Gothic Arch Spring

This fortnight's challenge is Spring at Gothic Arches here. I used a selection of images from Graphics Fairy to create a layered collage, liberal applications of distress stains and created a stylished spring flower by layering up three sections of flower sketched out on yellow paper.

Gothic Arches Challenge Eggs-travaganza

This is my entry for the Gothic Arches Challenge here. We are spending Easter Sunday with friends who have young children and there will be an Easter Egg Hunt. When I saw the challenge I thought this was the perfect opportunity to create an item for the hunt. The images all came from Graphics Fairy (apart from the bird which I drew). I began with the original bird's nest mounted on card and then printed a second nest and glued it on top of the first one. I added seam binding and the pocket for the egg hunt clues was ready.

The cards for the clues for the hunt are printed from Graphics Fairy.

I covered some chipboard in paper for the egg hunt title and tissue and glitter for the dangling eggs. Yellow ricrac at the bottom and pale pink ribbon for the dangling eggs.

Now all I have to do is hide the eggs and write the clues...

Gothic Arch Challenge - late

This is my entry for the Gothic Arch Challenge, If Music Be the Food of Love, a day late as I did not have time to post it yesterday. It's strange but reflects my mood yesterday. I  covered an arch in kitchen roll and then slapped on modelling paste in a rough brick shape. Once dry I painted it red, then white, then a little purple and added some lines...

I was listening to Pink Floyd's "The Wall" when I did this and the lyrics from Comfortably Numb seemed to make sense at that moment, "Hello, Hello, is anybody in there? etc". The Octopode stamp seemed appropriate and I coloured some white ribbon and leaves with alcohol inks.  I'll try to be less bizarre next time....

Gothic Arches Challenge - Bedecked and Beribboned

I made two (was feeling like messing about and too indecisive to choose one tonight) Gothic Arch cards for the Gothic Arch Challenge on the theme of bedecked and beribboned. I know I don't make cards as I am too messy for that but I am challenging myself to get out of my comfort zone and be able to use what I create...I made the first one inspired by Gail Milburn's article in March Craft Stamper p16, she had stamped a Lynn Perella head and then embellished it. I like the fact that the spectacle charm also makes the lady look like she is crying - there was a lot of Glossy Accents being spread around here.

I used pieces of paper from 7 Gypsies and cut them out and altered them. This is a card and I cut an aperature in the middle and then placed a scrap piece of 7 Gypsies acetate in the space and some inked scraps of doilies and seam binding.  I used some lacy ribbon around the bottom of the card and to create a necklace.
The second card is more girly. I spent ages finding dictionary definitions around the idea of ribbons, haberdashery, milliners and adorn and glued these down with a little blue tinted mod podge. I then used cosmic shimmer chalk purple. I was going to spray it but the nozzle clogged so I just painted it on instead. The lovely ladies came from The Vintage Moth. I think it was originally an advertisement for hats. I then added some baking twine or ribbon or bling to each hat and stuck them down. It seemed a little unfinished so I made holes all round the edges and used another piece of bakers twine to sew around the edge. I should really measure or draw lines when I do this as you can see the holes are not perfectly lined up. I wound the twine around the bottom of the card and added a dragonfly charm.

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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.