with my cutey patutey niece and when she went to bed I spent time with my sister working with her Craft Robo. It was crammed in the back of her desk with a towel over it to keep out the dust. (Desert dust is murder on wheels and parts) So we got it out. Piled off her table. She was frustrated because her desk was so buried with papers and random things, but alas we put the art of piling to work and piled everything up so we could have work space. And got to working on her Craft Robo and playing with files and she was super happy. My sister and I did the same thing when I first got my Craft Robo we downloaded files after files after files and cut and cut and we kept showing them to my hubby and saying loooook. He would said what is it? we looked at him in unison and said a paper purse. My husband smiled and said Very Nice and went back to what he was doing. Little did he know those first files would become my obsession. Some cut like a dream others made the machine groan and groan to the point where it was like Fingernails dragging down a chalkboard. I quickly realized in downloading files there is a difference in files. And so I ventured into creating my own. Well I digress. It was so much fun to work on the CR with my sister and play with papers and cut things and just be girls and giggle. This picture below is myself, my niece and my son. Love it when the kiddos sit on your lap and cover up your dirty shirt and excess weight. … Ahh but I looked at this picture compared to the ones on my blog and my weight loss may be showing in my face a little.

And for another ramble.. My friend Lori is challenging people to get on the weightloss bandwagon. Well I may have to join her on the bandwagon. Walking. I need to walk every morning. It makes me feel and live better. So I need to get this routine into my head. My Aunt says that once you do it ten times it becomes habit. I had been doing it every day. So apparently missing it 10 times in a row can also become habit. So I am not sure I am going to take a pictureof the scale as Ms. Lori does because I have Barney Rubble toes. But will have to think on accountability and what it means. I find when I curtail myself so much I screw it up because I am irritated. So I might continue on and shoot for 1-2 lbs a week.

It won’t be today that I lose those lbs and I have to blame it on cutter files. … Seriously…. are you rolling your eyes at me?… well. ha! Here is why…. I have had many requests for some fancy cupcake wrappers. I have seen these talked about and just never jumped on it because I seldom eat a cupcake. Well in the effort of getting the correct type of cutter files I made some cupcakes. Totally for cutter file research purposes of course {grin} sometimes you just have to do it. I think I will take some to my Mom and Sister for Vday and our neighbor. I made the homemade cream cheese frosting to go on them. Again just for cutter file research.

Well if you need me Monday I will be running around to doc appts and other things. So I may be slow to respond. I feel like I am getting a cold, however, and hope it doesn’t hit me at all or hard. I have been fighting a head ache all weekend. I can usually maintain with caffeine, drinking more water, using the heating pad on my neck, taking hot baths, upping my protein or iron.. those little things etc. But I can feel it just nagging at the back of my head still. wew ! Needs to go away. I have better things to do.

Thanks to everyone who visited the store this weekend. I really appreciate your support.
Enjoy!

Chris Durnan, designer
GSD KNK WPC AI SCUT files for your personal digital cutters for use with scrapbooking, cardmaking and other hobbies. Whatever your creative mind can come up with!
www.visualdesignsbychris.com

Here’s a layout I made using Chris’s files from the January Sketch Challenge on her forum. It also uses the Happy from her Happy Birthday title included in the Challenge 3 set of files.

And here’s a card I made for a challenge, also on her forum! It uses one of the tree files from her oval trio file and the word thanks from a card she gave away on her blog.

~Sussann

Hello Folks,
Hope you are ready for the weekend. I am definitely ready for Sunday when my hubby gets home. In the meantime, I have a dirt cheap deal for you. These are ornate square cuts. That were test cut at 8×8, but would fit a 12×12 page. and could be shrunk to be used as you’d like. I am offering this as a dirt cheap deal now until Sunday when I wake up. The price is $2.99. So if you like one of these files it is like getting 10 for the price of 1 file. The collection price is 8.99 and the indivdual price will be from $2.79-$2.99. So get in on the dirt cheap deal while you can!

Also, I have added a few other files to the store. A packet of random stick figure characters for vinyl cutting, and some others. And check out the Baroque Collection which will be offered individually next week, but why pay for just one when you can get 10 on Saturday!!

And Karen has started up BINGO again.. So jump on in to the forum and sign up. As always lots of fun.

Enjoy!

Chris Durnan, designer
The designer of the original QMC – aka Chris’s Cutter File Club. Files available in SCUT GSD KNK WPC & AI. 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!

Well I have been quite busy working on layouts with Chris’s fantastic files. I am so privileged that Chris thought I was good enough to work for her on her CT as I am having a ball. I have been messing about digitally with a file called Cars and Trucks Jumble. It is a really fun file to work with and in the end I decided to use the individual items in this layout, the car, and the two different trucks.

These are some photos taken when I used to do Daycare in my home. Nicholas (DS) has a Go-Kart, and he took all the children for rides up and down our driveway. They all had a ball! It was lovely to see them all having so much fun!

Cheers, caz

Woohoo!! So I sent out all the challenge links yesterday! lots of new faces and i will keep sending them out for a few weeks and then leave it for everyone to get their projects done. So glad I met that goal.

And then next Rosalie already posted the February Sketch Challenge which includes the Die cut files to make it easier for you. I included some files that could be used with the pen. Lots of discussion in the forum about which pen and how to do. Which is awesome to see the Creative process.

I have made a couple of layouts using Chris’s “Bracket Jumble with Bubbles“. I made one as a paper layout and one digital. The paper layout was a challenge as I haven’t made a layout with paper for quite a while, but I really wanted to try out my new KNK Maxx. The extra bubbles are the waste from the Bubble Jumble. I just highlighted them with a gel pen.

I used a digital kit that I had designed and Chris’s files available for the February Sketch Challenge as well as the “Bracket Jumble with Bubbles” which I applied a style to. These are my Daycare kids having a ball in the bath with lots of bubbles! This layout was completed for the Feb09 Sketch Challenge as well.

Have a great day!

cheers, caz