Lavinia Stamps "Flower Divine" butterfly card

While I was away this past week, my order of the new stamps from Lavinia arrived.  They're lovely and I of course had to have an immediate play.

For this card, I used Versafine Clair "Medieval Blue" to stamp the "Flower Divine 1 & 2", as if they were hanging from the top righ of the page.  I then covered the stamped image with "Pebeo Masking Fluid" and set aside to dry.

I then used the butterfly from the Lavinia "Sticker Stencil 4 set" with a stripe stencil by Clarity stamps and added some stripes around the butterflies using two shades of Ranger Archival Ink (Garden Patina and Prickly Pear) colours.

I then used the other piece of the sticker stencil and filled in the butterfly shape using a very fine covering of "Shadow Grey" Archival ink.  I then added more colour to the edges using "Aquamarine" Archival Ink before returning to the "Shadow Grey" ink which I used through the Lavinia "Feather Leaf Stencil".

In the top and bottom corner, using second generation stamping, I stamped the Lavinia "Words of spring" in Versafine Clair "Morning Mist" grey ink.

Then using a white Posca pen and the Lavinia "White Orbs" stencil, I added some white dots.  They seemed to disappear in the background, so I decided to go round each one with a fine liner pen.

After removing the masking fluid, I used a couple of Derwent Inktense coloured pencils to add colour to the flowers and added touches of "A wink of stella", white gel pen, a 2b pencil and a gold shimmer pen.