Butterfly challenge - M is for margins and/or mint

Gosh, it's a grey and miserable drizzly day today and I'm still feeling decidedly under the weather after someone kindly shared their cold with me. That is my excuse for what happened yesterday....
I was determined to create something and so when I saw the latest Butterfly challenge - M is for margins/mint I figured I'd have a go (especially since I was a top three pick for the last one, just thought I'd slip that in there)
So, I needed a butterfly and there across the room was the very thing.

My goodie bag from the weekender had a butterfly on it! (Yes, that dumping ground is my lounge, now you understand why I need to tidy up this weekend)

So, I roughly cut out the butterfly and backed it on some card to strengthen it and fussy cut it, amputating its antenna. I coloured it in with a mix of jade and holly green spectrum noir sparkle pens to give it that butterfly shimmer. I embossed some craft card and then built up some mats and layers fir the margins. I used jade mint chalk paint to get the mint layer as I couldn't lay my hands on the right shade of green. I added some crochet lace and in the goodie bag were some self adhesive pearl strings so I bunged them on to further highlight the margin aspect. I stamped the sentiment from a sheena set in Kraft card and then swiped the edges with the chalk paint to add some definition. Simple right? 

Well, the card didn't quite look like that originally. I stuck it all down and drew the antenna back on and then a few hours later decided I didn't like the layout. So I pulled off the butterfly and sentiment, which damaged the card slightly and I was stuck with the antenna so I had to rearrange things to cover those areas. Originally it looked like this,

The space in the bottom left corner was what bugged me the most! The colours are actually closer in this picture though. Hopefully you agree that the new version is the improved one!