More to Show Off from the Design Team!

Here is another great piece from the DT! This one is a postcard created by Mandy Chilvers (featuring an image from Lunagirl digital collage sheet Marie).

Visit Mandy's blogs to see more of her work... and join her fun challenges!
TAG ALONG:
http://tagalongchallenge.blogspot.com/
and
MANDY'S MAGICAL WORLD OF ART:
http://mandysmagicalworldofart.blogspot.com/

Wendy is the winner of the Marie challenge!

I had to find a new random number generator site... Found it, did the random drawing, and here I am to announce the winner for the Marie Antoinette challenge...

Entry #3 by Wendy at Paper Whims!

Congrats to Wendy, who will receive $15 credit to shop for some new digital collage sheets at Lunagirl.com.

And congrats to everyone who entered for your beautiful work and to the Design Teams of LunagirlMoonbeams and CheerfulStampPad for wonderful inspiration as always!


COMING UP: Please be sure to join me for my next challenge. We are deep into summer now, so let's do the theme RETRO SUMMERTIME. The Design Team will be working with some vintage images from my digital collage sheets Summertime Beauties, Flamingo, and Pin Up Girls. Come back and play in the next challenge!

Fabulous Marie Antoinette challenge still going on :-)

 By CORINNE MARIE Digital by Corinne

Here is a "Marie" digital creation by Corinne Marie ... to remind you to play in my Marie Antoinette challenge.

See all the wonderfully pretty entries and link up your own...

Enter up to three times for three chances to win the drawing ~ use a Lunagirl images to DOUBLE those chances ~ then enter at CheerfulStampPad as well for even more chances to win! The winner of the drawing will receive $15 store credit to find some digital collage sheets or vintage images at Lunagirl.com.

The challenge continues for a few more days, until Thursday afternoon (CST) so you have plenty of time. This is always a fun theme ~ get in touch with your inner fru-fru French fabulousness!

Marie Antoinette challenge: Second Week

You still have plenty of time to enter our Marie Antoinette challenge, here at LunagirlMoonbeams and also at CheerfulStampPad! Don't miss out on the fun and your chance to win the drawing for $15 store credit to buy some new digital goodies at Lunagirl.com!

Both the Lunagirl Moonbeams DT and the Guest Designers from the Cheerful Stamp Pad have been creating some wonderful works with my "Marie" collage sheets to inspire you...
The challenge continues until next Thursday afternoon!

SHELBY PIZZARRO Sisterhood of the Muse

HAZEL HARRIS My Crafty Outlook For the second week of challenge 105 I once again used one of the beautiful images from Lunagirl's Marie Digital Collage sheet, using
background papers that I've had for ages. The black flowers are
Craftime and the centres were from the Hobby House.

MICHELE STORMS Art From the Well  

BARBARA GODDEN Barb's Creative Corner For the second week of the Marie Antoinette challenge I use the same collage sheet and made another ATC, When I saw the images I knew that is what I wanted to do with them. I fussy cut around the flourishes and layered it on a Fancy labels 8 die cut. I did use some spica glitter pens on the flourishes and added 4 rhinestones, I added it to a purple base

KARLA BADANZA Poetic Postcards 

VICKI ROMAINE, owner of Cheerful Stamp Pad 

CORINNE MARIE Digital by Corinne

Join Our Creative Challenge: MARIE ANTOINETTE

Our theme this time is "Marie Antoinette" ~ and this is another "double" challenge with Vicki Romaine's challenge blog, cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.com. Our Design Teams will be guest designers for each other's blogs... and you can link up your creation on BOTH sites for double chances to win!

I can't wait to see what you create ~ link up your entries below. And I know you'll enjoy the Design Team and Guest Designer creations. At Lunagirl.com shop you'll find Marie Antoinette collage sheets for inspiration, plus plenty of other vintage French-inspired images!

CHALLENGE GUIDELINES:

Any craft or medium is welcome!

Vintage style is encouraged but not required.

Use a Lunagirl image and your entry will count twice in the drawing!

