Joyeux Noel: New Digital Collage Sheets

Here is the last post of new digital collage sheets with vintage European Christmas cards. These are more French holiday postcards... Beautiful angels, some nativity scenes, Christmas children, and of course Santa Claus! The last sheet here is created with antique photo postcards ~ a little girl and a little angel with their vintage Christmas trees, playful children to wish you joyful NOEL, and even a romantic couple in Victorian / Edwardian dress.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoyed creating them! And I hope you'll go see these and all of my Christmas / Winter / and New Year images and digital collage sheets at Lunagirl.com.

All you need is Love

Thanks to Michele for these sweet tags featuring images from the "new expanded" African-American vintage photos collection! The theme is Love... and don't we all need that message these days. Michele does beautiful work.

Lunagirl African American Images Collection EXPANDED

NOW OVER 400 IMAGES!

I'm proud to offer the collection of African American images I've created, because such images can be difficult to find. I haven't seen another collection like it, and it has been popular.

So, I'm excited to announce that I have been able to EXPAND the collection ... from 150 images to over 400. The new images are all vintage photos, mostly portraits. Some are cabinet cards, some are in frames, others are more like snapshots. Some are street scenes, a few are family portraits or baby pictures. New sample pics added to the listing (second half of samples).

Significantly enlarged folder of men and boys (98 new images), 138 new pictures of women and girls, and 18 photos of couples and families!

IF YOU ALREADY HAVE MY AFRICAN-AMERICAN IMAGES SET: Note that while I have added over 200 additional images, I have not increased the price. You can still download it for $9.95 (all my collections are download only now).

But, if you want ONLY the new images, I'm offering this "expansion pack" for $6:

This seems like a good time to say Thank You to all my Lunagirl customers! It's been almost 14 years now? I'm proud to have helped popular the world with digital vintage images for us all to enjoy!

Apologies for the lack of blog posts lately... I'm still here, and I'll try to post more often :-)

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?

Possibilities...

Apologies for being AWOL these past few weeks... other activities and passions took over my time and attention! I promise I will be back more often in 2017.

For now, I wanted to hop over and share this card created by Michele Storms for her son's birthday, using an image from Lunagirl African-American Images CD.

To see more of Michele's amazing work, visit her at
 artfromthewell.blogspot.com

Happy May Day!

Lunagirl Moonbeams by Lunagirl Vintage Images: Happy May Day!:

We really should bring back the tradition of May Poles, don't you think?

Here's a link to a post I did last year, where you'll find several really cool old May Day photos!

Holiday Children Challenge Winner: Marina

I've completed the random drawing for today, and it's time to announce the winner of my Holiday Children themed challenge....

The lucky winner today is the very first entry in this challenge, by Marina! Congratulations to you, Marina, for your win and also for some a lovely vintage winter creation. Email me at info@lunagirl.com when you get a chance, to claim your prize, $15 credit to shop at Lunagirl.com.

A big holiday Thank You to everyone who took part... please come back for the next challenge... the theme will feature who else, but Saint Nick?

Vintage Bellydancers & Edwardian Divas with Far-Away Eyes: New Printable Tags to Download

I had the best time starting my new collection Bellydance & Diva tag/bookmark sheets, three of which are sampled above.  Looking through all the images for just the right ones to go together, carefully tinting the photos in soft blues and pinks and jewel tones, selecting antique wallpaper scrap patterns to make the frames and backs and then coloring them to complement the photos, adding some lovely cartes postales and effects for the tags...

The sample here are three of the several bellydancer/diva printables I created, all currently available at Lunagirl.com and also in my etsy shop.  I feel sure there will be more tag and bookmark sets after I return from vacation... and remember you can shop while I'm away!  Digital collage sheets and other downloads will continue to be delivered automatically, and I'll be checking email when I can in case anyone has questions or difficulties.  You can order CDs also, and I'll ship those as soon as shipping resumes at the end of June.

These vintage bellydancer photos are truly some of my favorite, partly because I love bellydance and also because the images are just so exotic and beautiful.  The four "diva" photos I choose for the sheet above have in common a certain daydreaming look, so I named the sheet "Far Away Eyes." And of course I ended up using some of my favorite colors:  turquoise aquamarine blue, deep magenta with a gothic pattern, and lovely antique rose pink.  Click to see more and you'll notice some purple :-)   Now I just need to do some in emerald green....

New Digital Download: Vintage Photos of Sisters, Victorian Girls & Friends

The "All For the Girls" challenge at DigitallySweetChallenges inspired me to create TWO new digital collage sheets using vintage photos, available at Lunagirl.com.

Called "Just Us Girls" (shown here) and Just Us Girls #2, these feature altered postcards and photographs of Victorian Edwardian women and children who are sisters, friends, companions.  Little girls in party dresses, friends old and young, even some fabulous ladies in Halloween costumes (my favorite).

Sweet and fun, and perfect for the DSC challenge!  They would also be perfect vintage printables for birthday cards, greeting cards, altered art projects, scrapbooking layouts, etc.

Hope you enjoy!  Stay tuned for my new bellydancer/diva tag sheets....

Love & Wings

I couldn't resist sharing this digital creation by Denise Pustelniak from her blog Thru the Looking Glass.  It's so sweet, and the jewel-toned colors are gorgeous...She created this for the Lasting Memories challenge with the theme Love plus Wings! I'm proud that she used some of my bright butterflies. Lasting Memories is a layout challenge blog... you might want to check it out.

Happy MLK Day!

It's a day to celebrate justice and non-violence, to honor sacrifice and courage, to remember the past and dream of the future.

All day today, use Discount Code "dream2014" at Lunagirl.com to order my African-American Vintage Images CD for 50% off !

New Collage Sheet -- Vintage Humorous Risque Ladies

I apologize in advance for this one, but I just could not resist!  Put your big girl panties on!

Vintage Halloween Witches ~ New Collage Sheets!

I had to show off some of the new collage sheets I've been working on, just in time for Halloween crafts.  Yes, I know it's only August, but crafters tend to always be thinking one holiday ahead!  I'm crazy for Halloween witches and I hope you will enjoy these new vintage Halloween images I don't think you'll find anywhere else ~  including Art Nouveau Witches, some cool Witch Photos, unique Victorian Witches from vintage postcards and ads, Edwardian Witchery, and finally a 1920s Halloween Dance.

Check them out at Lunagirl.com.

Win my sponsor prize at Artful Gathering online!

Hop on over to Artful Gathering 2013 to find some fabulous online workshops for mixed media artists, and be sure to visit my sponsor page to get entered in the drawing for my raffle prize below!

UPDATE: Hearty congratulations to Sharon Borsavage, who won this raffle prize!!

Free Vintage Images: Bathing Beauties

I could not resist sharing this bathing beauty postcard.

This must be one of the strangest, most impractical beach costumes ever!  Of course it was intended to be a "French postcard" -- quite risque and naughty in its time.

Feel free to use this image if it inspires your Bathing Beauty projects!  You still have several days to enter a creation in my Bathing Beauties blog challenge, which ends Sunday night...

Alright, here is another bathing girl, this one a flapper, sleeker and simpler (although with some odd socks...)  She could actually swim in this!  She would look great in your project!

Free Image: Little Girl Diva Photo

"Just because" it's Friday, how about a free image today? Here is a little diva, perhaps a diva in the making.  You still have a couple more days to enter your Diva image (card? jewelry? anything you want!) in the blog challenge.  I received three more fabulous entries just today...  

NEW: African American Vintage Photos Collection on CD

Announcing another new collection available at Lunagirl.com ~ a new CD of African-American Vintage Images featuring 150 vintage photos and other vintage images of African-American women and men, ready to print.  This collection features hard-to-find antique photographs of Edwardian and Victorian women, men, girls, and boys in period fashions.  There are individual portraits as well as group portraits from schools and societies. 

You'll also find a nice selection of Music Theater and Cabaret images, including antique theater posters, showgirl photo postcards, and American sheet music covers.

I'm pleased to offer this collection, as I've had many requests for such a collection over the years, and I hope that I can expand it in the future.
<<< Free image for personal use at left!  Come visit for more on CD and digital collage sheets!

New! Digital Downloads of Individual Images

I'm trying a new kind of item in my etsy shop ~ digital downloads of single images in high resolution, at very nice prices.  I have so many incredibly stunning images, especially the old Paris photo postcards, and while most of them are available on my collage sheets and CDs, I like the idea of highlighting them individually so they really stand out ~ and the idea of offering them in a larger file size so you get even better resolution and can print at larger sizes if you like (or resize small).

I hope you'll stop by my etsy shop and take a look sometime.  Maybe you'll find something to love for your next project or just for a beautiful frameable print!  Sorry about the watermarking ~ I have to do that because etsy lets you zoom the image to full size and unfortunately some people do steal sample images.  The actual images you receive of course do not have that!  And I always appreciate suggestions on what you would like to see more of...

New CD: Lunagirl Vintage Nudes

Lunagirl is pleased to offer 360 classic, tasteful vintage nude photo French postcards on CD, restored and ready to browse and print for projects.  Brand new today ~  See it here!

Many artists and crafters appreciate these beautiful antique risque images and our customers have requested a collection to use in their card making, altered art work, and other projects.

You'll find a lovely collection of vintage women, most from the Edwardian era or the 1920s Flapper era, some from the earlier Victorian styles.  The poses range from serene to sassy!  Ladies with veils, big hats, corsets, petticoats, jewelry, costumes. Some post cards have two versions, in different color tints.


Why are they called French postcards?  Many early postcards originated in France, including photographs of actresses, children, romantic ladies, and other themes, in addition to the "naughty" ladies (who were very popular with WWI soldiers!).  But the term "French postcard" eventually became associated with risqué images (most early 20th century risqué postcards originated in Paris).  These images are rather tame by today's standards but were considered quite naughty and even scandalous in their day!

Vintage Photos on Sale

Hey ~ I've got all my Vintage Photos CDs on sale today 10% off!  
I love collecting, restoring, and embellishing these old photographs and photo postcards, to offer you the very best images for your projects, and this is a great chance to save a little on these lovely collections of children and ladies.  
 Have a beautiful day!