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Archives for September 2009

Wow Wednesday already.. that means tomorrow is the start..

September 30, 2009 By Chris Durnan

If you are wondering where I am ? What I am doing?? then you haven’t been to the forum lately. I am adding, making changes, posting tips on the upcoming drawings and getting ready to celebrate! Make sure you stop by my blog tomorrow and see what there is to offer and visit the anniversary thread in the forum.

Wooohooo!!! Should be a fun Party!! Tons and Tons of Giveaways.
Enjoy!
Chris

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Hello to Monday…

September 28, 2009 By Chris Durnan

well my next few days will be jammed pack! And I have started some of the upgrades and changes in the forum already to prepare for the Party coming at the end of the week! Woohoo!!

I know the designers are preparing to for their giveaways as am I. So this will be a short and sweet post reminding you to join the forum and get logged in and post a few times so you are ready for drawings and giveaways.

Also a little tip from me to you… Visit the forum thread about the anniversary overview and you will start to see little details pop up so you can be ready and prepared. I am really impressed with all the giveaways and prizes we have come up with!!

A little on life.. My MIL is still holding her own. We are still lifting her spirits up with prayer. We look forward to some progress over the next few days. Lots of love and family around. that’s it for now.

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.

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Best Wishes Card using CD00467 and CD00577

September 27, 2009 By Chris Durnan

Here is a “Best Wishes” Card created using “CD00467_Mats” and “CD00577_Spring Swirls”, both from this quarters QMC membership. I decided I wanted to have some non Birthday Cards on hand for various occassions and these files came together so well that I couldn’t resist! The “Best Wishes” title came from Shirley Clark.

Thanks for looking,

Have a great day wherever you are!

Cheers, caz

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

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Birthday Card using CD00562 and CD00596

September 27, 2009 By Chris Durnan

Another creation using Chris’s fabulous files. I wanted to make a Birthday Card for a little girl and Chris’s “CD00562_Birthday Bear” was perfect. This was a file available in the QMC but is now available in the Store. Also handy was “CD00596_4th-6th Grade” from this quarters QMC! This card was created in PSCS3 and I have used a felt action on the Bear and the 6th.

Thanks for looking!

Have a great day wherever you are!

cheers, caz

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

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New Layout using CD00597

September 27, 2009 By Chris Durnan

As a member of Chris’s CT, I have the privilege of access to her wonderful QMC club! This “CD00597_LOL” was one of the last files posted in this quarters club. This session is closed now, but you can join the next QMC now!! Don’t miss out!!

This is a layout using pictures of my son being very silly and sharing his stained tongue after eating a lollie (sweet). His funny faces and antics always make me LOL!!

VDBC

Thanks for looking,

have a great day wherever you are!

cheers, caz

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

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an update…

September 26, 2009 By Chris Durnan

Thank you to everyone who stopped by yesterday and said a prayer. My MIL made it through surgery and woke up this morning demanding when she could go home. We spent some time avoiding the questions because it will be a bit of a stay for her. Let the nurses deal with that question. I just wanted to say thank you. I’m headed back up to the hospital. Thank you again to everyone!

Enjoy!
Chris

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No Boring Die Cuts…

September 25, 2009 By Chris Durnan

I will be in and out some today. If you find a moment in your day and can say a prayer for a phenomenal lady in my life, my Mother-in-law, I would appreciate it. As she goes in for major surgery. Thank you as always for being a part of my life and taking those moments to extend your prayers.

If I am not back to post today, have a wonderful weekend! I hope you find some time to craft. If you are looking for something to do. Darcy is running this weeks challenge and it is alll about jazzing up your die cuts. So don’t forget to try that one. She has some phenomenal ideas for you! And already some awesome entries. So check it out under Weekly Challenges in the forum.
Enjoy your day!
Chris

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the 8th QMC has hit the store… on special for a short time.

September 23, 2009 By Chris Durnan

Hello to everyone. Now is your chance to get the QMC for a gonga deal. In the past I have offered Early Bird Files, but this time around I am offering an Early Bird Special. If you purchase the membership when it first hits the store you can get it for $9.00 I decided to go this route this time because our one year anniversary is coming up… and I have files prepped to give away for that. So I thought this would be win win for joining members. Thank you as always for joining!

Different this time around I will be offering 6 file types instead of 5 for every file.

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

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Oh the animals… But first Happy Celebration..

September 22, 2009 By Chris Durnan

In case you didn’t know our anniversary is coming up. I am surrounded by a phenomenal group of people and there will be lots of ways to win items and have fun. I appreciate everyone around me who has helped me this year and joined me in the store this year. I could never say thank you enough We are celebrating with Lots of Candles instead of just one because there are so many I interact with everyday you all warm my heart and makes my day. So don’t forget to join the forum and post a couple of times so you can get ready to enter in all the drawings.

