New Digital Collage Sheets: Native American Photos

I had a request for Native American images for a workshop, so I created these digital collage sheets featuring some beautiful antique sepia photographs of Native American women, children, and men.  I've listed them at Lunagirl.com and will get them on etsy soon. I like how they turned out, how about you?

Paris Botanical Tags Set: Ephemera, Flowers & Fruit

Still working on Paris Botanical tags today... I made another sheet with yellow flowers and golden fruit. Very pretty! While I was at it I realized I should make a sheet of matching tags that are mostly blank and have a place to write -- to use as backs or just to complete the set. So here is the whole set so far... expect more tags in different themes because I'm having fun with these!

More French Botanical Tags... and a Surprise Just for You

Here's another new printable tag sheet ... 

more beautiful botanical prints of flowers and fruit, in gorgeous shabby purple and green, plus lovely vintage aged pages from the French journal Horticole. 

I had so much fun with these, and I hope you will too! I love these colors and the French text.

Here's another little something fun: a discount code just for my blog readers! Use discount code PURPLEPARIS at checkout at Lunagirl.com for 25% off every item until Monday ... just for you!  

Really I just want to see who is listening :-)

NEW Paris Botanical Tags Printable

More new tags!

These are created with pages from a beautiful old French horticulture journal and pretty antique botanical prints of cherries, strawberries, little red flowers and pink lilies. They have a lovely aged sepia color, from the antique paper, and charming French text.

I call this sheet Paris Botanical Tags: Pink & Red Florals. I plan more sheets in this style in other colors (yellow/gold, blue/purple) and other fruit like grapes, apples, pears... I love working with these images.

This first one is available now at Lunagirl.

Vintage Postcards Ephemera Downloads NEW!

I've been busy creating digital collage sheets with vintage postcards and French carte postale scans, because I think the backs of the postcards in my collection are often just as pretty as the fronts!

In the past I've offered some of the cards with antique handwriting, in English and French, and I wanted to do a collection of the blank cards because they are perfect for so many projects.  And they are lots of fun for me to work with as well!

This is the first set, which I have kept very simple.  The top card is very unusual, with an nature scene illustration and art deco type design.  Then there is a French card and a one in English.  I've offered all three cards in a large and small size, plus a little bonus of just the pretty "post card" titles.

Just for fun, I also did this set in several colors!  
Pink, Indigo Blue, Lilac Purple, Soft Peach, and Spring Green.  Check them all out, and watch for more vintage postcard collage sheets coming very soon....

Don't miss the challenge!

Two more days to join in the Vintage Mother challenge!  As a little reminder and last-minute inspiration, here are two more beautiful cards by Moonbeam DT member Michele Storms.  Be sure to check out the challenge to see more DT creations and the gallery of entries.

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).

Vintage Witch tag by Michele Storms

The little witch with her owl is foretelling your future -- you will create some wonderful witchery and link to the Lunagirl Moonbeams Witchery blog challenge!  Look into her eyes -- you will obey!

Sorry about that silliness. But a big thank you to Moonbeams DT member Michele Storms for this fabulous Vintage Witch tag all in orange and black and sepia.

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.

 

Fun Witch-y Labels Now Available

I really enjoyed creating these fun labels for witchy items like Mermaid Tears, Lover's Sighs, Bat Wings, Eye of Newt, and Ashes of Ex-Lovers (among other things!)  Perfect ingredients for all your potions and spells ~ add them to your apothecary!  Available in sepia tones as well.

Free Vintage Photo! Flapper Girl with Daisies

 

Here is an image from a pretty vintage postcard, early 1920s, of a flapper girl with daisies.  I love the flower crown, and the dark lipstick and sultry eyes, as well as the color of this tinted postcard (which I did enhance/alter just a little!) This was from a French "Carte Postale."  Hope you enjoy it! (Click to enlarge and save.)

I know this photo doesn't particularly relate to digital backgrounds, but there is also a lovely blank postcard image a few posts back which makes a great background image!

New collage sheet designs! Witch's Labels for potions and powders and more

Oh, these were such fun to create!  Starting with some of our own blank labels (which were originally Victorian and Art Deco ephemera), and adding old photos and text and colors and textures, I've created some labels just right for this time of year -- or for a witch's apothecary at any time of year ; )  Labels for mermaid tears, lover's sighs, moonbeams, powdered cobwebs, freeze-dried bat wings, Egyptian sleeping potion, belladonna, ashes of old lovers, and more spooky magical stuff.  These will be about 4 inches tall when printed at full size, but you can of course print them as small as you need with excellent results... Currently available only in our etsy shop -- the sepia versions by request!

Reverie on an "autumn" day

Labor Day traditionally marks the end of summer, and today at Lunagirl it certainly feels like the beginning of autumn -- cool air, grey skies, and a steady rain.  The rain is welcome after a dry month, and the 58-degree morning feels wonderful after a hot summer!  It was 99 degrees two days ago -- and being a Southerner I know the heat will come back several times before Halloween -- but for me today is a lovely early autumn day perfect for curling up with a book or just getting lost in reverie.  Here is a suitable "Moonday" freebie image I'd like to share (Pre-Raphaelite Art):

 For those of you with sunshine this Labor Day, enjoy your picnics! I will enjoy my cool rainy day, dream of the past with the history books and old novels I like to read, and pretend it's already Autumn, my favorite season.

New Collage Sheet: Maps!

Yet another brand new Lunagirl collage sheet design!  This one is created with fabulous fascinating maps adapted from antique books.  There are maps of the Eastern and Western hemispheres with illustrations of the signs of the zodiac and angels in the corners, a map of the ancient Mediterranean world, an ancient map of the ocean currents with Latin text, an 18th-century map of Nova Scotia and the St. Lawrence River with lovely calligraphic writing, plus "London and the Suburbs, Seventeenth Century". These are carefully restored and enhanced to be just right. Fascinating images and aged paper make beautiful backgrounds for altered art projects of all kinds!  Click on this link to be taken to a page to purchase and download: http://www.summertownsun.com/lunagirl/W-Lunagirl-Collage-Sheets-NEW.htm