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Football Weekend hapennings

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Lots happening….
For a quick rundown…
The newsletter went out .. Did you get it? Here it is… 

Did you get the freebie I posted this week? There will be a few offered on Sunday as well. But for the old ones scroll down to see Thursdays.

And I am running a sale to coincide with my Card A Day Blog post tomorrow.

Please add my Facebook page or my blog address to your reader so you can keep up on everything we are working on…

And in the forum…
Sketch Challenges, Grab Bag Challenges… Well read the newsletter and you’ll get all the details. 

Hope you have your appetizer ready to go for the Superbowl Sunday. I’d love to know if you’re gonna try something new. I am going to try this one called Patriotic Chex Mix. with a few alterations for my allergies.
We don’t play to attend a party, but I think my son will have fun making it and any extra I can add to lunches this coming week.

Please let me know if you have something your going to try for the first time or make as your standby for superbowl. Always interested!

Enjoy!
Chris
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Zebra Stars Freebie

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Soooo it’s Thankful thursday… Today I have some fun stars with a zebra pattern. I am working on some zebra files for a friend and the stars just came to life so I am offering them to you for a fun project. I love stars so maybe I will have to expand on this thought.


I am offering this file in the forum free for a few days.Stop by here and enter the password febloveiagreetou and download. You must login to the forum to download. While there stop by the Sketch Challenge and get your second project of the year done. 

Things I need to say. 
When you enter the password it says I agree TOU. it means that you agree to my terms of use that this is a personal use. In order for me to keep creating freebies. Please send folks here to my blog. Another good place to find me is on my facebook page for quick updates. 

Answers to Questions..
Folks ask my why am I loading to the forum and why the password. Well my other option is a site perhaps like 4shared etc. So you would follow the same steps only instead you go to the forum on the VDBC site and download. I am trying to centralize my work and time on the net so I can create create create. (I am having success with this goal as I have been creating like crazy.) So once you have registered at the forum you can continue to download the freebies by using the passwords. They change once a month rather then every time. So sometimes the forum may not even ask you for a password if you already entered it that month. 🙂 And that is the blah blah blah of today’s post. 

So now run on over and grab that file. And just remember…. 
For the QMC members this file as always is in the
Perks section for current members of the QMC. 

Enjoy!
Chris
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Valentine’s Day card using Chris Durnan’s file

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This great file is part of a file set in the Quarterly Membership Club. I love how cute this is. I cut it, matted it on a piece of black paper, and layered it on a piece of patterned paper with pink birds with tiny little hearts on each one. I stamped the greeting inside and instant Valentine’s Day card. Here is the link to the newest QMC.

Thanks for looking,
Sussann

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

Free Pizza Printable

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This past weekend was Pinewood Derby for our Cub Scouts. We wanted to give each Scout a piece of pizza for participating when they were done.When a Scout checked in they got this little token to turn in for pizza at the end. It worked out really well and it helped us keep an eye on pizza and how much we used up for the Scouts and were extra. Parents were happy to their kids got a little something to munch on after all their efforts.

In case anyone could use it for Scouts or any other project, I wanted to share.
I changed it a bit from ours to give you a little more room to use it for other events. 

And here is the cover page of the file below. Included is a pizza with circle words and no circle keyline or with a circle keyline. I cut mine with a 2 inch circle punch after I printed them. However. you could them square to if it makes your life easier. Enjoy!

** Here is the download link… **

Chris

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Your Love Freebie & QMC

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Thankful Thursday so I am offering a freebie to you. But first for the tons of folks who have asked: the new QMC is hitting the store today. This is $10.00 for 24 files. I am joining with Lori of Beloved Keepsakes. So we will be working it together and have them all loaded for you by the last day in April. Also you will have access to the “perks” section which is where I put all my freebies last year and this years as well for you to download. so after you download, please join the QMC. I already previewed a few of the files last week. It’s gonna be lots of fun!

And now for the freebie.

 This is a file that you could replace the balloon and add a cross for those celebrating a religious holiday. or use it for Valentine’s Day.

This file is offered as a freebie in MTC, SVG, GSD, KNK, WPC, AI & DXF

I am offering this file in the forum free for a few days.Stop by here and enter the password newyeariagreetou and download. You must login to the forum to download. While there stop by the Sketch Challenge and get your first project of the year done!. 

