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Just working away and trying to stay warm. It is cold here which makes my hands ache. I will post more tomorrow, but for now a little business…

I am opening up the store to designers. If you are interested in selling your quality digital files in a store environment, please email me so we can discuss. I am currently looking for Digital Die Cutter file designers and Digital Scrapbooking Designers. I will take on exclusive and non-exclusive designers. I will have limited spaces available. Please visit the forum for more information which I will be posting this week. Or email me direct . I look forward to hearing from you.

So see you tomorrow…
Have a wonderful afternoon!
Stay Warm.

Enjoy!
Chris

Cards by Wendy

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Here are a couple of cards that I made to send my son now that he is living across the country. I loved using these fun colors for Christmas Cards! On the card on top I brushed glitter on the edges of the willows to add a extra punch.

Wendy

Starting QMC Files. Another Holiday Project.

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Here are some of the files added to the QMC. These files will be coming to the store if you are not a QMC member.
This first balloons and hats borders are in honor of our BINGO game at the forum celebrating Birthdays of 2009 or at least getting you in the mood to get some cards ready. This file is not uploaded yet as I post this, but will be up shortly. See below for the files already loaded.

This file has been loaded to the QMC and the one below it has also been uploaded.

And next. Some more show and tell of my holiday gifts. We scaled back incredibly for Christmas so I used alot of what we had to make gifts and I have to say, I think, most liked these gifts more then anything else we gave.
So this is a gate fold vacation book of our trip in 2008 with the hubby’s family. This is truly a hybrid project as I cut the shapes on my cutter, but printed all the images I worked in photoshop to make it easier to adhere them. It gave me the opportunity to make a huge collage for the back page and line up the images so everyone peaked out from behind the word vacation. Here are some of my details on it…
I used all the supplies I had on hand. This picture below is blurry but I am posting it because it showed the book more closed. The finished piece was 8.5×8.5 and folded open to reveal the middle beach pictures.
This is with the first set of numbers open from the middle. The pictures on the 0s were of our trip to Disneyland while there. I stamped some swirls on the numbers because I ran out of time to add photoshoped pictures on the back in the 8 shape. Below is with both open. I photoshopped all of the images from the beach onto one page and printed it out on photo paper to put in the back. Also the pictures on the left and right. I stacked them in the computer and printed them out and cut them in strips to use. Also when I was photoshopping I had the basic idea of how the letters in the vacation word would show peakaboos of people because I did a layer in photoshop with a similar font. When I went to print it I deleted the layer with the letters because I wanted to use these Glittery ones. (which mind you only had 1 capital A and 1 lower case A in the packet. RIDICULOUS . love my cutter)

Well this was for my Mother and Father in law and they both seemed to love it. I was happy to see them smile and it was fun to work on a different style “word book” I didnt bind the edges but scored them and glued them to the back. I wish I had taken a picture of the back to show how it overlapped and was glued. Next time I will know better. And if my In-laws are reading this I would love an email with the picture of the back. THank you!
That is it for me. So much to do this upcoming week! I wanted to post early and start the week right. Have a wonderful day and week! It’s gonna be a great New Year!
Enjoy!

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
For more info . Don’t miss out before it closes!

Tiles for gifts…

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So I made these for the holidays for my nieces and Aunt & Uncle and my parents. I went into the store looking at tile and thinking different for everyone. I left the store with all the same color because it was just to crazy to pick one for everyone. Luckily I bought an extra because I found a use for it. In any case here they are. These kinda came from my friend Lori as an idea. But I had thought about doing it back in October when I saw a Halloween one. It just all merged together and they really liked it. I wanted to put little bling on the girls ones, but I got anxious and sprayed the polyurethane before I remembered the bling. I didn’t want the spray to bubble up on the tiles so I left them as they were.

I could be a better photographer, but there they are!!

Enjoy!

Chris
Chris Durnan, designer at www.visualdesignsbychris.com
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!

My files work on many machines. Some of them are: Klik-n-kut, Pazzle, Wishblade, Silhouette, Cricut, Craft Robo. Some of the software involved with these machines are: Funtime, Scrapbooking, WinPC/Signlab, Inkscape, Create & Cut, Illustrator, KNK Studio, Robomaster, DesignMaster and the list goes on….. Enjoy!

And our cutter file “freebies” are kept in the forum. We add to them as we can.

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Wooopsie!! I forgot to mention Bingo… Our theme is Birthday this time around so we can hand out lots of Birthday files for you to get those cards ready throughout the year. So please visit us at the forum. and sign up. Karen is our Hostest with the Mostest and will be taking sign ups til the end of the weekend. We look forward to you joining us. As always I will give away a membership for the winner to the QMC for the current quarter or the next.

