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Chris Durnan

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Archives for May 2007

Where’s My Coffee?

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I revisited the Lion and this is what he likes he is saying to me today. So Here it is. Okay so this is three pieces. you can use or not use the lion’s head. And the where’s my coffee? cuts in one piece with the mat underneath cutting in one piece also. Password is may. The downloads are here… GSD * WPC these files are for your very own personal use and not for everyone’s personal use. Please direct people to my blog for the download.

My Nan came through surgery and looks liek the cancer has not spread. Thank you to everyone for those positive words & prayers. Forward on we March through radiation.

Today is my day off. Woohoo! At home. I have a few feels I want to clean up before I offer you. I gotta say my downloads are going quick quick. So if you notice they are on tighter time constraints that is why.

I have a few more safari/zoo animal titles to get out there. And then I am on to a new topic. I have a few in mind and thank you to everyone as always for their wonderful suggestions. I keep them in a log and keep working through them all. When giving me ideas, if you can give me some titles or “bumper sticker” sayings then it helps me to direct what I am working on. But if you just have an idea then that is fine to.

Well it is almost the weekend! Woohoo!

Enjoy!
Chris

PS Spent 10 minutes in front of the freezer with the door open last night with my son. He was coughing so hard. It totally helped. Thank you mucho for that great tip.

Life in General

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So just one of those days. Probably won’t be a download today. My Nan is still in surgery and we hope to know something soon. Appreciate all the positive comments and the positive prayers. It is fantastic. My son has croup (sp?) and I feel quite icky. So he and I both need a nap. I have tried to put something together to offer and just can’t seem to focus. So have a wonderful evening! And I will see you tomorrow.
Enjoy!
Chris

Monkeyin’ Around

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Okay. So you guys had such a great idea for the last file. I had to use some of those to create a few more pieces. Which is awesome cause then I can put up individual files, but also a super pack with a bunch in one. Okay so people always ask me how do I get the bottom layer. I just took the second layer here and twisted it way out of wack from the rest of the pieces. Okay and also I hope you think the monkey is cute. He took me forever to play with. His hand ended up huge.. but ehh. maybe it adds to his charm.

These files are for your personal use. Please do not share or alter and claim as your own.

So this is Wednesdays file. Thursday my Nan goes into the hospital and we shall see what Thurs may bring. If all goes well there will be another file. If not so great, I will be out of commission for a few days.

Thank you to all the great comment ideas. How fantastic. When I am working on a project I usually have an idea for it and it is hard sometimes to get past that idea. So all the added ones really helped me out! Also, Shae sent me some great background pics. And Sandie sent me a file for my Nan. Both made me smile and were just awesome.

Also, we have a new Namebook Challenge entrant by Mavu. Woohoooo! So excited. So check it out! Also, if you want to email me the pictures files, I will be posting them on my blog for the voting so people can vote. So dont forget to send me the pics as well. HERE is the link for the challenge gallery.

And the downloads…. No longer available for download, but can be purchased HERE. Password is the same as the last post.

You guys have made my day with your comments and your great emails.

Thank you to everyone!

Enjoy!

