Geisha "Gate" Card by Vicki

Just wanted to share some more work from the Design Team. I don't know how the find the time to create so many beautiful projects...

Vicki Romaine created this "Gate" card featuring some pretty geisha women and a great sentiment.
I'm including three photos to show how the card folds down and opens up.

Gorgeous, isn't it? I love gate effect and those backgrounds she used, and I'm proud to say the geisha images are from Lunagirl.com!

Creative Challenge: CELEBRATE SAINT NICK

It's time for a new challenge, and since it's well into December let's celebrate good Old Saint Nick, shall we? I absolutely adore vintage Santa Claus pictures, and there are so many to enjoy! We have over 300 in our collection (all available on my Victorian Holidays Volume One CD, btw) and the variety is fascinating.

There are Santas in red, green, blue, white, purple, even pink. Santas in fur, in bishop's robes, in monk's robes, in fancy red suits. Santa Claus on foot, in his sleigh (of course), on horseback, in antique automobiles, hot air balloons, boats, airplanes, trains... what have I forgotten?

We can call him Santa or Saint Nicholas, Pere Noel, Father Christmas... We have plenty of pictures of St. Nick with Victorian children, and also with angels and animals. Some are funny and silly, some are dignified and elegant, some are primitive, some are quite fancy... all are just wonderful to explore and to include in card-making, scrapbooking, ornaments, and other crafts this time of year.

So, I'm  hoping to see St. Nick in every style and guise and color and costume! Need a few pictures of St Nick quick? Check out the CD above or download 110 vintage Santa pics instantly.

Here are the guidelines for this challenge:

Any craft or medium is OK.

Limit of 3 entries from one person in each challenge, please.

Vintage style is encouraged.

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 noon CST on December 21.

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. 

And don't miss the creations of my Design Team below, for your enjoyment and inspiration!

An InLinkz Link-up

FROM THE LUNAGIRL MOONBEAMS DESIGN TEAM:

The Moonbeams are using just a few of the hundreds of Santa images that are found on Lunagirl Victorian Holidays Volume One...

by MICHELE STORMS of Art from the Well
Michele has used one of my very favorite St Nick pics -- in his green suit
and looking so kindly and gentle with the deer. And I love holly and evergreens for
Christmas. Beautiful card, Michele!

by MANDY CHILVERS of Tag Along
Another favorite image of old Saint Nick! A fabulous Victorian
die cut in a white fur coat and hat, carrying a Christmas tree!
Mandy has used the die cut beautifully here, with such a
lovely snowy-looking background, just the right touch of glitter,
and even some "snowballs" at the bottom!

by VICKI ROMAINE of The Cheerful Stamppad who writes:
Today I used the Lunagirl "Freebie" for my card.  I just love this digital.  The card has a tan base and on top a rustic vintage print designer paper.  I used a couple of leftover strips from previous cutting of card to fill in the front.  Down the side on top of the strip of cardstock are three small glittery reindeer. 

Card Makin' Mamas Vintage Shabby Chic Challenge!

Lunagirl is sponsoring a fabulous "Ooh La La VINTAGE or SHABBY CHIC" theme at the blog Card Makin Mamas!  For this challenge they are looking for  vintage elements, ephemera, antique colors or shabby chic distress, lace findings and feminine antique colors. A perfect fit for Lunagirl...

If you haven't visited this fun site, here's your chance to find a new challenge blog and take part in their Vintage theme this week! I'm proud to be sponsoring them for the first time and would love to see some Moonbeams regulars over there. They already have several very nice entries. The Design Team is working with some of my "Shabby" color themed collage sheets, although I think ANY of my Lunagirl designs would work great for this theme.

Have a great weekend and don't forget to come back on Monday for the second week of my AUTUMN challenge.

Victorian Spring in Full Bloom: Join the Challenge

Here is another "Victorian Spring" creation by Vicki Romaine for you to enjoy.  She also uses this for her "Use Three Different Designer Papers" challenge over at her blog The Cheerful Stamp Pad.

I love all the spring green shades in this card, contrasting with the cheerful orange and finally accented by the pale silver ribbon and daisy petals!

Remember you have all this week to link up your Victorian Spring project in the challenge for a chance to win! (double your chances by using a Lunagirl image!)

Winner of Secrets & Hidden Things Challenge: Denise Pustelniak!

Hello All ~ Lunagirl has pulled a number from her hat to choose the winner of the Secrets & Hidden Things challange (actually it's one of those random number generators, but isn't the idea of a hat more fun?) ... and the winner of this challenge is #10 Denise Pustelniak and her gatefold card above!

Congratulations, Dinese ~ be sure to email me at info@lunagirl for your prize!

Thank you to EVERYONE who joined it and also to the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team... my next challenge theme is RETRO GALS, starting tomorrow (Monday) so be sure to join us again!

