A La Cards: Only Two More Sleeps...

...till Christmas Day! There is still so much to do, but the excitement certainly is growing in our household! Each new gift that appears under the tree must be shaken, sniffed and carefully examined to determine its contents. Christmas sure is fun with a 7-year-old in the house!
I have been so busy shopping, baking and wrapping gifts that I haven't had much time to play in my stamp room (unless you count the hours spent wrapping!). I do want to show you the third project I designed for my Blendabilities Club this month...

Any Occasion card featuring the Blended Bloom and A Dozen Thoughts stamp sets.

Can you believe I achieved that soft watercolour look with Blendabilities?? Its SO easy! First of all, I stamped the Blended Bloom image in Melon Mambo ink. Did you know that there are several Classic ink colours that work with Blendabilities? Check out the list below:

Always Artichoke
Baked Brown Sugar
Blushing Bride
Calypso Coral
Coastal Cabana
Crisp Cantaloupe
Crumb Cake
Crushed Curry
Daffodil Delight
Garden Green
Hello Honey
Marina Mist
Melon Mambo
Lost Lagoon
Old Olive
Pear Pizzazz
Pink Pirouette
Pistachio Pudding
Pool Party
Pumpkin Pie
Sahara Sand
Smoky Slate
So Saffron
Soft Sky
Tangelo Twist
Tangerine Tango
Tempting Turquoise
Wild Wasabi
Wisteria Wonder

Now, to create the soft colour, begin by colouring 4-5 petals at a time with the lightest shade of Melon Mambo Blendabilities. Then go over each petal with the Colour Lifter, working in a circular motion using the fine tip. Be sure to only work 4-5 petals at a time, so as not to allow the ink to set completely...it is much easier to lift the colour when it is still damp. I really worked the folded parts of the petals to achieve a very light shade of pink.

For the centre of the flower I coloured the stamens using the lightest shade, but didn't use the colour lifter on them. The area between the stamens and the centre of the flower I coloured with the medium shade of Melon Mambo Blenda's. The centre is coloured with the lightest shade of Old Olive Blenda's and then lightened further with the Colour Lifter.
The rest of this card is pretty simple. I used the Perfect Polka Dots TIEF to emboss the background and the Circles Framelits to create the cut-out for the bloom. The sentiment is from the A Dozen Thoughts set and is stamped in Pear Pizzazz ink. I used some Melon Mambo 1/8" Taffeta ribbon by way of embellishment. The entire card is on a Pear Pizzazz card base.

I kept the inside very simple to allow lots of space to write, stamping the Blended Bloom image twice in Melon Mambo ink.

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