Craft Challenge Theme: Fruit and Flowers

New challenge theme: Inspired by beautiful antique botanical prints, my next theme is
FRUIT & FLOWERS

Let dreams of gardens and orchards, bouquets and blossoms and colorful sweet fruit inspire you... any craft medium is OK, from cards and paper crafts to fabric arts and jewelry to assemblage and mixed media and of course digital art too!

Your entry just needs to feature fruit and/or flowers in some way. The Design Team will be working with some of the Victorian botanical prints and other vintage ephemera from Lunagirl... we love vintage but your entry can be any style, just so it's fruit and flowers themed!

Any craft or medium is OK.

Vintage style is encouraged but not required.

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 Thursday, March 19.

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. 

DON'T MISS THE INSPIRATION FROM THE DESIGN TEAM BELOW!
There will be more from the DT later during this challenge, and you'll want to check back to see all the entries as well. We hope you'll share yours!

An InLinkz Link-up

LUNAGIRL DESIGN TEAM

CORINNE MARIE Digital by Corinne

Botanical Life by SHELBY PIZZARRO Sisterhood of the Muse

Cherry Goddess tag by MICHELE STORMS  Art from the Well

3D Flower by VICKI ROMAINE  The Cheerful Stamppad

"The Lunagirl image was printed three times the exact same size and cut apart and then put back into layers with dimensionals to give it a 3D appearance. 
The 3D effect really doesn't show up on the scanning."
I can see the 3D effect ~ it is stunning.

MANDY CHILVERS Journal Page!  TagAlongChallenge.blogspot.com

Winner of SEWING theme challenge: Karla B

Alright, I've done the random drawing for the Vintage Sewing theme challenge (with double entries for everyone who used a Lunagirl image) and the lucky winner of the drawing is this beautiful entry #4 by Karla B!

Thanks to everyone who played in this fun challenge, one of my favorites.  BTW, as the winner of the drawing Karla has won $15 credit to spend at Lunagirl.com!

Next time the lucky winner could be you! I'll start a new challenge theme bright and early tomorrow... the new theme will be
FRUIT & FLOWERS ~ a lovely garden theme inspired by Victorian botanical prints but of course not limited to them!
With Spring coming, get inspired by dreams of blossoming flowers and colorful fruit... see you soon!

Vintage Sewing

 I've just extended the sewing challenge to 2:30 pm CST, and then I'm off to do the random drawing.  In the meantime I thought I would share some of my "vintage sewing" projects!
My hobby (translation: obsession) is vintage-style aprons, which I'm not only collecting but now also creating.

Here are just a couple I thought I would share. They aren't cards or altered art, but they are handmade on a vintage sewing machine, and I reproduce vintage styles!
I also share them on etsy :-)

I'll have to give another warning that if I disappear for a couple of days, my electricity may be out. Because, yes, we have another ice storm. This one was not as bad, and I think it will melt by the weekend, but I am a bit angry/sad that the daffodils that were about to bloom by my front porch are now encased in ice. *Sigh* I hope they recover.

I'll post again shortly with the challenge winner, and bright and early tomorrow we'll begin the next challenge theme:

FRUIT & FLOWERS

The Design Team is already sending me some gorgeous work using some the Victorian botanical prints I have, so you won't want to miss them. 

Tag Along...

DT member Mandy Chilvers hosts great challenges over at her TagAlong blog... It's a place to get inspired and have some fun sharing if you create Tags... and to see some amazingly creative tags if you love tags like I do... lots of vintage style too!

Here's a tag created by DT member Michele Storms for Mandy's FASHION theme. You might recognize this Lady in Red! I love love love the little hummingbird!

You can join in the TagAlong fun at the TagAlong challenge blog, and see more of Michele's work at her ArtFromtheWell blog.

P.S. You have one more day to enter my current challenge with the Vintage Sewing theme!
And Friday I'll start a new theme, which I think I'm calling Vintage Flowers & Fruit ... sort of a garden theme, inspired by Victorian botanical prints but not limited to those... you'll see...

Shabby Pink and Aqua from Michele ~ with Buttons too!

MICHELE STORMS

I love the colors in this pretty vintage sewing themed card by Michele Storms ~ that dusky rose pink is so vintage, and I especially like the pink roses, stripes and tape measure with the aqua background. Such a pretty shabby-romantic color combination. Michele used some images from my Lunagirl Sew Shabby Pink collage sheet, combined with other beautiful vintage style imagery and some charming little buttons! I wish buttons were still 10 cents...

Don't miss your chance to enter the challenge with our Sewing theme. Visit the challenge post for details and inspiration, and check out my sewing themed collage sheets too, just for fun and to spark your creativity.

Vicki Gets Her Sewing Machine Out

VICKI ROMAINE

So here's another piece for the Vintage Sewing theme of our challenge... and Vicki got her sewing machine out!  :-) Yay, Vicki ~ it turned out so sweet!

Here's what she wrote:
"I got the sewing machine out for this one.  First I had to learn how to thread the machine as it has been a long time since it was in use.  I decided to sew a piece of fabric to my card adding a little dimension to the Lunagirl sewing images."

Remember you don't have to actually SEW to enter the challenge! Any images related to sewing will work, or any kind of stitchery or embellishments or pictures of stitchery, buttons, sewing machines, etc. are perfect. But isn't it fun to see some actual fabric on a card.