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Chris Durnan

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Fun Summer Idea – Friendship Card – CAD

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This weeks Card a Day blog topic has been friendship. I have found some awesome friends through my creativity at VDBC. so I tend to peruse that gallery like crazy to see what everyone is doing.

This card just popped out. Thank you Caz for posting such a beautiful and friendship filled card.
Very nice indeed.

Don’t forget to come back the rest of the month for some Summer Fun Ideas. We have already started with some.

So today’s Summer Fun Idea. Find one friend. Create something and mail them a card. This is great for kids to be creative and also to address an envelope and mail it. I wonder how long the post office will be running sometimes with the world of text and email. I definitely love to get mail myself. So I hope you take the time to help a child, grandchild crafting something to drop in the mail. 

Don’t forget to get a picture first and post it somewhere I will see! And so I can show my son who has helped me come up with some of these ideas. 
Thank you again Caz for the awesome inspiration!

Enjoy!
Chris

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Summer Fun Ideas – Fun lunches

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We get burnt out over summer on lunches.
We end up eating the same thing over and over because it is easy. I think it would be fun to be creative here are some ideas for silly character lunches. If you come up with any, please share. Would love to see them.

This is from the Little Nummies site. I encourage you to head over and see this Chicky Quesadilla and get the recipe. 
This is from the “Meet the Dubies” website. Man I just smiled when I saw this. 
And this Pinterest page is just full of ideas. pretty Cool. 
Enjoy!
Chris

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Fun Summer Ideas – Book Spine Poetry

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This is the beginning of the Fun Summer Ideas throughout June and maybe into July. My Son and I spent some time looking through ideas and coming up with things we have loved to do recently to post for you to see. So we will be checking out all the comments and posts to see what everyone is coming up with. My son will be super excited to see everyone’s ideas with his. So please share. 

Here is our Poetry spine idea. 

So we love to read read read here. And this really spiked my interest. We continuously weed out books from my son’s book shelf. He is an avid reader. Almost a clepto book collector. He will go to the public library with me grab two books, he school library and grab a book or two on his or my number, and then also walk through the grocery store magazine book aisle and talk his Dad into buying him a book he just has to have.

So here is an idea to enjoy over summer break and I would love to see what you come up with. Please share your pictures in the gallery, on facebook wherever. Just tag me somehow or post to me so I see. I would love to see what you come up with… Here are some of the photos from @ the library facebook page. 

This was the winner Elizabeth’s photo. This photo is from the @the library facebook page. A great like to have in your news feed.

Here is another from Chicopee Library. Here is the photo link. 
These are not my photos. So please visit the sites I saw them on. 
And I’d love to see yours. 
What can you come up with… 
My recommendation tho’ if you do this at the library. 
Tag spot you got the book from so you can put it back. 
Enjoy!
Chris

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Thinking of you card using Chris Durnan’s cutter file

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How cute is this owl?! This is part of a cutter file that was included in Chris Durnan’s Quarterly Membership Club. I cut him out, pin-stitched and chalked the edges. I layered him on a torn and inked piece of patterned paper. I stamped the Thinkin’ of you! sentiment on a torn, inked piece of cardstock and pop-dotted it on the card. Be sure to check out all of Chris’s great files here!

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

If you get up… you might lose your…

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If you get up, you might lose your spot.

One of my fav spots in the evening to sit and relax for a bit and also one of the barn cats as he views our “chicken aquarium”. My son got up for two seconds and the cat named Penzoil jumped in to keep the seat warm. 🙂 love our lives.
Enjoy!
Chris
Ps… yep I still haven’t painted those chairs red yet. On my to do list.

CAD – Happy Birthday Peace Invite

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I created this invite for a friend for her beautiful daughter.
The Peace them was her idea. The round theme was mine.
Please excuse the digital white out for the details.

I cut two circles and the piece symbol. Then I printed the inside part and hat cut the circle. I hadn’t yet figured out the Print and Cut feature. but I now have. I will definitely use PNC for the next project.

Bright and Fun and Perfect.

Hope you like.
Enjoy!
Chris

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Could it be a golden egg?

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So excited about these two little eggs. It is almost as if they could be the “golden eggs”. Woohoo. My son is uber happy school is over so he can collect in the mornings. So this morning I sat at my studio working away.. when arose such a clatter.. oh wait this isn’t a santa story unless he lays eggs, but entirely different concept. There was so much squawking I thought for sure we had a snake or cat in the hen house. So I went out to see and there were three hens standing and staring over one little egg and squawking up a storm. Running around it like some crazy chicken dance. The 4th hen was up in the top boxes just hanging out and then get up and walked to see what was going on and wahla she left an egg behind in her box. Yeah. So I went in and grabbed the eggs and wew all the racket seemed to quiet.  And I bounced around and happy danced with two eggs. And I didn’t even trip over a rock, lose my balance and crush them all. They made it to the crate in the fridge. Woohoo. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
Maybe a “golden egg”? Wink wink haha.
Love my life.
Enjoy!
Chris

Mother’s Day Card using #CD00804

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I used Chris’s file #CD00804 Floral Card front to make my ma a Mother’s Day card this year.  I added the sentiment with a stamp.  Used rub ons to make the flowers purple and added a prima flower to the center bloom with a brad.  Added some bling and then spritzed it with a spray I made with water and a green twinkling H20.  For some reason in the photo you can see the sparkle but not much of the green. 
 
~Angie~ (Missouri)
~I am blessed!!~

Grilling Time – pineapple, chicken, jalapeno jelly

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It’s warm here again. Averaging in the 90s. This means… Grillin time. Who wants to heat up the house.
Recently, we grilled some chicken. I put fresh pineapple chunks on wooden skewers I had soaked in water. And we grilled those to. Then we added some of my Jalapeno Jelly on top. It was a warm sweet spicey yum. Added a salad to the plate and yum. Perfect.
The other favorite on the grill is apples or peaches cut up in chunks toss with a little butter and brown sugar. Maybe cinnamon sprinkle and wrap it all in tinfoil. Set it on the back of the grill and leave it there after you’ve turned off the grill and close the lid. It will be warm tasty and yummy by itself or over ice cream when you are done with dinner and want a little dessert.
Have any recipes from the grill as your favs?
Our “3 dish” was a salad. So veggies were covered.
Enjoy!
Chris

Green inch worm moment

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This little guy was good for 30 minutes of ooh and ahh as we work on the garden room. (I hope to post pics soon) and the little guy was good for some lecture….” no D. He may not come in my house! “
Of course my thought was wow how many of my tomato plants is he and his green relatives gonna eat at 1 inch long. 
Love when the kid pauses everything for nature and its wonder.
Enjoy!
Chris