Discover "A Inky Mess" Challenge Blog!

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OOPS ~ The post above should say the challenge "this month" (not week!)
A Inky Mess challenges start on the 25th of each month and run all month ~
So you have plenty of time to get creating and link up your creations... :-)

What else the Moonbeams are up to!

Just wanted to share some other projects from my Moonbeams Design Team...

Corinne Marie has a great tutorial on her blog today, for creating a file folder junk journal (with a swap too). Sounds like a fun project for these chilly last days of winter...
Digital By Corinne :  Basic Tutorial For File Folder Junk JournalJOIN S...:

<<< Here's a beautifully ethereal "goddess" tag by Michele Storms... see more of her work at her blog Art From the Well.


Shelby Pizzarro always includes some lovely musings with the work she shares at Sisterhood of the Muse... I always enjoy reading her posts...

Vicki Romaine always has GREAT challenges at The Cheerful Stamppad... check them out for some fun crafting!

And if you like creating (or just looking at!) TAGS you don't want to miss Mandy Chilvers' challenge blog TAGALONG!

Tutorial to Share: Making an Altoid's Tin Book

I collect craft tutorials on my pinterest page and like to share them here from time to time. Here is a particularly nice one by Laura Carson on her Gingersnap Creations blog. Laura has created a wonderfully detailed explanation for making a charming altered book with an altoid tin. If you're like me (and my husband) you always a supply of those great little tins lying around! They're too cute and useful to through away, but you need a creative way to alter them.

Laura's supply list includes ephemera and vintage images ... you know where to find those! (brazen hint: Lunagirl.com)  This project could easily be adapted to other altered tin ideas... a box or any kind of container rather than a book, a tiny shrine, etc.  Here's the link to the original tutorial:

Gingersnap Creations: Laura Carson: Making an Altoid's Tin Book: In this tutorial I’ll walk you through creating a vintage Altoid’s Tin book using chipboard and two Altoid’s tins.

Altered Card Moon Goddesses by Vicki!

Vicki has been busy creating more cards for her altered playing cards deck (remember her fabulous chickens from last time?). This pair features two moon goddesses for the Moon Goddess challenge that's going on this week.

VICKI ROMAINE: This is two Altered Playing Cards using Lunagirl images.  The background was made with watercolors. Silver  Stickles was used for "stars".

Those pretty crescent moons look alot like the waning crescent that will be in the night sky tonight. I like the silver stars that Vicki added, and that purple and blue sky background.

Anyone else doing the altered playing card challenge? Make one a moon goddess and link it up with us!

Put A Bird On It: Second Week

Vicki Romaine is working on the altered card deck project also, and here are a pair of amazing rooster designs that are perfect for my Put A Bird On It challenge!  I am pretty fond of chickens (and yellow cats!) and I love the textures Vicki has used on her cards.

Michele Storm's love goddess with a bird, on this beautiful tag she created, reminds you to enter the Put A Bird On It challenge this week.

The challenge continues until Sunday noon CST, and you can put a bird on your creation -- any medium -- and link it up for a chance to win $10 shopping credit at Lunagirl.com.

It's a great chance to have some fun and maybe get some new images to play with.  We already have quite a few lovely entries, and I hope to see yours as well!

Hoooot -- Little Owl Card by Michele for the Bird challenge

Michele Storms of the Moonbeams DT has been busy creating an altered card deck -- check out her gorgeous work so far -- and this one is perfect for our ongoing Put A Bird On It challenge theme. And also perfect for the Fall weather we're finally having where I am! Lovely texture she has on this card, and isn't that little Victorian Lunagirl owl wonderful, enjoying the autumn leaves.
He wants to remind you to put a bird on something and enter my challenge this week!

New Collage Sheet: Forest Fairy Wings

I like to announce new items on the blog, and I'm afraid I've been a little neglectful of that lately.  So here is a new digital collage sheet I've created featuring some pretty fairy wings for spring and summer fairy-watching in the garden.

Some of you may have my "Wings for Wind and Water Fairies" which are mostly in shades of blue, cool green, and pink.  They are lovely and ethereal, like dragonfly wings, in various sizes.  The new design is called "Wings for Forest Fairies" and offers shades in "woodland" colors such as deeper greens and soft sepia browns/orange.  (No watermarks on the actual item, of course!)

