Happy New Year!

Thanks to Barb Speck for the use of her image.


Happy 2012!

As the New Year dawns, we all look forward
to what a brand new year can bring.

No matter what happened in 2011,
good or bad, we look to a fresh beginning.

At least that's what you're supposed
to believe as the ball drops.

For most of us, we look forward to
building on the foundations we've laid
in the past year or years. We strive to
continue on a good path, to keep reaching
for our goals and to share happiness with
as many others as we can.
Why would you want to wipe everything
out and start from scratch?

At MoonlightJourney, Becky & Lynne
are grateful for the past year. The business
has grown quite a bit and we have more
customers than ever. Most of our customers
feel like family since they buy from us so often.

Our Design Team is one of the best around -
give them an image to work with and they
amaze us every time. We try to offer
collage sheets and other artistic goodies
that you can't find anywhere else.

MoonlightJourney prides itself on giving you
more than your money's worth. We don't use
one image and just make it different sizes
on a collage sheet. You get different images,
artistically altered images to launch your
imagination into the stratosphere.

So here's to the upcoming New Year...
may we all have jobs that we love, a roof
over our heads, enough food on the table
and friends & family to love.

~ Becky & Lynne

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

May all your wishes come true

during this magical time.

May you have Faith and Love,

Companionship & Family.

May you see the brightest star

in the sky and know that

it shines for all living things.

May you know the true meaning of

Christmas, strive for peace on earth

and share what you have with others.

Only then will the magic of Christmas

be something you live all year long.

New Collage Sheet

I had a lot of fun creating this sheet.
I had it in my head for a while but didn't
have the time needed to actually do it.
Then last week, I was stricken by the
flu and didn't have the energy to do more
than sit in front of the computer.
Despite putting my head down on my desk
from time to time, I'm pretty pleased with it!

Thank You For A Wonderful Sale!

Thank You!

Our latest (and probably last for 2011)

sale was awesome, thanks to all of

our wonderful customers!

Becky & Lynne wish you many

happy hours creating beautiful art

with the things you bought from us!

CYBER SALE - collage sheets and more!

CYBER MONDAY/TUESDAY SALE

OF EVERY SINGLE THING ON

MOONLIGHTJOURNEY!

Don't miss this one!

We have the following items

on special sale today & tomorrow:

Collage Sheets

Digital Elements Packs

Craft Projects

Single Images

Photoshop Classes

Other e-classes

Please go to our homepage

at MoonlightJourney and read

about this sale - you'll be

dazzeled & inspired!

Please tell your artsy friends

about us - we'd appreciate it!

Happy Creating!

Special Sales

Sales Abound!

Today through Tuesday, you can get

25% off at my Etsy store!

Everything that's in my store will

qualify if you use the coupon code

MONDAYMAGIC

when you go to checkout.

Have fun shopping!

Happy Black Friday!

Becky & Lynne both hope you had
a lovely Thanksgiving & are getting
ready to shop, shop, shop!
Look for our newsletter on
Cyber Monday for a spectacular
sale at MoonlightJourney.

You don't get our newsletter?
Just sign up in the box on the
right hand side of this page.

You can also Like us at Facebook
and see all the wonderful art
created by our Design Team
as it comes to us. Our Ladies
are the best artists around!

New At MoonlightJourney!

Tis Getting To Be The Season!

We have 2 new items at MoonlightJourney

just in time for your to begin your Holiday crafting.

The upper one is a collage sheet for your ATCs which

would also work for gift, hang or jewelry cards.

You can find it on the Backgrounds page.

The lower one is a craft project kit. You get

all the sheets you need to print out and then assemble

these two beauties for your decorations or gift-giving.

The project can be found on the Craft Projects page.

WELCOME NEW DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS!

MoonlightJourney is so happy to have new Designers

on board with us. These Ladies are truly creative and

join our "already with us" Team Members who have

given us such wonderful art in the last two years.

Be prepared to be inspired by:

Ruth - Altered Art

Terri - Jewelry

Georgia - Jewelry & Mixed Media

Joane - Jewelry

Let them have a bit of time to settle in.

In the meantime, visit us to view the many

pages of our Designers inspirational art!



We're Famous Again!

We're happy to say that our good friend
Dana is at it again! She has featured
MoonlightJourney
on one of her wonderful blogs,
BookGirlKnitting

Dana is so kind, so creative & so much
fun to work with! Becky & I are lucky
to have found a Soul Sister in her!

