Flappers Challenge Second Week!

MICHELE STORMS of artfromthewell.blogspot.com

More inspiration from the Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team! We want you to get inspired and enter the Flappers challenge which continues for another week until next Thursday.

Here are some truly sassy flapper girls featured on cards by Michele and Vicki.

Check out the challenge to see more and join in!

VICKI ROMAINE of cheerfulstamppad.blogspot.com:
"Card background is actually where I cleaned my brayer of acrylic paint and
then used a stencil on top of that."

Free Vintage Photo! Flapper Girl with Daisies

 

Here is an image from a pretty vintage postcard, early 1920s, of a flapper girl with daisies.  I love the flower crown, and the dark lipstick and sultry eyes, as well as the color of this tinted postcard (which I did enhance/alter just a little!) This was from a French "Carte Postale."  Hope you enjoy it! (Click to enlarge and save.)

I know this photo doesn't particularly relate to digital backgrounds, but there is also a lovely blank postcard image a few posts back which makes a great background image!

Two More Days of Gatsby!

You have two more days -- until midnight Sunday night (CST) -- to enter the Gatsby challenge! 

And two more days to grab Vintage Lovers CD or Vintage Women & Men CD at a great price in honor of this challenge!

Gatsby ... by Petra

Here's a handsome fellow ready for the good life, on a stunning card created by Petra Berendsen of Lunagirl Moonbeams Design Team.  I like the masculine background she chose, and all the embellishments make me think of travel and also movies.  The strip of stamps echoes the filmstrips, and even the pattern in the background fits in.  I like the lady blowing him a kiss! Beautiful work, Petra, thanks!

Gatsby Cards by Michele!

Thank you to Michele Storms of my Design Team for two more gorgeous cards inspired by The Great Gatsby and The Roaring Twenties. 

I like how she has enhanced the black and white theme of the photo in the first card.  Just shades of black and grey enhanced by a little pink and burgundy.  Very pretty and classic.  I love the aqua blue in the 1920s image in the second card, and Michele has picked that up beautifully in the papers she chose -- plus added a little bling and some musical notes that go so nicely with the flying birds.

Don't forget you have until Sunday night to enter your project in our Lunagirl Moonbeams blog challenge!

Blog Challenge: The Great Gatsby

Here's the next Lunagirl Moonbeams Blog Challenge theme: The Great Gatsby!

Whether you've read the book and seen the movies, or not, the title brings to mind the fabulousness of the Roaring Twenties:  sassy and sultry flappers, dashingly handsome men, speakeasys and bathtub gin, big dance parties with jazz music, and of course plenty of drama, plenty of romance, and plenty of bling!

The Design Team is starting the theme off right with their gorgeous cards below.  This time they are using images selected from two Lunagirl image CDs:  Vintage Lovers and Vintage Women & Men.  Reflecting that, this time instead of giving away a free collage sheet I'll make the prize a $5 coupon code to use on anything at Lunagirl.com, image CDs or collage sheets or download packs.

This challenge (#5) will end at 11:55 pm on July 14 ~  The winner will be selected randomly (random number generator) to win the $5 discount coupon for Lunagirl.com.  If I get 20 entries for this challenge, I'll draw TWO winners!

Be creative but stick to the theme (obviously) :)
Any craft or medium is OK,
No more than 3 entries from one person in each challenge, and
Please link back to my blog and/or Lunagirl.com on your site if you have one.
 
Of course I love if you use at least one Lunagirl product, but that's not a requirement!
Most important is have fun, get creative, enjoy vintage.

First, here are two cards by Vicki Romaine.  They are very different in color and elements, but both perfectly evoke the Roaring Twenties!

Vicki wrote:
"I placed the image a little off center as I have a row of silver stars going down the right side to balance.  I thought the stars were the perfect embellishment to portray The Great Gatsby movie."

"When I think of the '20s, I think "classy".  Therefore, I tried to make a classy masculine card--very simple, but dramatic.  The images from the CD are even better than the ones on the collage sheets.

The background on this card is the one I bought from you a couple of weeks ago.  Hope you like this."

Here is another gorgeous romantic couple from the Gatsby era, this one featured and enhanced on a card created by Petra Berendsen, who writes:

"The Great Gatsby ... what a movie! I just love the fashion, the wonderful settings and such handsome man (lol) ... isn't the lady just so lucky? This image comes from Lunagirl Vintage Lovers CD. The colours are gorgeous and worked perfectly with some papers I had hidden away for the perfect occasion. I embellished the card with some bling, organza roses, a little frame and a feather."

Last but not least, here is a beautiful card by Michele Storms.  If you look closely, you'll see the sheet music in the background -- perfect for dancers in ecstasy of course, and for a time when music was so important to the young and fabulous.

Thank you, ladies, as always for your inspiration!  You always come up with cards and other creations that showcase the theme so nicely, each in your own unique style.

Readers, show us your vision of 1920s romance and bling ~ enter the Great Gatsby blog challenge!

New Collage Sheet: Paris 1920s Fantasy Showgirls

I love creating collage sheets ~ it's so easy to get inspired.  Here is the latest, just posted a few days ago, created with French postcards from the Casino de Paris featuring flapper showgirls in some pretty wild costumes (and a little nudity -- warning/blush)!  The actual digital collage sheet is designed to print as a full-size sheet, 8.5x11" when printed at 300 dpi (can be resized before printing as needed!)  Get it here.