Enjoy!
Chris

http://www.visualdesignsbychris.com/1139/

Andrea’s Album – with my friend Raquel

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My friend Raquel came over before Christmas and we made this book for her niece. We made it so that her niece could put in the pictures like we did for my niece. It was fun to work together with Raquel on it. made me think I need to setup an every other month create it craft it event with my friends who like to craft. Would be fun. Here is her book… Raquel picked out all the items and came over and I just add the stamps I had and my chitter chatter while we worked on it. I think it came out awesome and just another reason why I like these clear acrylic albums.

Enjoy!
Chris
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

The list of files Members should have for Oct-dec 2008

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I have been emailed repeatedly for the masterlist of files for the Oct-Dec 2008 that everyone should have downloaded. So I thought I would post it here. for quick reference. Here is the link to the forum. or you can download from 4shared and everyone who joined should have the email with the link that I sent out for it.

Here is the master list for the 29 files for the qmc for the quarter closing today.

1. Cheerleader – Congratulations (CD00373)
2. Cat Tails Card Front (CD00376)
3. Happy Happy Halloween Trees (CD00377)
4. Trick or Treat Sitting Witch (CD00378)
5. Curley Shapes – Heart and Flower (CD00379)
6. Tiger Lily (CD00380)
7. Milk and Cookies Santa (CD00381)
8. Eat Chicken – Pigs are Cute (CD00382)
9. Low Rider License to Drive (CD00383)
10. Pumpkin Carving Jack-o-Lantern (CD00385)
11. Bunch of Turkeys (CD00387)
12. Snow Title (CD00386)
13. Piling Up the Memories Leaf Border
14. Christmas is Love (CD00390)
15. Contemporary Happy Holidays (CD00391)
16. 3 Wonderful Words (CD00392)
17. My Teacher Has Class (CD00398)
18. Vineyard Square (CD00395)
19. Butterflies Bottom (CD00400)
20. Frilly Frame (CD00399)
21. Peace and Joy (CD00414)
22. 3 Borders (CD00410)
23. Build a Butterfly (CD00416)
24. YOU set (CD00412)
25. Forest of Trees (CD00423)
26. Good Friends (CD00424)
27. Paper Chain (CD00425)
28. Gear Head Jumble (CD00426)
29. Snowflake Photo Frames (CD00427)

Scroll down to see todays previous post and/or visit the store while the secret sale is still running.

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

Soo much…

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So much going on as usual, but this is a good thing. I am starting to almost feel human. Almost … being the key here and because I feel like I wasn’t active enough for the Secret Sale I have extended the date some. And in doing so I uploaded the QMC back to the store but increased the price to compensate for the sale. Hope that makes sense. So I will keep uploading my files in order to catch the secret sale.
Next if you have purchased the QMC for 2009 1st Quarter.. Please make sure you are a forum member by logging in. The forum and the store have two different login systems. I can only add those to the section who have registered there. If you are planning on downloading through 4 shared. Just download the pdf from the link sent to you after purchasing. This pdf gives you the login information for 4shared.
And ….. Happy New Year!!!
The future is filled with so many possibilities.
I am excited about the new year to come!


This is our finished snowflake photo ornaments I made for the family. I glued the picture to the front part of the flake, my son glued the back piece on and cut the ribbon and helped thread them for everyone. he was happy to take his little bag and be able to give everyone something for the holidays. And he put his name on the back. I had him do this before they were glued together because he uses the pen pretty heavily still. They came out nice.

And this is a picture my hubby took of the sunset a couple days before Christmas. I had to share because I thought it was beautiful.


Enjoy!


Chris Durnan, designer

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
For more info… . Don’t miss out before it closes!

Cough Cough… Bingo, QMC almost done, Secret Sale one more day

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Still not feeling well. Feeling like I can’t breathe very deeply. I will be glad when this cold runs its course. we were doing better over Christmas and then bam the day after Christmas all sick again. ugh. So I am short and sweet in posting today.

Things you want to know. Karen is the BINGO hostest with the mostest for January so jump on over there and sign up. Always lots of Fun. thank you to Melody who did it last time.

There are minimal day to get your downloads for the QMC down. I will be closing it on the 31st. So that is the date you need to get them all down by. I have sent everyone the 4 shared info or offered it to those who have joined the forum. Two ways to get it. Last day to claim your files however is 31st. After that bye bye.

And the last day for the Secret Sale is tomorrow. Everything is 40% off in the store. Not sure when I will have another, but will keep trying to upload.

Okay I am back to bed.
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

Friends and family card

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I made this card to send to my SIL with a special note of love and thanks in it for her. She lives with her mother and cares for her and I know that can be difficult.
The “Friends” was taken from Chris’ “Good Friends are Angels on Earth” file. The scalloped paper was cut using Sam and Hailey Designs “Stand up Tag” file and the flower and stem is from Shelly’s Art “Playful flowers, leaves and branches” file. The flower charms and corner charm are from A Charming Place.