Gothic Arch - Bricks & Mortar Style

Hello again,

How lucky was I to be able to buy a sheet of the brand new Paper Artsy stamps yesterday :O)) They are called "Bricks & Mortar" from the Squiggly Ink Range and the sheet I bought is No1.

I actually really love all the range and I think I will be saving up to buy them all very soon!

For this project, I cut a Gothic Arch shape from card and using a babywipe, I blended Adirondack Ink Stonewashed and Wild Plum over the surface. A quick blast with the heatgun to dry the inks up and then I stamped the little house and the swirly image onto the arch. I then inked up some more cardstock and stamped the roof of the house using Wild Plum and cut this out. I stuck the top of the roof directly onto the arch and popped 3D foam onto the bottom of the roof to make it looked like it was sloping.



Next, I stamped the sentiment onto the coloured cardstock, I cut this out and then cut it into three, tearing the right hand edges of these pieces and edging with black ink. I used 3D foam to attach these to the arch too. I used another piece of the coloured cardstock and stamped the ruler and attached this to the top of the arch. Finally, I stamped and cut out the heart image and 3Dd this onto the window in the house and edged the whole arch in black ink.



I am really pleased with this arch, love the stamps and the colours I have used. I need to find a stamp of a garden gnome cos I think this will be fab to sit in the window in the house!

Thanks for looking

Hels x

I am Going Thru The Arched Window

Morning peeps, actually it is just morning but I think the timer thingy on my Blog is set wrong!!

I have been really busy at work this week but made a couple of Gothic Arches on Monday and have finally got a spare five mins to Blog them!

I am really shattered so I won;t go into great detail about how I made them....suffice to say plenty of inks and stamps have been used!! As well as Grungeboard, Chipboard and Stampbord too :O))


The Bird Soars......


Inks - Distress Inks; Faded Jeans and Broken China
Stamps - Artistic Stamper Bird Collage & Botanical plates
Chipboard - Artistic Stamper








Passionate Heart



Inks - Distress Inks; Fired Brick and Aged Mahogany
Stamp - Crafty Individuals & Stamps Away Alphabet
Grungeboard Elements - The Artistic Stamper


Thanks for looking, I am hoping that I will actually be able to string a few sentences together tomorrow :O))

Hels x

Gone All Gothic!!

Afternoon peeps

I have gone all Gothic! All these fab Gothic Arches that I keep seeing on peeps Blogs has made me want to try it for myself :O))

I haven't got a template for an arch, so I made one myself....I am hoping that it is ok and doesn't look daft!



Once I had cut the card to the arch shape, I painted it with Pearlescent powder paint. I then stamped a Column and masked it, then stamped some text randomly onto the background. I used Black StazOn for the stamping as it doesn't react with the painted surface. I then used Adirondack inkpads in Wild Plum and Stonewashed, smudging the colours onto a domino piece of stampbord with some Cut & Dry foam. I then stamped the Arch image onto the stampbord and used a scratching tool to scratch away some of the detail to reveal the white board underneath. I stamped the lady onto plain white card and coloured her in with Wild Plum, Rust and Stonewashed Adirondack ink.

I took two Grungeboard hinges and cut them to fit the arch. I painted them with gold Krylon and added a gold brad to each one and attached them to the arch. I then squidged some silicone glue onto areas of the arch and sprinkled micro accent beads onto the glue. I added a few co-ordinating fibres to the top of the arch and then edged with gold Krylon.



The paints, stamps and fibres are all from The Stamp Connection/Artistic Stamper, which can be found here.
I hope that I have done this properly, I am new to them as I said, so I would really appreciate some comments :O))

Thanks for looking

Hels x