Creative Challenge Theme: Put a BIRD On It!

I had a great time creating the badge for this new challenge, and I hope you will have great fun creating up to three entries!

My theme this time is "Put a Bird On It."  You KNOW that everything is cuter and prettier when you add one of our feathered friends...
so create a card, an ATC, some digital art, an altered book or tin, a scrapbooking layout, some fabric art, a assemblage or altar or some fabulous jewelry, anything mixed media, creative, and preferably (although not necessarily) vintage, and then ... put a bird on it! And enter our challenge.

You'll find plenty of vintage birds at Lunagirl!

<<< I created my challenge badge at left with a "briars" frame from my Vintage Style Blank Labels collection, in green version, a lady from my Victorian Edwardian Vintage Ladies Photos CD Vol 1, which I tinted with autumn colors, and assorted birds!

Below are the challenge guidelines and some samples by the Moonbeams Design Team (don't miss them!)

GUIDELINES:

Any craft or medium is OK.

Limit of 3 entries from one person in each challenge, please.

Vintage style is encouraged.

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 $10 credit at Lunagirl.com!

Challenge ends at noon CST on October 12.

I love it 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. 

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LUNAGIRL MOONBEAMS DESIGN TEAM SAMPLES

Tag by MICHELE STORMS featuring the Bluebird of Happiness!
(Bluebird from Lunagirl Birds 4 digital collage sheet.)

MANDY CHILVERS created this sweet card
(featuring "lovebirds" from Lunagirl Birds 1 digital collage sheet
and azalea flowers from Summer Garden).

VICKI ROMAINE surprises us this time with
something different but oh so perfect for this theme -- a birdhouse!
Beautiful!

I hope the Moonbeams Design Team has inspired you
to "put a bird on it" and show us what you create!

Winner of AUTUMN Challenge: Crafting Vicki's Acorn Mouse

Alright, my Autumn challenge is complete -- lots of beautiful entries, so many different visions of Autumn! Thank you to everyone who played, and congratulations on your lovely work.

I've completed the random drawing -- with double entries for each entry that used a Lunagirl images -- and the winner is..... #25 by Crafting Vicki! She has won the $10 credit to shop at Lunagirl.com!

I hope everyone who played this time will come back again to play in my next challenge, which starts tomorrow. The theme will be PUT A BIRD ON IT! I look forward to all the birds!

Autumn Challenge: You Still Have Time to Enter

Autumn inspiration from DT Member Mandy Chilvers: "Not all who wander are lost."

So pretty. You still have time to enter your creation in the Autumn challenge, for a chance to win a gift credit to shop at Lunagirl.com! The challenge ends on Sunday at noon CST.

Happy first weekend of Fall, and Happy Creating!

Autumn is Here! Create Something for Our Challenge!

It's official -- the Autumnal Equinox occurred on Monday here in the Northern Hemisphere, so it is FALL!  Time for cool misty mornings and colder nights, rainy grey afternoons and bright brisk sunny days too... brightly painted leaves on the trees and crunchy brown leaves beneath your feet... the smell of chimneys outside and pumpkin pies inside... Alright, I'll admit it's still 80 degrees here in Tennessee, but it WAS kind of cool this morning! I DID turn the heat on for the first time this season. :-)

Please help us celebrate Autumn by linking up your Autumnal creation in our challenge! Any medium is fine -- cards, scrapbook pages, mixed media, digital art, jewelry, altered objects, fabric arts -- we want to see your work!

Mandy Chilvers of the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team created this elegant tag to herald the season and inspire us... This Autumn Girl looks like the Goddess of Fall.

Apron Obsession.... This is how it starts

A while back I told you about my amazing vintage sewing machine find... I used it to create some little bags and pillows and found that I remember how to sew! Now I'm on to APRONS.

Have I mentioned my apron obsession? I didn't think so. Well, I'm obsessed with vintage style aprons and decided for the sake of my credit card balance I had better start making my own.  Here is my first apron! And.... all the fabric I bought half-off at Hancock's for creating more aprons! I can see this getting out of hand quickly. I may have to start selling aprons... I've already named my new etsy shop after making one apron, hmm, think that's a little too soon?... and have I mentioned my obsession with pincushions and potholders and ornaments and all kinds of bags big and small -- oh yeah, I have time for this.

UPDATE September 24: I was back in the fabric store last night. More fabrics for aprons and messenger bags! My husband took me there so I guess he's an enabler. :-)

AUTUMN challenge: Second Week

VICKI ROMAINE

has created this wonderful card celebrating nature in Autumn

using Lunagirl Owls and a Lunagirl background.

Our theme AUTUMN / AUTUMNAL continues all this week here at LunagirlMoonbeams challenge blog, and the ever-fabulous ladies of the Moonbeams Design Team have created some delicious sample images to inspire you.
You have until Sunday to link up your own creation -- Don't miss your chance to share your work and maybe win the drawing for a $10 gift credit to shop at Lunagirl.com!





