The last day to download for the Jan-Mar QMC & my Sketch/Swap Pics

Here is my March Sketch Challenge cards and my swap Cards (Yes, I did Seven. I just couldn't fit them all in the picture nicely. So thank you to Rosalie for hosting such awesome Sketch Challenges in the forum (I can't wait for April) and thank you to Sarah for hosting the swap!!! Woohooo!!

I am always looking for cards I could put a male twist on. And even tho' these have flowers I thought they were subdued enough for a Man's birthday as well. I didn't put any sentiment on them so they could be used for anything. I hope everyone in the swap likes them!
And next...

Today is the last day for the QMC

download for Jan-Mar 2009.
So please get in there and download them as quick as you can because I will be closing the membership area down tonight.
Here is the direct link to the forum
http://www.visualdesignsbychris.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=80
Or you should already have the QMC download information for 4shared.

Let anyone know! Today is the day!!
Thank you!

You should have 29 files. And here is the list.
1. Tree Thank You Card Front -- CD00430

2. Tree Ovals -- CD00432

3. Party Hats & Balloons Borders -- CD00434

4. Party Hardy -- CD00436

5. Joyful Noise -- CD00438

6. Musical Jumbles -- CD00437

7. Love and Strength Chinese Character Card Fronts -- CD00439

8. See You Later Alligator -- CD00441

9. Cooking Up the Love -- CD00444

10. Swirly Heart Card -- CD00443

11. Piano Recital & Lessons -- CD00447

12. Pajama Party -- CD00453

13. Silverware Jumble -- CD00457

14. Tidbits of Shapes 1 -- CD00467

15. Your Love Brings Me Peace -- CD00451

16. Chandeliers -- CD00474

17. Borders Made From Circles -- CD00476

18. Cupcakes and Muffins -- CD00472

19. Queen for a Day -- CD00477

20. If the Slipper Fits -- CD00480

21. St. Pat Card -- CD00484

22. May Your Blessings -- CD00482

23. Grandma's Doilies -- CD00490

24. Burgers & Fries -- CD00481

25. Grandma Curly Frame --

26. Packing the Cooler -- CD00493

27. Little Bit of Camping Luxury -- CD00491

28. Hearts Cupcake Wrapper -- CD00494

29. Friends and Family Brag Book Covers -- CD00445

Thank you to everyone who was a member!!



Enjoy!
Chris Durnan
http://visualdesignsbychris.blogspot.com/
Join us at the forum http://visualdesignsbychris.com/forum/

Welcome to the weekend... $1.00 Deals are up for the weekend.

Hey guys.. ready for the weekend?? I am ... I have been working on a dance line of files for the store and they are definitely morphing into alot of other files and alot of fun.
If you are intersted in the dance files please visit the store.
And because I am short on time. Here are the $1.00 deals for this weekend through Sunday. Please click the link to see the pictures.
Thank you as always for visiting my store.
And have a wonderful weekend!!
I am off to see if I can get the last few up before the night disappears on me. See what else I can add to the dollar deals. you can see them on the front page of the store.

Enjoy!
Chris

BallerinaSKU: CD00505
See details Market price: $2.29Our price: $1.00save 56%
Silverware JumbleSKU: CD00457
See details Market price: $1.99Our price: $1.00save 50%
Forest of TreesSKU: CD00423
See details Market price: $2.79Our price: $1.00save 64%
Foofaraw CollectionSKU: CD00309
See details Market price: $2.29Our price: $1.00save 56%
Butterfly Edge 4SKU: CD00404
See details Market price: $2.69Our price: $1.00save 63%
Mount RushmoreSKU: CD00303
See details Market price: $2.79Our price: $1.00save 64%
Farm ChicSKU: CD00125
See details Market price: $2.29Our price: $1.00save 56%
Farm FamilySKU: CD00126
See details Market price: $1.99Our price: $1.00save 50%
Happiness JumbleSKU: CD00131
See details Market price: $1.99Our price: $1.00save 50%
Clownin' AroundSKU: CD00164
See details Market price: $2.69Our price: $1.00save 63%
Under the Big TopSKU: CD00165
See details Market price: $1.99Our price: $1.00save 50%

New Membership opens Apr-Jun... Download Jan-Mar soon!

Hello to all....

