Embroidered Collage

Two different treatments using the same hand-carved stamp on the complex background that I created earlier.

I like the first one better.  I collaged a little bit of lace paper to the background, then stamped over it in gold.  The butterfly didn't stand out much, so I outlined all the key features in black pen.  I still wasn't quite happy, so filled in some of the areas with colored inks. 

Part of me says - STITCH.  Part of me says - But it looks DONE.  I'd probably add just a bit of gold metallic along the tops of the wings if I did add stitch.

The second one is more fun than the first.  First I added some green lines to spice up the background, then stamped in a muted yellow and then added more colors with liquid acrylics.  This one is destined for a vivid rainbow colors swap so all the colors of the rainbow had to be included.