Halloween is the ancient Celtic New Year!

 

Gum fosgladh dorus na gliadhna uibhe chum sith, sonas, is samchair:  

May the door of the coming year open for you to peace, happiness, and quiet contentment.   

 ~Old Scots Samhain Blessing

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!

Link: The Origins of Halloween Customs

Find out all about the origins of Halloween and our Halloween customs in my article over at Hestia blog!  (Actually it's divided up into several posts starting last Monday and continuing for a couple more days.)

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

WINNER OF LADY BLUE CHALLENGE

The magic randomizer plug-in has give me the number of the winner of the Lunagirl LADY BLUE blog challenge. 

A big thank you to EVERYONE who linked up their lovely blue ladies for this challenge.  It was certainly an enchanting group of entries, and I hope to see you all again in the next challenge.

The lucky winner for the Lady Blue challenge is.....

#8 2amscrapper!

Congrats!  Please email me at info@lunagirl.com to claim your two Lunagirl digital collage sheets of your choosing!


Everyone please be sure to come back tomorrow for the next Lunagirl Moonbeams blog challenge, the theme of which is WITCHERY.  Perfect for this time of year, right?  The Design Team has laready sent me some great samples; I just need to create the challenge badge and get it ready to post.  So see you soon.

Lady Blue with Flowers by Petra

Here is another image that brings to mind the word Reverie -- a pretty blue flapper lady who looks like she has something on her mind, a faraway look in her eyes.  Petra has created a beautiful card with this Lady Blue.

"I used an image from the Vintage Blue Collage Sheet which I layered on patterend paper. The card is embellishment with a handmade fabric leave, some Mulberry flowers, a couple of staples and a twine bow." -- Petra Berendsen
PetraB's Allsorts

Don't forget you have until Sunday to link up your Lady Blue creation in the current blog challenge!  We have some very pretty and creative entries so far, and I would love to see yours as well...

Reverie: Art for an Autumn Day

Today it certainly feels like Autumn -- the air is cool, and a light rain falls from a grey sky.  Trees are turning orange and red and gold.  The rain is welcome for my fading garden, and it's a perfect day for curling up with a book or just getting lost in reverie.  I'll steal a few moments with a cup of tea, then it's back online to work!  Here is a suitable freebie image I'd like to share, entitled "Reverie." (more like this on Lunagirl Pre-Raphaelite Art printable digital images on CD):

Blue Ladies from the DT to Inspire You this Monday Morning

The fabulous Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team offers you more lovely inspiration for the Lady Blue challenge!

LUNAGIRL MOONBEAMS DESIGN TEAM
Find out more about the Moonbeams DT and visit their blogs! 

Here are some lovely interpretations of "Lady Blue" from the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team ~ a beautiful start to our challenge.  The DT are using images from these Lunagirl digital collage sheets:
Vintage Blue
Blue Belles
Sultry Blue

Vicki Romaine

From Vicki Romaine >> a pretty blue fairy flapper card:  
"I used the background that Lunagirl is giving away as a sample along with various shades of solid blue cardstock.  The beautiful trim was made with a Martha Stewart punch. The sentiment was made with a Kolette Hall stamp."

Michelle Storms "Mood du Jour"!
Nice use of double images.
Love that one little orange butterfly :-)

Mandy Chilvers

<< From Mandy Chilvers, this sweet vintage style postcard: 
"I've made a postcard using the Blue Belles collage sheet. I cut the image out of the background and then re-coloured the blue dress with watercolours to make the blue more blue.  I've also used the flower from the vintage butterfly collage sheet. 

The background is made from scratch using inks, sprays, paints, masks and rubberstamps. 

I've used a quote on it from the novel 'the raven boys' by Maggie Stiefvater."

Thanks as always to my wonderful DT...

and to all visitors, you still have all week to link up your Lady Blue project to enter the blog challenge and win free digital collage sheets!

 

Blue Backgrounds for a Blue Lady

The entries for the Lady Blue challenge are so pretty! I love looking at the entries together , all the blue ladies and shades of blue.  I'm liking this theme alot so far!

A few weeks ago I shared a shabby blue / turquoise background I had created by altering and recoloring some old shabby Victorian wallpaper.  I thought I would share it again for your "blue" projects.  I'm sharing it here in turquoise and also in a deeper blue.

Have fun and be sure to link up your Lady Blue!  The challenge will continue until October 20 so you have plenty of time...

Lunagirl Blog Challenge: LADY BLUE

The theme for my new Lunagirl blog challenge starting today is LADY BLUE.

