3 More Days for Babies & Children Challenge!

VICKI ROMAINE Cheerful Stamp Pad

Here's a darling little "twinchie" by Vicki Romaine to remind you to enter my January "Babies & Children" challenge before the end of the month! (Twinchies are 2x2" just fyi.)

The challenge continues in full swing until Sunday... Don't miss your chance to win the random drawing for $15 credit to spend at Lunagirl.com. Actually you can share up to three creations for three chance to win, and using any Lunagirl image increases your chances even more.

Link up your Babies & Children creations here!

Babies and Children Challenge for January

Tag by MICHELE STORMS Art From the Well

Girls, boys, sisters, brothers, babies, toddlers... all are welcome in my January challenge. Join the fun!

Can you believe we've almost made it through January already? My sympathies to anyone who is dealing with the aftermath of the big winter storm...We got only a little snow and ice. I hope everyone is keeping warm and digging out and soon getting back to normal!

I hope you'll have time for a little crafting, and join my Babies and Children challenge which is in its fourth week. You can share up to three creations, for a chance to win the random drawing on January 31 for $15 store credit at Lunagirl.com (and the glory of winning, of course).   :-)

Thanks to Michele for this darling little tag to remind and inspire.

Babies and Children Week Three!

So many adorable babies and children in this month's blog challenge! Here are a few more from the Design Team. And the challenge entries so far are amazing. We're going to have such a lovely collection of little guys and girls by the end of January.

You still have time to link up your entries, of course, so I look forward to seeing what you create! Here is a link to the Babies and Children challenge which continues until January 31.

MANDY CHILVERS
MandysMagicalWorldofArt

Tag by MICHELE STORMS Art From the Well

Collage card by VICKI ROMAINE Cheerful Stamp Pad

Second Week: Babies & Children

MANDY CHILVERS
MandysMagicalWorldofArt

Join us for my January challenge. The theme is Babies & Children! 

Here is more inspiration from Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team members...

Tag by MICHELE STORMS Art From the Well

January Challenge Theme: BABIES & CHILDREN

Happy New Year! Celebrate the hopeful energy of a brand new year with my January challenge theme: Babies and Children. Share up to three entries ~ and when your entry includes a Lunagirl image it doubles your chances of winning the drawing :-)


Just FYI you can find hundreds of babies and children, in vintage photos, postcards, and Victorian cards and art, at Lunagirl.com, including the digital collage sheets used by the Moonbeams Design Team... Don't miss their inspiration below! And always feel free to email me if I can help you find something in my store.

CHALLENGE GUIDELINES:

Challenge ends at 3:00 pm CST on January 31.

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!

We can't wait to see your creations! Celebrate January with us at Lunagirl :-)

An InLinkz Link-up

LUNAGIRL MOONBEAMS DESIGN TEAM

VICKI ROMAINE Cheerful Stamp Pad

Tag by MICHELE STORMS Art From the Well

"When I Grow Up" by Shelby Pizzarro Sisterhood of the Muse

Creative Challenge: SPRING CHICKENS

Our next challenge theme is Spring Chickens!

This theme is a little off the wall, I guess, but judging by what the Design Team has done I think you will have fun with it.
This theme was originally inspired by Easter Chicks, but I know we're about to pass Easter so I'm expanding this theme to include hens, roosters, baby chicks, all chickens! plus BABIES! We can also include Mamas with their babies, as well as older folks who are "young at heart" and anything else you think fits with the idea of "spring chickens." Here's your chance to get creative and even silly if you like :-)

Here is a small collection that might be helpful and give you ideas:
Spring Chickens at Lunagirl

Just fyi, in my challenge badge at left I have used images from my collage sheets Chickens, Spring Chickens, and Victorian Eggs, with a frame created from one of my favorite Lunagirl Vintage Labels

I'm pretty fond of chickens. We used to have a few when we first got married, and I still miss them. (And I often miss having little babies, too... mine are teenagers!) 

Don't miss what the Design Team has offered us this week! Scroll down to see their creations.

Here are the challenge guidelines:

Any craft or medium is OK.

Vintage style is encouraged but not required.

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

Remember to 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, April 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, enjoy vintage.  

An InLinkz Link-up

LUNAGIRL MOONBEAMS DESIGN TEAM:

Two "poultry moos" by MICHELE STORMS of Artfromthewell.blogspot.comvisit her blog post if you don't know what "moos" are!

Chickens Banner by CorinneMarie of digitalbycorinne.blogspot.com

"How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree?)"
by by Shelby Pizzarro of SisterhoodoftheMuse.blogspot.com

VICKI ROMAINE TheCheerfulStampPad.blogspot.com
"I tried to make a mini art tile using two chick images from Lunagirl. The background uses tissue paper and distressed ink.  I picked to of the images and overlaid the whole tile whole time with 3D Crystal Lacquer. This was fun but I need to work on applying the lacquer. .This was difficult for me."

Happy Easter ~ tag by Michele Storms ArtfromtheWell.blogspot.com

Country Life digital art by CorinneMarie of digitalbycorinne.blogspot.com

by CorinneMarie of digitalbycorinne.blogspot.com

I hope you'll come join in this Lunagirl challenge!

New CD Release! Babies & Toddlers Vintage Photos

It's done and ready to ship! Our latest addition to our range of over 50 image CDs features 220 photos and photo postcards of babies and toddlers from the Victorian era through the 1920s and 30s.

There are beautiful tinted postal cards, sepia photos, black and white photos. Some with French handwriting which give them that authetic shabby times-gone-by look.


You'll even find a few antique baby birth announcements, with French baby names and details written on them a century ago and mailed to family or friends. How poignant, to think that that little person whose birth the card celebrated has probably passed on long ago.

There is beautiful variety of photo postcards, plus a selection of unique Victorian cabinet cards, charming "real photos," and even some pictures of mother and child.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, we have hundreds of postcards waiting to be scanned, restored and published ... a large collection of over 2,000 acquired from a European collector, finally got it sorted ... so check back now & then to see what's new!