Monday, September 15, 2008

Gothic Arch Challenge - Time


The minute I saw the theme for the Gothic Arch challenge I knew exactly what I would make! I'm still obsessing over Halloween - I love the colors, the images, everything about it. For this piece I glued various papers to my cardstock base and inked with Distress and Adirondack inks. I believe there was some heavy duty sanding done somewhere in the process....I didn't like how dark the text was. I stamped the background with my all-time favorite stamp from Oxford Impressions' April in Paris sheet. The clock face is a scan of one from my personal junk collection. I love how well the woman (again from the OI Paris sheet) stamped! She is such a gorgeous image. To finish it all off I trimmed the edges with black French Border from RockCandy Studios.

Here is the clock image if you'd like to use it in your art.

21 comments:

  1. Fabulous arch and thanks for the freebie!

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  2. wow..this is awesome work !
    Rhank you so much for the clock x

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  3. Oh, glorious is really the only word for this arch. Love the image of the woman and must dig out this sheet as I know I've got it somewhere! You've done a wonderful job with it!

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  4. Stunning arch, absolutely fantastic

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  5. great arch,I did not beleive the lady was stamped,looks like an image,what a great stamp,the lady is beautiful. thanks for the clock.

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  6. This is absolutely fantastic! I've been checking out all your Halloween art on your blog and am just in love with it! What a great style.

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  7. Wow, Shelly you have composed such a beautiful arch! Love the rich coloured background and the contrast of the image!
    Thanks for the clock!
    JudyNZ

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  8. love how you used the clock and the images and think it's cool you offered the freebie

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  9. Beautiful gothic Arch Shelley...and thanks for the clock image..
    connie paxman

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  10. Beautiful arch and thank you for the clock..

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  11. i think that it is all the great halloween stamps that we have been given to work that makes halloween fun to do..also the weather today has that fall feeling

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  12. WOW, this is really cool. Love the colors and the hat!!! Thank you for playing, your arch is fab!

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  13. Stunning arch, gotgeos colours and fabulous image!!

    Thank you for the clock face. Love it.

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  14. wow.. this is awesome work!!!!
    love the vintage colors!!!

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  15. Great arch, I love the Halloween theme! xx

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  16. Shelly, I'm in love with your arch! Great...and thanks for the freebie! Lynn F.

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  17. Thank you so very much for the clock i will try to use it soon thank you for sharing !

    hugs ginger

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