Pink Gothic Arch

The Gothic Arch Challenge has found a new home as Wordpress insisted on considering most of us as Spam posters, specially those who use Blogger. The new home is most impressive and I'm still discovering all its possibilities. I will change the link at the right hand side of this blog too so that you can easily find your way there if you fancy joining us in this challenge.

The new theme is posted every Sunday and for this week it is Pink.

I could not resist and used a fabric image from one of the new Alphastamps sheets. This one is called Over the Garden Wall!

The background is a piece of hand painted and stamped calico which I made quite some time ago. I also added some silver sparklies which really catch the eye (although not on the scan!). I ironed it onto Fast2Fuse and used one of my decorative stitches with pink thread to machine quilt it. The image was also stitched on (isn't she lovely?) as well as a piece of a ribbon featuring pink flowers (also available from Alphastamps). I added a quotation in paper: The very pink of perfection, which was stitched on.

Additional decoration is provided by pink flowers held down with size 11 seed beads which were also added to the border of the arch, after it was satin-stitched with pink thread.