Explore some vintage Autumn art and ephemera with Lunagirl... I have digital collage sheets ready for instant download that give you Fall leaves, autumn owls, beautiful backgrounds in autumn colors, Halloween witches and Harvest moons, and more to play with today! Just click to start creating your autumnal vision!

MICHELE STORMS
created this gorgeous tag that uses a elements from three different Lunagirl collage sheets: a Nature background plus Autumn Leaves and an Autumn Girl!

MANDY CHILVERS
submits this delightful card featuring brightly colored Fall leaves
and a little forest bird from the collage sheet Autumn Leaves!

Card Makin' Mamas Vintage Shabby Chic Challenge!

Lunagirl is sponsoring a fabulous "Ooh La La VINTAGE or SHABBY CHIC" theme at the blog Card Makin Mamas!  For this challenge they are looking for  vintage elements, ephemera, antique colors or shabby chic distress, lace findings and feminine antique colors. A perfect fit for Lunagirl...

If you haven't visited this fun site, here's your chance to find a new challenge blog and take part in their Vintage theme this week! I'm proud to be sponsoring them for the first time and would love to see some Moonbeams regulars over there. They already have several very nice entries. The Design Team is working with some of my "Shabby" color themed collage sheets, although I think ANY of my Lunagirl designs would work great for this theme.

Have a great weekend and don't forget to come back on Monday for the second week of my AUTUMN challenge.

"Childhood Memories" Theme at Crafting By Designs!

Just a quick announcement that Lunagirl is co-sponsoring a challenge at
CraftingByDesigns this week with the theme CHILDHOOD MEMORIES. The CBD Design Team and our own Moonbeams DT have created some very lovely samples to inspire you. Go see and join in!
Here is the Lunagirl RETRO CHILDREN digital collage sheet they used...

New Creative Challenge Theme: AUTUMN

In honor of the official beginning of Autumn next Monday -- and the lovely Fall-like weather we're having here in Tennessee this week! -- my new challenge theme is AUTUMN.

What does autumn mean to you?  To me, Autumn means falling leaves, of course, and autumn colors of gold and red and orange and brown.  It means nights that get longer and cooler.  Bright sunny days with a little nip in the air.  Cool rainy days spent with a blanket and a good book.  Pumpkin pie, red apples, Halloween and Thanksgiving.  School clothes and Number 2 pencils.  Here in Tennessee, early Fall means the acorns are ripe and the squawky bluejays arrive to eat them!

If you see the definitions of "autumnal" in my picture above, it can also refer to a metaphorical autumn, the autumn of one's life, an autumnal style in art, a feeling of something a little past ripe but still lush, a turning from fullness of summer toward the stillness of winter, a golden in-between time.  A turning inward.  Fall always energizes me, with cooler air and bright turning leaves and a new school year, but it also tends to make me reflective.

FIND AUTUMN IMAGERY to inspire you!
GUIDELINES:

Any craft or medium is OK.

Limit of 3 entries from one person in each challenge, please.

Vintage style is encouraged.

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 $10 credit at Lunagirl.com!

Challenge ends at noon CST on September 28.

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!  But do remember that if you use a Lunagirl image, 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! Most important is have fun, get creative, enjoy vintage. 

I can't wait to see your creative reflections on AUTUMN!  The Design Team has created some very lovely pieces to get your creative juices flowing (see them below). 

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LUNAGIRL MOONBEAMS DESIGN TEAM:

A beautiful autumnal ATC by Michele Storms of ArtFromtheWell.blogspot.com

Pretty Fall tag by MANDY CHILVERS of MandysMagicalWorldofArt.blogspot.com and TagalongChallenge.blogspot.com and SundayPostcardArt.wordpress.com! 

VICKI ROMAINE:
"This is a form of gate card with the lovely Lunagirl image in the middle of a multiple matting block..  The designer paper is from Covern at Gecko Galz and was printed on my printer.  Finishing the card are two last Autumn butterflies from my stash."
Visit Vicki at TheCheerfulStamppad.blogspot.com

Winner of Fairyland Challenge: Lis-M

The Fairyland challenge is complete (what a lovely collection of fairies attended!) and it's time to pick the winner by random drawing...

The winner is entry #16, submitted by Lis-M of mycraftblogumentary!

Congrats to Lis-M and to everyone who played. This was a fun one, don't you think? Lis-M can choose as her prize any one of my ten Lunagirl Digital Collage Sheet collections on CD -- 25 digital collage sheets printable on CD!

Come back bright and early tomorrow to start the next challenge, for some fun and your chance to win. My next theme is AUTUMN. 

More visitors to our Fairyland challenge...

Some of my favorite little Victorian fairies grace this card created by DT member Michele Storms
:-)

I hope you enjoy it and remember to link up your own magical visitor(s) to my Fairyland challenge!

And be sure to visit Michele's blog also: Art From the Well!

Come to Fairyland

It's looking pretty magical and fanciful over at my Fairyland challenge! Come see and join in!

To inspire you, here's another pretty fairy tag by Mandy Chilvers of my fabulous DT.  She has used a charming Victorian garden flower fairy and the simple word "IF" which I think is perfect to evoke a feeling of fantasy and wonder and imagination.