I have opened up the new membership early for Apr-June and started uploading files. I spent alot of time today adding members to the section. If you cannot get in and purchased the Apr-June 2009, please email me. It would be quicker if you can send me your order number, but either way I will search it and get you added. I also sent out emails to those who didn't have a forum registration showing. You have to register at the store and the forum for the new members. If you prefer to use 4shared. You should have downloaded that information upon purchasing. So excited to get rolling! I uploaded 4 files and have two more I have to finish the conversions to scut for. Love when we open a new one. Yeah!! So check the link out and let me know if you have any issues.

And next... If you are a Jan-Mar member and are dragging your feet about downloading. The last day is coming! So get them down and quickly before you run out of time. There are 29 files to download.

And then on to life....

So here is Patches the Puppy. This is a blurry picture but definitely shows how comfy she is with her chew toy on the floor in front of her and the other up on the arm of the chair. ha! She has decided to take over my sons chair. My sister got him this chair when he was little. It is so sturdy and used regularly. In fact right now he is laying across the arms with pillows stuffed in the middle. If I had a camera I would take a picture of it. But here is our patches taking over the chair. She has definitely decided it is hers. We have some wars going on over it lately. And Yes it is a John Deere Chair. wish we could find the guy who makes these. They are great little chairs. heavy duty and stand up to the use!

Spookey Eyes. I hate that, but didn't have time to fix. My son and his puppy!!

Have a wonderful day! I am off to work on some files and enjoy the creativity.

Enjoy!
Chris






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!

Wrapping up the adventures of the Bunny Rabbit

So many have asked... what happened to the bunny. Well let me complete my story. We decided to put the bunny in a box with some fresh Alfalfa and hay and it nibbled away. So we went to bed. I left the bunny in a box on the dining room table. All safe and sound. My son was so excited to show his cousins the bunny and then I told him we would be having a "release party". All was good. Until about 4:30 a.m. when my hubby comes in and says. CHRIS.... CHRIS... Chris.. I rolled over and looked down the hallway. The light is shining from behind him so I can't see his face. My eyes are sleepy. I am in this daze totally and I hear.... in a very loud whisper... THE BUNNY IS GONE. I literally wanted to close my eyes and go back to sleep. But a bunny running in the house. Oh man. Let's look. So my hubby and I looked everywhere with flashlights for about an hour and half and then gave up. I went back to bed. And we waited for my son to wake up. Then we gave him a flashlight to look under the couches and no bunny. My hubby left for work. and literally I felt like I was in an episode of Without a Trace. the bunny was in a box on the kitchen table. Crawled out through a small circle hand in the box that was at the top. Then jumped off the kitchen table. Or the kitchen table would have had a bunny sitting on it when we got up. So just mentally I kept seeing the bunny sitting on the table and fading. I need a wipe board with a timeline on it. Went to bed at 11:30 Bunny was there and then gone. So all day I looked for the stinking thing every nook and cranny. My relatives came. My son played with his cousin. They went home. I kept looking. Where could it be. It was the size of an orange. where where. My hubby and I were sitting on the couch at about 10:30 that night and we heard it. So now we are sitting and listening intently. And we found it. Wew. So my son hearing the audible silence of the house with all the lights on comes out and we have our much delayed release party and out it goes into the night. What a story that bunny has to tell all it's bunny friends. And I must say I have 4 dogs in the house at night. Two sleep in the laundry room and two are passed out in the house. Not one of them heard the bunny jump off the table and run around and hide. Time to re-evaluate the employed status of our four legged friends. hahaha. I think they have gone into retirement for sure! Well that is the rest of the bunny story!

Here are a few of the Dance files that are coming to the store. A few of them will be in this coming quarter's QMC. I just haven't had a chance to decide which yet. I am not finished with the line. So when that happens I can review for what might be the most used and post it. Always check the store descriptions I am putting QMC File QUARTER 2009 in the descriptions starting with last quarter. :-) So always keep an eye out for that. Have a wonderful day!
Have anymore titles. let me know.
Enjoy!
Chris


Chris Durnan, designer
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!
www.visualdesignsbychris.com

Hello Hello! .. email me your titles for Ballet files please..

First let me say. Thank you to everyone who visited the store this past weekend. I greatly appreciate your support! The Dollar Deals were definitely well received so I will have to work them in with my Dirt Cheap Deals and just keep offering the files for a great deal!Thank you thank you!

And next...

I am pleased to say I just saw an advertisement for a place called Eclectic Pizza here in Tucson and they list a gluten free menu with Pizza!! Yeahoooodeee!! http://eclecticpizza.com/gluten_free_menu.htm

If anyone in Tucson reads my blog and has been, I would love to know your take on the food. It is quite a drive for me, but I would go.

