Hey Guys,
I am working on reformatting my computer this weekend starting on Friday and reloading all my software in between outtings with my guys. So if I am not quick to respond I am still loading that software. Have a safe weekend!
Enjoy!
Chris
Archives for August 2008
We made it to thursday…
Hello to everyone…
I have been asked more then once to do comparison screen shots for different software programs. I do have some tutorials and screen shots of different programs on my download page. HERE If anyone would like to collaborate and help me with screen shots as I do not have everywhere software, but many maybe that would be a good thing to get them together. I will have to think further on that. Right now with the holiday weekend. My brain is ready for a siesta.
If you are a member of the QMC I will be reworking some of my recent borders for 5×7 frames per many many requests. So keep an eye out for that… and welll…
On to life…
What a busy couple of days. It has been nice but chaotic. I am in a better mood about the rain because I walked the garden and man the plants are loving it. I wish my lemons would turn yellow already. Soon Soon I am sure. My hubby took my big truck today because he seems to come home when it is raining and I usually get home right before it. So I am taking the little work car. This little car makes me want to speed, but I will watch my driving style. Plus I will have XM for the day. I always toy with getting it, but never commit because I dont want to pay monthly for another thing. Sooo.. I haven’t gotten it yet, but it’s fun to have it every once in a while.
I need my hubby to come home a little earlier today so we can tune up our RV. We have a teeny tiny RV that sleeps 4 in two beds. I love it. Just big enough for the three of us. It needs a few touch ups and then we will be headed to the Rodeo on Saturday. Also, going to attend the steak fry afterwards for the rotary and then the dance. My son is looking forward to it and has informed me he will dance with me once then he hast to find a girl “his tall” (meaning his height) to dance with. The live band is usually very good. I am looking forward to it!! Definitely. What are your plans for the weekend?? Hope it is to have lots of fun, be with family and be safe…
Gotta run the little one to school.
Enjoy!
Chris Durnan, designer
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!
Rain Rain Go Away.
You would think because I live in the desert I would love the rain and I do at times, but the last few days it has just been Rain Rain. My friend Lori laughs at me because where she lives they don’t get Rain. They get torrential downpours. Well thats fine, but this is the desert there are not run offs, rivers etc or it to go into. The city planning of streets don’t figure in the 2 inches of rain and therefor the roads get unnavigable and those who try to navigate it can’t drive and just pound through and sink their cars in fast running washes (deep dry river beds that fill up quick wen the water hits) And we live on a dirt road. So the roads wash away. Our choice this last one, but still watching someone hit the road in their little nissan sentra when even the big 4 wheel drive trucks won’t go through is embarrassing. Watching the sheer panic hit them of what they have done and how their car is now floating to the edge of the road and creating more of a water issue and then they end up sitting on top of the car until A) it goes down or B) they do a swift water rescue. Which under the “stupid motorist law” the driver will get billed for. Okay thats my rampage for today. ha.
And I must be in a mood because I could think of another… I went to get a pedicure today and it was so nice. I went to a different salon. I decided that since my previous Salon… Savvy Salon and Day Spa in Tucson, arizona only honors their gift certificates for 6 months and not the normal year that most others do in the area. I don’t need to go there anymore. Plus listening to the nail techs yammer on about their kids getting arrested blah blah is just to much. So I tried Gadabout. I paid ten dollars more then at Savvy and I felt awesome when I left. The people behind the counter talked to me. The hairdressers smiled at me as I walked out. The nail tech gave me some water to drink during my pedicure, offered me magazines and kept checking to make sure Iwas okay. It was phenomenal. I will be going back to her and referring others to her as well. I was the hold out in the family for Savvy and our friends and thinking there service was good and then decided. Nope I am done. So gadabout here I come. I need to get my hair redone so I will be chatting them up and finding a hair stylist as well. So kudos to Bobbi at Gadabout! She made my day.
This past weekend was Karate.. my sons first foray into the Karate world and the teachers first session for the next 6 weeks. The Instructor explains to them what he wants them to do for an obstacle course. And I watch the little kids as they stand in their ready pose. Hands up, back foot lifted on its toes and front foot slightly forward. Some of them are swaying. Some have given up the pose. By my little trooper is standing at the ready. He is serious about this and wants to continue coming. he knows Mom said if you don’t stay serious during class then guess what you won’t go anymore. So he is standing as still as possible and finally he has had it. He raises his hand says in a clear voice…. ” My legs are getting tired because I am standing like this SIR”.. The parents all start to giggle and I just smile. That’s my kid. :0) I think he might be the instructors new challenge. oh well as always. love my life
Enjoy!
Chris Durnan, designer
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!
Where have I been?
Where have I been?? Preparing uploads for the QMC of course.
Here are some of the new files that will be completely loaded to the QMC by tomorrow.
And more from this weekend tomorrow. I have been test cutting and tweaking and need to go sit on the couch with the hubby and watch a little tv. He is wooing me. He wants a 40 inch new flat screen. So he brought home a 24 inch tv for his new office we are building. Only we get to use it for now because his office isn’t completed. He is wooing and he is wooing right. It is very clear and I like it. Could just be that we were watching an 18 inch tv that was my Mom’s and gifted to me years and years ago. 🙂 But his wooing is working. He’s a great wooer.
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
Card to share
I have a new card to share. I used Chris’s file – Love My Coffee – which you can find here.
The stamped phrase reads:
I gave up coffee, sex and chocolate.
It was the worst 10 minutes of my life.
I also used a coffee ring stamp on the background in a cream color. Chris’s file also comes with a great title “Love My Coffee” and a matte for the title. Hop on over to Paperthreads.com and check it out!
Friday Friday.. love your blog award and 40% off sale
So… Heather.. Nominated me on her blog and how awesome is that. I love to visit her blog and see all her stamping genius. I want to grow up and be a stamper like her, but she knows tha
t because I hound her about pencils, stamps, ink pads etc. Was even gonna do a Christmas in July card for family. However, because of surgery and Christmas I didn’t get it done. But due to Heather I have pencils and stamps and pads and started collecting them. wew. Thanks Heather for the nomination…. soooo Here comes mine..
Lori . Shirley . Jan . Wendy . Ileana . Jen . Sandy
Here are the rules for playing:
1. The winner can put the logo on their blog
2. Link the person you received your award from
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs
4. Put links of those blogs on yours
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the people you have nominated
Well It’s Friday folks I am gonna sign off for the weekend and just get prepared for it. My Mom’s moving, my little one is starting Karate, we are planning to shoot off rockets, hopefully get some riding time in and just Enjoy!
Have a wonderful weekend.
Chris Durnan, designer
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!
Weekend Sale.. SOme new SCUT conversions. quick post
Hey Everyone! Just a quick note. I am running a sale this weekend. 40% off my section. I haven’t had alo of uploads to the store this year. However, I have been working on the QMC files. A few files that did upload were the mousey borders which I will try and link to later today. The sale goes through the 24th.
Also, I am working on conversions for SCUT.
I have Keeping Cool, Another Day in Paradise, Curious Minds, Can I keep It! And am working on some others as well. Hopefully this will make some of those who have emailed me requesting them happy.
I gotta run. Laundry to do today also. Have a wonderful day!
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
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
Knight Cards
I was asked to make a card for a little boy who loved knights & castles etc and new I had the perfect two items for the cards, my fabby rubber stamp and Chris’s sheild’s file are just a great pair, I loved them both I made another to display in the shop 🙂
Coupon, SCUT files, QMC ohhh and YIKES scorpion
Hello Hello!
Business first…
If you purchased the coupon file for today, Jumble Leaves 2 and requested the SCUT file. I sent out a ton of these this morning. If you didn’t get it. I missed your email for some reason. So please please send me an email to remind me. I wanna make sure everyone is covered.
Next I uploaded this file below to the QMC. I hope everyone likes it. It was so much fun to work with. I am still working on the SCUT version so hopefully I will get it done this afternoon. And have it completely loaded to the membership.
I got another email today about requests. I do take them. I don’t charge to create them. However, I reserve the right to not do a request that is copyrighted. And I do load those files requested to the store. Hope that all makes sense. So send your requests and make sure request is in your email subject. My email is HERE.
On to life…
So today is not as eventful as yesterday afternoon and evening. Thankkkk goodness. My little one decided to wad a whole roll of TP in the toilet and hmm… well we had run over and I have banned him from that room until I can finish cleaning up the floor again. I sprayed and rinsed it once, but now I need to do it again. And last night he says Mom a bug. I ask him to grab a shoe and smack it. I look and YIKES it’s a scorpion. We slept in his fort on Friday night and in dragging a blanket outside it must have attached itself. My hubby thinks it was a very very dead scorpion before it got smacked. He had ample time to look at it because after my son smashed it with a shoe I put a glass cup over it and waited for hubby to get its remains out of the house. I was not taking the off chance it was like some horror movie and the thing would decide to move when I went to pick it up. icko. yikes. So if it was a very Dead scorpion it was wrapped in a blanket we took to Prescott and camped with so it has been in my closet for a bit. ugh bugh yuck ick ook. So a bunch of ick yesterday. And as for today well I am off to clean that bathroom one more time and then hopefully I will be over the ick for a few days.
And as for you… Have a wonderful evening!
Enjoy!
Chris Durnan, designer
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!
Tuesday.. Coupon.. tadpoles..chewing like a cow..
Hello to all. It is Tuesday. If you wonder where I am .. well I am being creative and pushing a bunch of files around and test cutting and tweaking. When I get on these binges I don’t want to work on anything else. It is almost like my fingers can’t keep up with my brain. So that is where I am… creating away.
I have sent a coupon to the yahoo group for the Jumble of Leaves 2 file. I will be converting it to SCUT today for those who are interested. Just purchase the file and email me your receipt requesting it in SCUT form. I will send it on its way to you.
Hey have you been to the creative teams blog today??? Angie uploaded a phenomenal pic of an acrylic book that she scrapped. Check it out… HERE.. While you are there look at which layout Rosalie submitted with and won a White Ribbon at the Fair! AWESOME!
On to life.. So yesterday I took my little one to school because the hubby had an early appointment. And when we got there they had a fish bowl full of tadpoles. It was really cool. I haven’t seen tadpoles since I lived in Wisconsin. I was all excited. My son looked at me and smiled that.. “Yes Mother” smile. and he tried to get excited and looked at me and said MOM there just fish. I said no they grow into frogs they start like this and then get legs. and he looked at me and said. “And we will have FROGS in our classroom. What???” So I dropped it. Apparently Mom’s days living in Wisconsin on the farm searching out tadpoles is not nearly as cool as having a no frogs classroom. Well my other Wisconsin heritage came out a bit because I went to pick him up and he was sitting eating lunch. His teacher told me that she was told by my son “You should sit down and eat your whole lunch with your mouth closed. Because eating with your mouth open looks like a cow” Woops. ::hand raised:: that would be mom growing up on a dairy farm. hahah. oh well. on to the next day.
Have a wonderful day!!Enjoy!
Chris Durnan, designer
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! http://www.visualdesignsbychris.com/