Yesterday's theme for Wednesday Stamper is one of my favorites, "Gothic Arch". Belinda Schneider created these first last year and has generously shared her template with all of us for our Sunday challenges, Gothic Arch Sunday. But any opportunity to make an arch is a pleasure for me. I love the format. I didn't quite have the stamina for a triptych like Sija's beautiful arches on the WS homepage, but did manage to come up with a diptych.
The substrate is corrugated cardboard covered with fabric- -muslin that I dyed last year by boiling it in beet juice and vinegar for about a gagillion hours. I over-stamped it with Hero Arts "textures and patterns" rubber stamps and Staz-On black ink. Sides are covered in window screen wire mesh, and I used mesh as the middle hinge, attached with black brads. The designs at the top are rub-ons from BasicGrey, as are the stick-on numbers at the bottom. I dirtied-up a piece of string with more black Staz-On and strung it across the arches for the tugging rope and finished it off with some scattered black seed beads glued randomly around the bottom. The text and pics are from a vintage school book that I found at an antique store years ago.
On another note, please stop back later. As promised, I'm going to post Anton Hect's of "Blinking Ballet" fame (see post from Dec. 4, 2007) latest work, the One Note Band. It's worth seeing, and I'll have it up on my blog by the weekend. Anton has supplied me with some interesting background information which I'll post with the video.
See you later!