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Chris Durnan

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lost and found moment…

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I have this super cute little box filled with little vials filled with blingy goodness… also called heatset rhinestones. .. I have plans for my t-shirt for Scout Camp in a few weeks. I tore apart my studio. I vowed to go through the boxes and mess. to get rid of the piles of paper that seem to migrate to my studio from the house. I looked and looked. I leaned back in my chair to close my eyes and think… what did I work on last? my blingy pocket on my jeans. I should know… where did I put them… and I opened my eyes and looked down and there they were on the floor they had slid off the table and landed on the carpet luckily and not spilling everywhere. Wew. all is right again. thank you thank you! Just had to share my relief. And now I should make good on the clean the studio thing… or at least make it a goal for finishing by the end of June.  yes I will get some of it cleaned up… for now I think I need a piece of chocolate…

Hope you’re having a great day!
Enjoy!
Chris

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LO Share: Beach mini album – page 11

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Sometimes I start out a page with an idea to use a specific cutter file; but sometimes, I’m not intending to use one at all.  That was the case on this mini album page.  Then… it just needed a little something.  So I used just a piece of the file “Swimming in the Lake” #CD00748 from Visual Designs by Chris.  I cut the grass – one of them twice.  I pop dotted two of them.  Other materials are netted ribbon, a seashell charm, pearls from Michaels, words from Authentique, ribbon and a designer paper clip.  Love these pics of my girls.  I wanted a nice photo of them at the beach but then Savannah started being silly and one thing led to another.   *smile*  I just kept clicking the shutter button.   
 
This is page 11.  The previous page 11 was page 12.  *wink*

~Angie~ (Missouri)
~I am blessed!!~

LO Share: Beach mini album page 3 – using #CD00869

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Another page in the beach mini album.  Patterned Paper is old Studio K from a K & Co pad.  Words are from Authentique.  Fiskars scallop border punch.  Pearls and crochet border were recently purchased from Michaels.  A few buttons from my stash threaded with a yellow thread.  All about those little details!  The cool summer scene is cut using #CD00869 from Visual Designs by Chris found here: 

Beach Mini album

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I am creating a mini album for our family vacation to Gulf Shores, Alabama, in 2009. I used some Accu-cut dies at my local scrapbook store to cut the pages placing a piece of chipboard between the cardstock to give it some bulk.  I think the pages are about 8 1/2 x 5 1/2.  The cardstock I used is textured with a white core so I sanded the edges and the entire surface of the paper. Many of the images are mounted with foam squares to add dimension and texture to the album. 
 
On the cover page, I used a seahorse and seashell from Packet of Seashells from VDBC #CD00284 that can be found here:
 
I am doing the pages out of order but on page 11, I used two different seashells and a star fish from that same file.  There are several images in this file so I will be able to use it throughout the album. 
 
Cover page:  I used a netty kind of ribbon, a beach coaster that I have had for ages, a shell charm, a “family” sticker that is old old old.  Remember slide mounts!  I stamped this one with a sand stamp then printed the word Vacation on my printer.  Wrapped some white jute rope that will be able to be used on the page on other side as well.  I used a pink heart mini brad on the seahorse and to get a visual triange of hearts and pink, I added two Heidi Grace heart stick pins.  They are stuck in the foam square that is attaching the coaster to the page.  Behind the coaster is some cardboard with the backing torn off and barn white acrylic paint dry brushed onto it.  To include the theory of threes, I also dry brushed the shell and the seahorse. 
 
Page 11:  used the netty ribbon again.  The PP throughout will be some ancient K&Co. paper from a pad that I bought maybe a decade ago.  It will help pull the album together to use papers from the same line.  A few mini brads, some word stickers, a little bling from the $1 bin at Michaels but it happened to be half off.  Bargain! 
 
Will share more as I get them finished. 
 
~Angie~ (Missouri)
~I am blessed!!~

Scout – Fish Match

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If you follow my blog you know I am a Scout Den leader. I like to post my projects here because it is hard sometimes to figure out something that is easy and active for a bunch of kids who are there because they want to learn about something new.

I created a fish match game. I cut 4.25×5.5 cards to put information about fish on each card and the Scouts would need to match the fish with their description. I put these on a binder ring so they would hold together.
At our next den meeting, I plan to set the clock for 2 minutes and hand out a card to each Scout and they will have to find their match. This will be their buddy for the den meeting. As we are trying to work on the buddy system before camp and make it something natural and a reflex to not go anywhere without a buddy. 


And luckily when we went fishing the Arizona Game and Fish was there so I could grab a couple of their regulations for our meeting and in the back they had sketches of fish and their descriptions. So Awesome. 
I cut up some and put

And of course because after our den meeting this is going in my “game box” I added the key on the back so I would remember. My kids are whips if I put the the letter A on each one that match eachother they would figure it out and just match letters. so I did A and 1. so a letter and number. but in case I am not the only one digging in the game box for something for the kids to do. I added it to the back of the cards. 

I hope you enjoy my little projects. 

This project is good for the Wolf Elective fishing in helping kids recognize different fish. 
As well as the fishing belt loop for cub scouts. 
Enjoy!
Chris

Love those flowers.

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I just had to share these beautiful flowers my hubby got for me. Arent they just gorgeous they make me swoon. 🙂 so beautiful. Love the color in our brown desert world. And look at the screen door. I still loveeee the screen door. Hubby is the best!!!
Enjoy!
Chris

Things I find in my freezer…

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The conversation went something like this…
Mom: ahhh…what is this?
D: what? Oh … Yeah he’s frozen in Carbonite
M: in my freezer?
D: yeah. ( big smile) I’ll get him out later (takes tupperware container and puts back in Freezer and walks away.) (I pause as he wonders away and he looks back and says..)
D: use your imagination.

