Here is my son… He goes out to feed with Dad and he loves to feed his horse. Haha. I saw him scooting around on the pipe so I had to snap a picture. He runs over before Dad can get there to feed his horse. love it!

Enjoy!
Chris

Bet you never thought you would see a layout like this from me! LOL Although we are sweltering here in Australia, my daughter is enjoying a true winter in the States!

These are some photos of my daughter enjoying a recent heavy snow fall in Virginia where she is working as an Au Pair. She is having a ball having never seen snow like this before. We don’t get snow like this in our part of Australia. The children had a lot of fun sledding down a small hill near their home.

This file from Chris Durnan was perfect for these photos. This is a personal cutter file CD00621 Sledding and this layout was created to show that these files also work perfectly digitally!

Thanks for looking!

cheers, caz

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

Allright I was in a glittery mood and you will see why in my holiday gifts next week. ( I can’t post them until after I give them ) I saw this done in a few places so thought I would give it a whirl super easy and super pretty. I don’t know if I will have time to do many more, but thought since I had the supplies out I would try it. I couldn’t think of what to put on the outside. I wanted to do white vinyl. Will have to think on it some more as the holiday nears.

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.

All right here is a new tool that I love. I bought it at the grocery store in the scrapbook aisle! Yes I Love the grocery store to. My hands ache in the cold and I find it easier to hold fatter items. When I hold my exacto knife at times it causes issues. I just can’t manuaver it right. And this little tool is nice. I cut a lot of preglittered stock and I didn’t want to hash my mat or my blade so I didn’t want to run it max depth and max thickness. So this little knife by fiskars really helped me to manuever quickly those cuts that just needed a little more oomph after I pulled the paper off the mat. It is by Fiskars and fits over the finger. I loved it. And the perk is it will hang on my tool magnet. Love that! I love things to be reachable and not crammed in a drawer.

Please ignore my fat little fingers. I have fat little fingers to match my barney rubble toes. So at least I am balanced. My fingers end up in horse hair, glue, dog hair, kid hair, buttoning jeans, vinyl cutting… I can’t do the long nails. I know they would look wonderful, but I just like to get dirty and don’t want to worry about getting my nails done. so needless to say my hubby loves them so tis all that matters!!

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.

Yesterday was so much fun.. first we went to school and I hung out and we made Gingerbread houses. So much fun. I left smelling like frosting even after I had washed hands arms and shirt about 5 times. My son was busy busy with his creation and I had been coach for a few of the kids in his class so I knew them already and got to check out their houses. It was so much fun. We were short on plastic knives so you used the back of spoons. The best part was when I said “I had so much fun I think that was one of my favorite days.” My son replied with “It was one of my favorites because you were there” a dramatic pause as I soak it in and how I just love my son, my life.. and then .. “so Mom… wanna talk about Star Wars?” Wew star wars again… Moment is over, but alas it was there. And I am glad he is still excited to have me help in class.

I know some of you are in that last minute crunch for gifts for the teacher. here are two super easy things you can do or have your child do. First off we did our teachers names. I also have a cricut so I wrote the spellings down for my son and had him type it in and cut the letters with a shadow. then I gave them to him with glue and he glued them together. (I used the glue that doesnt dry immediately so I could smoosh them a little straighter when he wasn’t looking. Yes I know neurotic nervosa here) Then we let them lay over night because it was bedtime, but the next night I gave him some magi-card snippets which are magnets that have adhesive on them to attach to business cards. We cut ours in to strips and pieces to put on the back of the letters. twas easy to do. The teacher and assistant were so pleased to get them and put them right up on the board at school and the assistant was so excited to take it home and put it on her fridge so her girls could learn to spell their last name.

And the notecards… I cut some white card stock and gave my son a stamp to stamp them as straight as possible. And then I cut some dark card stock to be a mat for the white. When he was done stamping. We used the glue runner to attach the two. I had envelopes in my “collection” of supplies. So I put them together and tied them with the ribbon. The teachers were happy to receive these to.

I had the little bags also in my “collection” which I put the letters in. We put them in white gift bags which my son wrote their names on.

The best parts: My son being crafty with me, his excitement to give something he made, his excitement to see them up on the board, and his being thrilled when the teachers and assistant gave him hugs and said thank you. Just wonderful.

Well I better run…..

Have a wonderful day!

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 was going through pictures and wasn’t sure if I had posted this. Sandra and Sarah posted a calendar swap in the forum. 2 6×6 layouts for facing pages. Here is mine for March. The shamrock spins per my sons request. I did two sets so I could have some for gifts. I cannot wait to get them and put them together. I am sure I will have a hard time parting with them. But Sandra’s comment that she uses the title pages for a scrapbook when the year was over got me to thinking about who could use a predone scrapbook in my life and could just cover the calendar itself with pictures. We shall see who ends up with them. in the meantime. I just can’t wait to get them. so thankful for the ladies in the forum hosting the swaps. I will post a picture on Christmas break so the recipient doesn’t see it here. woohoo! Enjoy!
Chris