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Chris Durnan

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H & H Sign Supply $5.00 ship friday

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Oh my…. H & H Sign Supply posted that tomorrow this friday the 10th, they would be having a $5.00 ship friday. so order away and ship for $5.00 yeah. this means I must finetune what I “need”. 

***I am going to find some links of my regular buys and post here. What do you usually get?? ****

Here is what they posted… 
$5 Shipping for online orders this Friday! August 10, 2012. 

You must click the “other shipping options” tab and select “5 Dollar Friday” as your shipping option. No refunds if you don’t click on this option.

H & H Sign Supply reserves the right to choose the shipping carrier when choosing this option.

Some restrictions apply. See our Policies, Terms and Conditions for details.

Here are some of my favorite products from there… 

Siser Easy Weed Heat Transfer I used on Tshirts last may. I am almost out. 

And I use Rapid Tac II to clean a surface before sticking. 

Well just GO have fun…  Shipping on my last order woulda been 12.11. so it will be nice to fill the cart and not have to keep checking back. Don’t forget to check the other tab and it is only friday the 10th. 

Enjoy!
Chris

PS yes these are affiliate links. I am always right up front. I work affiliate links to come up with prizes for the October Party we have every year and for prizes and gifts. Even if you’d rather not support our party. tis a-ok. It is still a good deal. And I have used the products mentioned above and they are awesome. That is my disclaimer. enjoy!

This one I have not tried but would like to. The “Graduated Vinyl Offcuts“. Sounds cheap enough to play and a great selection of colors. 

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August 2012 Grab Bag layouts

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Chris and members of the More team at Visual Designs by Chris have a wonderful Grab Bag available this month for the great price of $7.00US .


Click on the preview to take you to the Store for this great deal. 

As a member of Chris’s CT I have the privilege of working with her fantastic personal cutter files (KNK Zing   and Maxx, Cricut, Silhouette, etc) only I work with them digitally. This way I get to combine my digital scrap-booking work with personal cutter files which I can use digitally as well or mix up the two for hybrid projects. In this instance I took all of the files Chris sent me and used them digitally on my pages. I add textures and styles to the cutter files to give them added dimension, and they work perfectly.

These files are all in this months Grab Bag, so don’t miss it! These are just a small sampling of the files the Bag contains. Plus, there is an Early Bird file available for quick purchases, but only for a short time.

Firstly I used CD00934 – Autumn. My favourite time of the year. The Word Art is actually a personal cutter file that I have added textures and styles to. I created this layout in Photoshop CS5.

Credits:  CD00934 – Autumn; cshneider-seq5to8S2-pg2;   wlop – Vivaldi; APD_Mystic Springs; aprilisa_Built Boy Tough; armina – April; BellaGypsy – GoOutside.
Second layout uses CD00935-Happy Halloween. In this layout the title “Happy Halloween”, the Witch and the Moon are the personal cutter files. Once again I have played with them in PSCS5 and this is the result.
Credits: Shappy Princess-Holiday Sampler-Halloween; image from Internet; CD00935-Happy Halloween. 
My third layout uses CD00936 – Got Mud. The title and the ATV Quad bike are the personal cutter files in this layout. As we don’t have a quad bike, the pictures for this layout came from the internet.
Credits: cap_goteam_template2; CD00936 – Got Mud; GDS_Collab_Jun12_Mr Adventurous.
My last layout uses CD00938 – Fish Fish. My hubby and my eldest love fishing, actually the youngest likes fishing too, it just isn’t always practical to take him along for a day long trip. The “chipboard” boy holding his catch and the title are the personal cutter files on this layout. They look great don’t they!

Credits: CD00938 – Fish Fish; GDS – Collab-0609_Catch Of The Day; cap_KeepItEven_Template 3

As you can see, personal cutter file description doesn’t preclude you from using your files digitally if you wish. Sometimes, you just want to put a layout together quickly and not have to get out the card, paper and so on. Digi is sometimes the better way to go…. but unlike digital scrapbooking files, you always have the option of cutting them out on your personal cutter as well!!

Have a wonderful day wherever you are! Cheers, caz

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

Fall Fun Grab Bag… it’s packed!

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Hello to everyone!! I am excited to say I am part of the next grab bag. Along with Ileana and Lori, we have come up with a batch of files with lots of cuts and uses.

Visit the store HERE. to see the full previews. 

