Freebie: Pumpkins!

Do you have your pumpkin yet for Halloween? Here are some nice ones on an antique pumpkin seed packet that I've scanned and cleaned up for you. I hope these will help with your Halloween and Harvest cards and crafts, but you'll have to find real ones for your jack-o-lantern!

Winner of the Seed Packs Vintage Garden Challenge :-)

I've had my cup of very strong hot tea and half an hour of pinterest, so I think I'm awake enough to write a post now!  The first order of business is to announce the winner of the random drawing for the Seed Packs Vintage Garden blog challenge.  We had such pretty entries this time; I just love looking at them.  I'm crazy for gardens, and everyone submitted such gorgeous work!


The lucky winner of the drawing is #4 Annie Claxton and her amazing altered gardening journal!  (Click the picture to go to her blog post and see lots more pictures of it!)

Congrats, Annie ~ email me at info@lunagirl.com to claim your coupon code for two free Lunagirl digital collage sheets. 

We start the next challenge on the theme of BELLYDANCE today ~ I'll be posting that soon.

Link Up Your Seed Pack Vintage Garden Project Today!

Everyone still has until 11:55 tonight (Central Time in U.S.) to add their creation to the blog challenge!  The entries so far are just lovely ~ looking at them all together it truly looks like a lush garden!  Take a look at our Vintage Garden and join in for a chance to share and a chance to win the drawing tomorrow for free Lunagirl digital collage sheets.

Big thanks and many blessings to Vicki Romaine, who in the midst of a motorhome mishap/adventure has created and sent us one more beautiful seed pack / garden card for inspiration.  :-)  Look close to see the three-dimensional effect on the flowers... I'll make the picture big so you can see better.  I love how several people have used this image in different ways!  All to great effect.

"I decided to do something a little different with the seed pack image this time.  It may be a little difficult to see, but upon looking closely you will see that I made the flowers three dimensional.  I printed three copies of the flowers and cut parts out and placed them on top of the original image with pop ups.  It really gives the card depth."

 Hop on over to The Cheerful Stamppad sometime and join Vicki's blog challenges too!

From Michele Storms of the LM DT

"garden fairies are everywhere and this one (from lunagirl “fly away home” collage sheet) is here to help some chrysanthemums grow.  this seed pack is from the “french flowers seed pack #1” and it inspired me to go wild with the butterflies, too."  ~ Michele

Vintage Garden Romance from Michele

Here is another beautiful card by Michele Storms  using one of the French flower seed packs.  I really adore the soft colors in this card.  The white flowers and the soft aqua and ivory in the ladies wrap, and the soft greens in the background, and the sepia postcard and seed pack, and little pale moth, all just complement each other so well.  So lovely and romantic.  This could even be for a wedding. 

Here's Michele's description:
i matched up a sweet couple from the lunagirl vintage couples CD with some gorgeous flowers from the “french flowers seed pack #1” and layered them on various designer papers to make this romantic card.   nothing like flowers to give one a lovey dovey feeling!

Thank you, Michele! Beautiful inspiration as always.

We have our first entry in the blog challenge, from Mandy.  Link yours up, you still have a week!

Garden Fairies are Back!

The colors in this are so perfect and cool ~ I love the soft greens in the background and the watermelon pink dress of the fairy Michele chose to complement the seed pack image.  So pretty!

"it takes a garden fairy to make our gardens grow and this watermelon seed pack from the lunagirl “summertime seed packs” collage sheet is getting help from a fairy from the lunagirl “fly away home” collage sheet."

This is by Michele Storms.  Check out her blog!
http://artfromthewell.blogspot.com/

Free Image: Flower Seed Packet

As promised I've scanned a freebie in honor of my seed packs / vintage garden blog challenge.

This is an antique flower seed packet featuring some lovely old-fashioned yellow and pink flowers.  They were labelled Digitalis before I altered the image.  They resemble foxglove as well.  Either way, they remind me of my Great Aunt Bessie's garden which was way out in the country. 

I hope you will enter the Seed Packs Vintage Garden blog challenge, inspired by this image or another!

Vintage Gardening Inspiration from the Moonbeams DT!

I forgot to add the Design Team pieces to my challenge announcement yesterday!  I'm so sorry about that, I know that everyone enjoys them.

So, here are some beautiful works from Michele, Petra, and Vicki created with Lunagirl summer vegetable seed packs and French flower seed packs and other images and elements.

Enjoy, and link up your own!  And do follow my blog to see more from the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team.

A pretty tag from Michele Storms with lots of cool green and some cute little ladies!  I love this color of green, and the "rays" motif on the tag.

" i think we all know what makes children grow – eating peas!this tag shows how peas make little girls grow big and strong.the seed pack is from “summertime seed packs” collage sheet and the little girls are from the “littlegirls” collage sheet, both from lunagirl of course!the rest are goodies of my own.eat your peas! "

Petra Berendsen created some fab garden themed art using our collage sheets: Summertime Seed Packs and Vintage adverts: Seeds and Plants.  These are nice for saving seeds or marking your garden, or just as art/cards!

Vicki Romaine used a French flower seed pack as a focus for this lovely summery card:

"I used a cream-colored base card on which I placed burnish-looking designer paper.  On top of that I used a Cheery Lynn Design die out of cream cardstock.  On top of that is a brown embossed piece of embossed cardstock from my stash.  Topping the card layers is a beautiful digital sunflower seed pack image from Lunagirl.  As an added touch a flower embellishment is placed in the corner opposite the sentiment."

Blog Challenge: Seed Packs Vintage Gardening

Ready for the next blog challenge?  This time I'm featuring something a little different, one of my favorite types of vintage ephemera: antique Seed Packs for flowers and vegetables.  Actually I have so many favorites, but I just love the overgrown, lazy look of my garden this time of year, and the bright colors of zinnias and sunflowers and summer veggies, and I've just recently scanned some beautiful French flower seed packets, so this theme caught my fancy.

Since not everyone has seed packs in their collection, I'm going to do some things to help!
  
First, let's expand the theme to VINTAGE GARDEN which could include our pretty seed packs, antique seed catalogs, summer flowers, botanical prints, or whatever else seems to fit for you.

Second, I'm putting a whole bunch of garden-related items on sale at Lunagirl.com, including my newly created French Flower Seed Packs and Vegetable Garden collage sheets, plenty of flowers, a few butterflies, plus several CDs such as Vintage Can and Crate Labels, Victorian Flowers, Fruit Botanical Prints and Flower Botanical Prints, and even my Victorian Children Photos just for good measure!  It's a really good chance to grab some images at a great price, especially on the CDs.

And last but not least, I think I'll share a couple of freebies soon!

And as always the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team will be sharing their inspiring creations...

So browse around the garden, get inspired by the colors and forms of flowers and veggies and Victorian typography, and link up your creation!

This challenge (#9) will end at 11:55 pm on September 8 ~  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, but that's not a requirement!  Most important is have fun, get creative, enjoy vintage.

New: Garden Vegetable & French Flowers Seed Packs Collage Sheets

I've spent the last couple of days creating some brand new seed packs collage sheets (just in time for my next blog challenge).   First of all I have three new collage sheets featuring images from my collection of wonderful old Card Seed Company vegetable seed packets.  One of them is 1x2 domino/tile size.

I love the retro artwork on these, and there's a story behind them.  The company closed down long ago, but several sets of unused packets were found in an old barn years later.  From what I can tell I have one of the few complete sets in existence.  The full set of 80 stone lithographic prints, restored and color enhanced, is on my Antique Seed Pack Lithographs CD, in the best image quality available anywhere!

The other two new sheets are completely new. I created them using French flower seed packets I collected from France a few years ago.  I finally got around to scanning some of them!  I have several dozen more flower packets plus just as many French vegetable garden seed packets, so there may be more to come in this style.

Click the sample pics to see the full size collage sheets at Lunagirl.com.

The new blog challenge will start on Monday... in the meantime, it's everything Alice in our Alice in Wonderland blog challenge!  Hope you'll play!

More New Stuff: VINTAGE SEED PACKETS

Brand new ! 80 colorful varieties of vegetables and herbs, from authentic original unused seed packets. We have collected the ENTIRE 1920s set of 80 card packs from the Card Seed Company. The set we've collected is one of the few complete sets in existence, and as far as we know this COMPLETE SET of the digitized illustrations is not simply available anywhere else!

These packages were published by the long-defunct Card Seed Company, and printed by the Genesee Valley Lithography Company.

The Card Seed Company was located in what was then the garden seed capital of the United States -- Fredonia, New York. In the 1920s, this company published one of the most beautiful sets of lithographs in antique packaging.

Several unused sets of the packets were discovered in upstate New York decades ago, and these pristine originals are much sought after by collectors for their charming artwork, brilliant colors and distinctive design. We are proud to have collected an entire original set.

These fantabulous vintage seed packets are so appealing and have so many uses -- and we have published this collection at extra-high resolution so they are suitable for large framed prints as well as all your crafts projects (cards, invites, altered art, scrapbooking, etc.)

They look great framed for your kitchen, or use them for unique garden markers, to enhance your scrapbook pages, to create charming cards and tags and labels... the quality is exceptional and the graphic design is timeless.

This complete collection is only from Lunagirl!

Click here for details, more samples, and ordering information.