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Chris Durnan

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Archives for February 9, 2010

Feb 2010 Card sketch

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Here’s my example for the February sketch challenge.    Cards are not my strength, I am much better at scrapbook pages, but I do enjoy giving a hand made card.  I also love that I use my scraps to make the cards. 

The die cuts I used were: 
1.  The bird from Happy Bird day
2.  The flourish by CAZ found in the sketch forum.  

Thanks for playing along.  I can’t wait to see what you create.   Rosalie

My hubbie’s Valentine Card…

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Here is my hubbies Vday card. It is not how it started out, but definitely I am happy with the end results. I always get stumped when trying to make a card for my hubby that is not so over the top and girly. I found this piece of paper. you can’t tell in the picture but the burnt red images are shiny and have a slight glitter touch to them. And there is more of a closeup of the paper further down. I had a stamp I bought on clearance that said yes no maybe so. And the blue staples my friend Lori sent me and at the time I was wondering what I would do with a 5000 box of blue staples, but I really like them and may need to do some searching for more when I make it through my reserves. This ribbon I ran across when organizing my ribbons into these nice oversized Ball Canning jars. More pictures on that later in the week. But when I saw the paper I knew the ribbon would match perfectly.

Here is a closeup of the ribbon. the angle of the word isn’t great to see but it says cherish. And you can see the little gold glitter hearts I drew in order to make it more Vday-ish. I love my sakura glitter pens.
Here is the inside. Which I used another corner of the paper and ripped it and attached to the maroon cardstock base I used. This card is square 6×6 and folds up.
Here is a closeup of the gold leaf. I have a few of these and think they are so classy and popped a little on the paper.  I glued it right along the spine so it wouldn’t stay flat.
And here are my words as I tried to write similar to the stamp I used. To make my own “absolutely” check box.
Well he tells me he doesn’t read my blog often. So I hope that still holds true. Or he better act totally impressed and in love with it when he opens it. hahaa.
All from my stash. Yeah!
And this year I am double happy because he got a homemade valentine again. Maybe I am learning how to manage my time a little bit better or have just wiped those things that don’t matter as much off my list of to-do’s and focused on the most important ones.
And don’t forget I am hosting this week’s weekly challenge…
A Valentine Project using one of my files. Any of my files.
The winner from a random draw receives a QMC complimentary membership.  Woohoo!
And for additional inspiration. Visit my Creative Teams blog
There are a lot of great Valentine Projects there.
Have a wonderful day!
Enjoy!
Chris

Chris Durnan, designer at www.visualdesignsbychris.com
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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!

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2000 and ten

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Used the 2000 and ten file from VDBC #CD00644.  I worked on this layout all weekend and just wasn’t satisfied… too many embellishments.  So I decided to go simple and focus on the photos.  Which is what we are supposed to do anyway, eh?  *smile*  So used the KISS (Keep it Simple Silly) method.  Created visual triangles with the color yellow and the use of brads. 

~Angie~
~I am blessed!!~

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