Lindy's color challenge November 2020

A close-up on that art journal spread


Here is my piece for the Lindy's November 2020 color challenge. It took me a couple of days longer than planned so I didn't even bother to ask if I could enter it to the challenge. It's not that great spread anyway...

I had troubles with design and the color choices. I do like the earth toned colors that you can see on the graphic at the bottom. I just couldn't find matching shades from my color stash (and my stash is not small) nor was I keen to mix my own colors. I know the yellow is far too lemonish-greenish and the green... well, it's okay but it could have had more yellow to it. The orange may be too light but I'm not complaining about it. Oh, I did try to mix some Marabu's yellow spray acrylic paint with the bling-y-blond but it didn't really help.

It took me forever to decide on the background. I decided to keep it simple since the leaves had all the colors on them. I covered the background with Ranger's acrylic paint. The paint was quite old and thick, so I used the palette knife for that. I splashed some of that Marabu's yellow spray acrylic paint all over it. When that had dried I realized the yellow acrylic paint was far too light and transluscent. Trying to figure out how to fix it I thought I could put foil over it. But being unsure if the acrylic paint was sticky enough I decided to add more splashes with the Distress resist spray by Ranger. I let that dry over night. The next day I took a large piece of foil, placed it over the background and then cranked it through the Sizzix Bigshot with some paper shims to give extra pressure.

Black acrylic paint on the background

Splashes of yellow 

Splashes of Distress resist spray

Gold foiling adhered to the background

So, I used the Lindy's colors to color the maple leaf die cuts. I cut them with a Joy craft's die. I didn't want any texture or 3d effect on the leaves so I only colored them.

The colored maple leaves

I had already lost hope with that art journal spread so I didn't want to waste too much time on how to put everything on the background. If I had more leaves I could have stacked them somehow nice and randomly but I didn't want to make more of them. I just quickly glued them down and added the text.

The final art journal spread for the Lindy's November 2020 color challenge

Below are the links for the Lindy's products that I used.


Marigold yellow orange shimmer spray:

Bling-y-blond magical powder which can be found in the Drop dead diva set:
https://www.lindysgang.com/collections/magical-powders/products/drop-dead-diva-magical-shimmer-powders

The graphic for November 2020 color challenge

And here you can read the rules for the challenges: https://lindysgang.blog/color-challenge-info/

Here is also the Facebook group link to the Lindy's creative gang group if you like to check it out: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LindysCreativeGang/

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