I created these wings "from scratch" (rather than altering vintage pictures) so I'm especially proud to offer them to you and I hope you can have some fun with them!  More new products coming soon, I hope ~ so many ideas, so little time!

Lunagirl Blog Challenge #4: Garden Fairies

Congrats again to the winner of the Bathing Beauty challenge: Entry #16 Anne!  
It's time to start submitting your entries for the next Lunagirl Moonbeams Blog Challenge: Garden Fairies!

I hope you'll have fun with this theme ... I have all kinds of images that would work ... butterfly wings and dragonfly wings, little girls and boys, faerie folk, all kinds of flowers and even floral backgrounds!  The Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team has created some wonderful garden fairies as you will see...

This challenge (#4) will end at 11:55 pm on June 30 ~  The winner will be selected randomly (random number generator) and will receive a free Lunagirl digital collage sheet of his or her choice.
UPDATE: I've decided if I get 20 entries for this challenge, I'll draw TWO winners!

Be creative but stick to the theme (obviously) :)
Any craft or medium is OK,
No more than 3 entries from one person in each challenge, and
Please link back to my blog and/or Lunagirl.com on your site if you have one.
 
It's preferable that your entry be a new piece created for the challenge, but I'm not going to worry about that...  Of course I love if you use at least one Lunagirl product, but that's not a requirement!
Most important is have fun, get creative, enjoy vintage.

 

An InLinkz Link-up

The Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team -- Vicki, Michele, and Petra -- have captured some charming little garden fairies for their creations below.  I'm sure all will be freed promptly, but first they have agreed to pose here for your inspiration!  Create your own little garden fairy project and enter the Blog Challenge! 

Petra Berendsen

Petra Berendsen created this very lovely tag:
"For this project I first created the tag with patterned paper, the edges are slightly distressed. The tag is mounted on stencilled background paper. The lovely garden fairy comes from the Fly Away Home collage sheet. I used the pretty fairy in the red dress and one of the butterfly wings totally amazing in their colour. The project was completed with some ribbon, a stamped sentiment and some fabric flowers."


Aren't the soft colors and stencilled patterns perfect on this tag?  I love the musical page in the background.

 Michele Storms created these two gorgeous cards!

The backgrounds are so pretty, and I like the 3-dimensional elements in the second card.

The wings are from Lunagirl Fly Away Home collage sheet and Rainbow Wings I collage sheet, while the figures/photos are from Lunagirl Little Girls collage sheet.

Michele Storms

Vicki Romaine

What a little sweetie pie on this card by Vicki Romaine!  This charmer is from Girls 1929, with wings from Fly Away Home.  She looks right at home in Vicki's bright garden background.  Doesn't she make you believe in fairies?

Please be sure to visit the design team members' blogs as well!

And of course follow Lunagirl Moonbeams to see more garden fairies and to share your own in the challenge!

Introducing Lunagirl's Design Team & BIRDS projects

I am so pleased and excited to introduce three new members of my Design Team, and show their first pieces below.  Welcome to Vicki Romaine, Petra Berendsen, and Michele Storms.  The theme for this time was BIRDS ~ and as you'll see below the design team ladies have created some beautiful work!

Please be sure to visit the Design Team page to read more about them and please visit their blogs to see more of their work.  And watch for more fabulous projects coming soon!


Michele Storms  http://artfromthewell.blogspot.com

Vicki Romaine  http://cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.com

 

Petra Berendsen  http://kunterbuntcottage.blogspot.com

"Happy Together. The focal point for this card is a wonderful image from the Birds 1 digital collage sheet - two little birds who look so sweet and happy together. The image is slightly distressed with ink around the edges and layered on some coloured card. Before adding it to the card base with foam pads I covered the card with patterned paper, and stenciled and stamped it with Archival ink and musical and flower stamps. The card is adorned with lace, buttons, Mulberry flower and leaves, and a chipboard sentiment." ~ Petra

These lovely creations on the theme of BIRDS feature the following Lunagirl collage sheets:
BIRDS 1
LITTLE BIRDS WITH TEXT
BIRD EGGS CARDS
ORANGE

A Site to Share: Roses on My Table

We just want to share this lovely site for online art classes: Roses On My Table.  Mixed media artist Cristina Zinnia Galliher has created a beautiful site and a series of workshops designed to help you explore mixed media techniques, create a variety of projects from pendants to journals to masks, and "grow your art"!

