25 January 2012

Gothic Arch Challenge

This is my entry for the challenge at the Gothic Arch Challenge blog here. The theme is metallic fever and I have made a Gothic Arch Wall Hanging. After looking around the web at images or original Gothic Arches and finding a template on the Gothic Arch site I traced the template onto some metal and then cut  it out. I wanted a circular shape at the top so after some trial and error I traced and cut out the shape I wanted. I used Pebble, Sunshine Yellow and Red Pepper alcohol ink on the metal.
I then created 3 card arches each a little bigger than the next. I used barn door and wild honey distress inks around the edges and then randomly stamped a paper artsy hot pick flower.
I found some images of butterflies on Graphic Fairy and cut them out and coloured with the colours above and spiced marmalade and then mounted them one on top of the other with pads to give some depth. I coloured a dragon fly charm with inks and stamped more butterflies from Tim Holtz and Paper Artsy onto the Graphic Fairy images. I then added the large butterfly at the front of the arch and gave it some metal feelers and two red bling eyes.
Finally I used some Tiny Alphabets from prima to create the title and added an eyelet and chain.


9 comments:

  1. Really love this Sally. So creative.
    Regards Florence x

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  2. Fabulous!...that's one stunning arch... Thanks for playing along.

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  3. Fantastic arch, love the graduated sizes!

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  5. Sorry, I messed up the spelling!

    This is a real WOW! A real metallic arch. Just fabulous work my dear! xx

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  6. Great arch love all the details :-)

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  7. WOW this is truly beautiful with so much detail and an awful lot of creativity. Thank you for supporting Gothic Arches. Lynn ♥

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  8. Wow, that's one beautiful arch - and with some gothic styling.

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  9. Ooooh..a real metallic arch. Great work, I love it.
    Thank you for visiting on my blog.

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