Lady Blue with Flowers by Petra

Here is another image that brings to mind the word Reverie -- a pretty blue flapper lady who looks like she has something on her mind, a faraway look in her eyes.  Petra has created a beautiful card with this Lady Blue.

"I used an image from the Vintage Blue Collage Sheet which I layered on patterend paper. The card is embellishment with a handmade fabric leave, some Mulberry flowers, a couple of staples and a twine bow." -- Petra Berendsen
PetraB's Allsorts

Don't forget you have until Sunday to link up your Lady Blue creation in the current blog challenge!  We have some very pretty and creative entries so far, and I would love to see yours as well...

Blue Ladies from the DT to Inspire You this Monday Morning

The fabulous Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team offers you more lovely inspiration for the Lady Blue challenge!

LUNAGIRL MOONBEAMS DESIGN TEAM
Find out more about the Moonbeams DT and visit their blogs! 

Here are some lovely interpretations of "Lady Blue" from the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team ~ a beautiful start to our challenge.  The DT are using images from these Lunagirl digital collage sheets:
Vintage Blue
Blue Belles
Sultry Blue

Vicki Romaine

From Vicki Romaine >> a pretty blue fairy flapper card:  
"I used the background that Lunagirl is giving away as a sample along with various shades of solid blue cardstock.  The beautiful trim was made with a Martha Stewart punch. The sentiment was made with a Kolette Hall stamp."

Michelle Storms "Mood du Jour"!
Nice use of double images.
Love that one little orange butterfly :-)

Mandy Chilvers

<< From Mandy Chilvers, this sweet vintage style postcard: 
"I've made a postcard using the Blue Belles collage sheet. I cut the image out of the background and then re-coloured the blue dress with watercolours to make the blue more blue.  I've also used the flower from the vintage butterfly collage sheet. 

The background is made from scratch using inks, sprays, paints, masks and rubberstamps. 

I've used a quote on it from the novel 'the raven boys' by Maggie Stiefvater."

Thanks as always to my wonderful DT...

and to all visitors, you still have all week to link up your Lady Blue project to enter the blog challenge and win free digital collage sheets!

 

Iconic Autumn by Vicki

This simple and elegant design by DT member Vicki Romaine is the very epitome of Autumn beauty, don't you think?  Simply beautiful.

Vicki writes: "This Lunagirl grouping of leaves is the main feature on this card when placed on a Cheery Lynn Designs die.  The sentiment is a SEI embellishment."

Thank you, Vicki ~ Visit Vicki's blog cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.com and see her challenges too!

Cool Green Watermelon Card by Vicki

Wow, so bright and cool and summery!  I just love the bright green and watermelon red, and the contrast with the black.  This card makes me feel cooler just looking at it!  Cute sentiment!

Thanks to Vicki Romaine of The Cheerful Stamppad for this pretty card:

"My seed pack card uses a watermelon Lunagirl image.  The green mat, sentiment, and watermelon embellishment are leftovers from a SEI pack."

And isn't watermelon appropriate for this picnic / cookout weekend?  Hope everybody here in the States has a great Labor Day weekend. 

See our Seed Pack Vintage Garden challenge...

Alice's Adventures Continue!

The amazing Alice creations from the Design Team just keep coming!  At left, Michele Storms has created this really cute invitation featuring Alice in Wonderland illustrations.  What a great idea!

And below, a really beautiful card by Petra Berendsen.  I love love love the idea of showing what Alice finds behind the curtain ~ and the colors are lovely, perfect for late summer.

Thanks, ladies!  Great inspiration for the Alice challenge!

Alice discovers what is behind the curtain, maybe they even take her for a balloon ride (lol). Alice is a wonderful image from Lunagirl Moonbeams Alice Collage Sheet.
I only coloured the background to highlight the image and then layered it on patterend paper. Some flowers and a little key to the new world are the embellishments for this card. ~ Petra

Alice Inspiration from Vicki Romaine of the DT

This is so pretty!  A new Alice card created by Vicki Romaine of The Cheerful Stamppad and the Lunagirl Design Team.

Using the three images in this way does add to the depth of the card, especially that particular image where it draws your eye down into the hidden doorway behind the curtain.

Here's what Vicki wrote:
I took three different colors and sizes of the same Lunagirl Alice image and put them together in various arrangements, but settled on this one.  Each is matted with a black piece of cardstock which gave the images depth.  Having so many layers on the card makes it very sturdy.


Check out my current blog challenge and link up your own Alice-themed creation! 


Below is yet another of Vicki's Alice creations.  Very creative!  Love the black diecut.

I treated  the Lunagirl image of Alice and the Dodo a little differently in this card.  I placed them in this lovely diecut by Cheery Lynn Designs.  I had to really shrink the Lunagirl image on this card to fit the diecut.   To carry out the colors in the designer paper, I used some twine and a flower enhanced with a flourish.

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.

Digital Background Card by Vicki

Just today and tomorrow left to enter the digital backgrounds blog challenge!  So far we have only four entries, so your odds of winning are pretty good!  Everything seems kind of slow lately, and I think maybe alot of people are on vacation.

