Smooshed distress inks & a stencil

Hi everyone, when I colour butterflies I usually do a couple or more. It makes sense while you have all the bits and pieces out.

 I used the partner of this one on my canvas and thought I'd try another technique that I don't do very often, stencils.

The background was made when I picked up or smooshed distress inks left over on my craft mat from another project. I'd used fired brick, mustard seed and walnut stain. They are very pale as I spritzed them with lots of water so I could cover the watercolour sheet.

I used the flourish stencil by Tim Holtz with antique linen distress ink to keep the colours muted.

The theme at Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge is to use a stencil.

At Seize the Birthday its anything goes birthday with the option of clean and simple.

I don't think there's enough open space on my card to be CAS so I'm going with anything goes.

At Addicted to Stamps & More it's anything goes.

I've used a snippet of black card in my layering so I'm also visiting the playground at Pixie's Crafty Workshop. You only need 1 snippet to play along.

Supplies:

Watercolour paper; distress inks; Darkroom Door butterfly stamp; versafine ink & clear ep; Inktense pencils; Tim Holtz flourish layering stencil; bling; sentiment sticker, kraft card base.

Thanks for visiting,

Cathy x