My second goal is to push my personal invisible boundaries with my KNKMaxx. I have never done a print and cut. This is my first. I am pretty excited at the possibilities. Definitely had to calibrate my machine. Do you have any personal invisible boundaries in crafting you’d like to bypass this year?
Enjoy!
Chris
Please stay warm and safe on this New Year!
These are our two barn kittens staying warm on the decoration boxes on the front porch. Montelious and Pennzoil.
Enjoy!
Chris
As is my norm about this time I start talking about goals. I am not hard and fast to the word “resolution”. And I also set goals that are slightly smaller then some might think are worth setting.
It also helps if I put them out there so here is the first one.
Goal 1: Use my pressure cooker. I have one here and for some reason it scares me. I am worried about what it will do, not do, function. The pressure cooker for me is something I remember listening to at my Grandma’s house as it slowly “tick tick ticked” while it was cooking some piece of meat and/or vegetables. I also want to get over my fear of it because I want to can some vegetables this year and/or meat. I start this out today. I have pulled out the pressure cooker and a roast to thaw and hopefully tonight will be my first use of the pressure cooker. Of which I have TWO. I picked one up at a yard sale and need to replace the gasket on it. The lady was definitely a canner because I also got a ton of jars. So hopefully this will come to fruition pretty quickly so I can write it off my list. I come from a family of awesome cooks. My mom and I were just talking about how she prefers to not cook the same meal at the Christmas dinner and mixes it up regularly. I kinda am the same way. This is hard for my traditionalist hubby, but I don’t cook all the time either so it works. J
So Goal #1. Use my pressure cooker more up to and including canning in it.
Any tips? Thoughts? Recipes?
Enjoy!
Chris
My Mother in Law has a collection of angels she asked me to make a sign. This is the finished sign. I modge podged the sheet music behind the letters and added some rhinestones randomly. To hang it there is silver hanging wire. Personally I don't like the ribbon on this picture but hung up next to her angels it looked good. Here at the house I would take off the ribbon. All in all I think she liked it. It was hung within an hour of us getting there. I hope she takes the ribbon off if she'd rather.
So some details. Plank of wood which is 1x 5ish by 24 inches. I painted.it and let it sit for a while to release fumes. Printed out some sheet.music, ripped the edges and modge podged. Then let it dry. Cut vinyl and used blue painters tape to apply the vinyl. Then spray painted with some krylon matte spray. ( still like the modge podge brand better. But I ran out. ) let it dry and then heat fixed some random rhinestones. Pretty fun.
Enjoy!
Chris
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I used one of Chris’s Christmas greeting files from her Quarterly Club Membership to cut the perfect Packer greeting for this snowman stamp. Colored in the stamp, inked the edges of the card and layered the greeting on top of the stamp. Check out Chris and all her fantastic files here.
Merry Christmas!
Sussann
Digi-Cutter Files offered in SCUT, GSD, KNK, WPC & AI (SVG) at www.visualdesignsbychris.com
We are winding down the month of December. It is a crazy month for our family. Crazy Fun! We take a trip to the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas. My Dad comes to visit from Wisconsin. My Hubby’s Birthday. Let’s not forget Christmas. Sometimes I find the Christmas part quite overwhelming. I try to be in the spirit. But it just wraps me up in this parcel of crazy. I have been watching those things that folks do to volunteer at this time of year. Next year I am going to look at some of these things and see what we can do in the spirit of “giving” as well as receiving. We have so much in life. But this list I saw on How Does She really appealed to me. A list of items one can give that are not permanent toys in the room. It is the “experience” type gift. I like this idea greatly.
This is the article I am talking about. 10 Fun Non-Toy Gift Ideas.
We are getting my son a gaming system. My son loves his own choice. So much that if he aces the week he gets Friday Freebie. 3-4 hours after school on Friday where he can just “HAVE AT IT” play any games, watch tv. do what he wants. Surprisingly he has just come home and read a new book. (I might happen to purchase these books close to freebie friday, but I cannot confirm or deny this action. haha.) So one of my gifts this year will be that “redbox” choice. They are little rental passes from Redbox. I have included the pdf here for you to download. Good for a year and will go great with his name “game” system Santa may drop off which I, also, cannot confirm or deny.
**Disclaimer.. I am not related to redbox and/or affiliated with redbox. This is not a coupon for redemption with them, but a printable for your to gift to a family member and pay for their redbox “wishes”. thought I better say that.
However, if I were to make a list of more local things for the “experience gift” I would do some of the following and I still may… have to chat with the hubby.
1) A trip to the Planetarium for the day
2) A trip to the Lego Store in Phoenix
3) A pass for Gym lessons. (After the Olympics he subtly mentions the parallel bar competition.)
4) A family pass for Pima Air Space (my son could go here every year)
5) A trip to Tombstone or Old Tucson (on his list of desires)
6) a trip to play in the snow (desert kids have to put this on their wishlists every year)
7) Movie passes
8) ….
Have any extra thoughts or ideas? I could go on and on, but my cutter is calling my name. 🙂 Need to get some test cuts done… But I’d love to hear your ideas.
Enjoy!
Chris
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I like this man’s music. So this made me happy. I got to take this picture…..
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My files in the store can be located here. Thank you for stopping by!
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My files in the store can be located here. Thank you for stopping by!
I made these project from one of the QMC files.
I cut 4in x 7ft x 1in wood down into a few almost 2 foot pieces. Sprayed and let them sit for a week to remove the fumes before putting on vinyl. I actually used blue painters tape for the application of the vinyl on these. Then I seal coated with the Modge Podge Matte Clear Acrylic Spray.
My transfer tape is super sticky. It drives me nutz. What do you use? I can make it stick to my shirt and make it less sticky. just annoying. Unfortunately I have so much roll left who knows how long before I go through it. So I shall keep “de-linting” my shirts with it before I use it. 🙂 Always a positive outcome. less lint. woohoo!!
I have two more qmc files to load. when the last one is loaded I will take it out of the store. you can still join here if you would like this file and the others included.
Enjoy!
Chris
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