Inspired by Alison Bomber (Butterfly) for Paperartsy

I have been following Alison's blog for a while now, and always, without fail, love her projects.  So yesterday when the new semester started at Paperartsy, it was announced that Alison was the first of the new guest designers.  We were in for a treat.

Alison created a trio of panels on the Paperartsy papier mache hanging boards, but I didn't have three, so used 3 of the Paperartsy heavy, coated grey board pieces instead.

I followed Alison's tutorial, and some of the same stamps, so check her post here for the low-down

This is my version.

 I've used Frescos in Guacamole, Sage, Snowflake, Vanilla, and Tinned Peas.  The tissue stamping I used Background 6 from the Ink and the Dog range.

the sequin waste stencilling was with Green Olives

For my stamped and embossed images I used the Wendy Vecchi Cornflower Blue ink (I LOVE this blue!) and clear embossed it.

 Added some butterfly/moth images, and sepia stamping same as Alison did, but avoided using the same images wherever possible.

For my Fresco embossing, at the bottom of each panel I used one of the Dylusions border stencils and Holly Fresco.  It worked better than I thought - though you do have to heat it for a while for the embossing to work... I was starting to panic!

Finally added some script stamping in sepia archival, and some grunge paste stencilled through a sequin waste stencil - I decided to leave this white as there was quite a lot of colour on it by now..

The three panels - I forgot to get some chopsticks or anything else to fix them all together, so for now, they are still separate.

Alison, thank you for this first challenge (and indeed, today's which is equally fabulous) - I had loads of fun with this!!

I am linking it here to the Paperartsy blog challenge
and also to Simon Says Monday Challenge - Emboss