In case you haven't checked Dana's other
blog lately, one of her lucky readers won
our giveaway for Halloween. Four collage
sheets will go to Ann who is over the moon
with joy that she won.

Stop by Dana's blogs anytime - you'll
be amazed at all the info, creativity
and downright fun she shares!

Welcome New Design Team Members!

Becky and I so appreciate your applications

to be on our design team. We had an

overwhelming response to this call...

so many designers applied!

It was a very hard decison as each person's

artwork was so unique. In the end we

choose 3 people not just one in diffrent

venues which will be good advertising

for them and also for us.

To those whom we did not choose....

Your artwork was splendid and we hated

to say no to you or any one else.

Thank you again for all who answered the call!

We hope you go far with your beautiful designs!

Our new Design Team members are:
Terri Garr - Jewelry 
Georgia Lichon - Jewelry
Joane Duran - Jewelry
Ruth Hodgson - Collage Art

Ruth is also a new member and has been a

great customer for years. We didn't forget you
Sweet Ruth, your page just hasn't been created yet!

Since Lynne is so far behind on everything, please

allow her the time to get the new member's pages

ready to view on MoonlightJourney.

She's treading water as fast as she can!

We will post links to their work as soon

as the pages are ready to view.

Thank you again and XXX to All

Lynne & Becky

New At MoonlightJourney

Put Down That Snickers Bar!!

Now that Halloween is a fun

memory, we're in Christmas mode at

MoonlightJourney!

Come visit us, sign up for our newsletter,

Like us on Facebook & get inspired!!

Make this a "handmade with love"

holiday - you'll be glad you did!

A Very Spooky Honor (And A Giveaway!)

MoonlightJourney

is so honored to be featured on the

blogs, facebook page & Twitter of

Dana Wright.

Take some time to wander through her blogs

and you'll be so ready for Halloween.

Dana has posted a way that you could win

four collage sheets of your choice from

MoonlightJourney

so visit her spooky world very soon.

On The Broomstick

Zombie Girl Shambling

THANK YOU DANA!!

Trick Or Treat? You Decide!

Let The Haunting Begin!

No need to dress up

And go door-to-door

Here's a treat for you

Need you ask for more?

A 5 x7 inch image just for you

for being such deliciously spooky 

fans of MoonlightJourney.

Click on the photo and save the

larger image to your computer.

You are allowed to use the image

any way you wish, including

creating items to sell.

Happy Halloween!



New Collage Sheet & New Digi Pack

There's some cool new stuff at MoonlightJourney!

The collage sheet above is included in our big
BOGO sale so not only can you get this sheet
but if you buy it, you can get another one of
your choice for FREE! Our sale goes on until
October 15 and any collage sheet qualifies!

In addition, there's a new digi pack:
Divas Of Grunge
This pack contains 19 very grunged
Ladies for all of your grungy art!

Come see us at MoonlightJourney
and GET YOUR ART ON!!!!

Free Halloween iPad Homescreen For You!

As some of you know, the last few weeks have been very

difficult around my neck of the woods. For some reason,

Mother Nature has gone to extremes to make life interesting.

 I'm happy to report that my basement is finally dry and

the task of storm clean-up is under way!

I felt that it would be nice to give my fellow iPad

users something fun for their Homepage Screen.

Believe me, if it weren't for my iPad, I would

have lost my mind sitting in the dark trying

to read a book by flashlight!

Here are the steps to get it into your device:
Open your iPad & navigate to this blog.
Click on the photo above to make it larger.
Tap & hold your finger on the image.
A dialog comes up so select SAVE IMAGE.

Then go to SETTINGS on your first page.
Go to BRIGHTNESS & WALLPAPER
Go to CAMERA ROLL
Choose the image tap SET AS
HOMESCREEN

Of course, you can save the image to
the computer you're on now and sync it
the next time you sync your iPad

Have spooky fun with it!

- Your friends at MoonlightJourney

New Sheets - Oooooh Spooky!

Two New Spooky Collage Sheets!

It's getting that time to begin all of your

Halloween preparations even if it is

100 degrees where you live.

Don't wait until the last minute

to begin your ghostly creativity!

We have so may collage sheets

and digital packs at MoonlightJourney

that are Halloween & Gothic themed.

I dare say that we have the most

wonderfully witchy collection

on the entire web so come see

what we have to inspire you!

