Season of Green and Gold DSP for AYSI 329

 It's time for a new challenge at As You See It. As always, after our theme challenge comes the Recipe Challenge - just take the given ingredients and see what you can cook up with them!

You can add all sorts of other ingredients in your recipe but you must use all of the five given ingredients in some way: trees, embossing, twine, birthday and shades of green. 

This combination felt masculine to me and I enjoyed indulging in a good dose of greens along with some rustic texture. 

Perfect for adding in the shades of green is the new Online Exclusive DSP Season of Green and Gold. Although it's actually a Christmas paper, the reverses are great all year round. I don't think anyone would look at the DSP in this card and automatically think 'Christmas.'

I love tree stamps and have a few in my stash. I broke out one of my all-time favourite retired sets, Rooted in Nature and coloured the tree using Stamp'n'Write markers by directly colouring the rubber before stamping. I love that technique because of the gorgeous transitions of colour that can be achieved but with more control that some other techniques. I picked some colours from the DSP: Old Olive and Mossy Meadow, mixed with some Lemon Lime Twist and some Early Espresso for the limbs and trunk.

If you don't have a tree like this in your stash already, then the Loveliest Tree set from the 2024-5 Annual Catalogue would be a great addition to your collection.

The sentiment is from Simply Said, a good basic greetings set. I used Deckled Rectangles to cut the tree. I embossed the Basic White card front with the Timber 3D Embossing Folder. 

As embellishment, I added a button from my button box and threaded it with some Linen Thread, a favourite element of mine.

The team and I would love to see how you see these ingredients. Visit the As You See It page to see what the rest of the team have done and to link up your entry. You can join in the challenge until Wednesday August 14, 11.59pm PST.

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