Butterfly With Corners

Hi I'm back again because I wanted to enter this card at Mrs. A's Butterfly Challenge and I am only just going to make it in time. The challenge theme this time is Butterfly + C for corner. I used these Chocolate Baroque stamps from a set called Harlequin Butterfly. I stamped it with a black Memento ink pad, but I'm afraid it is getting dry and I need to replace or re ink it. So  I wasn't very happy with the impression but rather than stamp it again with a different ink and have to emboss it so that I could use Promarkers for colouring, I decided to trace over the corner design with a gold gel pen, I tried to use a light touch for this so that it didn't quite cover all of the black.  I was reasonably pleased with the result and so I also added some gold to the harlequin background as well, again I used a light touch and blotted away some of the ink with a paper towel. I stamped parts of the image again and coloured the butterfly with Promarkers. For the flowers I used a red Colour Soft pencil for the tips and edges of the petals, and the coloured all over them with a pale yellow Promarker which served to blend the pencil colour to achieve the effect I wanted. My inspiration for this is on the right
here, a beautiful gerbera that was given to me on my birthday last
year and which has just flowered again. I cut out all the extra flowers
and butterfly by hand and used silicon glue to stick them over the main image ones, adding an extra layer to the bottom right hand one.
I used a Krylon pen to make a gold edge before matting onto pearlised turquoise card. I used a white 15cm square base card and stamped the large corner stamp in the top right hand corner and gave it the same treatment with the gold gel pen. The greeting is a free magazine stamp. I gave the finished butterfly a coat of clear Wink of Stellar but I'm not sure how much it shows in the photo. I'm adding a close up below to see if it shows up better, it looked really sparkly in the sunshine this morning.
I am quickly off to link this up at the Butterfly Challenge now, thank
you for taking the time to visit and for your comments, I really
appreciate the all.
Jean