Monday, April 30, 2012

The Fair was in town

We love the Fair. So much fun. This year we entered a few entries 
and went a few times and really enjoyed ourselves!!
This is me and D with my 1st place Raspberry Mango Jam.


This is my son's 2nd place for a build your own lego. (the green one.)



And his first place, Mark Shegal (sp?) rendition. So very cool. 


And our Pack's derby entries. I was so impressed so many Scouts
jumped in and participated in this for our Pack. And So Proud.


This is his first place Derby Entry! 
Pretty awesome and pretty cool. 

Well that's my pride and brag post!! Have a wonderful week. 
Enjoy!
Chris


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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Spring! Card

Spring Spring Spring.
It's Spring on the Card A Day Blog and here is my entry.
A card created by Angie of my Creative Team. Well actually a few. These are made with the Circle Top Card File that I have in the store.  Enjoy! Chris

I love this little bee. He is so spring to me. Bees buzzzing bright colors. very nice!



And this card below could be used for spring with flowers on the top and also on the pink card. However, the cupcake makes me think Spring birthday maybe. Hope you enjoy these visual candies! Enjoy! Chris



And here is my cut of the file below.





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Can you see me now?

We sent out a "can you see us now?" email from VDBC yesterday. I hope you got it. It was filled with recent posts from our designers and top files that have sold in our store for each designer.

Also, my download yesterday had a coupon on the download page. Did you grab it? Just checking!! I am a couponer.. not extreme at all... but just the same I love a few dollars off an order. 

So stop and check the email from yesterday. HERE.  Or join my facebook page and see the updates in your feed. don't forget yesterdays coupon. Scroll down to see. Woohoo!

Enjoy!
Chris


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Friday, April 27, 2012

Camo Printable... let's Party!

Recently we celebrated my son's birthday party and his choice was a "camo" party. His Aunt gave him this great outfit of camo (He is already growing out of his previous one. yikes!). Ms. Lori from Beloved Keepsakes sent him some  items from her lovely hub. and I printed some camo invites. This picture below is his pre-party pic. First it was a smile. Then it was.. okay Mom I need serious I am in camo!. and I couldn't stop giggling so then it became a blur of trying to stop smiling and giggling and then a weird. "Yes I will quit smiling somehow my Mom is insane look."  I so love to have fun with him!!! He is 8 and we are loving every minute of it.



And here is the printabe file. Go here to download. You must be logged in to download. If you are asked for a password it is iagreetou which means You agree this is for your personal use!

And there is a discount code at the download page. Also, don't forget my birthday is coming in June. I love to give away files on folks wishlists so update yours so you're ready.

Enjoy!
Chris




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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. 

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

lost and found moment...

I have this super cute little box filled with little vials filled with blingy goodness... also called heatset rhinestones. .. I have plans for my t-shirt for Scout Camp in a few weeks. I tore apart my studio. I vowed to go through the boxes and mess. to get rid of the piles of paper that seem to migrate to my studio from the house. I looked and looked. I leaned back in my chair to close my eyes and think... what did I work on last? my blingy pocket on my jeans. I should know... where did I put them... and I opened my eyes and looked down and there they were on the floor they had slid off the table and landed on the carpet luckily and not spilling everywhere. Wew. all is right again. thank you thank you! Just had to share my relief. And now I should make good on the clean the studio thing... or at least make it a goal for finishing by the end of June.  yes I will get some of it cleaned up... for now I think I need a piece of chocolate...

Hope you're having a great day!
Enjoy!
Chris


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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Scout - Fish Match

If you follow my blog you know I am a Scout Den leader. I like to post my projects here because it is hard sometimes to figure out something that is easy and active for a bunch of kids who are there because they want to learn about something new.


I created a fish match game. I cut 4.25x5.5 cards to put information about fish on each card and the Scouts would need to match the fish with their description. I put these on a binder ring so they would hold together.
At our next den meeting, I plan to set the clock for 2 minutes and hand out a card to each Scout and they will have to find their match. This will be their buddy for the den meeting. As we are trying to work on the buddy system before camp and make it something natural and a reflex to not go anywhere without a buddy. 



And luckily when we went fishing the Arizona Game and Fish was there so I could grab a couple of their regulations for our meeting and in the back they had sketches of fish and their descriptions. So Awesome. 
I cut up some and put


And of course because after our den meeting this is going in my "game box" I added the key on the back so I would remember. My kids are whips if I put the the letter A on each one that match eachother they would figure it out and just match letters. so I did A and 1. so a letter and number. but in case I am not the only one digging in the game box for something for the kids to do. I added it to the back of the cards. 

I hope you enjoy my little projects. 
This project is good for the Wolf Elective fishing in helping kids recognize different fish. 
As well as the fishing belt loop for cub scouts. 

Enjoy!
Chris





Love those flowers.

I just had to share these beautiful flowers my hubby got for me. Arent they just gorgeous they make me swoon. :) so beautiful. Love the color in our brown desert world. And look at the screen door. I still loveeee the screen door. Hubby is the best!!!
Enjoy!
Chris

Monday, April 16, 2012

Things I find in my freezer...

