I used the cut-outs to experiment on how to cut out the hair, because that’s the part I’m always struggling with. I tried out several techniques and several different brushes. Not all methods were succesful, so not all cut-outs are all that good. But I hope you’ll be able to use them anyway

CUT-OUTS PAGE

Enjoy! And have a good weekend!

Love,
Charlotte

One wallpaper made from promotional images for Tim Burton’s new film “Alice in Wonderland”. The Wallpaper features Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the original poem from Lewis Carroll’s novel.

Tweedledee & Tweedledum

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One wallpaper from the hit tv-show True Blood featuring Sookie & Bill. I made this right after watching the first episode. In the mean time, I’m well into season 2, but haven’t managed any new wallpapers

Sookie & Bill

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And two wallpapers of the beautiful Oguri Shun. Seriously, the boy truly can’t take an ugly photo! Every photograph I see of him just tickles my muse and gears her into action

Oguri Shun
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And for the scrapbookers out there – well, wallpaper makers can use these too, of course – I have another free alphanumeric set. The set was inspired by stitch on letters you often see on jeans or varsity sweaters.

And that’s it for now! Have a nice day

My holiday, albeit it already was 2 months ago, was fantastic. Croatia really is a beautiful country!

My creative juices have been running dry or in another direction for a while now. During the summer I started a new hobby: Amigurumi
Amigurumi is Japanese and literally means knitted stuffed toy and is the art of knitting or crocheting plushies. Most amigurumi are crocheted, which is what I do.

Mind you, I first had to learn how to crochet, and as my godmother wasn’t patient enough to teach me and apparently found everything I did with a crochet hook hilarious, I abandoned the plan of her teaching me. So I resorted myself to YouTube and learned step-by-step how to crochet and how to crochet amigurumi.

When a friend of mine – who actually introduced me to amigurmi – asked me where I found my tutorials and crochet patterns, I decided to start a separate blog about my crochet adventures.
At first, I wrote the blog in my native language (Dutch), but I have now decided to also write in English, to make it more accessible.
I wanted to add the blog as a subdomain to gawariel.com, but as my host is currently on training and I do not want to bother her with trivial things, I decided to add the blog to another free personal site I was keeping with awardspace, this mainly to minimize the amount of websites to keep track of.

But seeing as the amigurumi portion of the site functions as a completely different website, I now want to seperate the blog from tehkey and even decided on a name CHARAMI.
CHAR after my first name Charlotte and AMI for amigurumi. But unfortunately awardspace doesn’t allow “awardspace.com” sub domains any more for free users. I can only choose between .biz, .us, .info or .co.uk.
The site is NOT a business, I do NOT live in the USA, it might be an informational site, but I don’t like the look of .info; and I’m not a UK citizen. So yeah, unless I pay awardspace, I cannot use the .com extension anymore.

I’m a little at a loss of what to do .
The blog is just a small personal thingy, and I’m not sure if there is a lot of interest or how long I will keep my interest, so I do not want to spend a lot of money paying for a domain I might not renew in a couple of months. *sigh* Whatever.
For the mean time, the blog will remain where it is: http://tehkey.awardspace.com/amigurumi/.
Unless you have a suggestion??

Anyway, I’m sure none of you are actually interested in my rambling . I’ll try to be back with some content soon!

Love,
Lotte

Me and two girlfriends are going to Croatia, more specifically to Dubrovnik (hotel in Cavtat). Beautiful nature, sea and history *sigh*

Let’s hope the weather will be good.
I’ve heard that it has been raining over there these last weeks, and the weather prospects for the next couple of days look a bit gloomy as well. It would be quite ironic that now that Belgium is experiencing its summer, I would be vacationing in a much more southern country in the rain… 0_0

Keep your fingers crossed for me and you’ll see me when you see me !

Love,
Charlotte

Yesterday’s challenge, was a template challenge. The template was only downloadable yesterday, but this is how it looked like:

As I wanted to join in the fun, I needed a picture to use in this challenge. As mentioned above, I don’t really take all that much pictures, and if I do take a picture the subject in 9 cases out of 10 is my cat, Billy. So, here is the very first scrapbook page I have ever created (click to see full size):

To be quite honest, digital scrapbooking is very much like creating any other sort of graphic, only on a larger scale, meant for print.
I kind of like how my page turned out. And, even if I do say so myself, I love the look of the papers

Anyway, tonight I thought of joining in the challenge again. This time the challenge involved inspiration drawn from movie posters.

