Less is More - Tropical Fruits

I was sorting through some of my stash yesterday and had at the side of my mind (it hadn't reached the back of my mind yet), that this week, Less is More have a colour challenge of "Tropical Fruits". I came across this die from a Chinese seller on eBay and thought that I could colour her in to resemble the inside of a tropical fruit. My initial thought was the inside of a dragonfruit with pinky/red skin and white flesh with tiny black seeds dotted in it. When I retrieved the die though and realised that the butterflies were bigger than I thought, I remembered a post that Ruth had made earlier this year about "melonizing" images. I thought that the butterflies cut out of the dress would make perfect seeds and so, only about 9 months behind the trend, I decided to "melonize' her dress.
I die cut the image and coloured it in using my copics. I left the flesh of the watermelon quite patchy as that replicated the photos of slices I looked at. I stamped the sentiment from Clearly Besotted on the rectangle of white card, before gluing it onto the green mat on a 5x7 card blank. I glued the image on the card and inlaid the butterflies from the die cut at the bottom of her dress and coloured them to match. I die cut the dress again in black card and inlaid the rest of the butterflies in black. To finish I added glossy accents to the black seeds/butterflies. Simples!