Things I need to say. 
When you enter the password it says I agree TOU. it means that you agree to my terms of use that this is a personal use. In order for me to keep creating freebies. Please send folks here to my blog. Another good place to find me is on my facebook page for quick updates. 

Answers to Questions..
Folks ask my why am I loading to the forum and why the password. Well my other option is a site perhaps like 4shared etc. So you would follow the same steps only instead you go to the forum on the VDBC site and download. I am trying to centralize my work and time on the net so I can create create create. So once you have registered at the forum you can continue to download the freebies by using the passwords. They change once a month rather then every time. So sometimes the forum may not even ask you for a password if you already entered it that month. 🙂 And that is the blah blah blah of today’s post. 

So now run on over and grab that file. And just remember…. 
For the QMC members this file as always is in the
Perks section for current members of the QMC. 

Enjoy!
Chris



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My files in the store can be located here. Thank you for stopping by!

2012 – Year of The Dragon

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This layout is for Chris in my capacity as a member of her CT . Chris creates the most amazing files and I am so lucky to be on her Team. This particular file came from her last QMC which is a membership run every few months providing you with more than 20 files for the tiny sum of $10. This layout uses CD00910 – 2012 year of The Dragon, which is so new it isn’t in the Store yet!

The photos are of a Bearded Dragon that frequents our yard at times. This one was quite happy to pose on the branch for some photos and seemed perfect to compliment Chris’s file.

The cutter files have had styles and textures added to them to add dimension, the kit is mine, “Autumn Breezes” . Designed to show that personal cutter files can be used digitally very successfully!

Thanks for looking

created by Caz in PSCS5

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

30 in 30 download.

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So in my New Year’s Goal vibe. Here is a little sheet I call 30 in 30. I am a big list person. I feel so much better if I can see I accomplished something that day. There are so many little things I would like to do around the house and the studio. So I have this list up on the fridge with little things on it that I want to do. Like I hang new curtains from Christmas. I just keep running out of time to do it. So I am gonna put it on this list. Every time I look at my “Mail Center” I think I need to fix that. I have the ideas. Just not the done part. Every time I look at the junk drawer I think yeah I could just sit down one night and run through it. But by the end of the day. I must admit I don’t think straight and can’t remember those little things. Like how long have I been thinking about rehanging my grandma’s quilt because it looks off centered. It sounds insane and maybe I am the only Mom that gets lost in the to-do’s and the interrupted before the Ta-Done part. But just in case here is a file. Both are printable and come in a different color schemes and one is fillable. So you can type it up on the computer.

This is for your personal use. Please download with that in mind. 
You will need to be a registered member of the forum to download.
But no password is needed. 

If you share on Pinterest please add my name with @Chris Durnan so I know it has been added to the Pinterest world and can follow your boards as well if you are a follower or HashTag me #chrisdurnan so I can see what is liked the most and what isn’t and work in that direction.

Enjoy!
Chris

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My files in the store can be located here. Thank you for stopping by!

Menu Monday

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Welcome to Monday!!!

I am busy busy. Trying to get a bunch of items under control before I get the call.  We have a sick little boy who has been home for the last few days and missed some big events and begged to go to school today.  I am hoping it makes it through the day, but am on standby to pick him up. I am working on my menu for food today. We picked up a bountiful basket this past weekend. So gotta make a menu plan.

So here goes.

Monday
Grilled Chicken and Brussel Sprouts. Going to try this recipe. Crunchy Sweet Brussel Sprout Salad.
-Cook extra chicken for Tuesday.

Tuesday
Extra Grilled Chicken and Make Chicken Nachos
-Tortilla Chips, Chicken chunks, Cheese, Salsa, Sour Cream melted together

Wednesday
Grilled Salmon or Steak? (Gotta ask Hubby) And Grilled Cauliflower (We grill cauliflower in tinfoil. First we toss them in a little olive oil. My goal this year is to cut salt completely out of my cooking because we all put salt on our meals. So if I can cut it in one place. It’s a start. So I won’t be salting it before it grills. ) This menu sounds really good. From Food Network.  However, I just don’t have all of these ingredients on hand. Although I see grapeseed oil showing up more and more. I wonder what that is like. It seems to be a tossup for olive oil. I will have to look more into it.