Chris

Zoo Safari Animals

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Today’s Download. This is a file with a few pieces for the trip to the zoo or any layout project. When working on drawing the lions face, all I could think about was a friend of mine had a chow that when she woke up the disgruntled face was much like this one. I was trying to think of a list of ways this file could be used to post at the Paperthreads forum. Other then the usual going to the zoo. So here are some of my ideas. and If you have some ideas to, please post them to the comments so I can add to the list… I started out with….
1) Chow Dog layout with the lion and his great mane
2)My Sons first halloween costume as a lion (Super Cute)
3) Put together a mini zoo scrapbook for when I take my nieces
4) Animal learning book
5) Use them to do an alphabet book with the Name/Word Book letters
6) Elephant Ride Scrap Page from the Fair
7) Monkeyin Around Page with the Monkey
8) Use Giraffe on edge of invite for Kids Bday Party
9) Use Giraffe to notate trip to certain Toy Store. (Yes I took my camera the last time, My Son was like in awe.. look Mom.. look.. how could I ever capture that bewildered the world is awesome look any other way. Well there are lots of other ways cause he is a giggly happy and silly kid. we love it)
Great Inspiration ideas to use from our downloaders!!!!
Thank you Thank you for everyone’s comments. Keep ’em coming. I’ll try not to miss any.
10) -Lions and elephants at the circus-
11)Using the lion to play around with lying around or telling lies-
12)Layouts for the safari ride at Disney
13) Wizard of Oz layouts for the Monkey and Lion
14)Scrappin an Animal Kingdom trip
15) Scrappin the day at the zoo
16) Scrappin your favorite animal book or Library reading time
17) School project about Animals or Africa
18) Wild life ? Nature? Pics
19) Elephant for Election Times
20) School Mascots
21) Baby Pages if cut in appropriate colors although I’m not sure
about grumpy for this idea…. ;^)
22) Giraffe “Reaching High”
23) just monkeying around
24) lion for the astrological sign for Leos
25) It’s a Jungle out there (school, daycare, work)
26) Don’t feed the animals (luncheon, lunchroom, party)
27) Elephant – never forget, don’t forget
28) Giraffe – tall tales
29) Safari Birthday Party
30) Adult African Safari Trip
31) Lion King Movie or broadway Show
And a super fantabu comment!
these are fantastic…no lion!!
You add yours to my comments and I will keep adding it to this list.
Your creativity helps me be creative and inspires me. So if you come up with something let me know.
Okay so I am nervous cause there havent been any other posts to my challenge. I hope some out there are going to enter. However, I am sure Joni is ecstatic about not seeing any other entries. She could have a clean sweep win.
Great comments lately. As always. I have such greatttt downloaders.
-Thank you to Trish for the great comment. Glad I can make someone smile in the middle of the day!
-And Shae I would love to see the background image you made from the Giraffe Patterns. I was trying to come up with a pattern that you could double layer for the spots on a giraffe and make a unique paper for the background of a page. I would love to look at it. to help me visualize.
So on to life in general. What a great day! I am in the office. My truck is in the shop getting a lookilu cause the Air isn’t working. This is not functional when you live in Arizona. Supposed to be 92 tomorrow. by the time it hits 84 I have pink cheeks every time I step out the door. My son is the same way. So hopefully the cost won’t kill me, but it will either be the heat or the repair bill that does me in. I found a great place I take my truck. They are easy going old school mechanics. I love it! Last time I was there they hauled the part out and put it on the counter. That’s from your truck. I was like COOL. Glad to know you actually replaced it and didnt jip me like the last place. But that is another story for another day….
Okay so here is the link for the download. No longer available for download, but available for Purchase HERE. Please remember these are for personal use! I have a terms of use. If you need to see it and read it in it’s entirety to understand that. Please click on the link on the right and check it out. Password is still may.
Otherwise! Have a fantastic day!
and of course
Enjoy!
Chris

Life in General.. love it..

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Okay so what a great weekend! Lots of time with family. Got to see my niece and help her celebrate her bday! It was lots and lots of fun.

One of the most awesome things is Lori, a designer at Paperthreads, used one of my files for a layout. Wooohoo! I love it. I created the file for my son who is three and had fallen down and gotten some bumps and bruises. Lori used it for her husband. So it is good to know that the file can span the gap when it comes to men. From three tooooooo.. any age. I gotta give a quick thanks to Lori for using my file. She is a new designer at Paperthreads and working on her files to get uploaded to the store. There are a few there, but I am sure there are many more to come!
Here is the file, but you can also check it out and rate it at Paperthreads Gallery.

And so I have been receiving emails about the Easy Wishblade group. The yahoo group has been removed, however, there is another version at Easy Wishbladers at Yahoo. Attended to by pretty much the same group of people. That is all I plan to add to the matter. So, if you want to find that group of people, do a search of Easy Wishbladers.

The Sale at Paperthreads was awesome! Thank you to all of those who took the time to patronize my files there and help me to stay on track offering my freebie files daily. When you miss one and purchase it. I greatly appreciate it. Helps me in my software addiction. haha. I just got Illustrator CS3. I have 10, but was so anxious to upgrade and decided to bite the bullet and do it. I haven’t loaded it on the computer yet, but am thinking about doing a clean wipe and starting from scratch again to unclog my computer. But it is alot of work and would be have to be done over the weekend.

