End of Summer Gothic Arch

End of Summer is the theme for the Gothic Arches Challenge this week and indeed it really feels like that here in the Scottish Borders, with lots of showers and it's also getting dark so much earlier already.

As I also needed to make another arch for Linda K, who loves all things French, I concentrated my arch on that place and cut the background from a fabric/paper collage made quite some time ago which uses paper napkins featuring Paris cafes etc. I thought about holiday romances and how the end of the summer usually means the end of the romance too, so I added a paper image of a couple in each other's arms (European Papers) as well as a transparency of a kissing couple (Divasdeste). The text: The end of a summer love affair was added with my Dymo writer. I'm not sure any longer where I got the clock charm but it also says Paris and seemed to go with the theme of End of Summer

To illustrate the story even more I made the above back for the arch, with a paper background overlaid with a French text transparency. The image of the adoring couple is from Altered by Design and the Bonjour text comes from an old calendar with vintage French images. The front and back were adhered to each other by gold zigzag stitching around the edges.