Sunday color challenge: Fly

Today I have worked on a color challenge using

Michael Strong's large and mini butterfly rubber stamp

and a sentiment by Penny Black from the set Happy Thoughts.

You find other samples and the details on the

Color Trowdown Blog.

Starting the background panel with the large butterfly.

I embossed it with clear embossing powder after stamping

the butterfly random at the paper.

Next taking worn lipstick and fossilized amber oxide

distress inks to color the paper. The clear embossing

works as a resist and makes the butterflies pop up.

The sentiment is embossed with silver embossing 

powder and cut out with an oval die and for the

silver paper I used the matching scallop die.

The mini butterflies have also been embossen

with silver embossing powder, but on yellow

and pink paper. The have yellow and pink gemstones

on top, but yellow on the pink and pink on

the yellow butterfly.

For the inside of the card i used all the left overs.

(I stamped a few extra butterflies in case I

did not cut them out nicely ;-).

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!