My challenge blog for Lunagirl Vintage Images, featuring fun creative challenges with prizes, projects, freebies, holiday and seasonal info, and more!
A place for mixed media artists, card makers, scrapbooking enthusiasts, fabric artists, creators of jewelry, altered art and crafts of all kinds.
Would you like Lunagirl to sponsor a challenge on your blog? Email me at INFO@LUNAGIRL.COM. :-) I'll provide images for your DT!

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Lunagirl Images on Twitter

Well, we finally gave in and joined Twitter. We will admit that at first we didn't understand why anyone over age 17 would WANT to send (or receive) constant messages about trivial daily activities and random thoughts... BUT we've discovered Twitter is a great way to alert our customers about new listings, freebies, and other news and info at Lunagirl!

So, follow us at http://twitter.com/lunagirlimages and we'll keep you updated. You'll be the first to know about new collage sheets, new CDs, free stuff, etc! Give it a try, we did! It could be fun.

Monday, April 27, 2009

For Naola (Nell) my second mom

A monday free image in honor of my very kind and loving mother-in-law Nell, who passed away on Thursday.

She loved flowers and birds, and kept the hummingbirds who visited her yard very well-fed and happy!

You're welcome to use this for personal non-commercial use.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Victorian Religious Ephemera on CD

More samples from the new, revised, updated & improved edition of our Victorian Religious Ephemera CD.... there's such a variety of great images on this CD! I love holy cards and religious imagery...






















Monday, April 20, 2009

Gothic

I've always loved this photo. The little girl looks like she doesn't really want to step out of that doorway and into the next room. What is her mother whispering to her? What is the little girl looking at, and why doesn't she want to go into that room?

Inspired by recent messages/conversations my head is full of imagery that for lack of a better word I call gothic: windswept cliffs over stormy oceans at night, annabel lee in a white dress, the bronte sisters dreaming out on the moors, a disheveled cinderella, abandoned brides and ragged wedding veils, silent little girls, angry little girls, moonlight through swiftly moving ragged clouds... stuff like that!

I'm sure in time all this will give rise to some cool new collage sheets (and other projects I hope)

but for now I'm content to post a few favorite photos with a 'gothic' feel.





As a kid I always gravitated toward songs and stories that were melancholy, or dark and sweet at the same time. I'm still inspired by beauty and sadness, especially when they're combined...

Edgar Allen Poe said something about how art is inspired by loss and beauty, and that the greatest artistic inspiration was the loss of beauty or love. Or something to that effect....

Then's there's this lady below! What's on her mind?

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