Challenger: Numbers, Numbers Numbers!

The Creative Carte Blanche challenge for March 2017 is to use a number or numbers in our project, The one entry posted so far used a number with a special meaning (an anniversary) as the focus of her project. But I don't really have such a number... at least none that came to mind! So I decided to NOT decide and use them all! 

My first step was to get out my Distress Ink minis and a blending tool and apply a rainbow of color to a card front using a Dyan Reaveley stencil :

Ooops --- NOW what? The background is lovely but... it's so bold and bright that nothing works with it! That took some thinking... it needed toning down. How about overstamping with black, Archival "Jet Black"? On the search through my stamps stash, I opened a container that hasn't seen the light of day in many a year and found one of the earliest Hero Arts repositional cling stamps (it had to be early --- no-one labels cling rubber as repositional any more!). I stamped it to one side of the card (many times, using my MISTI, to get a clean image) to see what happened:

OK, that worked a teensy bit but I couldn't see doing it for the whole card. So now what? 

Back to searching my stash and I came up with a "frame" in a Teresa Collins album kit. Maybe... but it was white and had a border and was thin card and...

I grabbed my scissors to trim it a bit and a label from a Funky Junkie Boutique glassine envelope freebie. Some markers for color and an Idea -ology rub- on and I had this "embellishment":

I truly wish I had some gold or silver pencils that would give it a metallic shimmer buttons I have would have covered up the detail so I settled on Pumice Stone...

The Idea-ology word was my final clue as to the purpose of this card. What do numbers signify to me, in the abstract at least? Collections! Collections of things. And what things go with wildflowers? Butterflies, of course! So I pulled out my Mat Mini Tiny Butterflies and some more markers and set about creating my on-card "collection!

I placed the butterflies to balance out the rainbow color - warm colored butterflies on the cool (left) side and cool colored butterfly on the warm (right) side... the

I'm also entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, March 6, 2017: Make Your Own Background, which is also featuring Dylusions...

Products used in the making of this card were:

• Stamps: Hero Arts "Wildflower Garden" (CG170)
• Stencils: Dylusions "Number Jumble 9x12" (DYS33998)
• Inks: Archival "Jet Black"; Distress Inks "Dusty Concord", "Chipped Sapphire", "Pine Needles", "Fossilized Amber", Dried Marigold", and "Barn Door"; Distress Markers "Pumice Stone", "Squeezed Lemonade", "Carved Pumpkin", "Candied Apple" and "Blueprint Sketch"; Pigma Micron 05 Archival #1 "black"; Marvy Uchida "Liquid Silver" fine; Signo Unibazl board "white"
• Papers: Paper Studio value pack notecards "white"
• Embellishments: Teresa Collins Album Kit "World Travel" (WT290); unknown label from Funky Junkie Boutique; Idea-ology Remnant Rubs "Words" (TH93055); Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Mat Minis "Tiny Butterflies" (WVMM010)
• Adhesives: Viva Las Vegas "Miracle Tape"; Ranger Collage Glue Stick

PS. This one really got me thinking outside my usual: patterned backgrounds aren't my favorite thing to work with because, if they come out "right", I hate to cover them! Thanks, Yvonne, for the challenge!