Grunge, Gothic Arch

Here is a picture of my arch for this weeks challenge on Gothic Arches, the theme is " Grunge ", this has been fun to make as its my first attempt at grunge, certainly will not be my last ! I made this one 5 1/2" tall, a nice size to work with.

I glued photo paper to my card base which was then twisted around in a pool of 3 different colours of alcohol inks to give the background effect, the clock and music stand were cut from an old antiques sale catalogue, the photo of the lady was carefully removed from a cabinet card, ( I was surprised at how easy the photo came away from the backing card) when these were in place I added more ink over the top of them, then scored the arch with a metal comb, not really sure what it is, the circles are added with acrylic paints, black inked edges to finish it off.