New Collage Sheet: Cleo de Merode

Another new collage sheet just created, this one featuring altered photos of the lovely dancer Cleo de Merode.  She is certainly one of the most memorable beauties of the Edwardian stage, and we thought she deserved a collection all by herself.  Beautiful old images published in Paris long ago, enhanced and embellished for you to enjoy. To go to a page to purchase and download, click here! http://www.summertownsun.com/lunagirl/W-Lunagirl-Collage-Sheets-NEW.htm

New Collage Sheet: Mucha Domino Size

We been creating quite a few new collage sheets recently, so I thought I would feature some of them.  Here is a beautiful collection of Mucha women in 1x2 size perfect for domino pendants and other jewelry.  You can also clip them to 1x1 for square charms.  If you love Mucha's sensuous Art Nouveau style, you'll want to enjoy these in your projects!  To be taken to a page to purchase and download, click here: http://www.summertownsun.com/lunagirl/W-Lunagirl-Collage-Sheets-NEW.htm

Pink Angels

A Lunagirl collage sheet design featuring charming angels in shades of pink. Click on the sample image to see all of our angel collage sheet designs!

Featured Collage Sheet: The Witching Hour

We offer a variety of Vintage Halloween collage sheets (plus our Holidays CD set!) ~ here's one with something just a little different, great for any time of year if you want some"witchy" ladies for your projects. "The Witching Hour" features some gorgeous Pre-Raphaelite paintings and fairy tale illustrations, plus altered Victorian postcards. Witches at their cauldrons, a sorceress or two, an ice queen, a lady gazing into her crystal ball, and a couple of little girl witches...

FULL MOON TONIGHT!

Enjoy these images .... we'll be back!

We have been so busy here, scanning and editing new photographs, there hasn't been much time for blogging. But I promise to be back with new CDs and new features on stage beauties of the past. For now, some free images for you to enjoy!

Someone got me thinking about Italy the other day, so here are two beautiful images inspired by ancient times on the Mediterranean.

See more like these on our Victorian Neoclassical Art CD!

And here is one of my favorites ... I love irises and I love the colors in this painting ... enjoy these last days of summer.

New CD! Actresses Actors Drama Theater Posters

At long last we have completed production work on our third collection of Vintage Theater Posters. This lovely new collection features beautiful images of Victorian Edwardian era actresses, actors and producers as well as fascinating posters for dramatic plays and operettas of the day: Lunagirl Actors Actresses Drama & Operetta Theater Posters on CD

We have carefully restored the images to remove creases, tears and stains, to show them as they haven't been seen in over a hundred years. These old pictures are fun to browse, great for history buffs and anyone interested in theater and actresses, and are an untapped resource for great images to use in altered art!

We also have similar volumes of Burlesque Vaudeville Comedies posters on CD and Magicians Musicians Novelties posters on CD ~ or get all three at a special bundle price: Lunagirl Vintage Theater

New Bathing Beauties

Brand new collage sheets featuring lovely bathing beauties, available at CollageSheet.com and Lunagirl.com .

New Site! Get Lunagirl collage sheets either printed or digital - subscriptions too!

Well, it's taken awhile but we've finally gotten all 350+ Lunagirl collage sheets uploaded and available at COLLAGESHEET.COM.

What's new about CollageSheet.com is that you can purchase our collage sheets as digital downloads (as you've always been able to do at Lunagirl.com) OR as PRINTED collage sheets delivered by snail mail right to your door!

Each collage sheet is available printed onto 28 lb acid-free paper or cardstock, as well as digital format, and I hope to add more choices eventually.

I'm really pleased we can do this to meet the needs of our customers who prefer to receive printed sheets rather than printing them out themselves.

You can purchase the sheets individually for $3.45, and we also offer monthly and yearly subscriptions for the digital versions. The yearly subscription gives you 100 downloads for just $2 each, quite a deal! Another nice thing there is that we have larger sample images :-)

CollageSheet.com is open for business, so please drop by sometime!

Beautiful New "Garden Fantasy" Collage Sheets

We listed three new collage sheet designs yesterday, and they are so lovely.

The "Garden Fantasy" collage sheets feature flower fairy maidens and queens, angels, and little verses. Then there is the story of a little girl's daydream in the garden, specially adapted by Lunagirl.

These are now on our website and in our etsy shop: www.lunagirl.etsy.com.

The middle one doesn't show up too well in the samples, but if you go to the etsy shop you can find a larger sample image! (and the last picture below enlarges)

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?