The conversation went something like this...
Mom: ahhh...what is this?
D: what? Oh ... Yeah he's frozen in Carbonite
M: in my freezer?
D: yeah. ( big smile) I'll get him out later (takes tupperware container and puts back in Freezer and walks away.) (I pause as he wonders away and he looks back and says..)
D: use your imagination.

My thoughts... Wow what did he do to get frozen. I mean he's a lego guy his arms dont even move in full range. You have to turn his head to change his mood to the backside and then he can see his own backside. Wew.
It's always interesting. Love my life.

Mom of an 8 year old boy tip of the day... .. Don't ever confuse Carbonite of Star Wars with the Cryptonite of Super Man. You will get an eye roll. haha. a big one

Have a fantastic day!
Enjoy!
Chris

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Games & Headphones Cutter File



First let me say... HAPPPPPY Birthday to my fantastic son. Who is 8 today. I cannnnot believe Dr. D is 8 .Just fantastic.  Well on to my offering to you for his birthday. We like to celebrate birthdays by giving!.
Enjoy!


 This file was created for an Easter basket gift. Welll... woops... Here is my Easter story...


  The gift that gave the bunny away.

My son went through his Easter basket after finding it on the treasure hunt with my awesome hubby. I made this box for his easter basket. Threw it in.  Perfect box for his Nintendo ds games and headphones for it.
He smiled at me as he went through his basket and said "Mom does the bunny have a vinyl machine to?" I smiled and said. I wouldn't know but maybe.
He smiled back.

Wooops. Yep I know the Easter Bunny is short lived. However, I found it humorous that my KNK addiction almost gave away the Easter Bunny! 

Enjoy!
Chris


You can download this file HERE. the password is iagreetou. This means that you agree the file is only for your personal use. You will need to be a registered member of the forum to download.

For those current QMC members, I already uploaded the file a few days ago. If this has expired on my blog. Current QMC members will find it in the Quarterly membership Club along with all the other downloads from my blog this year.  Enjoy!


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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

QMC: Kick It! Soccer file



I uploaded this file to the QMC yesterday. did you get it?

Join the QMC here if you'd like this file and the others for $10.00

I created the file to because my son was very into soccer the last few months. Can I just say seeking out all the soccer "stuff", even tho' there is a duffle bag for it, is very tiring as a Mom. So I was glad to be done for a month or to before we do some summer camps.


Hope you Enjoy!
Chris

Mater List for QMC Feb-April 2012

CD 
1. CD00912 - Race Day - UL 
2. CD00911 - Little Devil - UL
3. CD00913 - Shooting for the Heart - UL 
4. CD00914 - Luck Set - UL 
5. CD00915 - Flower and Bird -ul 
6. CD00919 - First Comes Love - u 
7. CD00920 - Going for a Walk
7. CD00921 - Kick It! - Soccer


BK
1. BK00480- Groundhog Day - UL
2. BK00481 - I love U - UL
3. BK00467 - Our Family Roots... UL
4. BK00485 - Leap Year - UL
5. BK00492 - Sweet For You! - UL 
6. BK00493 - Kiss Me -
7. BK00494 - Vintage Easter Title -  
8. BK00495 - Eggcellent - 



Perk files offered for current members of the QMC

#19 - Thank you Bird Notecards
 #20 - Headphones & Games
#18 - Octopus Digicut 
   #17 - Seahorse - Digicut
   #15 - Zebra Stars - Feb 3rd
  #16 - Football, Blog Feb 5
   #14 - Your love - January 26th
 #13 - Happy (heart) Day - Jan 19th, 2012
 #12 - Cupid Heart Graduated Border
 #6 - Next to you...
 #11 - 2012 Year of the Dragon
  #8 - ijkl - round vine set
 #10 - Powered by Pixie Dust
 #9 - Wreath FRB from my blog 907
  #7 - Circle VIne Monogram - efgh
#5 - Circle Vine Monogram abcd
 #4 - Class of 2011
 # 3 - Shamrock tree
# 2 - Fun Gals - Blog Freebie Jan 28th
  #1 - Group of Hearts - Blog Freebi

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Scouts - Teepees

So you may see me type out Teepee in many different ways in this post Tipi etct. When I looked up how to spell it, it said that the word was spelling in many different way. I found this quite interesting. I love to read and words are just awesome. I use Overdrive to download from my library. I love that I can rest my finger on the word and a dictionary icon will pop up. This is awesome. But I type fast so sometimes I use the wrong version of a word. Okay well... back to my post.

In the section of the Wolf book are a few Native American Electives, We wrapped some of these up together. We made teepees out of Brown  and paper and then drums. I collected containers and painted them all yellow. We drew our native american stories on the sides of our drums. We used Bic Mark-It Markers. (Love these. I have a whole little tin bucket filled with them. just the great colored lids make me happy. One of the den parents was oohing and ahhing them. just awesome!). Then we sat in a circle on the floor and read our story and banged on our drums. The boys seemed to have a great time. 

