Your Fate Awaits

By MANDY CHILVERS
MandysMagicalWorldofArt

I recently created a new Fortune Teller / Vintage Gypsy digital collage sheet (finally got it listed on the website here, and it's in the etsy shop)...

Mandy Chilvers (of the Design Team) has created this great piece using one of the gypsy ladies, and I wanted to share it!

Mandy also sent me a beautiful piece for the May challenge... the theme is Mothers and Sisters... so stay tuned for this and more inspiration from the Design Team, to get you started on this month's challenge theme!

New Collage Sheet!

New digital collage sheet using some gypsy/fortuneteller images I've found. I've been meaning to use a couple of these for a long time. Hope you like it!

Click on the image to see it larger in my Lunagirl etsy shop where it is for sale.

More from the Design Team... Gypsy Girl

Don't be sad -- you still have plenty of time to join my Music and Dance challenge!

This lovely little gypsy girl is here to be your muse. Design Team member Mandy Chilvers created this gorgeous ATC. Such a sad sweet face... but I love the brilliant deep red of the flowers Mandy added, and the bright red and green of her headscarf.

Visit the challenge page to see more inspiration and link up your own music/dance inspired creations. The drawing is on Sunday, and you might win some Lunagirl store credit!

New Digital Collage Sheets: Gypsy Tarot Cards

I don't think I've featured these new Tarot card collage sheets before, so here they are.  Antique Tarot card art from the Major Arcana and a few Minor Arcana mixed in -- in brilliant colors digitally enhanced, in soft vintage sepia artfully altered, and as tiles 1x1.5" and charm ovals 30x40mm.  New and ready to download on etsy or Lunagirl.com (click an image to go to Lunagirl).

Gypsy Bellydancer Card

There's still time to get in on the Vintage Bellydance blog challenge!

Here is another beautiful card from Design Team member Vicki Romaine:

"The Lunagirl gypsy bellydancer image is placed on a split card and the designer paper is accented with a woven thread with pearls trim.  Also, I used a grouping of paper flowers with stones in the center as an additional embellishment."

I love all the different ways our artists have used this favorite image.

You can visit Vicki's blog The Cheerful Stamppad to see her work and enter her challenges too!

More New Collage Sheets: Antique Tarot Cards

One of my favorite things to collect is Tarot card decks.  This one features antique Victorian era artwork, and I've created some digital collage sheets with a few designs in both bright colors and sepia tones.  Perfect for gypsy souls.

 

Lovely Bellydancers and Gypsies from the Design Team

Oh, it's Monday again.  The good news about that (you didn't there was any, did you?) is that it's time to share more Design Team creations on our blog challenge theme of BELLYDANCE.

Mandy Chilvers has used one of my favorite dancers here as the central image on a beautiful tag embellished with flower and leaves, ribbons, and a softly colored background.  

Vicki Romaine does a fabulous job with a fortune teller theme on her piece:

"I decided to make an arch with my Lunagirl gypsy image this time.  Embellishments reflect a gypsy fortune teller.  They include a playing card. a number, the fortune teller hand, a moon and a wheel.  I placed on the bottom border a scrap piece of burlap ribbon." ~ Vicki

 Michele Storms created this amazing ornate card. 

Great work, ladies, as always!

To all my readers and visitors:
You still have all week to enter the blog challenge!
It doesn't close until Sunday night (11:55 pm Central Time), and you will be entered in the random drawing to win free digital collage sheets of your choice.

To enter, go to the Blog Challenge here, and use the blue "Add Your Link" button to link up your project.

You can email me if you have questions, at info@lunagirl.com.  :-)
Bellydance images on sale!

Blog Challenge: Vintage Bellydancers

Our next Lunagirl Moonbeams Blog Challenge theme is one of my favorite things: Bellydance.

You've maybe seen some of the gorgeous vintage bellydancer Paris postcards ~ they are some of my very favorite vintage imagery.

I have a very nice collection of vintage bellydance and gypsy girl images available, many of them altered or embellished by me over the years.  I've made some into my Bellydancer collage sheets, and many are available on my Lunagirl Ladies Photos CDs (you'll find classical & exotic ladies on Volume One, bellydancers & middle eastern costume on Volume Three, and gypsy girls on Volume Four).

As I like to do I'm putting all of these on special for you throughout this challenge!  (And as I also like to do, I'm busy scanning you some freebies...)

This challenge (#10) will end at 11:55 pm on September 22 ~  The winner will be selected randomly (random number generator) to win two free Lunagirl digital collage sheets of your choice!

Be creative but stick to the theme,
Any craft or medium is OK,
No more than 3 entries from one person in each challenge, and
Please link back to my blog & Lunagirl.com on your site if you have one.
 
Of course I love if you use at least one Lunagirl product, and I hope you'll go take a look at my collection... but that's not a requirement!  Most important is have fun, get creative, enjoy vintage.  

And do not miss the beautiful and inspiring creations of the Design Team, following below!

LUNAGIRL MOONBEAMS DESIGN TEAM: Michele, Mandy, and Vicki have submitted some fabulous pieces on the theme to get you started... (Petra will be back with us next week.)  The DT is working with collage sheets La Danse Orientale and Bellydance Three...

Michele Storms:
my belly dance piece is a gothic arch using 2 images from "la danse orientale" and various papers and charms to evoke the romantic feel of the beautiful art of belly dance.

 Here is gorgeous tag from our newest Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team member, Mandy Chilvers.  Love the deep jewel colors!

Vicki Romaine:

This card is serving two purposes.  Firstly it is for the Lunagirl challenge.  Secondly it is the inspirational piece for my challenge which uses a picture as a basis for the card.  I love it when a card serves more than one purpose.

For this card I used my Gelli plate and made the background.  Next I used a Lunagirl image, cut her out and placed her the background cardstock.  A sentiment and some altered flourish were added.

NEW "Mignon" Vintage Postcards

"Mignon" is a French opera first performed at the Opera Comique in Paris in 1866, based on Goethe's story of a little gypsy girl, the man who falls in love with her, and the man she finally realizes is her father.

Mignon photo postcards were very popular with the Victorians and Edwardians. They often show her praying or longing for her home or her lover, or with her guitar.

These French cards are lovely examples. I've selected them for their beauty and character, restored them and enhanced the color and tint on some. They are perfect for ATCs, altered art and boxes, scrapbooks, card making, assemblage, mixed media, decoupage and more. They can even be printed small for charms, pendants and other jewelry.

AVAILABLE AT LUNAGIRL.COM