Mother & Child Gothic Arch

Today's theme on gothic arches is Mother and Child, I made my arch on black canvas, I used a cracked ice effect rubber stamp and embossed in bronze for the back ground, the faces of mother and child are stamped onto cream card and raised with foam squares, the word love is cutout separately from a larger stamp, other printed words are from a dictionary, everything is edged in copper ink, I used links and chain to bind mother and child together, metal photo corners to finish it off.

Gothic Arches-----Pink and Brown

The theme on Gothic Arches this week is pink and brown, anything goes as long as you use these two colours, so here is my arch, it is canvas on card, painted with a pink base, I used a sea sponge to dab on a darker pink , both acrylic paints, also used a piece of a torn letter, a scroll with flowers in brown ink, 3 cancelled pink and brown postage stamps, lady image, the roses are a water slide decal that are used on plates cups etc, I cut it out and left it to dry then added it to my arch, brown inked edges to finish.

I am off on holiday today so will look at all of the arches when I get back next Saturday,

Tea Time Gothic Arch

Today the theme on gothic arches is Tea Time, so here is my Tea Time Fairy, this has been a great theme and I loved making this arch, hope that you like it,
The background is a mix of 3 alcohol inks on photo paper, flowers and scrolls are stamped, the little boy image is from Lisa's Altered Art, I added the butterfly wings, the teacup is from a rubber stamp, which I cut a slit into so that my fairy is standing in the cup, printed words and edged in black to finish.

Hearts Arch

Here is my " Hearts " arch for this weeks challenge over on the Gothic Arch site, the background is done with inks, pearl acrylic paints over sequin waste, stamped scrolls and words, the girl with her dog is also stamped and coloured with water colours and twinkling H20's, the hearts are punched from pearl paper.

Gypsy Gothic Arch

The theme on gothic arches this week is Gypsies, so here is a picture of the one that I have made, thought that I would go for black and white for a change, then could not find my black accent beads, so had to use the ones shown, silver with a few colours mixed in, the little music sheet is for a song called "Gypsy Love Song " I hope that you like this one !

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.

Gothic arch " Celebrate "

Here is my " Celebrate " gothic arch for this weeks challenge, it has a pale paper back ground that I stamped all over with a "cracked ice" stamp in sepia, I then painted the top and left hand side with 3 different metalic paints, this is over stamped with a flourish in Chestnut ink, the beautiful girl is from a free collage sheet at Digital Collage Sheets.com, I inked the word celebrate in black and then stamped into hot sealing wax, a little sheer ribbon and paper flower to finish !!!

Gothic arch " Silhouette "

I am determined to get ahead with my challenges this week, I have surprised myself by finishing my Gothic arch today instead of leaving things to the last minute, and then finding out that I am too late for the deadline, the theme for this week is " Silhouette ", which has been a great theme to work with, I stamped leaves onto the back ground along with the grasses and birds, the fairy, lamppost and bird were all stamped onto paper and then cut out and pasted into place, the edges are inked to finish off. I am happy with the way this has turned out !

My " Buttons " Gothic Arch

Hi, well after making such a stupid mistake about what days things have to be posted in challenge sites by, I thought that I had better get my "Buttons" gothic arch posted today in case that goes wrong as well !

I had a great time making this arch, it's 5 1/2" tall which is the tallest I have made so far for the challenge site, the background is from a scrapbook paper, with inked edges, the pattern piece is stamped on tissue paper, the little buttons in the right hand corner are also stamped to tissue, the piece with the lady is taken from a dress pattern packet that is many, many years old. stamped words, lace, and the scissors are brads and of course the Buttons to finish off this arch.

I am very surprised at the brads that you can buy these days it seems to be anything and everything is turned in to a brad, which is great !

Vintage Children for the Gothic arch challenge

Well today I have tried something new, well it's new for me, I have done my gothic arch challenge piece on canvas, I bought this especially for this arch, which I have thoroughly enjoyed making, I used a mix of 3 different coloured acrylic paints, ended up getting myself in a right mess, there was paint everywhere, still I suppose that is part of the fun ! once the paint was dry I stamped it with floral flourishes, the piece of printed paper at the top comes from a reprint book called " The School of Manners or Rules for Childrens Behaviour " which was first printed in 1701 and the original book is in the library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, its a great little book, certainly comes from the days that children were to be seen and not heard, the spelling was confusing when I first read it as they seem to have written some of the S 's in the shape of an f, still it was very interesting.

I also added cut out paper roses and lace, the picture of the children is from my collection which I printed onto photo paper, the printed paper at the bottom is from a book called " The Ode to Life "" this is a damaged first edition book that I got in a second hand shop for 20pence, someone has written inside the front cover, Easter Tide 1880 and signed it, this was published in the mid 1870s, I just love a bargain!

The second picture shows the inside page of this great little book

Gothic Arches, Wee Witch

I have joined the Gothic Arches challenge site, this is my first posting since joining what looks like a great challenge site,

This weeks theme is " Wee Witches " so here is a picture of the one that I have made, the background is watercolour paper on card, gold leafing pen resist technique, overpainted with orange, stamped scrolls, picture's of witch and cat are from Lisa's Altered Art, black braid, words and witch spell book from my goodies, I hope that you like it !

Gothic Arches

Here are a couple of arches that I have made. one is atc size and the other is about 5 1/2" tall, loved making these arches, I hope to join the Gothic Arches challenge site, I think this will be great fun, I live in hope that it will make me spend more time doing rather than thinking about doing, I seem to spend hours planning, getting things ready but not getting very far with the construction,
This might just be the push that I need, I hope so ! !