I am SO very proud to announce that Kitty Finn is now selling cutting files at Visual Designs by Chris.

In February, I taught a KNK retreat in Scottsdale and Kitty was one of my attendees. After the retreat, Kitty told me she felt so overwhelmed the first night that she had to make a decision… drive back to LA or head to the bar and drink a couple of martinis! Fortunately, she chose the martinis! The next day, she faced more classes and more design challenges, but at some point, she got hooked and suddenly what seemed so overwhelming the first day turned into fun and excitement the second day. By the end of the weekend, she was ready to go home and start designing her own files. And now, several months later, I am SO thrilled to announce that Kitty is now a member of Chris Durnan’s team of designers and has her first files ready to sell. Here is a link to see her files:

Kitty’s Cuttings

Also, Kitty is looking for some volunteers to test cut other formats of her files. Specifically she would like to have someone who owns a Silhouette cut her GSD versions and someone who owns a Cricut (along with SCAL or MTC) to cut her SVG versions. You can reach her at Scvfinn@aol.com. if you are interested in helping.

Kitty, I wish you great success at Visual Designs by Chris! And I look forward to seeing you again at the San Diego retreat in October.

Chad has been unable to get this site’s FeedBurner account to cease sending those regular emails saying “this site has been changed.” Thus we will be switching to RSS as a subscription service. Please sign up with the RSS once you see it appear on this home page and unsubscribe from the other service IF you continue to receive emails. It’s kind of ridiculous to assume that you’ll get more emails once we delete my FeedBurner account, but I’ve seen stranger things happen! lol

Again, I’m sorry for the inconvenience! But I hope to make it up to you in new videos, handy tips, and other useful information.

First off, I appreciate all of my readers here. Thank you for your support throughout 2009. Sorry I haven’t had new info to post. It’s not from a lack of ideas… just a lack of time with the holidays.

Also, there’s an apparent glitch with the Feed Burner subscription and I know a lot of my subscribers are getting daily messages about a change at my site, but there’s no update. I will have Chad look into this when he returns from vacation. I’m not familiar with the ins and outs of these services and hopefully he’ll be able to troubleshoot and fix the problem. In the meantime, I appreciate your patience with this issue. I have disabled this plugin until it can be reviewed.

Have a VERY Happy New Year! And be sure to watch for new cutting tips and tutorials in 2010!

Pam Z!

Chris’s posted announcing Pam Z as the winner is under the Comments link below! A hearty congratulations to Pam and a HUGE thank you to everyone who participated! : )

Its easy to win- just enter a comment on this post TODAY, October 2, and you will be entered in a drawing for one membership. (Scroll to the end of this section and the link to comment is below the three photos. All comments must be approved, so I promise to check off regularly all day long and get them all approved before Chris does her drawing of the winner tomorrow!)

Chris’s Quarterly Membership Club includes 20 plus files offered in GSD KNK WPC AI SVG SCUT
All new original files created freshly during the quarter. Value is $10.00

Winner will be announced tomorrow, Saturday, October 3rd, at this blog. So be sure to post your comment TODAY and then tune in tomorrow to see who won!

For all of you readers who have expressed how much you enjoy this site… please thank Chris! She’s the one who pushed me to get started with this site and answered a jillion questions that I had about the proces. Chris, congratulations on your first year! I wish you continued success and thank you for getting me started blogging! You’re the BEST!!! : )

Thank you SO much to Chris Durnan for nominating me for her “I Love Your Blog Award.” Chris’s blog has been an inspiration to so many people involved in the cutter world and I personally want to thank her also for answering a miscellany of emails from me about how to set up various things in my blog. She’s the Blogging Queen, if there ever was one!

To continue this chain of nominations, I pick the following 7, in alphabetical order. :

Brenda
Diana
Jenn
Karen
Pam
Polsia
Rosemary

Here are the rules for playing:
1. The winner can put the logo on their blog
2. Link the person you received your award from
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs
4. Put links of those blogs on yours
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the people you have nominated