And then...

Here is a photo of my first flower for the season from about two weeks ago. I walked out one morning on to the patio and there it was just as pretty as could be! Sure made my day brighter. I will be planting flowers next weekend. My son's birthday party will be in April. So I want to plant just before so they are all nice and perky because at times my green thumb gets a little dried out. And the plants choke a little wooops. I am definitely a gardner who needs a watering system with a timer because I forget.

I am working on a line of Dance, as in Ballet, files. If you have a specific title you are looking for, please email me and let me know. Put Ballet files in the subject so I know right away what it is for. (I am not looking for names really. Just a heads up) I will be loading one or two of these files to the new QMC for Apr-June. I just am not sure which yet. Here are a few quick previews of the ballet files.

Here is the puppy terror in our life. She is growing up quickly for sure. And finally has figured out why she gets thrown outside every time she has an accident on the floor. So we are cleaning up less and less. Although she does still steal toys and hide them in her special spots. We found a treasure trove of army men the other day.

Well I must run. Have a wonderful day!! Thanks again for stopping by.

Enjoy!

Chris Durnan, designer

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!

Saturday $1.00 Deals through Sunday March 22nd.

I have selected a few files and put them in the store for
$1.00 through Sunday, March 22nd
And don’t forget to join the QMC for Apr-May while in the store.
Thank you, as always, for your continued support. Fantastic ideas & Requests

Enjoy!
Chris Durnan
http://visualdesignsbychris.blogspot.com/
Join us at the forum http://visualdesignsbychris.com/forum/

HAVE A WONDERFUL REST OF THE WEEKEND!!!

Update: Here are a few of them.. but I just added a few more to the front page of the store.

Have fun!

Burgers & FriesSKU: CD00481

See details Market price: $2.79Our price: $1.00save 64%

Batty HalloweenSKU: CD00114

See details Market price: $1.99Our price: $1.00save 50%

Cousins - Curly Matte or Frame SKU: CD00189

See details Market price: $3.29Our price: $1.00save 70%

Curly Frames or BordersSKU: CD00245

See details Market price: $1.99Our price: $1.00save 50%

I'm With the BandSKU: CD00450

See details Market price: $2.49Our price: $1.00save 60%

Months with FlairSKU: CD00393

See details Market price: $3.49Our price: $1.00save 71%

Tall TabsSKU: CD00059

See details Market price: $1.99Our price: $1.00save 50%

YOU set of wordsSKU: CD00412

See details Market price: $3.29Our price: $1.00save 70%




If you are a current QMC Member for Jan-Mar 2009
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DOWNLOAD YOUR FILES.
Time is running out.
We close the doors on the 31st at Midnight!
http://www.visualdesignsbychris.com/forum/

Eating my Words ...

Well I am eating my words.. and do you want to see what it is???
Most of you have already guessed I am sure. Long ears. little button nose.
AND I KNOW! Many of you are giggling so hard and laughing at me...

But I must say I am throwing a flag. It's a technicality! This bunny was not caught in the box trap. My husband swooped it up to save it from one of our dogs grabbing it. It was right in front of my son and would have definitely been to much for him to see. So in a box on my kitchen table... my "garden nemesis" enjoys alfalfa hay freshly bought for the horses and a cozy box to sleep in for tonight. Because tomorrow the cousins are coming out to see my bambino and that will be release time. A wild bunny should stay wild. (I do have some heart. I feed the bunny missing an ear and an eye out by my garden for a few months last summer. You could walk up to this bunny on it's bad side and stand there until it noticed your shadow. Some thing had gotten it and it had healed enough to make it rather large, but I haven't seen it in a long time.) So I can be caring even when the bunnies plunder through my garden eating whatever they can find. We live in the desert. I understand. but Um this bunny is not staying and that is because I am pleading technicality! ha!

And for those reading this and know me... They know I am writing this in sheer panic that my son will bringing out his winning negotiating smile and my husband and I are not on top of our game. ha! He is quite the little negotiator. I told my MIL and she laughed so hard I coulda put the phone down and still heard the giggling clearly from ten feet away.
Well you saw the pics. Isn't it sooooo cute!!!

And yes world.. As I am sure I will do more then once in the years to come in my life... I am eating my words..

Enjoy!