My thoughts… Wow what did he do to get frozen. I mean he’s a lego guy his arms dont even move in full range. You have to turn his head to change his mood to the backside and then he can see his own backside. Wew.
It’s always interesting. Love my life.

Mom of an 8 year old boy tip of the day… .. Don’t ever confuse Carbonite of Star Wars with the Cryptonite of Super Man. You will get an eye roll. haha. a big one

Have a fantastic day!
Enjoy!
Chris

Games & Headphones Cutter File

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First let me say… HAPPPPPY Birthday to my fantastic son. Who is 8 today. I cannnnot believe Dr. D is 8 .Just fantastic.  Well on to my offering to you for his birthday. We like to celebrate birthdays by giving!.
Enjoy!

 This file was created for an Easter basket gift. Welll… woops… Here is my Easter story…

  The gift that gave the bunny away.

My son went through his Easter basket after finding it on the treasure hunt with my awesome hubby. I made this box for his easter basket. Threw it in.  Perfect box for his Nintendo ds games and headphones for it.
He smiled at me as he went through his basket and said “Mom does the bunny have a vinyl machine to?” I smiled and said. I wouldn’t know but maybe.
He smiled back.
Wooops. Yep I know the Easter Bunny is short lived. However, I found it humorous that my KNK addiction almost gave away the Easter Bunny! 
Enjoy!
Chris

You can download this file HERE. the password is iagreetou. This means that you agree the file is only for your personal use. You will need to be a registered member of the forum to download.

For those current QMC members, I already uploaded the file a few days ago. If this has expired on my blog. Current QMC members will find it in the Quarterly membership Club along with all the other downloads from my blog this year.  Enjoy!

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QMC: Kick It! Soccer file

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I uploaded this file to the QMC yesterday. did you get it?

Join the QMC here if you’d like this file and the others for $10.00

I created the file to because my son was very into soccer the last few months. Can I just say seeking out all the soccer “stuff”, even tho’ there is a duffle bag for it, is very tiring as a Mom. So I was glad to be done for a month or to before we do some summer camps.

Hope you Enjoy!
Chris

Mater List for QMC Feb-April 2012

CD 
1. CD00912 – Race Day – UL 
2. CD00911 – Little Devil – UL
3. CD00913 – Shooting for the Heart – UL 
4. CD00914 – Luck Set – UL 
5. CD00915 – Flower and Bird –ul 
6. CD00919 – First Comes Love – u 
7. CD00920 – Going for a Walk
7. CD00921 – Kick It! – Soccer


BK
1. BK00480- Groundhog Day – UL
2. BK00481 – I love U – UL
3. BK00467 – Our Family Roots… UL
4. BK00485 – Leap Year – UL
5. BK00492 – Sweet For You! – UL 
6. BK00493 – Kiss Me –
7. BK00494 – Vintage Easter Title –  
8. BK00495 – Eggcellent – 



Perk files offered for current members of the QMC

#19 – Thank you Bird Notecards
 #20 – Headphones & Games
#18 – Octopus Digicut 
   #17 – Seahorse – Digicut
   #15 – Zebra Stars – Feb 3rd
  #16 – Football, Blog Feb 5
   #14 – Your love – January 26th
 #13 – Happy (heart) Day – Jan 19th, 2012
 #12 – Cupid Heart Graduated Border
 #6 – Next to you…
 #11 – 2012 Year of the Dragon
  #8 – ijkl – round vine set
 #10 – Powered by Pixie Dust
 #9 – Wreath FRB from my blog 907
  #7 – Circle VIne Monogram – efgh
#5 – Circle Vine Monogram abcd
 #4 – Class of 2011
 # 3 – Shamrock tree
# 2 – Fun Gals – Blog Freebie Jan 28th
  #1 – Group of Hearts – Blog Freebi

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Scouts – Teepees

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So you may see me type out Teepee in many different ways in this post Tipi etct. When I looked up how to spell it, it said that the word was spelling in many different way. I found this quite interesting. I love to read and words are just awesome. I use Overdrive to download from my library. I love that I can rest my finger on the word and a dictionary icon will pop up. This is awesome. But I type fast so sometimes I use the wrong version of a word. Okay well… back to my post.
In the section of the Wolf book are a few Native American Electives, We wrapped some of these up together. We made teepees out of Brown  and paper and then drums. I collected containers and painted them all yellow. We drew our native american stories on the sides of our drums. We used Bic Mark-It Markers. (Love these. I have a whole little tin bucket filled with them. just the great colored lids make me happy. One of the den parents was oohing and ahhing them. just awesome!). Then we sat in a circle on the floor and read our story and banged on our drums. The boys seemed to have a great time. 
The close one is my sons and the back one is my prototype. I could have cut this on my Klic-n-kut, but decided to let the boys hand cut them out. 
In order to put the tents together, we took 5 pipe cleaners 6 inches long. 
Then twisted the tops and spread those out. After cutting out the teepee pattern, we then drew symbols on our teepees that showed who we are. (many of the teepee designs had to do with wars and battles according to what I read and my 7 year old Wolves haven’t really been in battle. So we drew images about ourselves or about the things we like to do on weekends. 
The tab in the picture folds over two of the pipe cleaners and can taped or stapled which ever is easiest. In the effort of time we stapled ours. 

The most difficult part for the boys in writing a story was there was no “the” and words like that for perfect sentences. I found it very interesting to see.

It was a great night and we got to make noise beating our drums and telling our stories. So fun. 
I didn’t get a chance to get this pattern converted to many file types so I will repost this with the file to cut the teepees in the next few weeks. So come on back!
Enjoy!
Chris

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