In choosing this theme I was originally inspired by the Bluet blue-tinted postcards that were popular in the early 1920s.  I have quite a few in my collection, and sometimes tint other photo postcards to resemble them!

So that is one style of Lady Blue -- vintage blue-tinted postcards.  But "Lady Blue" could also be a lady dressed in blue, or a lady in a blue mood. You'll see that I have collage sheets that suit either of those interpretations...Then there are blue fairies, and blue angels, and blue birds, and ladies who sing the blues...   Wander wherever your imagination takes you inspired by the theme!

The Design Team will be sharing their visions of Lady Blue to get your creative juices flowing (see some of them below). 

GUIDELINES:
This challenge (#12) will end at 11:55 AM on October 20.

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 collage sheets that suit the Lady Blue theme, including some backgrounds.  (The lady I used for the challenge badge above is from Blue.)  

LUNAGIRL MOONBEAMS DESIGN TEAM
Find out more about the Moonbeams DT and visit their blogs! 

Here are some lovely interpretations of "Lady Blue" from the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team ~ a beautiful start to our challenge.  The DT are using images from these Lunagirl digital collage sheets:
Vintage Blue
Blue Belles
Sultry Blue

by Michele Storms

by Mandy Chilvers

Mandy Chilvers

Mandy Chilvers (closeup)

Petra Berendsen

Vicki Romaine

About Vicki's pretty lady blue tag:

"Since Lunagirl is sponsoring the Tag challenge on my blog.  I have created a tag with the theme "Lady Blue"  I took two images from one of the collage sheets and used one of her blue backgrounds.  I made part of the background a little darker by doing a repeat printing of  a strip of the background.    I think the diecut is from Memory Box.  It is one a friend gave me to show what she had ordered recently."

Don't forget to visit The Cheerful Stamppad this week and enter Vicki's "TAG" blog challenge as well!

Winners of the Lunagirl Blog Challenge AUTUMN Theme

OK, I told my randomizer (www.randomizer.org) to give me two numbers, and it came back with #16 and #28... So that means the two lucky winners of the Lunagirl "Autumn" blog challenge are

Tina G. and

Trollkatta!

Congratulations to both!  Click the pictures to see their entries in more detail on their blogs.

And again a giant THANK YOU to everyone who entered!  I hope to see you back again for our next challenge...

Tina G. and Trollkatta, please email me at info@lunagirl.com to find out how to claim your prize of two Lunagirl digital collage sheets of your choice for each of you!

Thank you for your Autumnal entries!

Thank you so much to EVERYONE who joined in my AUTUMN blog challenge the past two weeks.  It was great to see all of your beautiful autumnal creations. So much variety!

I will be posting two winners in just a little while... 

Please be sure to come back for my next challenge.  The theme will be LADY BLUE and you can link up your entry starting early tomorrow morning! Here are some "blue" collage sheets to get you started dreaming... as always the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team will be sending inspiration...

Lunagirl and MajaDesign Papers

I'm excited that Marie Janson of MajaDesign is going to be using some Lunagirl images in her beautiful designs for her vintage Christmas papers collection. 

MajaDesign sells scrapbooking/crafts papers inspired by romantic vintage style, in Sweden.  They are lovely, and I'm pleased and flattered that Marie has chosen to work with some of my images!

Autumn Inspiration from the DT

 I'm happy to share some more autumn inspiration from the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team...aren't these both lovely?  And they look nice together, even.

<<< Vicki Romaine created the Owl card at left:
"I took a striped piece of cardstock and embossed it and then highlighted the embossing with two shades of distressed inks.  I cut the Lunagirl image out and by placing it on the embossed mat, it gives the appearance of being inside the trees.  The sentiment is made from letter tags."

I really like the way she did the background, and the colors are perfect.

Michele Storms sent this pretty card >>> with vintage style flowers and botanicals perfect for autumn.  Beautiful!

Don't forget you still have until noon Central Time on Sunday to link up your Autumn creations for the blog challenge!

I'll be drawing two winners by random number generator to receive a prize of two Lunagirl digital collage sheets of your choice.  (A great chance to get some Lunagirl images for the Lady Blue challenge coming up -- hint, hint -- or Halloween or anything else you like!)

Autumn Printable Prints

Can you believe it's October?  It is hard for me to fathom.  It seems like Summer was just here; where did she go?  Here are some beautiful illustrations appropriate for October, for you to use in your projects:
Lovely, detailed art of fall apples from a Victorian botanical print,
and this charming little barn owl, also from an antique nature print.