Chris

P.S. I am off to seek out the pics of me finding a baby bunny about 4 years ago. Think it will make a great scrapbook page. Mother and Son. ha!

Chris Durnan, designer
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!
www.visualdesignsbychris.com

Here I am!! it's frenzy time again...

Well if you have followed my blog for long then you know where I am ...

I am in Creative Craziness Mode. Where my hands just shake because I can't create enough.
My son stays away from me because my eyes are stuck open luck blocks (Did your Mom ever tell you that? I think of that every once in a while. How often my Mom said I would hurt my eyes and they would be stuck open and square if I sat to close to the tv. I probably could have saved her alot of reprimanding time if she knew I would spend a good portion of my life 24 inches from a computer screen) Anyways, as usual I digress.

So I am in creative mood. Have about 28 files in all forms of disarray to be completed, to be test cut, to be tweaked, to be added to the new QMC, to be added to the store and for BINGO! woohoo!!

On that note I gotta run. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!
Enjoy!
Chris

PS I got the Cupcake Wrapper Frilly in the store. WOohoo!

Chris Durnan, designer
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!
www.visualdesignsbychris.com

Frilly Cupcake Wrappers.. and the Wabbit Hunter.

First let me show you the cupcake wrappers I have been working on. I wanted some very ornate ones. Looking at these pictures they look like chocolate. Okay I might be having a sweet tooth moment. And not the blue one. I don't eat blue chocolate. well maybe right now I would, but not normally. Wonder if I have any of those Cadbury mini chocolate hard shell things around anywhere. hmm. Okay sorry I digress. These will be coming to the store soon. Though these might be nice for a wedding or tea or a maybe the lattice one for a garden party. Just pretty. Working on some others.

On to life..

This is one of the moments of ingenuity in our household this week. My son decided he needed to have a rabbit. Umm. Mom said No. We just got a puppy. He begged. I kept saying no. So He asked Dad. Dad said well here ya go. Here is a trap. The old box trap. It was cute. My son told my hubby "Don't take a picture of me" He said I have to take pictures of you on your first hunting trip. "Oh okay" was my sons response. haha. To cute. Will be documenting this one in a scrapbook somewhere. I am wondering if my hubby saw this on one of those Roadrunner and the Coyote Cartoons. haha. This was out by our horse pens as the rabbits love when the horses get fed.

Well that's it for me. Have a wonderful weekend! And when I get back next week I will update the slide show with the missing pics and the additions that have come in for the challenge!

And this is the last weekend to get the early bird files with your 2nd Quarter QMC for 2009. So get in by Sunday to grab those three extra files.

Enjoy!

Chris

Chris Durnan, designer
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!
www.visualdesignsbychris.com

The last of the files for the Current QMC.... Thank you!!

So here are the last of the QMC files for this quarter. A few previews and below is a list of all the files you received this quarter for your $10.00. If you didn't make it in for this quarter all these files will soon be in the store. :-)

I have to thank you again to everyone for their continued support!!

Enjoy!

Chris

Grandma Frame

1. Tree Thank You Card Front -- CD00430

2.Tree Ovals -- CD00432

3. Party Hats & Balloons Borders -- CD00434

4. Party Hardy -- CD00436

5. Joyful Noise -- CD00438

6. Musical Jumbles -- CD00437

7. Love and Strength Chinese Character Card Fronts -- CD00439

8. See You Later Alligator -- CD00441

9. Cooking Up the Love

10. Swirly Heart Card -- CD00443
11. Piano Recital & Lessons -- CD00447

12. Pajama Party -- CD00453

13. Silverware Jumble -- CD00457

14. Tidbits of Shapes 1 -- CD00467

15. Your Love Brings Me Peace -- CD00451

16. Chandeliers -- CD474

17. Borders Made From Circles -- CD00476

18. Cupcakes and Muffins -- CD00472

19. Queen for a Day -- CD00477

20. If the Slipper Fits -- CD00480

21. St. Pat Card -- CD00484

22. May Your Blessings -- CD00482

23. Grandma's Doilies -- CD00490

24. Burgers & Fries -- CD00481

25. Grandma Curly Frame --

26. Packing the Cooler -- CD00493

27. Little Bit of Camping Luxury --

28. Hearts Cupcake Wrapper --
29. Friends & Family Brag Book Covers - CD00445

The future belongs to those who believe in

the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Chris Durnan, designer
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!
www.visualdesignsbychris.com

BINGO... Challenge pics.. Bday Card... Lori.. Ty Murray.. yada yada.

