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Valentine LO using CD00286

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I enjoyed making the card so much that I decided to use the same fancy swirl accent #CD00286 from Visual Designs by Chris to make a layout.
 
Isn’t this pup just the cutest?  This is my grand puppy.  She is 7 1/2 pounds of pure love!  The sweetest dog I have ever met.  No one will ever replace our Abby girl  but this pup sure makes me smile.  I pop dotted the photo.  Scrap papers from my table.  Sometimes it pays NOT TO clean up the mess, eh?  Pearl, pearl swirl and brads all from Hobby Lobby.  Heart pins from Heidi Grace.  Mix of flowers… some were Prima and some were freebies from something.  I think maybe pulled off of a silk flower stalk.    The epoxy sticker says My Valentine Baby and was from a package in the $1 bin at Michaels. 
 
Another example of how you can use your other product with a VDBC file!

~Angie~
~I am blessed!!~

Visual Designs by Chris Creative Team Member
http://www.visualdesignsbychris.com
(all images are cut using the Blue Wishblade)

Why is it?

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Why is it.. When I eat frozen bananas I am fine? When I ate barely ripe bananas I am fine?When I eat bananas that are ripe. I take a bit I chew. i think wow this is such a sweet fruit yum. I swallow and work on something and then GAG. This is the only food that does that to me. I like it. I can eat  firm bananas but the ripe ones. Well the ripe ones don’t agree with me. Weird. Just weird.

Why is it … That my fancy Copic markers in the seperate bin are not as fun as the 100 markers in the drawer that say Crayola? hmm.. they appear to color the same to me, but apparently not for my son. Well the obvious reason is the obvious reason why I have them seperated. but mostly that is because I don’t think you should color the tips with each other to see which color you get. That technique is definitely for Crayola. Love Mom.

Why is it … My son prefers fruit rollups to fruit gummies? I don’t get the difference? One day I will take a rolling pin and roll a gummy flat and show him. But I know he will roll his eyes at me and walk away with it.

Why is it .. the school my child goes to had the children waiting for pickup standing outside when it had been raining, but was still lightening very visibly and very close. so close that you could feel the electric charge in the air.  There most be a better way. This was a puzzler for me.

Why is it… Well mostly probably … JUST BECAUSE.. Have a great 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.

Sundays food blessing…

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One of my Sunday blessings I do is sit down and figure out what to eat during the week. It’s a blessing for me because so many I know are struggling right now. We have these wonderful things to eat. Therefore it is a blessing.  So rather then cleaning out the fridge, trimming up the veggies, shopping for groceries, cooking up dinner, cleaning up dishes, tables, spills and thinking of it as some form of chore or tedium. I try to keep it in mind that it is a blessing. For a long time I thought planning our meals was a boring thing to do. Why not be impulsive and just go with it every day. But now I relish it and it means we eat soooo much better. It means during the week I don’t have to concentrate on food. I just look at my list. take out the food that should thaw for that evening and go about my day. When dinner time comes I don’t stand in front of the fridge and stare at what I should have thawed or prethrown in the crop pot and then I call the hubby and say let’s do pickup. This picture below is what I try to incorporate in my week. Here is my $15.00 haul from Bountiful Baskets this week (what you don’t see is the buried grapefruit bag and the romaine lettuce.) We are looking at red peppers, tomatoes, cauliflower, champagne grapes, english cucumber, peaches, cauliflower, mangos, sweet corn ( I am sure I am missing something.) Now to make a plan….

In this picture I see these things I can fit into our meals.