I had already created my base (inspired by the Duplicity poster) when the dilemma of what pictures to use reared up. I had no suitable pictures of my cat or anything else, but I didn’t want my base to go to waste. So, I had another one of my brilliant *cough* ideas: Why not offer up my .psd base for scrapbookers who do take photographs.
And here I am to present to you yet another section in the Scrapbooking resources section: Page Bases. And the very first downloadable base:

This base can be used like any other page template out there, but it has a little extra in the form of the decoration with a paper, brushes and matching colours.
I already started some bases based on the other posters, but I haven’t finished them yet. Something to look forward to perhaps?

Goodnight,
Charlotte

The whole mess started when I wanted to upload some scrapbooking stuff I made for Father’s Day. Even though Father’s Day is over already, I don’t want to hold these goodies back .
The first thing I made was this paper pack.

Because I really liked the papers, I decided to make some other goodies to be used together with these papers:

To download any of these sets/images, go to their respective pages:

• Father’s Day Paper Set
• Father’s Day Glitter Alphanumeric Set
• Father’s Day Journalling Block AND Swirls
• Large glitter Ampersands

I also have two other Paper Sets downloadable from the Scrapbooking Resources Free Paper Sets page:

I hope you will enjoy these freebies!

Love,
Charlotte

The solving of the problem was thanks to another problem arising.
I tried upgrading my version of WordPress to the lastest version (2.8), but only got a bunch of errors back:

Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Unable to create file /home/.pish/gawariel/gawariel.com/wp-content/1244911885 because Disk quota exceeded in /home/.pish/gawariel/gawariel.com/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 174

Warning: fileowner() [function.fileowner]: stat failed for /home/.pish/gawariel/gawariel.com/wp-content/1244911885 in /home/.pish/gawariel/gawariel.com/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 628

Warning: unlink(/home/.pish/gawariel/gawariel.com/wp-content/1244911885) [function.unlink]: No such file or directory in /home/.pish/gawariel/gawariel.com/wp-admin/includes/file.php on line 630

As I particularly noticed the bold part, I thought I could try delete one of my zip-files through FTP and try the upgrade again. And lo and behold, it worked! On top of that, the custom permalinks were fixed at the same time.

After that I tried uploading files again, but whenever I reach an upload of 30Mb it just stops, which strengthens my believe I have exceeded some unknown size-limit set on my folders.
My host is informed, so hopefully she’ll know an answer
If not, then I’m thinking of using an external file storage site (Mediafire) to host the bigger files. We’ll wait and see

Goodnight!

And this happens just when I’ll be out of town for a couple of days. I’m being send to Italy for work and won’t have a computer with me.

I hope I haven’t lost everything *cries* :’(

If anyone has any ideas what could have happened, please, please, PLEASE let me know!

Charlotte

EDIT: I tried this, but as you can see it does nothing for me. *cries*

Having found my way towards the scrapbooking scene has had it’s influence on my little site.
Now, I’m not only making resources, but I have also written a tutorial on how to create an element that is much used and loved by scrapbookers. But do not fear, it is a technique that looks wonderful on all digital creations, whether it is a scrapbook page or a wallpaper or a header or a banner…

To make
End product of tutorial	Product in use
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	Photo found on Flickr. Unfortunately, I can’t remember who it belongs to. If you know, let me know

So, if you are interested in learning how to create this element, head over to the tutorial here!
And as always, feel free to leave me your thoughts/comments/links to creations!

Love,
Charlotte

I’m so glad it’s the weekend! I had a not al to pleasant week at work, so I’m glad to be able to leave it behind for 3 days. Yep, Monday is a free day as well due to Pentecost!

Aaaanyway, I added another two paper sets to the scrapbooking resources section.

Paper Set 03 contains four grungy, dirty, parchment coloured papers.

Paper Set 04 contains 8 papers with a satin fabric look, with lots of shadow and light play.

Enjoy and feel free to show me the work you made using any of my resources!

Have a nice weekend!

Love,
Charlotte