AAA Cards DT: Teal and gold colour challenge

Over at AAA Cards, there’s another colour challenge for a clean and simple card design. This time it’s my choice of scheme: teal and gold. A classy and classic combination in my opinion, with lots of potential choices for metallics and media. Here’s my card design:

I am a fan of peacock feathers from the Tim Holtz / Ranger Ink distress ink colour palette and felt it was the perfect teal for my card. I used distress oxide as my embossing ink for a metallic gold embossing powder. That way, if any areas are patchy with the embossing powder, the right colour shows through. I have recently bought a set of the new distress watercolour pencils which happily contained the peacock feathers pencil and I’ve used that for colouring in the embossed image.