Corn on the cob, Grilled peaches, mango salsa or mango smoothies, cucumber and tomato salad, and cauliflower. (oh I am determined to figure something out for this veggie I generally ignore).
What do you see that I could make with my veggies and fruits?
So I think…
Monday – Burgers, Corn on the cob grilled, and peaches grilled in tin foil with brown sugar and cinnamon (my son will probably want to pour this over some vanilla ice cream)
Tuesday .. Chicken and some Cauliflower recipe (have to look something up) with mango & banana Smoothies for desert
Wednesday …  Make your own Gluten Free Pizza Crust Pizza ( I use the personal kinnick crusts. They are square and cook the most even and we can make our own). I think the toppings offered will be cheese, chicken leftovers from the grill, red pepper slices, Tomatoes sliced, Corn (from the extra ears I will cut off and put in the fridge) My favorite is Tomato, Green onion (not in the basket bummer), pesto sauce.. no red, and chicken chunks.
Thursday .. Sandwich and leftover night. with Cucumber, Tomato, Feta Cheese and Olives tossed with EVOO and seasoning to go with…. It’s cub scouts night. Minimal cooking on my part and the salad will be an excellent leftover for Friday lunch for me.
Friday night…  ??? This is the night we decide what we want right then. This last weekend we were at Grandma’s. Usually we grab something out to celebrate the end of another great week. Or just have munchies while we watch a movie or enjoy a campfire. (Think Roasted hot dogs over the campfire)
So these are my thoughts for the week. Do you have any other thoughts.. Anyone have a great use for grapefruits other then using them like softballs for the border collie to chase? Huge bag of them under all that other good stuff and my hubby likes them, but I am not sure how many he can eat that quickly.
Well on to the next Sunday Mission. The Champagne Grapes are mostly missing already. My son who had never had them.. Nor had my hubby and I.. my son thought they were just sooooo cute and when he took a bite. just soooo delish. Yeah for another new try in the produce dep’t.
Enjoy!
Chris

Chris Durnan, designer at www.visualdesignsbychris.com GSD KNK WPC SVG 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.

Voting in the QMC

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We have some voting going on in the QMC for  a couple of files. Here is a picture of some of them cut and used. If you are a qmc member, head over to the forum to vote. And if you are not a QMC member yet… Jump on in!

Enjoy!
Chris

Layout using CD00737

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This layout uses digital personal cutter files CD00737 – Parrot  that is a file available in the QMC that Chris runs in her Store on a quarterly basis.
 
I have used styles and textures to add dimension to the Cutter files and created this layout using Photoshop CS3. The photos are of a Cockatoo that we found injured in our yard. He was so friendly, took water out of a bottle that we fed him. However, turned out this was a symptom of something far more nasty (he was a wild bird) and unfortunately he died whilst waiting to see the Vet.
 
Designed to show that cutter (Cricut, Pazzles, Klic N Kut etc) files can be used digitally!
 
Thanks for looking,
 
cheers, caz

Todays post is gonna be an update of sorts…

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Okay time to do some updating.

First off the newsletter went out on Monday. you can still see it here for a limited time.

When you are looking at the newsletter take a peak at the grab bag. Decide if you need it for your school pictures and gaming pictures especially with the holidays coming and grab it while you can. Now that you have the grab bag you can participate in the Weekly Challenge and get entered to WIN next month’s grab bag. Which I have seen and is oh so so cute! Also, don’t forget to check the designers blogs that where in the grab bag. I have heard rumors that there will be bonuese and perks for those who participate in the challenge. woohoo! Love those.

and next… did you see these I am offering them on sale in the store.. for 3.99 each…
The Halloween Collection and the School Collection #1

And now I must run to finish up some files!! Don’t forget to read through all the awesome goodies in the newsletter. 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.

The Rocket Book!!!

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This is my Rocket Book I gave to my sister. I embellished some but not alot so she could fill it with her own tastes and desires. She is having her second child so I didn’t want to give her something she already has so I decided to make a simple book with some items in it to get her started. I think she really liked it.
I hope you do to. Enjoy! Chris

So my son decided he needed his picture taken with the book since he helped. So here is the picture.
And this was the front page.
My son kept trying to squish the front page flat I had to show him I put some of the pieces on with op dots so it wouldn’t be flat. OHHHHH is what I was told. ha!

