With the release of the 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalogue we get five new colours added to the standard colour palette. These exciting new colours are called the In Colours.

• Click HERE to read more about the In Color collection

One of the new In Colors is Lucky Limeade - a gorgeous grass-green. Let's compare this new colour with similar colours from our current collections...

Left to right: Certainly Celery, Pear Pizzazz, Lucky Limeade, Old Olive.

As you can see, Lucky Limeade (third from the left) is a richer, more saturated green than Certainly Celery and Pear Pizzazz, though not as dark as Old Olive.

This is my first Christmas card for this year, and it's only fitting that I try out a colour combination from the new In Colors. This traditional-coloured Christmas card puts Lucky Limeade, Riding Hood Red and Perfect Plum together, with the new stamp set Merry & Type...

Stamps: Merry & Type (wood: 125000, clear: 122552). Card/Paper: Lucky Limeade (124388), Riding Hood Red (116205), Perfect Plum (108615), Whisper White (106549), Watercolor Paper (122959). Ink: Lucky Limeade (122935), Riding Hood Red (111836), VersaMark (102283). Accessories: White Stampin' Emboss Powder (109132), Lucky Limeade Ink Refill (122930), Perfect Plum Ink Refill (102107). White uni-ball Signo Gel Pen (105021). Tools: Heat Tool (106586), Mat Pack (105826), Paper Piercing Tool (116631), Sponge Daubers (102892), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430).

To colour the lovely baubles of the Merry & Type stamp set, I heat embossed the image using white embossing powder on watercolour paper and spritz'ed it with water. I then added ink so it bled across the images. To see more about how to achieve this effect, check out the Embossed Re-inker Spread Technique. I then cut out the images and paper-pieced them onto another one embossed on Riding Hood Red...

Lucky Limeade is such a fresh colour and going to be great as Christmas rolls around.