Lunagirl Vintage: New Stuff, Free Stuff, & Fun Stuff — digital images

Inspired by Lunagirl's collection of Victorian botanical prints, available as printable decor on CD and as craft images and unique tags on digital collage sheet, our new theme at the challenge blog is VINTAGE FRUIT & FLOWERS Come join us and share your creativity! Check out the Lunagirl Moonbeams challenge blog.

If you like craft challenges, you need to visit my challenge blog! If you've never entered a blog challenge, here's your chance to have some fun and maybe even win some shopping $$$ to use at Lunagirl.com! LunagirlMoonbeams.com is my challenge blog, where I host creative challenges where you can share your cards, digital art, altered art or mixed media projects, scrapbooking layouts, fabric arts, handmade jewelry... or whatever creative project you can dream up! Every two weeks I start a new challenge with a new theme. It's easy to "link up" a photo of your creation to share, inspired...

So here are some of the newest digital collage sheets I've created for you... featuring honeybees and bumblebees (and bee hives) plus some sweet Victorian Edwardian girls with shamrocks, just in time for spring and Saint Patrick's Day cards and crafts! Ready to download instantly so you can start on your project today!

The second artist that features prominently in our Japanese Prints collection CD is Hiroshige, the last great master of the ukiyo-e tradition. Like the influential Hokusai, Hiroshige departed from the usual ukiyo-e subjects of courtesans and actors. Instead he is remembered for his poetic landscapes and scenes of daily life and natural beauty.Hiroshige was born in 1797, into a family of samurai background. His father was the local fire warden, and upon his father's death Hiroshige became fire warden. He was twelve years old. This position left Hiroshige much free time to practice painting. At age fourteen, he was accepted...

Since I'm having an Asian Art & Ephemera theme for my blog challenge right now, I thought I would give a little background about two of my favorite Japanese artists, featured on our Japanese Prints & Photos CD. The first is Hokusai.

Katsushika Hokusai was a painter and printmaker, best known for his series of woodblock prints called Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. You've probably seen some of these beautiful images, the most famous of which is The Great Wave Off Kanagawa.

Hokusai lived and worked during the late 1700s and early part of the 1800s. His father was probably a mirror-maker for the local shogun. His mother was possibly a concubine.  Hokusai began painting when he was...