Card Making | Altenew's Colour Challenge

I was rather taken with this month's Altenew colour challenge - greens and yellows are my favourite and the pink was tolerable as an accent! (Haha, if you're new here, I'm not a fan of pink to the point that it's become a bit of a joke now!)

I pulled out my Altenew leafy die set that really doesn't see enough use and decided to make a piece of mixed media card to die cut. I've been asked for a tutorial and I thought this was the perfect opportunity...

As with so many ideas this one looked better in my head. The texture on the mixed media piece got lost as the dies had all the fabulous apperture detail built in. Any way, it's a great card, just not what it looked like in my head and not the tutorial I was after! It will follow at some point...

I popped the leaves up on a couple of layers of dragonfruit cardstock and placed them on top of a touch of ink blending. I finished up with a small sentiment in the matching pink.

I'm off to make a start on that tutorial. Third time's a charm, right?!

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