Vicki has been busy creating another beautiful card with digital backgrounds, however.  Thank you, Vicki, as always!  Very pretty.  You can check out Vicki's blog challenges at The Cheerful Stamppad.

Vicki writes:  "On this card I used as a mat to my card the blue Lunagirl background that was highlighted in a recent post plus a Lunagirl image.  I accented the image with some flowers and flourish  and the sentiment which is not very obvious as it is an acrylic embellishment."

Free Digital Backgrounds created by Lunagirl

We've been featuring the Carte Postale digital backgrounds in most of the Design Team projects, along with a couple of Antique Adverts digital backgrounds, so today I'm spotlighting a different type of digital background I have available.  The freebies below are examples of digital backgrounds I have created from Victorian / Art Nouveau wallpaper patterns!  Two of my favorite colors, and I always love gardens and birds. You can find many more such patterned backgrounds on my collage sheets page at Lunagirl.com.

These digital backgrounds are my altered creations, so if you use them please remember to credit Lunagirl and link back to my site above, but I am happy to share in hopes of inspiring you!  These are nice large images that you can crop, enlarge, or reduce in size as needed.  They are lovely as backgrounds for cards, scrapbooking, and mixed media, and also very pretty for creating jewelry charms.  ~ Karen

Gatsby ... by Petra

Here's a handsome fellow ready for the good life, on a stunning card created by Petra Berendsen of Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team.  I like the masculine background she chose, and all the embellishments make me think of travel and also movies.  The strip of stamps echoes the filmstrips, and even the pattern in the background fits in.  I like the lady blowing him a kiss! Beautiful work, Petra, thanks!

Gatsby Cards by Michele!

Thank you to Michele Storms of my Design Team for two more gorgeous cards inspired by The Great Gatsby and The Roaring Twenties. 

I like how she has enhanced the black and white theme of the photo in the first card.  Just shades of black and grey enhanced by a little pink and burgundy.  Very pretty and classic.  I love the aqua blue in the 1920s image in the second card, and Michele has picked that up beautifully in the papers she chose -- plus added a little bling and some musical notes that go so nicely with the flying birds.

Don't forget you have until Sunday night to enter your project in our Lunagirl Moonbeams blog challenge!

Wishes of Joy Fairy by Michele

Michele has captured another one!  Here is another lovely little garden fairy that we hope will inspire you to create your own for the blog challenge.

Remember you still have a week to enter ~ the challenge ends Sunday night and the random winner will win a Lunagirl digital collage sheet of their choice.  If I get 20 entries this time, I'll randomly choose two winners ~

I have always been fond of these luna moth wings I adapted from an antique print, and don't you love her little pink outfit and white shoes?  She is certainly loaded down with flowers for someone.  Beautiful work, Michele!

Little Fairy Shine So Bright by Michele

Little garden fairies keep turning up in my inbox!  So sweet of them to show themselves for you to see.

They seem to like buttons, and of course flowers.  This one has beautiful pink feathered wings and a flower crown.  She looks so pretty against that swirly feathery background.

Such a beautiful card, Michele.  Thank you!  (See Michele's Blog)

Bathing Beauty Cards & Tag by Vicki Romaine

The ever-fabulous and creative Vicki Romaine of the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team has shared three more bathing beauty projects!  How she finds time during what I know is a busy week, I don't know, but aren't these lovely?  Visit Vicki's blog and join her challenges as well!

I have always been very fond of this image.  Here's what Vicki says about her piece and process:
"Background was ... where I cleaned my brayer on another book page.  The background and image were both printed on grey cardstock so the colors would be a little distressed.  The image was again torn, but no distressing was done as the tearing around the image showed the grey cardstock.  Three blue stones complete the tag."

Woman image from Lunagirl Bathing Beauties 2 collage sheet.

  
Joyful card with a bathing beauty and charming little fish!
"The background was made by cleaning my brayer on a page from a paperback book.  The image was torn and distress with light cranberry ink.  The fish are stick on embellishments and finally a sentiment on acrylic."


Women's images on this card and the next from Lunagirl Bathing Beauties #4 digital collage sheet.

I think this is my favorite.  I like the simplicity, and the colors, and the fence... and that outfit!  Most of all I really like the great quote!

Vicki's comment:
"A very plain card.  Quote is from Quote Garden on the net."

It's lovely ... and my thought for the day!

Gorgeous Diva Card by Petra

Isn't she beautiful?  Here is one last Diva from the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team, from Petra Berendsen.  The colors in this card are just so perfect together, and I love the textures in the background and matte.  And the bling!  Everything truly enhances the image and pulls together.

I hope this lovely submission from Petra inspires you to create your own "diva" art!

Enter the Diva blog challenge here!
We have lots of fabulous divas so far.
You have until tomorrow night to enter and win a free digital collage sheet!

Random drawing will choose the winner ~
to be announced Monday!