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Archives for December 2009

Getting better… Happy New Year!

December 31, 2009 By Chris Durnan

So my little one has had pneumonia. We are trying to get better. extra effort makes the coughs starts and his whole body just shakes. But a few days on the anti-biotics. So Hopefully he will be feeling better soon.

What I wanted to say was… HAPPPY!! New !! YEAR!!! to everyone. it is gonna be a fantastic year ahead!!

Scroll down to see our latest Sales Flyer and the news you can be grinning about!!!

Enjoy!
Chris

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Sales Flyer, Happy New Year 2009!

December 31, 2009 By Chris Durnan

Look at the great deals and our NEW Monthly Grab Bag! A great collaboration between 3 different designers each month. Such a great group of files and designers!

If you would like this Sales Flyer sent directly to your inbox you can subscribe on the right hand side of our store!! We only send twice a month and you will get all the great deals sent right to you!

Things to see and Enjoy! at http://www.visualdesignsbychris.com/

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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 !!!!

Beloved Keepsakes– – Lordy Lordy Look Who’s 40!!! Lori (aka Beloved Keepakes) is turning 40!!! And to help celebrate purchase Purchase $5.00 or more of Beloved Keepsakes Designs and you will get “The Big 40” cutter design for FREE!!! In addition – all Beloved Keepsakes Designs are 40% off from Friday Jan 1st until Sunday Jan 3rd, Midnight, Eastern Time! Let’s ring in the New Year with some cutter fun!!

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.

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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!

Darcy’s Designs… My section of the store is on sale for 40% off, now through Jan. 6th. Happy New Year & Happy Cutting!!

Little Creations… Happy New Year !!!!! Come Celebrate in the store with 40% from Dec 31st thru Jan 3rd. See my file featured in the Memory Makers book by Kathy Fesmire. Now offered to you.

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!

RSMobleys Designs: Happy New Years! Heres to Good Health and A Craftier New Year! Friday New Years Day Sale! All my files in my store even New and Collections will be 50% off, New years Day Only. Friday Jan 1. Happy Shopping! Sharon

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!

Purchasing Make-The-Cut software for use with the Cricut… use this coupon code for an additional 10% off … >>> See Side bar>>>>

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Calendar pages…

December 29, 2009 By Chris Durnan

I made a wall calendar for my parents for Christmas. Here are the months that I used Chris’ files on…

January: The top border and journaling box are from the August 2009 Challenge files. Snowflakes are from Sam and Hailey Designs Itty Bitty Snowflakes (JB00225) at http://www.paperthreads.com/.
February: “Love” is from CD00499 – Wedding Words 2.
March: “Wedding Day” is from CD00499.

June: “Family” is from CD00554 – Family Titles.

All charms are from http://www.acharmingplace.com/.

Thanks for looking!! Sandra from NC
Digi-Cutter Files offered in SCUT, GSD, KNK, WPC & AI (SVG) at www.visualdesignsbychris.com

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Glittery glittery letters… another Christmas Present

December 28, 2009 By Chris Durnan

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.

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1st of my homemade projects..Collecting Shells with Grandma

December 26, 2009 By Chris Durnan

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.

This vase was for my Mother In Law and I hope she really enjoyed receiving it. It was the first time I did etching and the verbage says “collecting shells with Grandma”. Every morning when on vacation Grandma likes to hit the beach and search for shells. These shells are the ones we picked this year. Some treasured moments and I hope seeing this vase will hold that for her. I, also, added teeny tiny crystals in blue brown and clear to the front to give it some sparkle. That you to Grandma for all those wonderful memories. I think the getting up early to get the “best” shells will be a passed down tradition as my husband loves to do it as well and my son talks about it whenever he thinks about the beach! Wonderful thank you! And I hope she liked her gift.
Tomorrow I shall have another one…
Have a safe rest of the holiday!
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!

My freebie files are offered in the forum.

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Cheesy Smiles with Santa

December 25, 2009 By Chris Durnan

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.

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Happy Holidays to all!!

December 24, 2009 By Chris Durnan


We celebrate Christmas here in the Durnan household,
but I want to wish all of you that celebrate
family, faith and joy this holiday season a Happy Holidays.
Wishing you and yours happiness and
safe celebrations throughout the holidays!
Enjoy!
Chris

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Love that kiddo…

December 23, 2009 By Chris Durnan

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


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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New Layout using CD00621 – Sledding

December 22, 2009 By Chris Durnan

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

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oh yes and the glitter is everywhere…

December 22, 2009 By Chris Durnan

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.

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