Gothic Arches theme this Sunday. Great contrasting colours, aren’t they? The background here is left over paint from backgrounds I was painting for my art journalling class. No spare cardstock goes unpainted when I paint – any surface is fair game not to waste paint. The stamps are all handcarved by me and the image [...]
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When I saw that Nancy’s theme this week at Gothic Arches was to be “Risque”, I remembered the Faux Postage Nudes sheet I had from Ten Two Studios and thought they’d make a cute little Gothic Arches booklet. It did prove a bit tricky as I am full of a cold virus at the moment. It just [...]
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Gothic Arches today: “Cities“. I have a great stamp of New York and had this piece stamped from earlier this year, just sitting in a box on my desk. The background is inks over gesso on glossy cardstock… I did struggle to use it as an arch without going OTT with embellishments, so it’s quite [...]
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Gothic Arches – Vintage Toys – this week set by Kristin Long… lovely theme and I found at least 5 different images I could’ve used on The Little Children Collage Sheet at Ten Two Studios. I eventually picked the 3 that were the most colourful for my vintage grunge/shabby arch!
The words are rubons from Scenic [...]
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Gothic Arches this week – “Roses”. I’ve combined a lovely soft Romance Tag from Ten Two Studios with a grungy background and a gothic rose stamp from Home Impressions with a little piece of a broken earring from my collection of junk jewellery. The fabric rose is on a wire stem which I threaded through [...]
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Such a haunting song… it’s driven me mad this morning as I created my Gothic Arch ATC for Nancy’s challenge! I had already cut up one of my Layer Love paintings to make a twinchy-sized book/pendant yesterday, so I cut this ATC from the remains of the same painting.
I used the Gothic Plate of stamps [...]
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Here’s a Gothic Arch I created this morning, fitting the GA challenge “Wings” this week and also TGIF – “alphabet”. The central image (Duchess Doll) is from sheets created by Lisa Vollrath at Ten Two Studios, originally designed for the creation of Ribbon Fairies, which are totally charming. Here’s a link to the complete tutorial on [...]
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“Peace” is this week’s theme at GA and I knew straight away that I wanted to use my “Birdie” stamp in lieu of a dove, to symbolise Peace. I chose some green and silver handmade paper (as I am trying to use all the stash I have laying around…) for the background and all the [...]
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Gothic Arches this week is all about ‘Hearts’ and of course, at Ten Two Studios, you can find the most divine little cherub-filled hearts HERE. One of these faux postage stamps is what I used for this very pink, very fluffy Gothic Arch. I kept it light and soft, because you can’t grunge up cherubs, [...]
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I adore this Cherry Pie image – I always feel so sad for the angel – as do the children in my Gothic Arch! Chriss Rollins chose this week’s GA theme and I had a little time and energy to create a couple of arches this evening (a welcome break from making pins and earrings!) [...]
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