I call for a small hiatus on the grounds that I’m leaving on vacation in 7 hours !

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 :p !

Love,
Charlotte

My whole adventure with scrapbooking started when I stumbled upon Jessica Sprague’s website.
I have been enjoying looking at strangers family photo’s wrapped in pretty little packages and I have been feeling the need to join the whole scene. As I’m not a real picture taker it was natural for me to go more into the design direction, rather than the page creator direction. Hence the section scrapbooking resources.
This week, jessicasprague.com is celebrating it’s second birthday.
For this entire month, the moderators of the site have been setting challenges for scrapbook layouts; one for every day. And while I enjoy looking at what people make of the challenges, yesterday I suddenly felt the urge to participate.

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

I am now fully back and fully working!
All the problems I had last week are solved. Thank you everyone who helped and who encouraged. And a very special thank you to my host Jenny for her help and for having me using up all her space and actually liking it .

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