Bellydance Moo by Michele

Here is a little "happy" from Michele Storms -- a lovely little "moo" featuring a dancer from my Lunagirl digital collage sheet called Bellydance 3. I like the black-and-white background, especially the music notes, appropriate for a dancer!

This is actually Mata Hari -- an image from an antique French postcard, which I tinted with some bright colors. Love the red and how Michele has played with bright shades on B&W.

See more of Michele's work at http://artfromthewell.blogspot.com/

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....

Challenge Winner: Karla B aka Lady Skyclad

We had nine really beautiful entries for the Vintage Bellydancer blog challenge. 
Thank you to everyone who played along this time! 

So many lovely dancers ~ we'll have to do another dance-themed challenge in the future.

I've used the random number generator to select the winner for this challenge...

entry #5 "She is the Beauty of the Sun" 
by Karla B aka Lady Skyclad !

Congratulations to you, Karla, please email me at info@lunagirl.com for your prize of two Lunagirl digital collage sheets of your choosing.

 Thanks again to everyone who entered.  I truly enjoyed seeing your creative work.  Be sure to enter my next challenge, on the theme of AUTUMN.

Gypsy Bellydancer Card

There's still time to get in on the Vintage Bellydance blog challenge!

Here is another beautiful card from Design Team member Vicki Romaine:

"The Lunagirl gypsy bellydancer image is placed on a split card and the designer paper is accented with a woven thread with pearls trim.  Also, I used a grouping of paper flowers with stones in the center as an additional embellishment."

I love all the different ways our artists have used this favorite image.

You can visit Vicki's blog The Cheerful Stamppad to see her work and enter her challenges too!

Bellydancer Blog Challenge Inspiration

I'm pleased to see a couple more entries for the Vintage Bellydancer challenge... still time to link yours up!  Work on it this weekend and link up by Sunday night!

And just in time here is a tag by Design Team member Petra Berensen.  Gorgeous!  Love the feathers, the lacy trim at the bottom, the little flowers in my very favorite color of blue!  Together with the backgrounds and bling they complement this sassy dancer so well.

Thanks, Petra!  Also visit Petra's blog!

Lovely Bellydancers and Gypsies from the Design Team

Oh, it's Monday again.  The good news about that (you didn't there was any, did you?) is that it's time to share more Design Team creations on our blog challenge theme of BELLYDANCE.

Mandy Chilvers has used one of my favorite dancers here as the central image on a beautiful tag embellished with flower and leaves, ribbons, and a softly colored background.  

Vicki Romaine does a fabulous job with a fortune teller theme on her piece:

"I decided to make an arch with my Lunagirl gypsy image this time.  Embellishments reflect a gypsy fortune teller.  They include a playing card. a number, the fortune teller hand, a moon and a wheel.  I placed on the bottom border a scrap piece of burlap ribbon." ~ Vicki

 Michele Storms created this amazing ornate card. 

Great work, ladies, as always!

To all my readers and visitors:
You still have all week to enter the blog challenge!
It doesn't close until Sunday night (11:55 pm Central Time), and you will be entered in the random drawing to win free digital collage sheets of your choice.

To enter, go to the Blog Challenge here, and use the blue "Add Your Link" button to link up your project.

You can email me if you have questions, at info@lunagirl.com.  :-)
Bellydance images on sale!

Freebie: Vintage Bellydancer Lost in the Dance

How's this for a pretty free image to get you started on the Vintage Bellydancer blog challenge? 

Blog Challenge: Vintage Bellydancers

Our next Lunagirl Moonbeams Blog Challenge theme is one of my favorite things: Bellydance.

You've maybe seen some of the gorgeous vintage bellydancer Paris postcards ~ they are some of my very favorite vintage imagery.

I have a very nice collection of vintage bellydance and gypsy girl images available, many of them altered or embellished by me over the years.  I've made some into my Bellydancer collage sheets, and many are available on my Lunagirl Ladies Photos CDs (you'll find classical & exotic ladies on Volume One, bellydancers & middle eastern costume on Volume Three, and gypsy girls on Volume Four).

As I like to do I'm putting all of these on special for you throughout this challenge!  (And as I also like to do, I'm busy scanning you some freebies...)

This challenge (#10) will end at 11:55 pm on September 22 ~  The winner will be selected randomly (random number generator) to win two free Lunagirl digital collage sheets of your choice!

Be creative but stick to the theme,
Any craft or medium is OK,
No more than 3 entries from one person in each challenge, and
Please link back to my blog & Lunagirl.com on your site if you have one.
 
Of course I love if you use at least one Lunagirl product, and I hope you'll go take a look at my collection... but that's not a requirement!  Most important is have fun, get creative, enjoy vintage.  

And do not miss the beautiful and inspiring creations of the Design Team, following below!

LUNAGIRL MOONBEAMS DESIGN TEAM: Michele, Mandy, and Vicki have submitted some fabulous pieces on the theme to get you started... (Petra will be back with us next week.)  The DT is working with collage sheets La Danse Orientale and Bellydance Three...

Michele Storms:
my belly dance piece is a gothic arch using 2 images from "la danse orientale" and various papers and charms to evoke the romantic feel of the beautiful art of belly dance.

 Here is gorgeous tag from our newest Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team member, Mandy Chilvers.  Love the deep jewel colors!

Vicki Romaine:

This card is serving two purposes.  Firstly it is for the Lunagirl challenge.  Secondly it is the inspirational piece for my challenge which uses a picture as a basis for the card.  I love it when a card serves more than one purpose.

For this card I used my Gelli plate and made the background.  Next I used a Lunagirl image, cut her out and placed her the background cardstock.  A sentiment and some altered flourish were added.

Monday Moonday Freebie!

Moon-day FREE IMAGE DOWNLOAD Vintage Bellydancer

I love dance, especially bellydance, and we are proud of our Lunagirl collection of vintage bellydancer photo postcards. We would like to share this lovely photograph from the early 1900s Edwardian era, of a joyful dancer with her veil. I have restored the image and enhanced it with subtle shades of pink and violet and a little added sparkle.

You're welcome to use this lovely image in your personal crafts and altered art projects (no commercial use). This altered image is copyright 2007 by us. If you publish or display your work, include credit and a link to http://www.lunagirl.com/

For more vintage bellydancing images and other vintage ladies, check out our collections of Victorian Edwardian Vintage Ladies Photos on CD.