My challenge blog for Lunagirl Vintage Images, featuring fun creative challenges with prizes, projects, freebies, holiday and seasonal info, and more!
A place for mixed media artists, card makers, scrapbooking enthusiasts, fabric artists, creators of jewelry, altered art and crafts of all kinds.
Would you like Lunagirl to sponsor a challenge on your blog? Email me at INFO@LUNAGIRL.COM. :-) I'll provide images for your DT!

Saturday, November 16, 2013

I have a secret...... by Vicki

One more "Secrets" piece from the DT!

Vicki Romaine:
"Here is a card filled with texture.  There is a silky sheen piece of cardstock on one side of the background while on the other  side is a piece of Panera's coffee cup protector cut down.  The flower is a newspaper flower which is a little crumpled by the scanner."

Thanks to Vicki!

Friday, November 15, 2013

Enter the Secrets & Hidden Things Challenge!

You have two more days to enter the challenge -- it ends Sunday at noon Central Time.  Any type of media/project is welcome, and any interpretation of the theme SECRETS/HIDDEN.  Get creative, and don't miss your chance to win some free digital collage sheets (winner selected by random drawing!)



The Lunagirl SECRETS AND HIDDEN THINGS blog challenge ends Sunday!

And to inspire you, here are new sample projects by the Moonbeams Design Team.  Petra Berensend created these two tags with the images of two beautiful ladies from my Pre-Raphaelite Art CD. She has displayed them in windows frames and adorned them with lots of lace and flowers. So pretty!


And Michele Storms offers this lovely tag today!



Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Featured Artist Helen Cant: Jewelry Tutorial

Talented artist Helen Cant used the free postcard image I posted in July to create a lovely vintage style Christmas postcard as a backing/holder for her jewelry.

Her work is featured in Make & Sell Jewellery magazine ~ here is the layout so you can see!  Very beautiful.

You can go to the magazine's online site for Helen Cant's tutorial on creating jewelry with images: http://www.makeselljewellery.com/index.php/projects/vintage_christmas 

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Tutorial: Background Removal in Word

Denise of DigitalySweet (see previous post) has invited me to post her full tutorial on Lunagirl Moonbeams... so here it is! BIG THANKS to Denise.

Background removal on WORD

RIGHT CLICK it and save it somewhere on your computer
(I saved my in picture folder)
Now head on over to Lunagirl and get your vintage key and see what other fun stuff she has to offer!

Great stuff going on at Digitally Sweet Blog!

Just FYI, Denise at DigitallySweet blog has created a very helpful tutorial on how to remove backgrounds in MS WORD.  Hop on over and check it out.

And I am VERY pleased to be sponsoring their current challenge.  You can challenge your "inner digital" every Friday at Digitally Sweet! Do be sure to visit to see the beautiful creations of their DT and participants, and enter the challenge yourself! 


Monday, November 11, 2013

It's a Secret ... But you still have time to get in on it!

Here is another little girl with a secret!
from Lunagirl Moonbeams DT Member Mandy Chilvers.  This little girl from an old French postcard seems to have a secret message...


Join our Secrets and Hidden Things blog challenge... it's a fun theme you can take in many directions! (see below)



 And oh my, what has Alice discovered?!

Michele Storms created this charming scene!:
"i was thinking that the alice in wonderland story includes secrets and hidden things so i turned to one of the alice collage sheets from lunagirl.  i colored the image of alice pulling aside the curtain with promarkers and cut it out. but i wanted her to find something a little more surprising than the queen's garden. so while the mysteriously smiling cheshire cat looks on, here is what happened in my alice scene.... what is rudolph the red-nosed reindeer doing behind that curtain? i guess he is telling me i'd better get going on making some christmas cards."
 
 
 
 
You still have all week to get inspired and join our blog challenge!

Your creation can be any medium -- The theme is SECRETS AND HIDDEN THINGS:
think hidden treasures, secret gardens, boxes or windows or doors that open to reveal a secret, a hidden bird's nest, a child hiding or playing peekaboo, wrapped presents, shared secrets, seeds hidden underground, things hidden under snow or in the shadows, things that can hide something inside (like eggs or baskets or boxes or nuts)...

Get creative and join us for your chance to win two Lunagirl digital collage sheets -- and your share of glory of course :-)  Challenge ends Sunday!

 

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