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Color Hues #71 Tangerine and Violet & September Anything Halloween

Every once in a while something sticks in your head and the only way to get it out is to create a card. Most of my friends and stamping buddies know that Halloween isn’t my thing and I don’t make many cards using this theme. That said the colour challenge at ColorHues wouldn’t leave me even though I submitted a card yesterday. So today I have created a second one making it a Halloween card which also fits with the Two Old Bats challenge.

Using a Lavinia Stamp and Wilted violet ink, I stamped the tree and then clear heat embossed it. After which I stamped the bat from the stamp set Wicked, by GKD in the same ink and heat embossed that. When it had cooled, I inked the panel using Spiced Marmalade making it heavier at the edges and lighter in the center. From the same set I stamped the cat and witches hat in black. Using a pen I grounded both tree and cat with some lines to denote a mound. I was about to add it to the card front, but felt something was missing so using an embossing pen and a ruler I went around the edge of the card and heat embossed with copper. Even though I prepared the card with an embossing pad, I still ended up with bits of powder stuck in places which really annoyed me. I hid the worst spot with the word Boo, and decided that a spooky themed card with a few stray speckles wouldn’t matter much.

Considering that I’m not into Halloween, I’m quite pleased with this one. Thanks for stopping by, it is appreciated.

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