Thursday
Busy Night… Leftovers

Friday Night
Freebie Friday. Kiddo gets to make the meal or decide to not cook and have make your own.

So that is my calendar for food. This is a New Year’s Goal. Get more on top of our food and using up these awesome bountiful baskets.

We also got pomegranate in our basket. I think just two of them. Does anyone have any interesting ideas for this?

We also got lots of pears. I think I am gonna cook it down into pear sauce. I have one of those cool kitchenaid attachments that will pull the peals out and give you the pear sauce. Or grill pears might be the next option. Think skewer them and maybe drizzle them with a lite sauce for better grilling. I will have to do some seeking on this.

And thank you!! I have received some really positive and happy emails over the weekend. Thank you! I really appreciate when folks take that few seconds to say Hey! Thinking about you. And for some reason when worrying about my little one these positive notes showed up in my emailbox. Just wonderful. Thank you! You made my day.

And now I am off to find some meds. Yep yep. Sharing is caring is the words they say. Personally when it comes to colds. I don’t think of caring as sharing.

Have a fantastic Monday!

Enjoy!
Chris

Sense of ???? what???

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The quote of the week from my little child…

My little eye rolling & trying to get my “goat”  child…

So we are working on homework. New concept. I am getting a little out of sorts trying to explain .. .and well.. we are finally done. Wew. I think he got it… but …

 I started being silly and annoying and…. Buggy .. just a Mom…

 

My son says in a very dramatic sigh and voice…. “ My Mother has no sense of HUMILIATION!”  ( I notice him smiling and looking to see the reaction.)

Seriously? I humiliated him in front of the dogs,the horses? What? There is nothing around us to humiliate him in front of… . So I got up.. put on the tunes as loud as I could. And danced around and air guitared and head banged my long hair. And by the end of it he was on the floor banging away with drum sticks from Rock Band and laughing and thoroughly enjoying….

 

Oh did I tell you he wants to start a Rock Band. Yeah him and three other friends and he has plans….

 

OH BUDDY! Wait ‘til you see your Mom’s “sense of humiliation” just you wait !

 

Love my life. I truly do. Love my life.

 

And on that note. Have an awesome and rocking weekend!!! We plan to!

Enjoy!
Chris

Happy “Heart” Day

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One of my new year’s resolutions was to go back to offering regular freebies on my blog. So here is my attempt at meeting that goal. I love to create files and I love to share them. I just get the wierd look from my hubby when I spend hours and hours on the computer working on a “node” that just isn’t right. And I love to be able to support my family with something I love. So thank you for stopping by to get this file and thank you to those who stop by and visit my store. In supporting me, you help me support my family. 


So here is today’s freebie.  I thought you could use it for a wedding, a great day, or even Valentine’s Day. 



And for those who like the border I am offering it in the forum free for a few days.Stop by here and enter the password newyeariagreetou and download. You must login to the forum to download. While there stop by the Sketch Challenge and get your first project of the year done!. 

Things I need to say. 
When you enter the password it says I agree TOU. it means that you agree to my terms of use that this is a personal use. In order for me to keep creating freebies. Please send folks here to my blog. Another good place to find me is on my facebook page for quick updates. 

Answers to Questions..
Folks ask my why am I loading to the forum and why the password. Well my other option is a site perhaps like 4shared etc. So you would follow the same steps only instead you go to the forum on the VDBC site and download. I am trying to centralize my work and time on the net so I can create create create. So once you have registered at the forum you can continue to download the freebies by using the passwords. They change once a month rather then every time. So sometimes the forum may not even ask you for a password if you already entered it that month. 🙂 And that is the blah blah blah of today’s post. 

So now run on over and grab that file. And just remember…. 
For the QMC members this file as always is in the
Perks section for current members of the QMC. 

February 1st is the signup date for the next QMC. 🙂 
Mark Your Calendar. I have a surprise… 🙂 Yeah!

A sneak preview of files loading for the QMC… 



To get quick fun updates of things going on, you can join my facebook page.

My files in the store can be located here. Thank you for stopping by!