Gothic Arches

The challenge at Gothic Arches today is to create an ATC sized arch. Which isn't so easy because by the time you create an arch on an ATC you haven't much space left to work with! I went off the page a little bit with my hanging frame and gold scrap, but otherwise I stayed inside the lines:)

You can see the other arches at http://gothicarches.ning.com.

TGIF

Thank goodness it's Friday -- and thank goodness that the TGIF challenge blog has posted a challenge where I was forced to pull out my much neglected fruit stamps. Their challenge calls for pears, apples, peaches. I had a couple pear stamps -- plus pineapple, watermelon, lemon, grape, strawberry. All of which I have not even thought about for ages. So you may be seeing fruit popping up a lot in the future:)

For my card I used a small pear stamp by Art Impressions and I do not know who makes the larger pear. I hand wrote pear across the fruit.

Today begins a three-day weekend for us to celebrate the 4th of July. Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday!

Art Creations Friday

I taught a class this week at the LSS on paper collage, so I've still been in a mood to play around with paper. This weeks' offering from Art Creations Friday fit in nicely with the paper from Graphic 45 I've become so fond of.

You can see all the other submissions at http://artcreationsfriday.blogspot.com/.

Wednesday Stamper

Good 'ole red, white and blue -- our flag colors. And that is the theme from Wednesday Stamper today, to create something in the colors of your flag. I'm still going with my America the Beautiful background. If I don't use it at this time of the year, I don't know when I will.

I then stamped over that with this farm scene from Artistic Outpost. I taped over some

parts of the stamp I didn't want to show up. The word "home" is from AO as well.

Don't know about you, but I cannot believe it's July 1st already. Half the year is over.....amazing!

Tag Tuesday -- Challenge #6

"Window" is your challenge for this week. Create a window, stamp a window, however you feel like interpreting the theme.

Link back here so I can come and see your tag!For my tag I cut out a window and then added a transparency over it, so it really does have a window effect.

My background was done with distress inks and a Tim Holtz mask again. I cut out my window and then stamped the frame over the opening. I forget who makes that stamp. The text stamp is from Paper Artsy.

Time Tags

I say it every week -- and I'll say it again: The tags that were submitted for this week's challenge were awesome. You can see all of them below.