All for only $7.00
Lori’s “Our Grad” file is for the Early Bird Buyers
 and available for a limited time only. 
Enjoy!
Chris
Have a fantastic weekend everyone!!!!

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Cub Scout Plaques

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I am a volunteer with Cub Scouts. I am a den leader for the Bears this year. Yeah!! So proud of last years 13 boys and hope they come back again this year.
I have made plaques for our leaders and this last week two exiting leaders of the troop received my plaques as a thank you for their service. I just wanted to share because I thought they came out pretty nice.
If you like to cut paper, vinyl etc and have a local cub scout group or any parent volunteer ogranization near you. I am sure they would take any help volunteering for signs, plaques etc. Cub Scouts at the Scout level is all volunteer run by their parents and is a lot of work!! But so gratifying.  Just a note for volunteerism which I believe keeps our community going. The connections we make today may be the connections that hold us together under duress or during glory.
Don’t you think they came out nice? I love them. I hope the recipients did to!
Enjoy!
Chris Durnan

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I found this frame at Wal-Mart of all places. It’s one of those plain wooden frames that you can paint however you like. I put a green coat on all three of the frames, then cut Chris’s G jumble out of vinyl and put it on the middle frame. I painted yellow over the top, let it dry, then pulled the vinyl off. Can’t wait to get back up to Wisconsin to get some more pictures to put in these frames.

You can find Chris’s Packer set here. And you can find all of Chris’s fantastic cutter files here.

Sussann

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

https://www.visualdesignsbychris.com/2985/

Science is a good thing to know.

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My son has started school . He has had lots of first day of school papers . One was to tell the teacher about yourself . It started out with  "I would like the teacher to know …  " and his response was "science" .So I said don't you think  it was supposed to be about you?  
He said the paper says "I would like the teacher to know "…  And  I would like her to know science . And he gave me that "dont ya get it smile" And walked away.

Sometimes my son is very literal . I love him . Luckily there was a huge smiley face drawn on the paper with an arrow pointing from the teacher.  Maybe she'll get him and he will make her smile. He always brings us lots of smiles.

Enjoy!
-Chris

Father’s Day Gift to keep out the bugs

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My husband loves his wine. He hates the little bugs that fly in when we sit on the porch watching the sunset.  So we saw some of these "redneck wine glasses" at a rodeo a while ago. I decided I could make them with some e6000 glue from walmart, candlestick holders from the dollar store and fresh mason jars which I hadn't canned in yet.  It was fun and easy. My hubby loves the two I did and the lid is perfect for those wine drinking pesky bugs during bbq time. Just a project I did this summer. Hope you Enjoy! Chris

Things that make my hubby cringe…

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Well I just wanted to see if the memory would work in my laptop and keep that beautiful little hard drive for backup. I am a hard drive clepto. I haven't saved to a hard drive that I didn't want to keep. 🙂

Enjoy!
Chris

Pausing to reflect.

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The post I had planned for today has been delayed. Waking up the Colorado news this morning just made me think… It might be better to reflect a little on those around me and those who are important. Also, my friend Heidi posted about the "helpers" who you see after such a stunning tragedy. I think I will say some prayers for those helpers. I have family who lived in Aurora not to long ago. And still have lots of family in Colorado.  I am not sure midnight batman would have made their list of things to do. But such a simple decision to attend may have changed their lives, my life and my families lives forever. I am blessed to have such wonderful family and friends. And to know that they are safe. If only for this moment right now. My prayers and thoughts reach out to those brushed by this incident whether they were involved, survived or are mourning their families. May the first responders and medical staff also be lifted up with all those positive thoughts we can send them.

 

Please have a safe weekend. Take that moment to cherish your family and friends. Everything can change in an instant.-Chris

Crashing laptop… Yikes

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My son got back to school this week. I was all prepared  to work and play and create and just yeahhhh!!!
My laptop decided it was done. I have been working diligently to try and get everything saved and moved over. So hopefully ::fingers crossed:: I will be finally moved over the end of today. Some of the the programs aren’t opening. so hopefully by tomorrow I will be fully up on the new one. Thank you to my hubby who had a laptop waiting in the wings. He knows I have been toeing the line of longevity with my old laptop. A record years of use for me. Wew. I will be happy when I can turn it off and say. DONE. because it probably won’t turn back on again. yikes.

Hope your electronics are happy and your day is wonderful!!
Enjoy!
Chris

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