Monday, April 28, 2008

Garden Fairies


is the theme on Gothic Arches this week. I was so happy to see this! I decided to challenge myself to do an arch with only stamping, as I feel I may have been over using collage images lately, and I have 2 sets of fairy stamps from CTMH that I love and don't use very muc, definitely not as much as I like.

I did the b/g by stamping gesso on white card, dabbing Distress inks on for grass and sky and tried to put a tree in there with edges of the sponge with branches going over head, which came out as more of an illusion of a tree and branches. Then I stamped my fairies and repeatedly stamped a fern stamp along the bottom. Then I added a few dragonflies for company!

Hope you like it!

14 comments:

For the life of me said...

gorgeous x

Femmy said...

this is beautiful Mary Beth!!! love the backgroundcolours!!! and you used fabulous fairies!!!

*jean* said...

What a beautiful artch!! Love that background!

The Reluctant Aquarian said...

This is beautiful!

Sandy said...

Wow so wonderful ach. Stunnin background. Love it.

Judy said...

Gorgeous, Mary Beth, love how you have stamped it all and created a stunning background!

Unknown said...

Elle est merveilleuse ton arche, je l'aime vraiment beaucoup !!

Debby said...

Mary-Beth your garden fairy is beautiful. Thanks for playing.
Debby

Christa said...

Very nice, beautiful colors!

Kriss said...

It's a beautiful arch. I love the whispy feel of it!

carylsrealm said...

I love it!

Tania said...

This is sooo beautiful! Great background.

Anonymous said...

This is outstanding! You made it look like watercolors!
Cheers!

Heather Robinson said...

Oh Mary-Beth, this is gorgeous! I have loved those stamps for such a long time! The background you've created for them is incredible. Brilliant work, my friend!