New Collage Sheets

It seems that the only creative time I have lately

is in the evening when I'm playing with my iPad.

The two collage sheets that are pictured above

were created on the iPad, transfered to my computer

and finished off in Photoshop. You can have a lot

of fun if you put your mind to it and learn the

new gizmo as fast as possible!!

On the iPad, I used Photo Booth to take pictures

of my wood floor, the gravel driveway, the

side of the house and anything else that had an

interesting texture to it. The photos were saved

in Camera Roll (in case you don't know where

they get saved to - LOL!)

Then I used an app called PicGrunger (.99 cents)

to make the photos grungy. I also found a great

app to get the photos from the iPad to my computer

without using the sync wire thingy. It's called

PhotoSync and it's the best $1.99 I ever spent.

It comes in 2 parts: the app for the iPad and

a download application that goes on your

computer. You can transfer images back & forth

among all sorts of devices - wirelessly!

Ah... isn't technology a wonderful thing?

These sheets can be found at MoonlightJourney

on the $2 Specials page.



Free iPad Wallpaper For You!

I've been away from blogging to take care
of family & doggy matters so I thought
I'd try my hand at creating a Wallpaper
for all you iPad users out there.

I hope you enjoy looking at this as
your home screen as much as I
enjoyed creating it in the first place!

Here are the steps to get it into your device:
Open your iPad & navigate to this blog.
Click on the photo above to make it larger.
Tap & hold your finger on the image.
A dialog comes up so select SAVE IMAGE.

Then go to SETTINGS on your first page.
Go to BRIGHTNESS & WALLPAPER
Go to CAMERA ROLL
Choose the image & tap SET AS
HOMESCREEN

Of course, you can save the image to
the computer you're on now and sync it
the next time you sync your iPad

Have fun with it!

New Collage Sheet For Charms

We get requests from time to time to make
special size or special subject collage sheets
so here is something for the jewelry makers.

The circles are 1.25 inches in diameter and
they'd be perfect for making charms for
charm bracelets.

All the images are of vintage children and I
spent quite a bit of time fixing up the images
so they'd look their very best for you!

You can see this collage sheet at
MoonlightJourney along with over
300 other collage sheets. We also have
digital elements packs, craft projects,
and instructional classes.

I'm Back! I'm Thrilled To Be Here!!

After 7 days with no phone and 6 days

without internet, I'm pleased as can be

to be back with you all!!

While I was incommunicado, I made

some new collage sheets which you

can see at MoonlightJourney.

New Collage Sheets!

There are four new collage sheets on
MoonlightJourney this week.
These are the ones that I (Lynne)
created. Yes, the one above is a bit
of a departure for me but
they are so pretty.

The one below is more my style!
Becky (my friend & partner at MJ)
has 2 new sheets as well and they
are all on our website right now.

We're still fund-raising for the
Red Cross of Central Oklahoma
to aid the tornado victims near
Becky's home. Please stop by
our site and learn more about it.

We're delighted to let you know about
a wonderful art challenge that's hosted
by our friend Vicki at The Cheerful Stamper.

Her challenge is for you to create art
with the theme "Things With Wings."

So get out your scissors & glue or fire up
your graphics program and join in the fun.

MoonlightJourney is a very proud sponsor
of this challenge & we're touched that
Vicki gives of her time and talent to
promote the creativity in us all!

Helping Those In Need

During June we are donating to a special
project near to Becky’s heart.
Terrible tornados touched down near her home
causing great devastation for 60 miles,
nearly ½ mile to 1 mile wide through that whole area.

 
The American Red Cross of Central Oklahoma
is helping all of the families touched by this tragedy.
For every sheet sold through the month
of June, we will donate $1.00 to the
American Red Cross of Central Oklahoma
Dept. No.96-0397
Oklahoma City, OK 73196
to help with clean up and the personal needs
of the families devastated by the tornado
of May 24th 2011.

(For an up-close look at the destruction, please
visit Becky's Blog)
That means if you buy 1 sheet we donate $1.00,
5 sheets $5.00, 10 sheets $10.00 so on and so forth.
You'll only be charged the price of the collage sheet;
the $1 donation will come from our profits.

We will be putting a running tally on

MoonlightJourney

so you can see how much we will be
donating to the Red Cross on July 1st.



Thank You

To those who served so we might enjoy

all the good things that America is...

THANK YOU!



Vintage Men! Photoshop Brushes Digital Pack

It's raining MEN at MoonlightJourney!

