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This is a Christmas Eve picture. We celebrate after Church at my Mom’s house. We have a tradition that we started last year. My idea! We exchange favorite things. Everyone brings their new favorite thing from the year and puts it in the bag. Then we all sit down and go through them one by one with the giver telling why it is their favorite thing. Mine was a lotion I found in California this last summer that is so fresh, clean and light that I buy it from Bath & Body Works now. As long with these little bling kits. I love to add extra embellishments to things. So this way the ladies can do the same. It is wonderful. And my Aunt’s Contribution were these red apron’s. We are all looking every which way and that is how we all are. No one in the family likes to be told what to do and we all like to be in Charge… So my goal when the camera comes out is just smile big at the camera and let the rest of them look every which way. So I just stood and smiled and waited for the camera to go off. Well I should also say Camerassss because in the world of digital We all don’t share well either BUTTT we definitely play well together. Our bags were so full it was wonderful with some great goodies. The boys got into it this year to. I must say i might have to ransack some of the boys favorites from my Hubby’s bag. Loved the toools. It was so much fun and we all just love eachother and being together. That is the important part.

I always get emails asking what else was in the bag. Here are some of the items. A peeler that you put on your finger to peel carrots and potatos (works awesome), socks with little treads in them and they are coated with aloe vera (they are sooo soft), a reindeer candle (he is so cute I will have to take a picture, these aprons, homemade bags from my sister (soooo handy), brownie recipe, cookie flipper, and lord I can’t remember the rest there were many… But my mom gave use a cookie recipe that she has used every year. It is from a cookbook for Cystic Fibrosis (sp?) that my family purchased when I was little in support of research for CF. Why did they buy it? because I was little and cranky and not growing well and everything and they thought I had CF. So now that recipe has been in our family forever and it’s reason behind it has been handed down to us. Also, my Mom gave us a small box of see’s candy. My grandfather used to get these all the time. We sure miss my grandfather. My friend Lori made us all pins with my grandfather’s picture to wear. white remembrance pins. It is beautiful. I will share it in another post. Really just wonderful time. Well that’s my ramblings…

And on the note of family..I made these super easy magnetized letters for my MIL’s fridge. the red really pops on the black fridge. These pictures are one of my sons favorites at Grandma’s. He can stand there and look at it for hours. I had a copy of that blue picture of him, but I don’t know where it is. i will have to ask my FIL if I can have it. It is a great picture.

I better run… Have a Happy New Year day!
Enjoy!
Chris

Chris Durnan, designer at www.visualdesignsbychris.com
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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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Are you ready for our Big Announcement that will have you grinning?? Three designers each month will collaborate in a different themed grab bag. You can purchase this grab bag filled with all new files for $7.00 until the 14th of the month. This months designers are.. Card-i-ology Creations, Darcy’s Designs, RS Mobley Designs and a few additionals from Chris Durnan. The theme for January is Love & Hearts. There are over 10 files with many cuts included for titles, month of January, card front, luminary and so much more.. You can find more details here.. This set will only be offered together for one month. Retail value for individually purchased files is $27.00 !!!!

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Card-i-ology Creations – Happy New Year to you all! May it find everyone healthy and happy with more love than you can stand. 50% off sale through January 6th. I am also offering O Christmas Tree free with any purchase. Scoop up all those files you have been looking at.

Chris Durnan… It is the end of the year again & I am offering up my Annual Secret Sale which is 50% all my files. The QMC for Oct-Dec 2009 will be removed from the store by Friday (you will have til mid-Jan to download) as we will be moving on to Jan-Mar 2010 for new files. It is going to be a wonderful new year! Thank you for being a part of it. Happy New Year!

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Quilling Patch is celebrating the New Year with a thank you! Enjoy a coupon for 40% off your purchase of ALL Quilling Patch design files until January 15th. I have had a challenging year and want to start this year off with thanks to you all. A special thanks to Chris who has been a wonderful support to me these past months! Wishing all my fellow cutters all the best in 2010! Use the coupon code 2010. to get 40% off all your Quilling Patch files until January 15, 2010!

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So did you get a new machine for the holidays? Or have you not used your machine in a while for more then a paperweight? Now is a great time to get in on some great weekly challenges by different designers and also a Sketch Die Cutter file Challenge approved by Becky Fleck of Pagemaps. Visit and start cutting files & not just collecting. Enjoy!

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Here is another holiday project. A project my hubby helped me with. I asked him for some large oversize letters. He cut them out of MDF board in his tool room and gave them to me for my “tool room” I spray painted them and then used glue to put the glitter on. two coats of glitter and then a clear polyurethane on top. I hope these little girls enjoy their letters we made three and I would say they are about 18 to 20 inches tall. I put hangers on the back for the wall. I did a lot of banging them to get as much glitter off as would fall off before they were wrapped. Yes that is dirt under that board. I try to spray paint outside. Well I hope they love them. thanks to everyone in the forum who helped me decide what glue to use. I used modge podge on two of them and then I used the glitter glue they had at Michael’s. Looked and felt the same and I couldn’t notice a difference.

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.

I knew I would be busy this week because of the holidays. So I am preposting some items that you may have seen before and because they are gifts I had to wait til after the date for sharing gifts. And they are my holiday homemade projects. My goal this year was to go homemade. To make things for folks. So here is the first project which I finished in July.

Here is one of the pictures with Santa. I personally think this is the cutest. This is from our trip to the polar express in William Arizona. The Santa was awesome, but we were the first ones in line. Wew! So I took this picture and loaded it to the computer and added the Merry Christmas sentiment to the bottom. Then imported it into word to print labels for the holiday packages. I did these ones tall on a 1.33 x 4 inch label. They came out cute and easy to use for on packages.

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.