On Wednesday I shared a card that I made for a CAS and orange challenge. Whilst making it, I lost sight of the goal and wandered off into the realm of pink, aka melon mambo. But I liked where the pink card was going so I decided to step it up a bit as a contrast to the pumpkin pie version. Here’s what I finally came up with.

It’s a bit of a mirror image of the orange one with the punch being used on the melon mambo. I stepped up the sentiment a bit and embossed it in white instead of just stamping it. It’s from the Sale-a-bration set, Lotus Blossom. I then popped up the whole piece of melon mambo with stampin’ dimensionals and added one of the flowers that I’d cut out and this time, three rhinestones.

I originally had two of the rhinestones coloured in melon mambo and one left alone.

Then I tried old olive

But I wanted something a bit more emerald green. After a chat with Jen this morning, I tried colouring a rhinestone in the lightest night of navy blendability and, after it dried, using the darkest wild wasabi. That is exactly what I was looking for. Here’s a side view showing the colour better as well as the dimension.

This definitely demonstrates, to me at least, that it’s worth tweaking a card until you’re happy. And as a bonus, I have some already coloured rhinestones ready to use on another project!