You can never have too many men for your
artwork. Put a silly hat on 'em, put 'em on
a giraffe - put them anywhere you want!

This digital pack features 12 vintage guys
in both Photoshop brush (abr) files AND
in .png files with transparant backgrounds
that you can use in any photo editing program.

We have lots of new stuff on MoonlightJourney
and besides these men that I created, Becky
has 3 new collage sheets which have different
styles of cupcake wrappers. Make your party
unique & oh so fabulous with Fleur, Faerie or
Steampunk cupcake wrappers!!

Two New Collage Sheets

Father's Day will be here in the blink of an eye

so make something  nice for the man in your life!

MoonlightJourney is one of the best sites to find

images of men. Most collage sheet artists use every

beautiful thing there is, but very few men are found

that you can use in your masculine art.

Come browse through our pages - we have 300+

collage sheets, digital items, classes & craft projects.

There's sure to be something there to spark your creativity!!

Challenge Winner!

We're so happy to announce that Karin M.
was the winner of the challenge that we
sponsored last month at Vickie's Blog.

Karin was able to choose 4 collage sheets
at MoonlightJourney as her prize & she
was delighted not only that she won, but
now she has more goodies to use
for the next challenge.

We'll be sponsoring the next Challenge
on June 13, so go to Vickie's Blog to
enter your own creation!

The theme will be "Things With Wings"
so get ready for some creative fun!!

Collage Sheet BOGO SALE begins today!!

Artwork by Kelly Burton - all rights reserved -
please do not steal, just enjoy!




In Honor Of Women!
To celebrate our wonderful Mothers
in this beautiful month of May we are going
 to do one of our CRAZY BOGO SALES!!!!
That is right! BUY ONE sheet with a
WOMAN in it and GET 1 sheet
with a WOMAN in it free!
If you buy two, you get two.
If you buy four, you get four.

And so on!

This sale is good from May 1 to May 8 only.

Go to MoonlightJourney for all the sweet details!

Challenge Is Still Going On

The Challenge submissions are coming in
according to our friend Vicki at
The Cheerful Stamper.

The theme of this challenge is
"There Is A Man In My Life."

Thank you to all who are participating;
it's wonderful to see the creativity that
abounds in our cyber-community!

MoonlightJourney is a very proud sponsor
of this challenge & we're touched that
Vicki gives of her time and talent to
promote the creativity in us all!

New Collage Sheets

Just a quick hello to tell you that
we have two new collage sheets
at MoonlightJourney.
One is for Mother's Day that you can
use to actually make something nice for
Mom on her special day. Instructions
are included on how to cut a sheet of
cardstock to make a greeting card then
you can adhere the lovely image to
the card and embellish it if you'd like.
There's also a bookmark that you can
back with pretty paper, punch a hole
in the top and thread with fibers.
Included are some gift tags to complete
your package for Mom.

The second sheet is for all you
Steampunk enthusiasts. They are
ATC backgrounds but you can
use them for hang tags, gift tags
or jewelry cards as well.

If you're not on our newsletter list
just go to the right of this screen
and sign up. Our newest news
will be in your inbox on May 1st!

Take the Challenge!

We're delighted to let you know about
a wonderful art challenge that's hosted
by our friend Vicki at The Cheerful Stamper.

Her challenge is for you to create art
with the theme "There Is A Man In My Life."

So get out your scissors & glue or fire up
your graphics program and join in the fun.

MoonlightJourney is a very proud sponsor
of this challenge & we're touched that
Vicki gives of her time and talent to
promote the creativity in us all!

We're So Honored!!

Moonlight Journey Wins VR500 Award

Moonight Journey Is One of the Top 500 Small Businesses Recognized For High Customer Engagement Rates in Email Marketing

SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2011 – Today Moonlight Journey was recognized by VerticalResponse as a winner in their quarterly customer awards program, the VR500. This awards program highlights the top 500 small business customers that have maintained high email engagement rates – as demonstrated by their average email open and click through rates. To qualify for the awards, customers had to have sent at least four email campaigns in the first quarter of 2011, and mailed to a list size of between 100-500 opt-in subscribers.

We are so honored to recieve this award again. But thanks truly goes to our subscribers. We think they are WONDERFUL!

