Butterfly Birthday

I always mean to enter the Butterfly Spot challenge each month but somehow the month goes by and I have forgotten to do so. This time I jumped right in and pulled out some butterfly dies by Tonic Studios that I won in a blog giveaway, and even got rid of some snippets from my scrap stash along the way. I pretty much keep all my scraps, down to the smallest strip..and they have been piling up. So, once or twice a year I pull out those strips and make backgrounds with them. I tackled the bag of pink scraps to make this one. I had the idea of stamping onto the strips once they were glued down, and you can see the faint hint of that stamping if you look closely. The stamp that I used is a delicate butterfly background that was only 2x2, which meant a lot of lining up and stamping over and over. I was disappointed in the final result because it just didn't look right. Sooooo....embossing folder and ink to the rescue. The embossing folder is by Cuttlebug and I lightly inked over the raised design with some new Delicata pigment ink in Pink Shimmer. The circle dies are by Spellbinder and I used ink blenders to color it mint green. Two pearls  and three rhinestones are the finishing touch. I made about 10 paper strip backgrounds in all colors and will be using those on future cards. Why is my scrap stash still as large as it was before I started??

Pixie's Snippets challenge 372. I deep into my snippets stash to make the background, as well as the die cut circles and the butterfly
Butterfly Spot 137. I used the color tea rose, and two pearls     
Color Dare 383, Ballerina, Pixie, Lilac, and Mint
D.L. Art March linky
SSS Wednesday, AG