Joyeux Noel: New Digital Collage Sheets

Here is the last post of new digital collage sheets with vintage European Christmas cards. These are more French holiday postcards... Beautiful angels, some nativity scenes, Christmas children, and of course Santa Claus! The last sheet here is created with antique photo postcards ~ a little girl and a little angel with their vintage Christmas trees, playful children to wish you joyful NOEL, and even a romantic couple in Victorian / Edwardian dress.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I enjoyed creating them! And I hope you'll go see these and all of my Christmas / Winter / and New Year images and digital collage sheets at Lunagirl.com.

Vintage European Christmas Cards, New!

Continuing to share the new digital collage sheets I've created using vintage Christmas cards I've collected. Most of what I have are French and German, but here are some from other countries. Dutch Santa Claus on a snowy night, Czech holiday cards featuring sweet angels and children, Scandinavian Christmas cards with greetings in Danish and Swedish, and serene vintage Christmas greetings in Italian (with mostly religious themes).   Available for download at Lunagirl.com.

Vive Saint Nicolas!

And here are two more new digital collage sheets created with vintage Christmas cards from Europe. These celebrate Saint Nick... The first is all vintage French postcards depicting St. Nicolas in the colorful coat and "Santa Claus hat" ... the second collage sheet is created with two French cards and two Dutch cards, each greeting St. Nicolas / St. Nikolaas in his traditional bishop's hat and religious robes. More to come! Find everything at Lunagirl.com :-)

New Collage Sheets: Vintage French Santa Claus

Here are two more of my newly created digital collage sheets for this Christmas season. These feature French cards celebrating Santa Claus ... Pere Noel ... St. Nicholas ... Joyeux Noel! All available at Lunagirl.com.

Weihnacten: New Collage Sheets German Christmas

Just before Thanksgiving, I received a request for a digital collage sheet of Christmas cards from different countries. Looking through all my vintage holiday collections, I found I had many more vintage European Christmas cards than I remembered.

I ended up creating 15 new collage sheets, with greetings in French, German, Dutch, Czech, Italian, Danish and Swedish, featuring vintage Saint Nicholas, angels, children, and more. Lots of Santa Claus cards!

I'm going to share all of these over the next few days... Here to start are four collage sheets created with lovely vintage German Christmas cards: Weihnachten is the celebration of Christmas Eve in German-speaking countries. You'll find all at Lunagirl.com!

Artist Trading Coins

You've heard of Artist Trading Cards, and inchies and twinchies and moos and more. Well, now have you heard of Artist Trading COINS? These are fun, shareable, little altered art / mixed media creations on 2.5-inch circles.

The round/circular shape is a subtle shift in how you think about design. And something new is always a nice inspiration.

I've finally got around to creating a few new digital collage sheets with 2.5" circles. These are perfect for Artist Trading Coins, as well as pocket mirrors, coasters, etc. And of course you can also use them in any kind of project ~ fun for altered books and boxes, scrapbooking, etc. 

See 'em all at Lunagirl.com! More to come (and I'm glad to take requests!)

Artful Gathering Online Art Retreat 2018: Share the Spirit

Workshop registration is now OPEN for Artful Gathering's 8th annual online summer art retreat! This year's theme is everything Southwestern/Western/Cowboy/Cowgirls/NativeAmerican. So many amazing workshops ~ from painting and journals to jewelry and ceramics and doll-making and textiles/fabric arts ~ it's fun just to browse the workshops. So much beauty and inspiration.... You can sign up for workshops and also enjoy a video hop, prizes, tutorials, chatting... Session One workshops begin June 6!

To celebrate the grand opening day for Artful Gathering 2018, registered attendees will receive access to a three-part video tutorial "Western Girl Leather Bracelets" ~ how to create leather bracelets using mixed media and free style painting :-)

More Steampunk!

Michele Storms Art From The Well

See you over at the challenge!

Steampunk Challenge at Crafting By Designs

Come play over at CRAFTING BY DESIGNS! The theme this week is Steampunk, and you know Lunagirl has lots of great steampunk images to play with. The CBD Design Team used my "Steampunk Girls Ready for Adventure" collage sheet for inspiration, and came up with some fun and beautiful creations. Go check it out, and link up your own!

Below are Michele's gorgeous contributions Art From The Well
See you over at the challenge!

Do you like coloring pages? And vintage images?

Wow, pages and pages of coloring sheets created from antique artwork and ephemera! From February 5-9, 2018, libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions around the world are sharing free coloring sheets and books based on materials in their collections. #ColorOurCollections

http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/

Celebrate in February

February means Valentine's Day AND African-American history month... So isn't this perfect?

Michele Storms is a very inspired and very busy lady... She has kindly shared these new creations using images from the newly expanded collection of African-American images from Lunagirl.

I love the combination of silver snowflake and silver heart doily she used... and of course the lovely vintage Paris image.

The one below is a digital piece called "Old Fashioned Girl." It reminds me of old letters and the sweet sadness of time passing.

Share your work celebrating February!

Happy Groundhog Day

Yellow Roses to brighten your day

The other day in the grocery store there was a bunch of yellow roses discounted at the floral counter... couldn't resist them. They brighten up these dreary days of January. So here are some to share with you! (Freebie!)

All you need is Love

Thanks to Michele for these sweet tags featuring images from the "new expanded" African-American vintage photos collection! The theme is Love... and don't we all need that message these days. Michele does beautiful work.