Dare to Dream .....

Every week, the talented Hels Sheridan sets a themed challenge. Week 260 theme was I dreamed a dream -- and that was to create a piece that featured 'Dreams'.

My hanging this week is my entry to Hels challenge.

I wanted to use a number of layers for this piece.

The base is corrugated cardboard with a painted tag on top which had been coloured with Hey Pesto and Brown Shed and stencilled with PaperArtsy Snowflake (opaque) and Smoked Paprika (translucent) acrylic paints. I sneakily slipped another layer of red/brown colour paper in between these two, just to give some more depth.

A smaller piece of corrugated board coloured with Brown Shed and Honey Dew was the next layer and then on top of that was my stamping.

I coloured some torn paper with a blend of Honey Dew and Hey Pesto acrylic paints with a hint of Brown Shed around the curled edges. I used a Tim Holtz stamp.

For anyone who is familiar with this particular stamp, you will notice that I have introduced a gap in the text. 

what if your FEARS and DREAMS exist in the same place............... ...... would you still go there ? 

I did this by inking the words I wanted to use and masked off the others with tape. 

I then repeated the exercise for the bottom words, but leaving a gap between the first and second stampings. I thought that this emphasised the question more and made it a bit 'darker' and even haunting - which is the effect I wanted for this piece.

I stuck the top three layers together but before mounting them on to the red/brown paper layer, I wrapped around some really neat thread that I found in my ribbon box. I really like this 'cos it's interesting and has lots of 'hangy' bits. Then I finished of by sticking the rest of the layers together.

The flower is from Tim Holtz's tattered rose, made from book pages which I coloured. Then finally added a few embellishments and Treasure Gold.

This is one of my favourites - the layers give it some depth and the textures some dimension. Now to enter Hel's week 260 Dreams challenge !

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