The sweetest little witch...

I love love love this little ATC created by Michele Storms! This little witch girl with her red hat and black cat is one of my favorite Victorian Halloween images, and Michele has added just the perfect wings and tiny black flower, against a red and black background and big friendly vintage harvest moon. 

This trio (witch, cat & moon!) are here to remind you that All Hallow's Eve is very near... and that means you have just a few more days to show us your Gothic/Halloween-themed cards and creations in my challenge ~ enter for your chance to win $15 credit at Lunagirl.com. You know you need some goodies for the upcoming Winter months. Cold days and long nights are the perfect time for crafting :-)

MICHELE STORMS: the cute little vintage witch is from the "witching hour" collage sheet and her wings are from the "gothic wings" collage sheet. the moon is from "harvest moon" and the background is from the "gothic backgrounds -red" collage sheet, all by Lunagirl.  i have a little bit black vine ribbon and a silvery flower (a brad) as accents on this ATC.

One More Day of Witchery

You still have one more day to link up your creation in the WITCHERY challenge!  I know Halloween was a couple of day ago, but we're still witchy around here, with lots of spooky and cute and gorgeous witches in the challenge gallery -- and one more inspiration piece from the Moonbeams Design Team.  Petra Berendsen sent in this lovely bit of witchery in the woods...

Remember to join in by noon CST tomorrow for your chance to share your work and maybe win our prize of two Lunagirl digital collage sheets of your choice!  Have a witchy autumn day!

Vintage Witch tag by Michele Storms

The little witch with her owl is foretelling your future -- you will create some wonderful witchery and link to the Lunagirl Moonbeams Witchery blog challenge!  Look into her eyes -- you will obey!

Sorry about that silliness. But a big thank you to Moonbeams DT member Michele Storms for this fabulous Vintage Witch tag all in orange and black and sepia.

Monday Morning Witchery

My WITCHERY blog challenge is humming right along, with so many great entries in the Witchery gallery!  Check out all the wonderfully witchey work, and link up your creation ~ you have until Sunday to share your witchery for a chance to win two Lunagirl digital collage sheets of your choice.

It's a grey rainy morning here, but I have new Witchery artwork from the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team to brighten the day!

 Mandy Chilvers shared these three witches!

 From Vicki Romaine:

"Here is another witchery card.  I used some stripped designer paper as my mat and added a small block of checkered designer paper  under the cute Lunagirl image.  Below I placed a strip of a fence that was given to me in a birthday grab bag from a friend.  In the corner is a pumpkin made from some ovals, distressed, and glue together.  I think this made a cute witchery card."

 

Fortune teller witch by Michele Storms!

More Witchery from the Moonbeams Team

 More Witchery from the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team!

Vicki Romaine created this "Double Trouble" witchy card:

"I used an embossing folder and ink highlight to make the spider web in designer paper which had spiders on it the sentiment was a piece of cardstock from my stash. I cut the Lunagirl image out to have a white border and I distressed that area lightly."

[Lunagirl image from Witch Photos digital collage sheet]

Meanwhile, Michele Storms submitted her "Steampunk Halloween" tag:

"your images here come from the steampunk and witch collage sheets as i also entered it in Mandy's Tagalong challenge for steampunk hallowe'en." 

 [Lunagirl Images from Steampunk Girls collage sheet and Witching Hour collage sheet, butterfly from Fly Away Home]

I hope you enjoy the wonderful witchery from the Moonbeams, and that it inspires your own witchery to add to the challenge gallery!

Blog Challenge WITCHERY

For the next Lunagirl Moonbeam Blog Challenge, in honor of Halloween, our theme is WITCHERY.  What a wonderful coincidence that this challenge #13!

For this challenge think of witches and all things witchy!  Cute witches, spooky witches, sexy witches if you like, gothic girls, shadowy spirits, potions and spells and cobwebs and black cats, eye of newt and wing of bat... you get the idea!

For my challenge badge this time I layered and combined some potion labels from one of my Witches Labels collage sheets.

The Design Team will be sharing their witchery to get your creative juices flowing (see below)!

GUIDELINES:
This challenge (#13) will end at Noon (Central Time) on November 3.

The winner will be selected randomly to win two free Lunagirl digital collage sheets of your choice!

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.
 
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. 

Here is an assortment of digital collage sheets for Halloween & Witchery, including some backgrounds.

 


LUNAGIRL MOONBEAMS DESIGN TEAM
Find out more about the Moonbeams DT and visit their blogs! Here are some interpretations of "Witchery" from the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team ~ a great way to start to our challenge.

MICHELE STORMS

PETRA BERENDSEN

MANDY CHILVERS

Fun Witch-y Labels Now Available

I really enjoyed creating these fun labels for witchy items like Mermaid Tears, Lover's Sighs, Bat Wings, Eye of Newt, and Ashes of Ex-Lovers (among other things!)  Perfect ingredients for all your potions and spells ~ add them to your apothecary!  Available in sepia tones as well.

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.

Moonday Free Images

Four "weird sisters" having a tea party ~ actually I wouldn't be surprised if they had something a little stronger in those teacups.  Halloween vintage photos are rather hard to find, but a customer was kind enough to share this one with me and I'm glad to share it with you!  Enjoy for personal non-commercial cards, crafts, and art projects.

New collage sheet designs! Witch's Labels for potions and powders and more

Oh, these were such fun to create!  Starting with some of our own blank labels (which were originally Victorian and Art Deco ephemera), and adding old photos and text and colors and textures, I've created some labels just right for this time of year -- or for a witch's apothecary at any time of year ; )  Labels for mermaid tears, lover's sighs, moonbeams, powdered cobwebs, freeze-dried bat wings, Egyptian sleeping potion, belladonna, ashes of old lovers, and more spooky magical stuff.  These will be about 4 inches tall when printed at full size, but you can of course print them as small as you need with excellent results... Currently available only in our etsy shop -- the sepia versions by request!

Free Digital Images! Halloween Witch and Pretty Woman for Autumn

Why not share a free image today?  In fact, why not two!  One for Halloween, and one for the pensive mood of autumn (click for full size).

For more Halloween images that you can receive right away, visit our digital collage sheet download pages:  http://www.summertownsun.com/lunagirl/W-Lunagirl-Collage-Sheets-Holidays.htm
For more lovely ladies...http://www.summertownsun.com/lunagirl/W-Vintage-Photos.htm

The Origins of Halloween Customs

Halloween is a familiar holiday to Americans. Children disguised as ghosts and goblins (and superheroes and princesses) roam the streets trick-or-treating; teenagers play pranks and try to frighten themselves with trips to the graveyard and scary movies; and generally everyone has a good time drinking cider (or something harder), bobbing for apples, wearing costumes, and waiting for "the witching hour."

But few people know of the origins of Halloween and its wonderful mood of magic and fright.

CLICK HERE to find out more! in our exclusive feature article:
"BETWEEN THE WORLDS: The Origins of Halloween & Its Customs."
Illustrated with wonderful antique Victorian vintage greeting cards!

Featured Collage Sheet: The Witching Hour

We offer a variety of Vintage Halloween collage sheets (plus our Holidays CD set!) ~ here's one with something just a little different, great for any time of year if you want some"witchy" ladies for your projects. "The Witching Hour" features some gorgeous Pre-Raphaelite paintings and fairy tale illustrations, plus altered Victorian postcards. Witches at their cauldrons, a sorceress or two, an ice queen, a lady gazing into her crystal ball, and a couple of little girl witches...

FULL MOON TONIGHT!