Join in the challenge until Sunday, and please don't miss all the other lovely creations that have been submitted to our Fairyland so far.

Thanks for visiting!

Fairyland Altered Playing Cards by Vicki Romaine

Vicki Romaine has been working on these magical playing cards, perfect inspiration for our Fairyland challenge!  These are the backsides of her altered playing cards. The background is Heidi Swapp color spray, stenciled designs, and in the foreground are Lunagirl fairy images. A full deck is going to be amazing!

Fairyland Challenge: Second Week!

MANDY CHILVERS

More fairies for fairyland from the Moonbeams Design Team!

You still have all week to submit your own creation for our Fairyland, for a chance to win the random drawing and choose a Lunagirl Collage Sheets CD collection all your very own!

<<< I've always thought of this lady as the queen of the flower fairies. She looks so regal! Don't you love how Mandy has presented her on this beautiful tag?

And below is a tiny fairy tag by Michele! So pretty and delicate!

MICHELE STORMS:this tag is tiny -- about 1 inch by 2 and a half inches.  the images are from "beauties 2" and "rainbow wings."  the background paper is a freebie you offered long ago and there is a heart behind her from shabby lilac!  this is a very lunagirl fairy! :)

Paris Botanical Tags Set: Ephemera, Flowers & Fruit

Still working on Paris Botanical tags today... I made another sheet with yellow flowers and golden fruit. Very pretty! While I was at it I realized I should make a sheet of matching tags that are mostly blank and have a place to write -- to use as backs or just to complete the set. So here is the whole set so far... expect more tags in different themes because I'm having fun with these!

Chocolate and Cream at Digitally Sweet Challenges!

There's a "yummy" new challenge I'm sponsoring at Digitally Sweet Challenges this week. The theme is "Chocolate and Cream"! I'm thinking that can include the colors chocolate brown and cream (nice for Fall, don't you think?), or the yummy treats (nice anytime)!

There are some beautiful and fun samples already up on the site from the DSC Design Team, and I know they'll soon have plenty of lovely creative entries.  I hope you'll go add yours, for a chance to win all the Lunagirl Images the DT was given to play with.

Thanks to Karen Wilson and everyone at DigitallySweet for such fun challenges, and for the chance to sponsor them!

More French Botanical Tags... and a Surprise Just for You

Here's another new printable tag sheet ... 

more beautiful botanical prints of flowers and fruit, in gorgeous shabby purple and green, plus lovely vintage aged pages from the French journal Horticole. 

I had so much fun with these, and I hope you will too! I love these colors and the French text.

Here's another little something fun: a discount code just for my blog readers! Use discount code PURPLEPARIS at checkout at Lunagirl.com for 25% off every item until Monday ... just for you!  

Really I just want to see who is listening :-)

NEW Paris Botanical Tags Printable

More new tags!

These are created with pages from a beautiful old French horticulture journal and pretty antique botanical prints of cherries, strawberries, little red flowers and pink lilies. They have a lovely aged sepia color, from the antique paper, and charming French text.

I call this sheet Paris Botanical Tags: Pink & Red Florals. I plan more sheets in this style in other colors (yellow/gold, blue/purple) and other fruit like grapes, apples, pears... I love working with these images.

This first one is available now at Lunagirl.

New! Fairyland Tags Printable Download Digital Collage Sheet

Inspired by the Fairyland challenge, I've just created a sheet of fairyland tags!

These would be great for gift tags, hang tags, labels, scrapbooking, or card-making. Maybe you can create something with them for the challenge! They are available at Lunagirl.com and in my etsy shop.

I'll be working on more tag printables and downloads, and maybe some fairies, too, in the next few days.

Come with us to Fairyland in our next challenge!

I can never stay away from the fairies too long, so here's my next challenge theme: FAIRYLAND.

I can't wait to see the gallery fill up with fairies! For inspiration visit my Fairies and Angels page, and don't miss the Design Team creations below!

Here are the challenge guidelines:

Any craft or medium is OK.

Limit of 3 entries from one person in each challenge, please.

Vintage style is encouraged.

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:  The winner will be selected randomly, and will receive a Lunagirl collage sheet CD of your choice! ($25 value).

Challenge ends at noon CST on September 14.

Of course I love if you use at least one Lunagirl.com product, and I hope you'll go take a look at my collection... 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 want to welcome everyone and every style but also give a little something extra to my wonderful customers! 

LINK UP YOUR ENTRIES BELOW TO PLAY 

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LUNAGIRL MOONBEAMS DESIGN TEAM

As always, the Moonbeams have created some lovely pieces to inspire you!

VICKI ROMAINE:

I made the background for this tag by using a medallion stamp stamped in three shades of green.  a piece of lace was placed down the side and three bling stones where placed in the center of the flowers.  A butterfly cut from a old greeting card finishes the tag. -- Vicki

MICHELE STORMS: Fairy Watch ATC

MANDY CHILVERS