More Holiday Children from the Design Team -- Join Our Challenge!

Are YOU still eating turkey and pumpkin pie? That was breakfast at our house today! The day-after-Thanksgiving tradition at our house is sleep late, eat leftover pie, and watch movies. No Black Friday madness, thank you! (Although I will check out the online deals!)

The holiday season is officially upon us, and we're celebrating with a HOLIDAY CHILDREN theme for the current blog challenge here at LunagirlMoonbeams.com. Be sure to join in! Here is more inspiration from the Moonbeams Design Team!

by MICHELE STORMS
We hope you're having a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend!

by MANDY CHILVERS
And here comes Christmas!
Sparkling lights, warm red decorations, fragrant evergreens, and smiling children,
to brighten up December and the Winter Solstice season.

Blog Challenge Theme: Holiday Children

It's that time of year again -- time for gratitude and joy, food and family, tradition and celebration, thankfulness and hope. Autumn leaves, holly berries and mistletoe, turkey and pumpkin pie (and pecan pies at my house!) and then later cookies and candies, gingerbread and peppermint, the smell of cinnamon and evergreens... yes, I love this time of year!

For many people, one of the best things about Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanukkah are our memories of childhood celebrations and the fun of seeing our own children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, enjoy the magic of this season. It's wonderful to see the holiday season through the eyes of a child. So let's have fun creating with images of Holiday Children.

There are so many wonderful vintage images of girls and boys. We have hundreds in our collection of Victorian and Edwardian era holiday postcards -- for Christmas and New Years on Victorian Holidays One and for Thanksgiving (and Halloween too!) on Victorian Holidays Volume Three. I've used a few on some charming digital collage sheets for holidays. The Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team feature some of them below.

Here are the guidelines for this challenge:

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 $15 credit at Lunagirl.com!

Challenge ends at noon CST on December 7.

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. 

And don't miss the creations of my Design Team below, for your enjoyment and inspiration!

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Isn't this a lovely tag by MICHELE STORMS?

The little girl image is from the Lunagirl digital collage sheet Victorian Christmas. The Christmas birds are from Christmas Birds & Holly.

VICKI ROMAINE created these two cards with a straw background ... the first one, which is a "gate" card with the image attached to the left side of the gate, is for our Holiday Children theme. But I've included the second one (a stand-up card) to show how she created two entirely different-looking cards with the same supplies! (The vintage images are from Lunagirl Thanksgiving digital collage sheet.)

Here is a pretty ATC by MANDY CHILVERS :-)
using a little girl image from from the Lunagirl digital collage sheet Victorian Christmas.

Challenge Winner: Asian Art & Ephemera

We have a winner of the random drawing in my Asian Art & Ephemera challenge -- this beautiful card by CG.

Congrats to CG, and thanks to everyone who played. CG please email me to claim your $10 credit for shopping at Lunagirl.com!

Be sure to come back tomorrow (Monday November 24) for the start of my next challenge. The new theme will be HOLIDAY CHILDREN. Yes, it is that time! The Design Team will be showcasing some Lunagirl images of Thanksgiving and Christmas children, and I hope you will join in. Thanks to everyone -- please spread the word about my challenges!

Still Time! Remember to Enter the Challenge

Tag by MANDY CHILVERS

This little lady is here to remind you to enter my current blog challenge: The theme is Asian Art & Ephemera.

Don't miss your chance to win $10 shopping credit at Lunagirl.com! The winner will be chosen by random drawing on Sunday, so everyone has a great chance to win. You can share up to three pieces, and if you use at least one Lunagirl images you get entered twice for that piece!

I have all my Geisha, Japanese, Chinese, and other Asian-themed images on sale just for you (click here to get the discount code).

Enjoy this elegant and playful tag by Many Chilvers, and be sure to scroll down to see more inspiration from the Design Team and all the pretty entries so far.

Secret Sale on Asian Images for Blog Readers!

To nudge you to enter my Asian Art and Ephemera theme challenge, I'm having a secret sale just for y'all!

We have five entries from two artists in the challenge so far. And lovely they are, thank you Corinne Marie and WendyLynn! (And the works from the DT, wow as usual!)

But we need to see more! So visit my Asian/Geisha page and find some images that inspire your creativity, and then at checkout use discount code ASIAN and get your order for HALF OFF! The discount is good on all my Asian/Geisha-themed collage sheets and even my Japanese Art CD. Combine them with some flowers, perhaps? whatever you like, just let us see your creation. Challenge ends on Sunday at noon CST.

Asian Art & Ephemera Challenge: Second Week!

It's the second week for my blog challenge with a vintage asian theme, and as always we get to enjoy some more fabulous inspiration from the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team.

Both are using images from my Geisha/Asian collage sheets.