Okay so were you thinking holy cow, where is my free download. I am working on the finished file and will post the link here later today. Here is the image and I will soon update the post with the link. I had to mess with the cuts on it a little. I am working on a Safari/Zoo animal set. This is part of it. password is may. Thank you again to everyone who helps in the groups with questions about my blog! Much appreciated.

Tis Monday, Enjoy!
Chris

Here are the links. No Longer Available for Download, but

can be purchased HERE.

For Personal Use! Please do not share or alter and claim as your own.

April Showers…

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It is almost the weekend wooohoooo!!!
So do you know tomorrow is National Scrapbooking Day? Seems like my emailbox is full of sales and coupons regarding it. So tomorrow is also Cinco De Mayo which is a big thing down here where I live. And it is even bigger because it actually falls on the weekend. There will be lots of Margaritas toasted. Makes me kinda wonder, so seriously, who decided to put a hobby where you use scissors and cutters with a holiday that you serve tequila laden drinks. wewwweeee. Could be an interesting combination. If you decide to celebrate both be careful! But have lots of fun.
Today’s files is “Aprils Showers Bring May Flowers”. Here in the desert we have to create our own showers at times, hence the watering can added to this file. So there is a 4 piece flower, The words connected so they cut as one and a mat. Also included some “raindrops” and a watering can. This download is no longer available for free download, but is for sale on Paperthreads HERE. (woops I missed this… password is may)
Usually I miss the weekends, but I am pretty sure looking at my day I will have a post tomorrow morning. So don’t forget to check it out.
Have a great weekend and Enjoy!
Chris

Squ Set Extras, Star, Smile, Horse, Key

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Here are the Extras for the Square Set. Included are the Star, Smile, Horse, Key. The password is the same as the previous post.
These are for personal use only!. This the last of my namebook extras. So finish up your books and get them entered in the challenge! Details are at the link on the top right of my blog.
Okay now that the official stuff is done. Gotta say thank you for such great comments yesterday. I was trying really hard to get a file up and my son just wanted to read and spend some time together and so I just dropped everything. And we read two books, played race cars and swam in his little tiny hard sided blue pool. He got a new pair of goggles and wore them around for forever in protest that he wanted to swim and not pick up the house. He kept reminding me by saying. “These are cool goggles. Huh momma?” with his cute dimple grin. He has a dimple on the top of this left cheek. When he wants something he just smiles enough for it to pop out. I love it. He, also, is very good at doing the “Please” with the tilted dog head move. Like when a dog knows your talking to them and is totally placating you by twisting it’s head back and forth. I would have to believe the dogs do that when they understand what I am saying because otherwise I have had alot of one-sided stupid conversations with dogs in my life. Okay, first two days of “school”. Otherwise known as daycare. He loved it. He played with bubbles, read books, sang songs, danced, played with playdog, ran around, swang on the swing. And he is absolutelyyyyyy exhausted by the time I pick him up. 4 hours of straight play. He is starving and exhausted. It is wonderful. I am glad he likes it. Thanks to everyone for their positive words. First entry is up in the Challenge forum for these namebooks. Check it out! It definitely has an Idol feel to it!!!
Okay I better get to it. Lots to do.
Enjoy!
Chris
File no longer available for download, but may be purchase here with the entire set.. Here.
PS. I got the request for the boat and am working on a Lake Set. With a boat, jetski, skiier etc. I will be getting them out in the next week or so. I am also working on the ferret request, but don’t like what I have come up with so far. So scrapped everything and started again. The Lacrosse file is in queue to be uploaded to Paperthreads for the lady looking for it.

Been a busy one!

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I am running a little bit behind today so I don’t have a download ready. I have a bunch of files, but I have to sit down and give them all a cut before I offer them.

My apologies to those who have visited more then once. I have been trying to get it there and have come to the conclusion that I can’t fit it all in today.

Enjoy!
Chris

Lazy Cat

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Just a cat file with an outline of a cat looking away from you. Hope you like. lazy cat is connected in one piece and there is a mat.
This file is for personal use only! Password is flower. No longer available for free download.
Enjoy!
Chris