encourage your hopes and dreams - Frilly and Funkie DT

Well it is time for the funkie team to put up their pieces for the latest challenge over at Frilly and funkie , chosen by the lovely Rebecca... so here in her words is the theme for this fortnight.. 'Neglected Dies'. The challenge is to choose a neglected die from your stash and let's see what you can create with it! Think outside of the box... or in it! Then share your projects with us to be in with a chance of winning a Guest DT spot here at Frilly and Funkie or a $25 spending spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique!

Remember, to enter you must create a new project, link it below and make sure you add a link in your post back to this challenge. You can combine our challenge with up to 10 challenges (including this one) to be in with a chance of winning. and here is my make :

So my neglected die is the postage stamp die...and I decided to make a shadow box, then changed my mind and went for this instead...a sort of shadow box, hanging thing! Hope you like it . So for the start...I die cut a base piece from greyboard covered in card ..and a spare card piece for the base. Then using the movers and shapers rectangles I turned the postage stamp die into a frame and cut from old cardboard boxes and also one greyboard piece for the front.

I also cut a heart, by tracing round the heart shape in Wendy's stencil. Then got playing with Wendy Vecchi's wonderful pastes, these are so yummy! For the base piece I applied a thin layer of translucent paste and then crackle paste (thin layer) to the card. For the heart and the frame piece, I applied silver paste ( a really thin layer) and then when dry a textured layer of crackle paste....as I wanted some bigger and some smaller cracks. Now for the details...the base piece:

I coloured this up with frayed burlap and walnut stain Distress ink and rubbed some stain in with my fingers, the heat dried and then stamped script in coffee archival.The crackle is just yum!

Now the frame: It was put  together to allow the heart to be held in....the idea being that our fears hold us in and courage gives our dreams wings to fly... so here is how I layered it up..

I wrapped the heart in one piece of rusty wire ..having inked up...look at that crackle! then I added to base part and added one piece of the frame on..with wire added across it..

This means when I add the top layers the wire will be trapped within the frame..and raised from the heart if that makes sense?!

I added these gorgeous wings to the sides and also on rusty wire a word band at the bottom...that reads.. "encourage your hopes and not your fears".

So make sure you pop across and see what my fab team mates have done with their neglected dies..and maybe find a neglected die of your own and play along. 

Tim Holtz Postage Stamp Frame Sizzix Alterations Movers and Shapers Die	Tim Holtz Sized Rectangles Sizzix Alterations Movers and Shapers Dies	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - Silver	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - Crackle	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - Translucent
Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stencil - Never Enough Hearts	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Apothecary	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Word Bands	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Frayed Burlap	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Frayed Burlap
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Walnut Stain	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot