Gothic Arch Challenge #20 - PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES!

The latest theme for our Inkurable Stampers 2010 Gothic Arch challenge is.......

PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES!


Your task is to create a Gothic Arch featuring either planes, trains, automobiles, or all of the above!

I have the pleasure of sharing not one, not two, but THREE awesome example arches with you today! First we'll look at Guest Artist Robyn Woods' 2 arches, then we'll check out Fiona Schultz's example. Lots of eye candy today! (If you missed Robyn's interview from earlier today, scroll down to the post after this one).

Here is Robyn's first arch:

Robyn says:

"This arch was a good opportunity to try a new technique – beeswax. I was really happy with the results and the arch smells so good!"

· The arch was hand drawn after looking at a few images online. It is based on a template by Belinda Schneider but I changed the dimensions a bit. All images are from Darkroom Door.

· I started with a white cardstock arch. The background was made by first stamping the French Script background with Versamark ink & clear embossing.

· The arch was lightly sponged with Distress Wild Honey & Barn Door inks and excess ink wiped from the embossing. I dripped a bit of water onto parts of the arch and allowed them to dry.

· I stamped the cars from Vintage Automobiles and the words from Prague Vol 1 onto white tissue paper and cut images out roughly. These were adhered to the arch with gel medium. The tissue paper allowed me to alter the orientation of the top car.

· The gentleman is from the Photobooth Hats sheet and I used a grey pen to ink the edges so the white cut marks wouldn’t show. He is also adhered with gel medium.

· Once everything was dry I melted some beeswax and painted it all over the arch. Additional heating smoothed the surface a bit.

Awesome arch Robyn!

Here is Robyn's 2nd arch:

Robyn says:

"I came across this sheet of Basic Grey patterned paper at my LSS this week and it became the perfect background. Once again stamps are Darkroom Door".

· Cut arch from patterned paper and paint with white acrylic paint. Allow paint to dry for a few minutes and remove parts using a baby wipe. This will allow some parts of the design to show through more than others. If you remove too much, just repeat the process until you get the required effect.

· Once dry, paint with Ranger Distress Crackle paint in Rock Candy. Allow to dry and lightly sponge with Distress Frayed Burlap. Check out the before & after pic to see the change painting & sponging makes to the paper:

· To highlight a couple of the cars, I used my Copics to go over two of the car images to deepen the colour and then applied a bit of glossy accents to make them pop.

· The border is punched and stamped with the border stamp from Ornate Elements with Distress Chipped Sapphire ink and then affixed to the bottom of the arch.

· The words are from Vintage Automobiles and die cut using a Spellbinders label die. The diecut was then sponged lightly on the edges and towards the centre with Distress Chipped Sapphire ink, folded slightly and affixed at an angle over the border with foam tape under each side.

Great work Robyn!

Thank you for being this fortnight's guest artist! We've loved seeing your work and getting to know you better!

Please join me in thanking Robyn by leaving her some love in the comments section! :)

Now we'll take at look at this lovely challenge example arch created by Fiona Schultz:

Products Used:

Stamps – Tim Holtz ‘The Journey’, Glitz Designs ‘Vintage Love Compass’
Distress Inks – Antique Linen, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Rusty Hinge, Barn Door, Black Soot
Black Stazon Ink, Black archival Ink
Sam & Lucy Alphabet
Clear embossing powder, Zebra Sarasa pens, black artline pen

Fiona says:

"The background was coloured with Distress Inks, the compass stamped in 'Spiced Marmalade', the quote in 'Barn Door', and the timetable in Black Archival ink. Tickets were stamped in black and coloured in 'Antique Linen', the bottom arrow stamped in 'Wild Honey' and clear embossed. The smaller arrow was stamped with 'Rusty Hinge' and lightly outlined in Zebra Sarasa red pen".

"The truck was stamped twice – once onto white cardstock, and once on to some plastic packaging rubbish (in stazon). Both were trimmed, and the plastic was attached directly over the white version using carefully placed glue dots. I carefully positioned the tickets, added the alpha stickers and outlined the arch to finish".

Fabulous work Fiona!

These girls did an amazing job with their arches - now it's your turn!

Upload your Planes, Trains, and Automobiles arch to our dedicated Flickr Group. Don't forget that the Gothic Arch challenges are in addition to our regular monthly challenge - see more details here.

Go and get inky!

~Sarah~