This is kinda the title page. Originally I was going to write on the outside edge of the cut outs “Arrived” Weight” Time” Date” etc with arrows pointing to the centers of the stars and rockets, but I wasn’t sure my Sister would want it that way so I left it blank. And yes this is the “waste” from cutting all those rockets for the shower and stars. I couldn’t get rid of it.

This files is in the QMC already 1st snuggles. Yeah I cut it to big. So had to run it off the page. I only glued the center portion so she can slip the pictures underneath the edges.
This page above was my son contribution. I thought He balanced it quite well. Then he started digging in my bag and tada… glitter pen. So he had to add “shootings” to the stars to make them “shooting starts” very cute. He was most impressed my sister pulled it out and found his page right away. he was very excited and said he needs to do a few more for other family members. He used my Cricut to cut the Love and the rockets and stars were already cut. So it is ready for a picture.
And this page I just cut the 1st snuggles file with rockets in the window so i could get mroe pieces to create this page. It has a few spots for pictures.
And this was one of a few extra pages that I put minimal embellishment on it so my Sis could fill it with her own things.  We can’t wait for the new baby chase to show. 🙂
So now she has his first memory book started. Woohoo!

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.

Baby Party Decorations

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Here they are those baby party decorations we made with the Rocket Cuts now in the QMC. This was fun to help my sister’s friend plan. I cut lots of rockets to hang and the new baby’s name to decorate. I cut little rockets and glued them doublesided on to toothpicks. I love it all. Came out awesome. i hope you like the pictures.

My sister’s friend and I debated left and right cupcake or cake. My sister wanted cake with butter cream icing and raspberry jam in the inside. Apparently we are a small member of people who put this in the middle of their cakes. So so yum. I tried to make the butter icing once for one of my own cakes and just screwed it up, but will have to try again. Butter and Powdered Sugar how hard can it be?
And this is the top of the cake with my little Rocket Cuts file on toothpicks. first we had them on the cupcakes but then moved them. I loved it.
And this is my sister’s fireplace. More rockets and stars and baby names.
We hung these on fishing line so they floated. and my Mom attached stars to the bottom of the green streamers to weigh them down. (I had the streamers in a bag from my sons 1st or 2nd birthday party. the theme was John Deere. I am a packrat for sure, but they matched perfectly. )
This is my cutey patootey niece and son under the crib. They love the new rocket room. Which i will debut when my sister sends me pictures. She emailed and said she thought it was worthy of my blog. hahah. I can’t wait to share the pics with you.

And then we had to share our blue tongues from the icing. My cousin in her stylish blue tongue.
and wew I didn’t get the green tongue from the lady behind you to show.
And then my hubbies blue tongue. he knows fulll well this is going on the blog.
and then Spoiled Sport Uncle Mark.. Decided to not share his blue tongue. That’s all right I’ll get you on the blog some other time. just you wait. You probably will wish you had shown your blue tongue! haha.
I am going to show the pics of my prego sister with her room she is so proud of! 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.

Just beautiful….

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I just had to share these with you today. I was planning to post party
decorations from last weekend, but these flowers make me smile everytime I
walk in the house. Almost all are from my Mother's Day gift. We went to a
nursery and bought lots of flowers and my guys and I planted them. They did
all the hard heavy dirty lifting, but it was the BEST. And here in August
they still make me smile.

Enjoy!
Chris

Card using CD00286 Fancy Swirl Accents

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Created a quick card while I was home for a few days using the CD00286 file.  This made for a quick card with a little bling, a scrap of polka dot paper and some flowers.  The pearl brad and swirl accents are from Hobby Lobby… my summer home.  *smile*   Added a little lady bug sticker as an accent.  Very quick.  That’s what I love about Chris’ files.  I can make something so easy that looks like it took me longer than it did.  *smile* 

~Angie~
~I am blessed!!~

Visual Designs by Chris Creative Team Member
http://www.visualdesignsbychris.com
(all images are cut using the Blue Wishblade)