:::Transitions:::

Posted on March 9, 2008 by gothicarches

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This weeks theme is “Transitions” and our hostess Karen Owen created this amazing arch. What do you think of when “transitions” is mentioned? Day to night, warm to cold, childhood to adulthood, one color to another – we would love to see your creations in gothic arch form here.

A bit about our hostess:

I started on this crazy mixed media art journey about 7 or 8 years ago after a trip to Hawaii. When I came home, I started looking for ways to memorialize the trip by scrapbooking and photo art quilting. While I was making the scrapbook, I bought several rubber stamps. I wasn’t very happy with my results. So I started thinking that there must be a better way to use them. I bought Suze Weinberg’s book, The Art of Rubber Stamping. The first weekend after I had the book I did almost every technique described! I was hooked! Later came altered books and collage. I still use rubber stamps, still occasionally quilt, and I enjoy using Photoshop for digital art, but my passion is collage. I like to combine painting with images to tell a story.

I have chosen “Transitions” as my theme for this week. I interpreted it as the transition from winter to spring, but it could be day to night, warm to cold, childhood to adulthood, one color to another — I can’t wait to see how you interpret this theme.

You may see more of Karen’s beautiful work on her blog:

http://www.karenink.typepad.com

Filed under: gothic arch, gothik, gothiques, gotische bogen, transitions

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67 Responses

  2. Gorthic Arch Challenge: transition « Hermine’s Place, on March 9, 2008 at 12:37 pm said:

    [...] bijdrage voor het thema van deze week voor Gothic Arch Challenge: transition. Ik vond het een erg moeilijk thema, maar heb gekozen voor een overgang van zomer naar [...]

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  5. violette, on March 9, 2008 at 1:43 pm said:

    magnifique arche karen ! bravo

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  6. Louise, on March 9, 2008 at 2:03 pm said:

    That’s why they’re called challenges:) This one was!
    Here’s mine: http://kardkrazy.blogspot.com/2008/03/gothic-arches.html

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  8. Trudie Becker, on March 9, 2008 at 2:46 pm said:

    Here is my Arch.
    I love the theme.
    Thanks for looking.

    http://truutske.punt.nl

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  10. Karen Owen, on March 9, 2008 at 3:19 pm said:

    Thanks for playing with me this week. Here’s my entry.

    http://karenink.typepad.com/karens_muse_and_musings/2008/03/transitions.html

    Karen

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  11. lasize, on March 9, 2008 at 3:38 pm said:

    here is my arch for today.
    the difference between two cultures
    http://lasize.blogspot.com/2008/03/challenge-transitions.html

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  13. Caryl, on March 9, 2008 at 4:13 pm said:

    Cool theme! Here is my arch: http://carylsrealm.blogspot.com/

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  14. stampingbalou, on March 9, 2008 at 5:27 pm said:

    Long time ago I have participated on an arch challenge, sorry for that. So here is my entry for this week – thought about a colour transistion…

    Thanks so much for looking,

    yours,
    Heike ;o)

    http://stampingbalou.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/gothic-arches-transitions/

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  15. Kris Dickinson, on March 9, 2008 at 5:33 pm said:

    Good morning! Here’s mine for today:

    http://nostalgiccollage.blogspot.com/2008/03/gothic-arch-night-day.html

    Great challenge, thanks and have a great week!

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  17. Rosie, on March 9, 2008 at 5:35 pm said:

    Wasn’it just!! LOL – what an inspirational example though! Here’s mine:

    http://alteredartandstuff.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/gothic-arches-transitions/

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  19. Linda, on March 9, 2008 at 5:56 pm said:

    Wonderful theme this week! Here’s mine:

    http://lambworld.blogspot.com/2008/03/gothic-arches.html

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  22. Glitter Monkey (Lynn), on March 9, 2008 at 6:17 pm said:

    A really great theme this week thanks Karen! My arch (thanks for the new templates) is on my blog
    http://craftandwaffle.blogspot.com/2008/03/gothic-arches-transitions.html
    LOL Lynn x

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  24. Debby Harriettha, on March 9, 2008 at 6:33 pm said:

    Great theme Karen!
    You can find mine here
    http://innerreflections.typepad.com/

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  25. Nancy Maxwell James, on March 9, 2008 at 6:53 pm said:

    this one really stumped me. I knew all the things I wanted to make – but ended up with this arch as the end result!
    thanks for the challenge!

    http://vintagepapers.blogspot.com/2008/03/transitions-arch.html

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  27. Lisa Renea, on March 9, 2008 at 7:33 pm said:

    Short on time today, but I just completed my spring arch-http://tatteredtiara.blogspot.com/

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  32. Heather Robinson, on March 9, 2008 at 11:22 pm said:

    Thanks for making us think, Karen. I love this theme. Here is my arch for the week:

    http://creativesolace.blogspot.com/2008/03/gothic-arch-challenge-transitions.html

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  34. Judy, on March 10, 2008 at 12:14 am said:

    Here is my arch for this week:
    http://mangaroamade.blogspot.com/
    Judy NZ

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  35. Tami Roth, on March 10, 2008 at 2:26 am said:

    Here is my Transitions arch!
    Tami R.