Our email goes out 1 time a month sometimes more for special events. If you are not a subscriber here is a link - http://p0.vresp.com/JMHJuO to our April Newsletter. If you like it just sign up to the right and look for our next newsletter in your email.
VR 500 Awards:Moonlight Journey Results:
In order to be honored as one of the top 500 small businesses served by VerticalResponse (http://www.verticalresponse.com) in Q1 2011, Moonlight Journey achieved the following results:
· Open rates: 60.88% average
· Click through rates: 33.33% average

“VR500 award honorees such as Moonlight Journey are successfully using compelling email content and consistently meeting subscriber expectations for frequency,” said Janine Popick, CEO of VerticalResponse. “The winners prove that email marketing is being used very effectively to help grow small businesses.”

For details and updates on the VR 500 award program, go to: Verticle Response

Contact
Amber Cleave
vr500@verticalresponse.com

XXX to all and thank you again to our readers!
Becky and Lynne

New Collage Sheet - Witch's Lair



There's only so much time before I need
to create something gothic & now is the time.

This is a gothic arch collage project. Everything
you need to make a really cool gothic arch is
on this sheet. Two sizes of witches, two sizes
of elements. Have a blast & add your own
embellishments too.

You can find this sheet here.

New Collage Sheet ~ Cats!

Many of you who have followed me
know that my "day job" is working
for our local Humane Society.
I'm the PR Director and have been
with the shelter in one capacity or
another for almost 20 years.

I'm always promoting animal welfare
and I don't hesitate to preach the
importance of spaying & neutering
your pets. In fact, if everybody did
the "right thing" when it comes to
their pets, I'd be out of a job.
That wouldn't be a bad thing
because if there's no need for
animal shelters, rescue groups
or municipal pounds that would
mean that all animals are treated
the way they should be.

So my passion for the pets
sometimes shows up in my artwork
and this collage sheet is one example.

All the cats are from our shelter and
I thought it would be fun to make
them look like the sweet treats
that they are. I have to thank my
good friend Marion for the photos.
She volunteers her time every week
to take photos & biographies of the
shelter pets. Then she uploads them to
Petfinder and other online sites plus
she sends them to local newspapers.

Kitty purrs to all the folks who work
so hard for the betterment of animals!

Newsletter Freebie Collage Sheet

Art by Lynne

How can you recieve your free

Spring Collage sheet you may ask...

Just look to the right and sign up for

the MoonlightJourney newsletter

and tomorrow when the

Newsletter comes out the link

to our free sheet will be there!

Hope to be in your inbox tomorrow.

Happy Spring to all!

~ Becky and Lynne

Thinking Spring - two new collage sheets

Here on the East Coast of the US,
we are as far from Spring as can be but
hope springs eternal for better weather.

That doesn't dampen my enthusiasm
for Spring colors so I created the
collage sheet shown above. Lovely
pastel wings for your artsy creations!

You can find that sheet and the
one below at MoonlightJourney.

Thanks For A Great Collage Sheet Sale!!

Thank you to our customers for making our

 recent Collage Sheet sale such a success!

We hope that you spend many

happy hours making art!!

We have a new sheet in our collection...

Nouveau ATC Backgrounds

(pictured above.)

This sheet was created by Lynne

who was inspired by Becky's latest

two sheets with Art Nouveau images.

See our latest additions at

MoonlightJourney.

BOGO Sale of our Collage Sheets is almost OVER

Our BOGO Sale Is Almost GONZO!!

Don't miss your chance to get some good stuff..

Time certainly does fly!

The MoonlightJourney

buy one/get one free collage sheet

sale is almost gone for good.

No matter how many collage sheets you

purchase, you can get an equal number

of collage sheets for NOTHING!!!

Just go to our site & look around...

the sale ends on March 17th.

That's tomorrow :)



BOGO Collage Sheet Sale

No Blarney BOGO Sale!

SALE SALE SALE!

Buy TWO, Get two FREE!

Any & all collage sheets on our site

qualify for Buy two, Get two free.

All you need to do is choose the two sheets

you want to buy and place them in your cart.

Please send us an e-mail with the names of

your two free sheets & we'll send them to you.

Don't put your free sheets into the cart!!

E-Mail Us with your choices.

THIS SALE IS ON OUR COLLAGE SHEETS ONLY.

Digital Packs, Single images & classes
are not eligible for freebies.

If you buy two, you get two.

If you buy four, you get four.

And so on!

This sale is good from

March 1st to March 17 only.

Here are two of our latest

collage sheets on the

Holiday Sheets page: