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Chris Durnan

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Archives for June 2011

Second batch from the fakery bakery

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Okay so last night I thought I would try another batch before the can went bad. It wouldn't rise. And the consistancy of the foamy stuff when spraying wasn't the same as when first opened. This is good to know. And this batch sat out in the heat and turned yellow whereas the firstbatch are all still white. This leads me to believe I will need to paint the white batch just in case it turns yellow. I would hate to have the perfect frosting job and have the fakery cupcake turn yellow.

Please note where it says use gloves!!! Use gloves. Yeesh that stuff is sticky. Just my experienced word of advise.

And you may ask why is this taking me so many days? Well I am having to do it in between life, files and the great heat. 🙂 but it's fun to do something at my own pace.

Now I have to figure out what kind of light spackle for the wilton cake tips. I bought the cheap box with the coupon to try. Any input on spackle. I have to mix in paint coloring. This is gonna be a gloppPy mess. 🙂

Hope your having a great day!

Enjoy! Chris

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Fake cupcakes – step 1

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So here is the first step of my quest to make fake cupcakes for my cupcake wrappers. Super easy I just sprayed the goopy stuff in and let it sit. It expanded itself into a perfect dome. To do again and I may try another dozen just to use up the can and have a practice batch for frosting, but to do again I may not fill as much. So this step fairly painless. Because I don't eat cakes often. I don't bake nor frost often. So frosting seems a little worrisome. But we shall see how it goes. Spackle for frosting with paint to tint it. Fun stuff. Just had to share the first step.
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Anniversary Card using #CD00807 and #CD00550

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Nothing like waiting till the last minute.  *smile*  Today, Jeff and I celebrate 28 years of marriage.  He still make my heart pitter pat.  I am SO blessed!  He is working today so I was able to play in my studio (with Zoey’s help LOL) and make him an anniversary card.
 
I used two Visual Designs by Chris files:  #CD00807 Tending my Garden for the heart flowers and #CD00550 Love title for the word “love”.  The other letter is Katie Mini from Quickutz.  I cut the flowers out in white and colored them with my Copics.  Added a sheer yellow ribbon to bring in the color of the lettering.  The inside says “grows & grows” cut with the Katie mini. 

~Angie~ (Missouri)
~I am blessed!!~

Visual Designs by Chris Creative Team Member
http://www.visualdesignsbychris.com
(cutters: Blue Wishblade and Cricut Expression)

hmmm… how much was that?

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Always interesting…

Yesterday I called on a truck part for my hubby. I didn’t realize hubby and I had a same place on our list. We both called the same place talked to two different guys.

Me “the girl” got quoted 355.00

He “the boy” got quoted 250.00

And when he said I saw it on your site for 230.00 the guy said.  Oh yeah. I can do that. Hmmm.

 

I do believe I will not be calling on parts any longer for the truck.  The difference was just to huge to be a “new guy” scenario.

 

 

So that means truck work this weekend. Early in the a.m. preferably before it is over 100. Sounds like fun. I am not a whole lot of help. But I am good at sitting beside the truck and rambling and chatting about things that don’t really matter while the hubby does all the work. Sometimes my hands are smaller and a better fit into where a part needs to go. Oh and I am  good at getting tools. I need to make a tshirt that says “the tool girl” haha.  Another time when we were dating my hubby and I had spent the day working on a truck in the parking lot of a home depot. A cable had gone out. My hands were the only ones small enough to fit up under the engine from the ground. So I am laying  there working under it next to my boyfriend at the time. When all done, we stopped by his Mom’s on the way to. My hubby says. “You’re all dirty.” And grinned. I laughed back and said. “well so are you” He laughed and said  “Yeah but you’re a dirty chic.” And we both laughed. I think it was over a 100 that day and the heat had gotten to us.  Something tells me “the dirty chic girl” would not be taken the same as a tshirt that says “the tool girl”. Haha. What a great memory.

 

But on Saturday  I have the last half of the day to craft! Yeah so excited. I have a ton of QMC files I need to do last cuts on. This is awesome. It has been hard working with the kiddo home because he wants attention. Which I can totally understand.  Well I am off to finish up somethings so I can take that day to cut and load files.

 

Have a wonderful day!

Enjoy!

Chris

recipe card with Chris’s file

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I just love using Chris Durnan’s files on my recipe pages. For this recipe, I used her file, Chili Pepper. You can find it here. I cut the star off the top of it. I also cut the peppers in half, down the middle and placed it on the edge of the page. I’ll use the other half of the peppers on another recipe card later.
Thanks for looking!
Sussann

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

With smoke.. No mountains

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And this is without our beautiful mountain views as the smoke obscures it. Closest currently burning fire is 50 miles away. We pray for those families being relocated and getting to visit their homes with an escort only to survey the damage. Is it day 69 or 70? Of no rain? The record is 100 days I hope we don't beat the record this year. I pray for rain and the safety of all those around us. -Chris
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Without smoke

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So some folks are asking about the fires in Arizona. I promised to post a pic or two and just ran out of time so here is picture number one without smoke of the mountains we see from our house. All of Arizona seems to be a blaze and it is pretty stressful. Tenatively we are thinking about pland and what we would do to haul out. And then we also are thinking about holiday weekend plans for the fourth and with everything as it is. We'll just stay home and enjoy eachothers company. So in this picture there is approximately 1 mile of homes scattered between us and the mountains. After that one mile it is brush, dry grass and open range all the way to the base of the mountains. In my next post I will post the with smoke picture from yesterday night when we got home. – Chris
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Today is my birthday… wooohoo! So today will be the last day of Birthday Week Wishlist winners.

However, the Sale and Bonus Birthday file is still in effect until Sunday. for more info you can visit here.

But to celebrate a little more I am offering this free file. Class of 2011. This is a terms restricted file so the password is iagreetou. Which means you know the file is for personal use. Those who are already QMC Members… this is in the perks section of the Membership forum. So if the link is gone you can still grab it there as long as you are a current member. For those downloading from my blog here it is and don’t forget the password. This is only the Class of 2011 words and not the Katrina in the picture.

Have a Happy Happy 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.

https://www.visualdesignsbychris.com/693/

3rd, 4th & 5th Wishlist Winners

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I sent out three wishlist winner files today.. Here are the winners and the files they received. Don’t forget I am running a sale and you get a bonus file! Woohoo! So much fun.

Cara won the Magical Borders 2

Joann won the Flower Borders 1

Heather won the Gear Head Accents

Congrats ladies!

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.