Gothic Arches – Tags February 6, 2009

The Gothic Arches challenge this week is Tags! I have a grand collection of Tags that I don’t often use, so this was the chance to get them all out. Having said that, I only ended up using one tag… all the rest are waiting to be put away.

Gothic Arch - Tags

The background is blue card with Blockheads text and Collections swirl in Brilliance silver ink. Tag is a blue shipping tag. Da Vinci faux postage stamp by Ten Two Studios. Imagine faux postage stamp by Collections. Plus a few rub-ons and fibres.

Happy creating,

Michelle

Gothic Arches – Gypsies January 25, 2009

Gypsies is the theme this week for the Gothic Arch challenge. This made me think of faded, rich velvets, gold coins and fortune tellers. So here is my gypsy, being watched over, daring to look into her own future.

Arch_Enchantment

The background was made with the credit card painting technique. Stamped in Brilliance Galaxy Gold was the harlequin stamp (Stylish Images) and the grunge lace (Boutique Grunge, by See-D). Stamped in Brilliance Graphite Black was the eyes (Sunday International) and “Enchantment” (Eclectic Images). The black paper lace border is by “Simply Borders”. The gold coins on the chain is a necklace I’ve had for a very long time and actually found it when I was looking for it. I was excited as I think it makes the piece.

Happy creating,

Michelle

Gothic Arches – Grunge January 17, 2009

The year has started grunge, with Gothic Arches. My research for this topic took me to Wiki, where I was informed that Grunge music includes the likes of Pearl Jam and Nirvana (cool).  The look includes torn jeans and more of an attitude than look. And you can only be grunge by not being grunge – or something like that! So here is my (non) grunge piece:

Gothic_Arch_Grunge

Background painted with walnut ink, flourish stamps from Boutique Grunge set by See D’s (stamped in Adirondak Espresso), lettering and clock face by Collections. Wings from Grungeboard. French script stamp by Stamp Oasis, with Sepis ink. A little gold paint also added.

I had lots of fun making this. The arch size is a great format and my ideas seem to flow really well around the space.

Happy creating,

Michelle

Gothic Arches – Vintage Children November 7, 2008

This week I have joined a new challenge site – Gothic Arches. Their challenge is theme Vintage Children for this week.

Gothic Arches - Vintage Children

I created my own arch and cut it out with my new Pazzles cutter, which I also used to make the “ballet” lettering and the ballerina. The ballerina image came from Karen Whimsy’s fantastic image site. The vintage girl image is from the Collage Images group on Flickr – certainly worth joining if you are always after images.

Swirls stamps are part of the Nightingale set, from See-D’s (stamped in Brilliance Black and Galaxy Gold inks)  and the music stamp is from Stamp-It (stamped in Brilliance Pearlescent Ivy). The white images are from a Collections plate.

Happy Creating,

Michelle