Farewell to the Old Year... and Welcome 2015!

Best Wishes for the New Year from Lunagirl!

I wish health, happiness, peace, and prosperity for you and yours in the coming year. Thank you to all my customers and blog followers, to everyone who played in my challenges (come back again!), and to my wonderfully talented Design Team.

See you in January!

Winter in Pink Challenge: Second Week (and a Half!)

If you haven't yet entered my Winter in Pink challenge, you have a little extra time. I'm switching my challenge start day to Fridays, so the Winter in Pink theme continues until January 8!

If you're tired of red and green, let's enjoy a Happy New Year in pink! We have some very lovely entries so far, with soft vintage pink and sassy hot pink and everything in between. I hope to see yours soon! On January 8 (next Thursday) I'll do a drawing to choose the winner who will receive $15 shopping credit at Lunagirl.com ~ your chance to get some new digital ephemera for the new year.

The Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team has some inspiration for you:

MICHELE STORMS wishing you Bonne Annee -- Happy New Year!

VICKI ROMAINE:
"This card is a collage of a number of image sheets from Lunagirl.  There are so many nice images, it was hard to pick among them."

MANDY CHILVERS offers more good wishes for a lucky new year,
in vintage Paris postcard style!

Happy New Year from Lunagirl & the Moonbeams DT!

Happy New Year to All! 

Here is more "Vintage Winter" inspiration from the DT!

MICHELE STORMS

VICKI ROMAINE:

"This reminds me of a Currier & Ives image. 
I put glitter on the snow to give it some bling."

First Blog Challenge of the New Year: Vintage Winter & Happy New Year

The first Lunagirl Moonbeams blog challenge for 2014 will be Vintage Winter / Vintage New Year.

Don't miss the samples from the Moonbeams Design Team below, for your inspiration!  The DT will be working with images from my Winter Fun digital collage sheet and Christmas Children digital collage sheet (many pictures of children in the snow are also on Lunagirl Christmas New Year Photos CD ~ currently on sale!).


GUIDELINES:
This challenge (#18) will end at Noon (Central Time) on January 12.

Any craft or medium is OK,
No more than 3 entries from one person in each challenge, 

Vintage style is encouraged but not required, and
Please link to my blog and Lunagirl.com on your site if you have one.

The winner will be selected randomly to win a $10 coupon for Lunagirl.com! 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!  However, starting with this challenge, if you use a Lunagirl image in your creation, you will be entered TWICE in the drawing! I want to welcome everyone and every style but also give a little something extra to my wonderful customers! 


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

Below are "Vintage Winter" projects shared with us by the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team.  They have all done a lovely job of combining the Lunagirl images with papers and elements.  

PETRA BERENDSEN: Birthday wishes!
"For the next challenge: Vintage Winter I created a Winter themed card with lots of distressed edges
and one of your adorable images from the Christmas Children 1 collage sheet."

MICHELE STORMS: Happy New Year!

MANDY CHILVERS: What a sweet bunch!

VICKI ROMAINE:  Whee! and more Birthday wishes

"I used a great Lunagirl image for a winter card.  The card itself is embossed with snowflakes and a variety of snowflakes were cut with die.  I know the children are having fun-therefore the sentiment.  I have made this into a birthday card for one of my friends whose birthday is Jan 1."  

Happy New Year!

Best wishes for a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2011,

from all of us at Lunagirl Images!
 

Wishing You a Safe & Joyful New Year's Eve!

New Year's collage sheets... because 2010 is coming to an end and it's time to greet 2011!

Digital collage sheets available for instant downloading at Lunagirl.com and CollageSheet.com

Send New Year Greetings: Revive This Edwardian Tradition!

Sending Happy New Year postcards to family and friends was a very popular tradition with the Victorians and Edwardians (and French ladies of the time) ~ as popular as sending Christmas cards, judging by the great number and variety of New Year cards we find!

 

These charming cards often showed illustrations of children, cherubs, Old Father Time, happy couples, benevolent angels, lucky horseshoes and shamrocks and pigs (yes, a symbol of luck and prosperity), even New Year gnomes who bring wealth and happiness to your home.  

Other New Year cards, especially the French ones, featured photographs and the wish for Bonne Annee (a good year) or Heureuse Annee (a happy year), like these from our collection.

You will find a lovely selection of illustrated cards on our Victorian Holidays Volume One CD and beautiful photo cards of children, ladies, and couples on our Christmas New Years Photos CD.

We altered some of the photographs into Christmas cards on the CD, but we left many with new year greetings in French. 

 I think New Year postcards should make a comeback! They would be a wonderful tradition to revive, especially in these anxious times. 

 

  

Just print onto cardstock, embellish if you like, and send to wish your loved ones a happy 2011.  The best wishes of a friend mean just as much now as they did a hundred years ago in 1911!

Happy New Year

Judging by our early 1900s postcard collection, sending New Years greetings must have been at least as popular as sending Christmas cards.

We have so many pretty French cards showing photos of little girls and boys and ladies and couples with the greeting "Bonne Annee" or "Joyeuse Annee" or "Heureuse Annee" (happy year) ~ as well as colorful English and American postcards featuring children and cherubs and Father Time, pigs and horseshoes for luck, and the traditional new year gnomes!

So to wish you a good and happy and joyous year with "365 jours de bonheur" here are a couple of favorites.

Happy New Year Moonday Free Image!

Best Wishes for 2009! Here's to a happy, healthy, and prosperous year for everybody.

By Request: Floral Inchie Circles

A very special new collage sheet design featuring beautiful flower images in a variety of styles from traditional Victorian roses and violets to art deco lilies and vines. When you print this sheet at full size (letter size 8.5x11) the circles will be 1-inch diameter, but of course one advantage of our digital collage sheets is that you can print them smaller for smaller images as desired.

Check it out! Another Lunagirl original available only at http://www.lunagirl.com/

What Fun: Retro Children's Illustrations

This one is great: created with children's illustrations from 1930s postcards and children's book illustrations.

It is fun to offer these charming boys and girls for your projects after they've been living in a shoebox for decades!

Bonne Année - 365 jours de bonheur!

Judging by the number of New Year cards we come across, sending greetings for the new year was very popular in the Victorian and Edwardian eras -- maybe as popular as sending Christmas cards! We're developing a lovely collection of vintage photo postal cards originally sent to wish friends and family Happy New Year (or Bonne Année, a good year, in French).

And looking at the dates on the back, they sent them not only at January 1st, but throughout the season from after Christmas into the first weeks of January. We think that's a lovely custom that we should revive!

Cards usually carried wishes for happiness, prosperity, and sometimes health and friendship, and often featured pictures of good luck symbols such as four-leaf clovers, horseshoes, coins, even pigs (an old lucky symbol that has gone by the wayside). Many have charming photos of children, ladies, or romantic couples.

You'll find a nice selection of restored cards on our Christmas New Years Photos Postcards CD, and also on the New Years French Postcards collage sheet below. Heureuse Année!

Here is another new collage sheet design for New Years Day. I really love this one created with antique French postal cards that I've restored and embellished. These are so beautiful, and you could use them for other projects at any time of year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Best Wishes for 2008 from Lunagirl Images!