The close one is my sons and the back one is my prototype. I could have cut this on my Klic-n-kut, but decided to let the boys hand cut them out. 


In order to put the tents together, we took 5 pipe cleaners 6 inches long. 
Then twisted the tops and spread those out. After cutting out the teepee pattern, we then drew symbols on our teepees that showed who we are. (many of the teepee designs had to do with wars and battles according to what I read and my 7 year old Wolves haven't really been in battle. So we drew images about ourselves or about the things we like to do on weekends. 
The tab in the picture folds over two of the pipe cleaners and can taped or stapled which ever is easiest. In the effort of time we stapled ours. 



The most difficult part for the boys in writing a story was there was no "the" and words like that for perfect sentences. I found it very interesting to see.

It was a great night and we got to make noise beating our drums and telling our stories. So fun. 

I didn't get a chance to get this pattern converted to many file types so I will repost this with the file to cut the teepees in the next few weeks. So come on back!

Enjoy!
Chris


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Monday, April 9, 2012

Chocolate Bunny Wisdom

Here is my son’s wisdom on chocolate Easter bunnies ..

Mom : Do you think I should eat the ears or the butt first?

My son gives me the look of DUH???!!!

Dr.D : Mom you eat the eyes first so they don’t see you do it!

 

Haha. All right and that is the first of the Easter stories.

Hope yours was awesome.

 

Enjoy!

Chris

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Printable: Teacher Appreciation


Today is my day to post on the Card A Day Blog and the theme is Teacher Appreciation. I like to print my own notecards, but I also like to print out a set of notecards and give them with envelopes tied in a ribbon. I hope you can use these cards. They will print on an 8.5x11 and cut 4 out of a page.


You can download this pdf file HERE. this file is for your personal use and personal gift giving.
Enjoy!
Chris Durnan


Artwork created by Trina Clark. Printable Compilation by Chris Durnan.

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Friday, April 6, 2012

Cody update...

Well it's time to post some more Cody pics. He is almost 5 months and looks more and more like a big dog. He won't give up sleeping in his small kennel and finds ways to do it, he likes to cuddle with the foot stool. He stares over my head intently trying to find his buddy at school pickup. He recently figured out that the mud around the tree when it gets watered is awesome to play in. And that he can hang with the big dogs, but they won't put up with him being pushy. He also still tries to sleep on my lap, but is running out of room. He plays like crazy with my son as soon as he is home ... My son secretly calls him "hobbes" when playing with his imagination  and Cody does a pretty good job of being the fun tiger of Calvin's. Cody also cannot wait to run around with Dad at horse feeding time. All in all he is fitting in very nicely. So just had to share some pics. Enjoy! Chris






Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Added to QMC today: going for a walk

I uploaded this file today to the QMC. It has two titles and a frame and a title plate or use it for a bookmark. Next year when we do our Scouts walk/hike I plan to make these for the kids who go. A keepsake for the day. 

If you are not a qmc member yet, time is running out. You can join here. 





Mater List for QMC Feb-April 2012

CD 
1. CD00912 - Race Day - UL 
2. CD00911 - Little Devil - UL
3. CD00913 - Shooting for the Heart - UL 
4. CD00914 - Luck Set - UL 
5. CD00915 - Flower and Bird -ul 
6. CD00919 - First Comes Love - u 
7. CD00920 - Going for a Walk


BK
1. BK00480- Groundhog Day - UL
2. BK00481 - I love U - UL
3. BK00467 - Our Family Roots... UL
4. BK00485 - Leap Year - UL
5. BK00492 - Sweet For You! - UL

Perk files offered for current members of the QMC


 #18 - Octopus Digicut

 
   #17 - Seahorse - Digicut

 
   #15 - Zebra Stars - Feb 3rd

 
   #16 - Football, Blog Feb 5

 
   #14 - Your love - January 26th

 
   #13 - Happy (heart) Day - Jan 19th, 2012

 
   #12 - Cupid Heart Graduated Border

 
   #6 - Next to you...

 
   #11 - 2012 Year of the Dragon

 
   #8 - ijkl - round vine set

 
   #10 - Powered by Pixie Dust

 
   #9 - Wreath FRB from my blog 907

 
   #7 - Circle VIne Monogram - efgh

 
   #5 - Circle Vine Monogram abcd

 
   #4 - Class of 2011

 
   # 3 - Shamrock tree

 
   # 2 - Fun Gals - Blog Freebie Jan 28th

 
   #1 - Group of Hearts - Blog Freebi



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Monday, April 2, 2012

QMC : First Comes Love

Here is a tease for those QMC members who have joined the Feb-April QMC.

I am adding this file to the QMC tomorrow. This comes with everything but the dates and the name.

So you can add your own and it will make a great gift.

 

Have a wonderful day!

Enjoy!

Chris

 

Come back later this week for a few fun posts and don’t forget I am having a sale!!!!

 

Add your items to the cart to see your discount.

 

 

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