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  36. joanne huffman, on March 10, 2008 at 3:33 am said:

    Karen, thanks for the encouragement to try this, here is my “transitions” entry.

    Joanne

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  37. Gothic Arch, Transition » Layers of Color, Art Stamps, on March 10, 2008 at 7:58 am said:

    [...] is the subject of my artwork for the Gothic Arches theme challenge, [...]

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  38. tchou, on March 10, 2008 at 10:28 am said:

    wonderful theme!! thanks a lot
    here is my entry

    http://www.scrapenreve.com/

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  39. Mary-Beth, on March 10, 2008 at 12:50 pm said:

    This was a toughie!!! Here’s my piece.

    http://myjourneyintoart.blogspot.com

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  41. joanne huffman, on March 10, 2008 at 2:29 pm said:

    oops! I forgot to leave a link to my gothic arch (sorry, I’ new to this link stuff). Here it is…

    http://joannethiemehuffman.typepad.com/ad_libitum/2008/03/transition-goth.html

    Joanne

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  43. Kriss Cramer, on March 10, 2008 at 4:28 pm said:

    Wonderful theme! Beautiful artwork, Karen — just fabulous.

    Mine is posted — http://art-interrupted.blogspot.com/.

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  44. Cat Dodt-Ellis, on March 10, 2008 at 5:31 pm said:

    Here is my challenge arch:

    http://catworx.blogspot.com/

    Salud,
    Cat

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  45. Kathy, on March 10, 2008 at 5:38 pm said:

    Part 2~
    This is what I made from my challenge piece. My mom will love this…
    http://vintagesnapsandscraps.blogspot.com/2008/03/transition-collage.html

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  50. dutchstamptramp, on March 11, 2008 at 1:35 pm said:

    Not an easy theme but that made it into a real challenge!
    Here is my entry

    http://dutchstamptramp.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/gothic-arches-transitions/

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  51. Angenita, on March 11, 2008 at 3:10 pm said:

    Very nice challenge! This is my entry. http://www.angenitahartog.nl/wordpress/?p=298
    Thanks for looking.

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  54. violette, on March 12, 2008 at 10:49 am said:

    here’s my arch
    it was a real pleasure to make it
    thanks
    http://lescrapdisabelle.over-blog.com/article-17609979.html

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  55. joyce, on March 12, 2008 at 2:11 pm said:

    I love your arch Karen! It’s beautiful.

    This theme really spoke to me, so I did a whole series of them, thinking about all the transitions going on in our family right now.

    http://joycevance.typepad.com/joyce_makes_art/2008/03/transitions.html

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  56. Jackie, on March 12, 2008 at 3:16 pm said:

    I only found this challenge today.

    My arch is on my blog

    http://jackies-space.blogspot.com/

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  57. Maryanne, on March 12, 2008 at 11:56 pm said:

    This was a tuff theme for me. Finally, I just let my scissors and paper stash take over while I watched the creative process.

    http://thecreativemuse.blogspot.com/

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  59. Kersten in Alaska, on March 13, 2008 at 2:27 pm said:

    Absolutely beautiful work, Karen! :)

    Here my Fairy Queen for this week’s challenge…

    http://www.alteredgypsy.blogspot.com/

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  62. Sally, on March 14, 2008 at 1:34 pm said:

    At last I have finally finished my arch for Transitions. Found this really hard but what a great theme.
    Here it is, thanks for looking.
    Sally
    x
    http://sally-sallysstuff.blogspot.com/2008/03/gothic-arch-challenge.html

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  63. cctigrou, on March 15, 2008 at 1:38 pm said:

    Here’s my arch for transition.
    Thanks for looking

    http://cctigrou.over-blog.org/article-17724079.html

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  64. Dilip Sethi, on March 15, 2008 at 11:29 pm said:

    Hi,
    Im new to this and setting up a crafting blog and want to make a gothic arch in the future,
    I have 2 questions,

    1- Can I make the arch any size I like and design my own arch shape?

    2- Do I have to use all 3 mediums rubberstamping, collage, vintage photos? can I just use 1 or 2? or can I decorate my arch in any materials I want?

    thanks Dilip.

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  65. Nan, on March 16, 2008 at 8:10 pm said:

    I had a crazy week at work and finally got my daily art posted and scanned today. I made to arches for this challenge. Had a lot of fun doing them~thanks for the inspiration!

    http://pandoras-artbox.blogspot.com/2008/03/mondays-daily-artchallenges.html

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  66. Karen Owen, on March 17, 2008 at 9:24 pm said:

    Here’s another entry for this theme from Lou McCulloch. See it here:
    http://metamorphosis.typepad.com/metamorphosis/2008/03/gothic-arches.html

    Thanks!

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  67. Karen Campbell, on April 6, 2008 at 3:58 pm said:

    I was very determined to fiish this theme — even if several weeks late LOL

    http://karensaltereddreamz.blogspot.com/2008/04/haiku-triptych.html

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