Hello to all!! How are you doing? keeping busy? We sure are at the forum. And I sure am still sifting through all those challenge photos. Wonderful Wonderful.

At the forum. Karen is charging up for Spring Bingo!!!

Get in their and sign up quick as we give away prizes galore and even give the Biggest Bingo Loser a few prizes! Lots of fun.

I hope to get all these awesome pictures into a slideshow for tomorrow. So check back to see all the entries. Thanks everyone for participating. It truly is inspiring!!
*****

Okay so here is something I made for my brother for his birthday that I thought I would share.

My first attempt at a card using a transparency. I used Staz-on Ink and attached some of the paper to the back. I don't think my brother was impressed with my crafty attempts, but I thought it was fun and different to try. Oh and I was itching to use the stickles So knowing he wouldn't be ooohing and ahhing over it. I through some on the bottom to play with it. Was fun!. I need to find thicker transparency paper to use.

And for those of you who read Lori's Blog every day!! I didn't realize I was stating something that would cause Lori a revelation. I thought it was more like. Okay Mrs. Obvious Whatever. hahaha. Love ya Lori.

And can I say I love Ty Murray on Dancing with the Stars. love it love it.

Enjoy!

Chris

Lots and lots and lots of awesome pictures!!

Short post today as I am wading through all the wonderful submissions for the cutter file challenge and trying to get them into a slideshow!!
Thanks everyone
Enjoy!
Chris

PS> Get into the QMC and don't miss out on the Early bird Files!!

New QMC is up in the store...with early bird files for a limited time.

The new QMC is up in the store for April through June. You can get to it from the image on the right or here. There are three early bird files that if you purchase the membership early (in the first week it is n the store) you will get those early files as well.

And next... If you are interested in Cards and like to take on a Challenge. Rosalie is running a new sketch challenge in the forum. And I think Sarah is going to run a Card Swap that goes with it. So much fun. Lots of inspiration in last months sketch challenge. The files to create are still loaded to the forum if you want to try the last few months.

As for me I am off to setup more files for the current QMC.

Have a wonderful day and a wonderful weekend!

Enjoy!

Chris

SCUT GSD KNK WPC AI can be found at the store www.visualdesignsbychris.com

Wow. School Pics.

Wow times have changed. We got school pictures back yesterday. I am always so impressed by this companies pictures. I just look at them and think? These are school pictures. What? I can remember having to hold little signs with the number on it on our lap for our school pictures. Reminiscent of a Jail Picture with numbers across the bottom only a pretty blue background, your best Sunday outfit and your head itching from the tight curlers your Mom made you sleep in the night before. I have a feeling there was no numbers on my sons lap in this one. Well here is our pride and joy and his grin that makes my day.

And the story of the morning before pictures. So I am thinking about the infamous school picture smile and so I tell my Son. "Thinking about things that make you giggle and smile when they tak your picture because then your eyes will smile too." I told him "instead of saying Cheese.. You could say I Love My Mom. " And that should make you smile right? He started giggling... and giggling and I am looking in the rear view mirror and I say. WHAT?? He said "Mom your crazy. " I had to ponder this. And smile because if it makes him smile and giggle when he says I love My mom then they will be great pictures. Or wait... Was he giggling because he said "Mom Your Crazy" ahhh.. well I think we wil let it ride.. I love to hear his giggle and know later in life he will think I am crazy. Just as long as I can still see that winning smile. He and my hubby always make my day.

Enjoy!

Chris

Still working on the QMC early bird files
for those who join right away.
So it isn't in the store yet, but it is a coming!!!

If you've got Lemons....

I visited a blog recently that had a picture a day. I don't know if I could keep up with that, but this is what you would see on my counter this morning. My hubby has cleaned off the Lemon tree. Here are some of the Lemons that I need to figure out what to do with. Thinking about Juicing them and freezing. What do you think? Any creative ideas? I'll take them.


It's a short post today because I am working on quite a few things at once.
Have a wonderful day!!!!
Enjoy!
Chris

Chris Durnan, designer
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!
www.visualdesignsbychris.com

Challenge Entries so far!

All right folks here are some of the awesome Challenge Entries. They pored in over the weekend!! Take some time to watch and you will see some awesome inspiration. I have sent out the last links for this Cutter File Challenge. And the entries are due Mar 07, 2009.




Enjoy!
Chris
Chris Durnan, designer
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!
www.visualdesignsbychris.com