Challenge: October Color Challenge

The October 2017 color challenge at the Lindy's Gang blog used the following color palette:

While I had this month's special set of inks and powders, I decided to try a technique I read about in the recent CardMaker magazine (Winter 2017, Vol. 13, No. 4) in an article called “Cheers to the New Year” (pp 58-61) and which included a card which used tissue paper as a background (“Celebrate!” by Karen Hasheck on p 61.). This meant I needed some powdered pigment crystals. I decided to use my shaker set which had colors similar to the palette, if not the exact same as in the special set.

​I dug our my white tissue paper and tore a section out, sprinkled three colors on it and spritzed heavily with water:

This is on my craft sheet and, as you can see, quite wet! The article said give it at least three hours to dry so I transferred it to a double layer of paper toweling and let it sit over night:

I ran a cut of gloss white card through my Xyron 500 so that the matte side would acquire adhesive. I crippled the tissue several times (well, four times), smoothed it out, peeled off the backing paper and smoothed the tissue over the card... Then I swiped a Versamark pad lightly over the wrinkles, added two colors of embossing powder and heat-embossed:

I trimmed the card to fit a refolded card front:

Now to complete the card.

I added two shades of embossing powder to a heavy swirl from Creative Embellishments, cut the swirl in half and glued it to the card. I stamped three flowers from a Laurel Burch stamped set, watercolored with Starburst sprays, die cut them and popped them onto the branches with foam dots:

I was thinking "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" so I searched for a sentiment that expressed that idea, and found it in some Idea-ology clippings stickers:

A few splatters with "Sidewalk Chalk" Flat Fabio and my card was complete:

Products used in the making of this card were:

• Stamps: Stampendous Laurel Burch Designs LBCRS05
• Dies: Stampendous Laurel Burch Designs LBDCS05
• Inks: Lindy’s Magical Shakers “Oktoberfest Orange”, “Lederhosen Laurel”, and “Black Forest Black”; Lindy’s Starburst Sprays “Hag’s Wart Orange” and “Freaky Franken Lime”; Lindy’s Flat Fabio Sprays “Sidewalk Chalk”; Archival “Jet Black”; Versamark
• Embossing Powders: Lindy;’s “Obviously Black”, “Purely White”, “Jack O'Lantern Orange”, and “Ghouly Goblin Green”
• Papers: Staples white tissue paper; Paper Reflections card (GRC01004); gloss white cardstock
• Embellishments: Creative Embellishments chipboard; Idea-ology “Clippings Stickers - Halloween” (TH13619)
• Adhesives: RedLine 1/8” embossing tape; EK Tools 3D foam dots; Distress Collage Medium; Xyron 500 Sticker Maker

​I'm also entering this in the Frilly & Funky Challenge for October 12, 2017: 'Tis Near Halloween  because it is sort of Halloweeny and it does include two of the required colors: orange and black.