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

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...

Here's a lovely, easy project from Lark Crafts that offers a fun way to combine autumn leaves with Lunagirl vintage ephemera to create pendants and earrings for holiday gift-giving.Here's a link to the original tutorial:http://larkcrafts.com/craft-your-life/free-pressed-leaf-pendant-project/This would also be great inspiration for creating charms of any kind.. little ones are nice for bookmarks, bag charms, wine charms, etc. And you could use pressed flowers instead of leaves if you like.What would you make? Show me your creations and I would love to share them in my customer gallery!

I've created five new Lunagirl digital collage sheets featuring images of music, musicians, dance, and dancers! This one is perhaps my favorite, just because it turned out so sweet. Eleven lovely ballerinas, women and girls, pose in their dance costumes. Most of them are on pointed toes, maybe that's why it so pretty. I adapted these ladies from Victorian Edwardian era French postcards and photographs, cleaning them up, enhancing the light and color and adding some soft shabby tints. My vintage ballet dancers are available for download today!   Below are two more dance collage sheets -- Bring On...

 See my ever-expanding collection of digital collage sheets to download for Halloween cards and other Fall/Autumn crafts... Harvest Moon, Autumn Leaves, unique witch's apothecary labels, and (my favorite) witches of all sorts young and old pretty and scary! Plus plenty of black cats, cute Victorian Halloween children, spooky photos of Victorian gothic ladies, owls, pumpkins and more... you never know what you'll find lurking in my collection.  And don't miss my download pack of 100 vintage Halloween images!