Mystic butterfly

Hello, crafting friends!

I can't tell you how thrilled I am to be guesting at The Color Throwdown this week! This is a challenge I loved before my four-year hiatus and have enthusiastically joined in with again after returning to crafting last July.

Here are this weeks amazing colours on the left - blue, green, peach and gold...

... and my interpretation of them on the right.

That beautiful photo inspired me to create an inky background. I chose semi-coated card stock, sponged water-based inks over it, then clapped wet hands over it to create splatters - very cosmic don't you think?! Once it was dry, I cut a panel out of it with a Heffy Doodles stitched rectangle die.

The large butterfly from Uniko's English Country Garden Butterflies was stamped onto the panel with versamark, heat embossed with gold embossing powder and coloured with SU water-based markers. I repeated the process on scrap card stock and fussy cut this one, popping it up over the one on the panel.

I mounted the panel onto a dark blue card base, cutting a frame for the front using the same stitched rectangle die as before so I was able to fit the inky panel into it. The card was finished with a Lawn Fawn sentiment die cut from gold card.

CHALLENGES
I'm linking up with Stamping Sensations where the theme is All Creatures Great and Small; also joining in at Allsorts, where they want to see Something Beginning with 'B'.

AND IN OTHER NEWS
I managed to collar my youngest son today. I'm taking him to the dentist on Tuesday, to have some essential work done before he heads back to his university house, and have been mentally going through all the paperwork that will need to be sent online. "Let's talk about Tuesday," I said to him. "Okay," replied my son cheerfully. "When's that?"

Hope you are all keeping safe and well.

Hugs,