And now on to our crazy animal weekend. Here are a few this is our Border Collie Freckles. She has a frizbee that we throw for her. She loves to run. run. and run some more. She jumped up to grab the frizbee out of the air and caught it around her head and then wouldnt let me take it off. She just ran around happy happy that she had it to chew on and shake her head. It was cute so i had to shoot some pics. And yes that is our firepit wood and the fort or the “condo” as our horse shoer calls it. One day we hope to put flagstone in this area as a patio, but it is one of the many things on a list of t0 do’s. It is getting nearer but I am still searching for a source of flagstone. And have to have some water pipe and cables run underneath first. So it is almost a work in progress but right now just a thought in progress as i think through and watch for rental coupons for ditch witchs and other items.

And on to Freckles.. She looks like Astro from the jetsons. I told my hubby this and officially I dated myself. haha. She is just so much fun to watch run around. Eddie and Judy totally blessed us with their generousity and letting us have her. Half the time when she runs she doesn’t even look like she touches the ground.


And you would think I could get it off of her right here but she only let me take her picture and then would run off. My boys are in the house getting ready to go. I wish I had had a camera for the jump it was a huge jump in the air and when she hooked it she spun around like where did it go then did this weird jump happy dog dance and ran around faster then can be. It was fun!

And on Sunday. We saw this guy trying to cross the road. So we stopped and put him back on the side of the road. So he wouldn’t get hit. He probably thought “DAMN now I have to walk all that way again”, but with the traffic on that road on the weekends he woulda never made it. So seldom do we see the desert tortoises. I have seen pet turtles out in the desert and the neighbor down the road had an abandoned boa constrictor in her horse barn once. When you live on a dirt road lots of folks think you can drop things off because you dont want to take care of them anymore. It is very sad.
And then this picture below is the rescue team. haha. Yes that is a darth vader costume from a few Halloweens ago. My son is in full Halloween preparation and has even given me blueprints for decorations and the likes that he has hand drawn. We were on the way to Grandma’s and honestly Grandma and Papa won’t mind the costume. And I firmly believe in picking my battles. Walking into a grocery store in a darth vader cape not a major battle. Finding your library book in a room that looks like the entire squad of storm troopers faught in. A battle. And Darth Vader’s accomplice is pretty handsome if I do so say so myself. Love that guy. His look is why did you get out of the truck with a camera on the side of the road?? hahaah Isn’t it?and then when we got to Grandma’s … when we went to leave this guy which was larger then average backyard lizard here sat in front of the door. My Son opened the door and bent down and the lizard was an arms length away and the guy didn’t move. Didn’t even care that there were 4 adults looking at it and talking and moving about 20 inces from him. One with a camera. My son closed the door after Papa said. “If you let it in the house you get to find it. ” The Rescue squad didnt have their vader rescue costume on so we decided to leave him there and go out the front door.
And as for the Tilapia farming. It is going good. I have not had any floaters. I am going to have to seek out a source for food. I want to make sure it isn’t something that ads color or something we don’t need to ingest. My son sat with me and watched the tank yesterday evening and said. “what are we gonna do with them all” “I said we are gonna grow them in this tank and then when spring comes throw them in the stock tank and then we will fish for them.” He looked at me very calmly as he punched holes in my details and plans… His first comment which came with an incredulous look was… “Are they gonna get any bigger?” I had to giggle because right now they are just teeny (some are smaller then a pencil head) and then his next comment was “We don’t have a lake to fish here MOM!” The look was totally Well DUH! I said “that’s okay we’ll put them in the stock tank and pull the boat over and we can sit in the boat and cast off the side into the tank. It’ll be kind like being at the lake, but not.” He sat there quietly for a few seconds and mulled over the picture in his head and said to me… “That’s ridiculous” and walked away shaking his head. He left the room and I could not stop giggling. I told my hubby later and then we couldn’t stop giggling either. So I look forward to the day they are big enough to pull the boat over to the stock tank and see what my son has to say then. haha. I am sure it will be MOM you are ridiculous. But Hey it will be worth it to see him laugh at his silly Mom and enjoy the moment. Totally worth it.
Well that is animal kingdom for us last weekend without the riding horses included. Hope you enjoy my random family life stories and more.
Have a terrific Tuesday!
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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picture frame using another flame file

September 21, 2009 By Chris Durnan


I used another of Chris’s flame files from the QMC to make this picture frame. I painted the frame red, then used temporary adhesive to apply the flames, painted it all black, and used a toothpick to remove the flames. Insert picture, done!

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

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