{"id":166,"date":"2009-04-28T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2009-04-28T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T07:45:00","slug":"lets-meet-a-designer-wyld-web-design-charmaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2009\/04\/lets-meet-a-designer-wyld-web-design-charmaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Meet a Designer: Wyld Web Design: Charmaine"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is your name and your Digi-scrap blog address? <\/b>Charmaine of Wyld Web Designs, https:\/\/wyldwebdesigns.com\/wordpress\/
Tell us a little bit about your family.<\/b> I’m a mom to two terrific kids, Lilah and Casey, who are almost 3 and 1 years old. My husband of nearly 5 years is my best friend and my family is the most important thing in my life.
What other hobbies do you have besides designing and scrapping? <\/b>There’s other stuff? Uh, I guess reading, hiking and playing games with friends (board games, Rockband, dominoes, etc)
How did you get started designing and scrapping? <\/b>I started scrapping after I was tired of making signature tags for other people on a message board. I quickly became addicted to making pages of my gorgeous family! I had no intentions of designing until Jen of “Graham Like the Cracker” designs talked me into joining a design challenge and here I am, just a few months later!
How long have you been designing? <\/b>I forget the start date, but its only been 2 or 3 months.
Which programs do you use to design? <\/b><\/b>Primarily Photoshop, but I also use Illustrator and Art Rage for some things. Oh, and my beloved Nikon D80 \ud83d\ude42
<\/b><\/b>Do you draw <\/b>most of your items with a mouse, hand draw and scan, or do you use your camera? <\/b>I draw my doodles with my Bamboo tablet and I use my camera for many other things such as ribbons, buttons, etc. I occasionally use my scanner, but I don’t like the quality as much.
Where does your inspiration usually come from? <\/b>Tough question. From all over. A lot of my kits are kind of reflections of my personality and life, so I guess I just have to say my life!
How did you pick your design name? <\/b>My husband runs a web design business from home so I just added myself to his business. The “Wyld” portion of the name is part of his favorite username on the internet.
Who are your favorite three designers? <\/b>Yikes, I have to pick?? Ok, well going strictly on who owns the most hard drive space on my computer, I would have to say Ziggle Designs, Ellie Lash and Flergs.
What is your favorite part of a kit to design?<\/b> The doodles \ud83d\ude42
What is the weirdest thing you have used as a texture? <\/b>A fake leaf from the garden of Pixie Hollow at Disneyland that I took while waiting in line to see Tinkerbell \ud83d\ude42
What is your favorite kit that you have designed? <\/b>My favorite kit that I have designed isn’t in the store yet! But it will be soon! My favorite in the store is probably my Good Clean Fun<\/a> kit:
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What is your least favorite? <\/b>Hands down, my first kit ever designed. Its scary. We shall not show that off \ud83d\ude42
<\/b>How do you get started on a kit?<\/b> Palette first? Rough idea on what you want your papers or elements to look like? <\/b>I usually just start with a rough concept or idea, then I need a palette before I can get any farther. After I pick colors then I usually make most of my papers first, then I can get the elements I want.
How long does it typically take you to make a kit?<\/b> I can rarely get a kit done from start to finish in one session. It takes me anywhere from 2 to 7 days to put a kit together. Total hours is probably over 12.
If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be? <\/b>My weight.
<\/b>What is the one word that best describes you? <\/b>Smart.
<\/b>Who is the most important person in your life? <\/b>My husband.
<\/b>What is something that not many people know about you?<\/b> I played varsity rugby in university. <\/b>(Jen editing it here: Char is CANADIAN!)<\/span>
<\/b>If you could travel anywhere where would you go? <\/b>Australia
<\/b>When you were little what did you dream of being when you grew up? <\/b>Older LOL. I always wanted to be an artist, I guess this is kind of realizing a dream for me (warning, moment of self-realization incoming!). I always used to draw and doodle and sign it with a fake name, like I was using a pseudonym because I was so “famous”. Ahh the good old days \ud83d\ude42
<\/b>What do you like doing with your family? <\/b>We love going camping! I can’t wait for camping season to start!
Where is your favorite place to be? <\/b>At home in front of my computer!
Edward or Jacob? <\/b>Edward, for sure!
CU or do it your self? <\/b>Do it myself. I use a bit of CU, but most of my stuff is my own.<\/p>\n

Some other kits in my store:
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<\/b>This is Charmaine’s latest kit, out on Wednesday, a collaboration with Jen of Graham Like the Cracker<\/a>, called The Seaweed is Always Greener.

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You can download the quick page of Charmaine’s layout before you can even buy the kit! Click the image or HERE<\/a> to download!<\/span><\/span><\/i>
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