New Year, New Stash

Happy New Year folks and hoping that 2012 is a fabulous year for you all with good health and time to do all the things you want to.
We have a new challenge for you today over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and the theme for the fortnight is New Year, New Stash. A perfect opportunity to have a play with some of those new crafting goodies you hopefully received for Christmas.

My card is made using a favourite technique of mine to make the background paper, my Distress Ink Grunge Background Technique which you can find a tutorial for by clicking HERE. I used Distress inks in Crushed Olive, Mustard Seed, Tumbled Glass and Peeled Paint then stamped with Forest Moss. The stamps used are from the Papermania Urban botanical print set.
I cut a panel out of the paper with my new Nestabilities die set then made a frame with 2 sizes in the set and some green card which I embossed with a Sissix Tim Holtz Texture Fades folder.
I stamped my new Magenta cling butterfly panel with Olympic Green VersaFine on a white square card blank and coloured first with DIs then added detail with Prisma pencils. I stuck the aperture paper on the card to leave the butterfly panel showing in the frame.
I added a cut out butterfly (Kaisercraft C5794 Bonjour) with VersaFine Smokey Gray and coloured with Prisma pencils and finished with a sentiment from the same set inked to tone in.

The Design Team have made some fabulous creations to inspire you and we hope to see you there.

Challenges for my card:
4 Crafty Chicks - Something New
Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes
Dutch Dare - Your Favourite Things (Butterflies and making my own papers)
Fabulous Friday - Something New
Glitter Geeks - Brand Spanking New
The Squirrel & The Fox - Something New (All the stamps & the Nestabilities die set)

Thanks for looking.
Hugs, Fliss xx