Delicate Forest for As You See It Challenge #322

 This week's As You See It Challenge is titled Mission Impossible, and it's about using your least used colour to make a card. Actually, it's a Fill-In-The-Blank Challenge, where you have to finish the sentence by filling in the blank, then use the words with which you filled in the blank to inspire your card. Here's the challenge banner to look at:

As you see, the sentence you have to complete by filling in the blank is: The colour I use the least in my crafting is: ___________. I would fill in that blank with the colour Blackberry Bliss! It's not that Blackberry Bliss is an ugly colour! Quite the contrary, it is rich and beautiful. The reason I shy away from using it can be encapsulated in this one photo:

Yes, it is an intense colour that gets all over everything, including my fingers, after which I tend to transfer it to other parts of my card where it is not wanted! All unknowingly! So I tend to avoid it!

Nevertheless, I accepted the mission, (I had no choice!!) and decided to go with the Delicate Forest stamp set. Here's how it turned out:

• I took a 5 1/4" x 4" piece of Basic White cardstock in the landscape orientation, at inked up the large tree image from the Delicate Forest stamp set, then stamped it 3 times without reinking, with the darkest image being in the middle.
• This layer was adhered to a Blackberry Bliss card base of 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", scored and folded at 4 1/4".
• Then I cut a 1 1/4" x 5 1/4" piece of Petunia Pop, one of the new In Colours in the up coming 2024/25 Annual Catalogue. On it I stamped images of the flowering grasses from the Delicate Forest stamp set in varying degrees of intensity, by stamping either fully inked or stamped off.
• I used a Blending Brush to add some Blackberry Bliss ink around the edges of the Petunia Pop cardstock to help blend in the images. This strip of cardstock was adhered over the Basic White Layer, even with the outside edges of the card base.
• The sentiment, also from Delicate Forest, was stamped in Blackberry Bliss on Basic White and die cut with a new label die from the new Unbounding Love Dies, which will be available with the launch May 1st of the new 2024/25 Annual Catalogue. I simply used Seal to attach it to the right side of the strip.

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Product List

Delicate Forest Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [162675]	Delicate Forest Bundle (English) [162680]	Blackberry Bliss 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133675]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin' Pad [147092]
Adhesive Backed Dragonflies & Birds [162743]	Blending Brushes [153611]	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]	Stampin' Seal [152813]Petun*

*Petunia Pop 81/2" x 11" Cardstock; *Unbounded Love Dies

*Products will be available when the 2024/25 Annual Catalogue launches May 1st.