That's Crafty - Red & Green

Hi all, I'm back again! Today I have a card made for this fortnight's challenge over at That's Crafty, and the theme is red and green. Not my favourite pairing of colours I will admit, and this card has ended  up completely different to how I had planned it!

I have used my new Tim Holtz stamp set Perspective, which features this beautiful large butterfly. I stamped the butterfly in black embossing ink (I find my pot of black embossing powder is very messy, and doesn't give the sharp lines of an image) and embossed in clear powder. I then fussy cut, and coloured with Barn Door and Peeled Paint distress inks. I added some sparkle to the wings using my new Spectrum Noir pens, I'm not really fussed on them, but I will try and use them!

For the background, I stamped the number stamp in Barn Door randomly, then overstamped with the butterfly using Peeled Paint. I distressed around the edges with Black Soot. The sentiment is from the same stamp set - I was going to colour in the first word, but I thought there was enough red and green on here haha! Finally I added some sparkly gems to the body of the butterfly.

I have a few more ideas for this set, and some half finished pieces which I will hopefully finish later.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

That's Crafty - Red & Green

Glitter 'n Sparkle Challenge - Anything goes

Moving along With The Times - In the Garden (butterflies in the garden)

Southern Girls Challenge - Nature

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline