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Monday, 7 January 2008

Guardian Angel Gothic Arch


After a break of several weeks due to the holidays, the Gothic Arches challenge is back and the theme this week is Guardian Angel. I also made this arch for the January challenge set by Lost Art Creations on our Yahoo group, where the image is provided each month and we each make a piece using it. The girl was part of our January image. I added colour to her clothing with rub-ons in blue and silver.

The background used the December collage I made for my December Journal Quilt. I had scanned this into my computer so I can use it for future project, and printed it out onto watercolour paper specially suitable for inkjet printing (from Crafty Computer Paper). I layered this onto felt and put watercolour paper on as backing.

I found a suitable quotation which reads:

Hear thy guardian angel say:
Thou art in the midst of foes -
'Watch and pray.'

I added the artbit star at the top (Lost Art Creations no. 260) as well as the crown (artbit 262). The whole piece was covered with Polymer Acrylic Gloss (from Golden) and after this had dried somewhat I added gold foiling on the wing.
The edges of the arch were antiqued with a Vintage Sepia inkpad.
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18 comments:

  1. Anonymous7 January 2008 at 16:26

    Beautiful, great background.

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  2. carylsrealm7 January 2008 at 16:36

    Love your arch! :) :) :)

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  3. Tova7 January 2008 at 16:49

    Beautiful collage.

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  4. Unknown7 January 2008 at 17:16

    nice work, frieda!
    i haven't done my challenge piece yet, but the image is printed, ready and waiting!

    thanks for the inspiration!
    xoxo
    julee

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  5. Sandy7 January 2008 at 17:30

    Wonderful arch.

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  6. Barbara7 January 2008 at 17:47

    Pretty work

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  7. Anne7 January 2008 at 19:07

    Oh Frieda, I am blown away by the work that has gone into this - it looks so amazing. Your background is really fabulous and so inspiring!

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  8. Louise (KardKrazy)7 January 2008 at 19:15

    This is really, really lovely!

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  9. Debby7 January 2008 at 20:22

    Frieda your guardian angel is so beautiful. I love the quote.
    Debby

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  10. Sija7 January 2008 at 22:42

    Very nice arch.

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  11. Barbara Hagerty8 January 2008 at 01:43

    Beautiful arch and gorgeous, gorgeous, background!

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  12. Anonymous8 January 2008 at 09:02

    I love your arch; the colours are so pretty.

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  13. Planète8 January 2008 at 12:36

    beautiful, great background !

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  14. Dymphie8 January 2008 at 12:52

    Gorgeous arch. love all the layers! thanks for telling how you made this piece.

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  15. Anonymous8 January 2008 at 20:45

    Wonderful arch. The background looks fab.

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  16. Linda M9 January 2008 at 22:37

    Very creative piece. Sounds like you had fun putting it together.

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  17. Rika10 January 2008 at 21:51

    Lovely arch!

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  18. Vintage Papers13 January 2008 at 02:31

    this is just gorgeous! love the little crown accent!

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