Last week I was creating a card for the Pals Paper Arts Challenge and I used the Stampin’ Up! Swallowtail stamp set. Whilst I was making it, I needed an insert for the inside of the card to hide where the blendabilities had bled through. I first tried stamping the butterfly in old olive but it was rather in your face on opening the card so I used crushed curry instead. But I saved the old olive version since I think it looks rather majestic. This stamp set is sold as one of the background stamps but personally I can’t see using it as a background, it deserves to be the focal point of the card. I took my butterfly and adhered it to an old olive base. I lined the envelope with the backgrounds DSP brights in old olive.

Stamping this in just the one colour gives a totally different look from last week’s card. Whilst I was considering what to do last week, I looked up Swallowtail butterflies on wikipedia and was amazed by the enormous range of colours. I can see that I am going to play with this stamp quite a lot! I also really like the monochromatic look of this card and think that I’ll try this in a few other colours – even though these may not be true to life. I think that a number of these monochromatic cards in different colours would make a nice gift.