Don't miss your chance to link up your own creation using some Asian art & ephemera!

I'll do a random drawing on Sunday, and the lucky drawing winner will win $10 credit to spend on some images or digital collage sheets at Lunagirl.com. It could be you! :-)

By VICKI ROMAINE

By MICHELE STORMS

Tutorial to Share: Making an Altoid's Tin Book

I collect craft tutorials on my pinterest page and like to share them here from time to time. Here is a particularly nice one by Laura Carson on her Gingersnap Creations blog. Laura has created a wonderfully detailed explanation for making a charming altered book with an altoid tin. If you're like me (and my husband) you always a supply of those great little tins lying around! They're too cute and useful to through away, but you need a creative way to alter them.

Laura's supply list includes ephemera and vintage images ... you know where to find those! (brazen hint: Lunagirl.com)  This project could easily be adapted to other altered tin ideas... a box or any kind of container rather than a book, a tiny shrine, etc.  Here's the link to the original tutorial:

Gingersnap Creations: Laura Carson: Making an Altoid's Tin Book: In this tutorial I’ll walk you through creating a vintage Altoid’s Tin book using chipboard and two Altoid’s tins.

Challenge Theme: ASIAN ART & EPHEMERA

Here's my new challenge theme, which starts today and continues until November 23:

Asian Art and Ephemera

I'm very fond of Japanese antique landscapes, nature prints, geisha drawings and prints, and vintage photos. I've collected a few hundred for you on my Japanese Prints & Photos CD and also on several Geisha and Asian-themed digital collage sheets which you can see here.

I'm more familiar with Japanese imagery but I also love art and ephemera from China, India, etc. I don't have as much available as I should, but I do have a digital collage sheet featuring my collection of authentic retro Chinese firecracker labels, which are pretty great... and another with some vintage Asian paper money.

I chose the make it art plus ephemera in order in include everything: the beautiful landscapes and prints of animals and birds and flowers, the wonderful geisha art that is very popular, plus vintage photographs, asian patterned papers, asian scripts and calligraphy, any kind of ephemera.

So please get busy creating and join in! Here are the challenge guidelines:
Here are the guidelines for the challenge:

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 November 23.

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. 

And don't miss the creations of my Design Team below, for your enjoyment and inspiration!

An InLinkz Link-up

LUNAGIRL MOONBEAMS DESIGN TEAM

I can't imagine a better way to start this theme than this gorgeous card by MICHELE STORMS, which uses some beautiful Asian-inspired papers and embellishments with an elegant lady from my first Geisha collage sheet.

VICKI ROMAINE inspired this challenge theme, and she inspires again with this beautiful card!
I like that cut-out flower behind the geisha, and how she outlined the geisha in black. Nice ephemera background too!

Here's a wonderful journal page created by MANDY CHILVERS.
She used images from my Chinese Labels collage sheet, and I love how she used the azalea blossoms as well.

Winner of Music & Dance Challenge: Corinne Marie

Entry #3, a gorgeous digital collage by Corinne Marie is the winner of the random drawing for my Music & Dance themed challenge.

Click on this thumbnail to see the full size image on her Flickr page -- it's amazing! Brilliant reds and golds and lovely collage work in the background.

Congrats and thanks to everyone who entered -- come back for our next challenge -- the theme will be Asian Art & Ephemera.

Fabulous Dancers in Fabulous Hats

This tag really brings a smile to my face... it could be the pretty bright pink color, or the fun designs printed in the background, or that fabulous vintage dancing couple... but I'm pretty sure it's those hats!! Yes!!

Thanks to Mandy Chilvers for another great DT sample piece!

Be sure to join my Music and Dance challenge!

More from the Design Team... Gypsy Girl

Don't be sad -- you still have plenty of time to join my Music and Dance challenge!

This lovely little gypsy girl is here to be your muse. Design Team member Mandy Chilvers created this gorgeous ATC. Such a sad sweet face... but I love the brilliant deep red of the flowers Mandy added, and the bright red and green of her headscarf.

Visit the challenge page to see more inspiration and link up your own music/dance inspired creations. The drawing is on Sunday, and you might win some Lunagirl store credit!

Music and Dance Challenge: Second Week!

Silvery Moon tag by Michele Storms

My Music & Dance challenge theme continues all this week.  Be sure to check out the lovely entries so far and add your own!

Here is more magical inspiration from the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team...
There's a full moon coming up in a couple of days... let the light of the silvery moon inspire your creativity! Show us the music and dance in your soul :-)

Vicki Romaine:
"I created two altered playing cards for this challenge.  I used designer paper for my background.  After using the LG images which I fussy cut, I added some scroll stickers and some metal musical embellishments from my stash."