Link to this blog and to Lunagirl.com on your site if you have one.

Prize:  Winner will be selected randomly to receive a $15 credit at Lunagirl.com!

Challenge ends at 2:00 pm CST on Thursday, July 16.

I love it when you use Lunagirl images, and I hope you'll go take a look at my collections... but that's not a requirement!  But do remember that if you use a Lunagirl image, you will be entered TWICE in the drawing! I welcome everyone and every style but also want to give a little something extra to my wonderful customers! Most important is have fun, get creative, and enjoy vintage style. 

An InLinkz Link-up

LUNAGIRL MOONBEAMS DESIGN TEAM + GUEST DESIGNERS

HAZEL HARRIS My Crafty Outlook 

KARLA BADANZA Poetic Postcards "For the first week of Marie Antoinette, I made a card using an image kindly supplied by our sponsor Lunagirl and it is called Queen Marie Antoinette in Gilt Frames. It is such a vintage beauty! I layered it on a scrapbook paper and on a blue cardstock. I also added some decorating paste flowers and pearls. When I think of Marie Antoinette, refinement and graceful approach to life crosses my mind and those things are still important. Have a creative weekend! Hope you continue playing along with us!"

VICKI ROMAINE, owner of Cheerful Stamp Pad 
"A Mixed Media Tag using one book page, watercolor diecut,, stickers and Lunagirl image.My tag also has a beautiful cut from a old card and some text scribble."

CORINNE MARIE Digital by Corinne

BARBARA GODDEN Barb's Creative Corner 

MICHELE STORMS Art From the Well  "a tag, images from marie, dreams of paris and winds and roses collage sheets.
enjoy!  happy 4th!"

Fete Nationale (Bastille Day) July 14

You can celebrate Bastille Day, the French national holiday, with our vintage French patriotic postcards on Lunagirl Victorian Holidays Volume Three.

 Le Quatorze Juillet (the 14^th of July) commemorates the successful storming of the Bastille fortress in 1789 by French citizen-soldiers and revolutionaries.

The people of Paris, fearing an attack by the French royal military, attacked the Bastille in search of ammunition. The Bastille was a symbol of the oppressive rule of the aristocracy, because the king used the Bastille as a prison to hold people indefinitely without trial or appeal.

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While the French aristocracy enjoyed fabulous wealth and power, common people experienced increasing difficulty supporting themselves and their families, and writers who dared to criticize the government were jailed.

We like to identify with the elegance of the French aristocratic ladies, but the fact is most of us would have had more in common with the citizens of Paris and the French countryside. 

One of the first protests beginning the French Revolution was led by mothers who had no bread to feed their families. 
A famous story (probably fiction) says that Marie Antoinette, sheltered in her world of fancy parties and powdered wigs, asked why the common people were angry. When told, “Because they are starving and have no bread,” she is said to have replied, “Well then let them eat cake.” A remark quite witty and amusing to her rich friends, but not so funny to the hungry Parisian commoners!

 Marie Antoinette was a fashionable and influential woman but apparently not a very nice queen. Although she was popular at first, her sometimes arrogant behavior and extravagant lifestyle contributed to the decline of the French monarchy. As a footnote, this woman who is often considered the epitome of 'Frenchness' was actually an Austrian princess!

We have a lovely small collection of authentic French patriotic cards on our Holidays CD #3. They were printed during World War I, when France was again in struggle. They show symbols of France including the tricolor flag and Joan of Arc, as well as French soldiers and women, with slogans that speak of faith and hope.

If you can’t get to Paris, they also celebrate Le Quatorze Juillet in the French Quarter in New Orleans!

New: Marie Antoinette Collage Sheets

By popular request, three new designs featuring images of Marie Antoinette, the fabulous, fashionable, but ill-fated Queen of France (and some vintage postcards that seem to us inspired by Marie and her times). Print to enjoy in your altered art projects, ATCS, card making and other paper crafts ~ because our files are jpgs you can print them smaller to make jewelry charms and pendants. Available at this link, exclusively from Lunagirl Images!