Spotlight Technique – A Stamping Journey

Have you tried the Spotlight Technique? I haven’t done it for a while. I thought I would try this with the Flowering Foils Specialty Designer Series Paper.

The Spotlight Technique is great when using uncoloured images on Designer Series Paper or a large background stamp that is stamped on your card mat. The “spotlight” is a cut shape in the piece, in this case the circle, and colouring just the image in that small shaped. This spotlight “”highlights the pattern.

To create this card with the Spotlight Technique:

Cut a piece of the Designer Series Paper to 9.7cm x 14cm (4″x 5 1/4″). Using the Layering Circles Dies cut a circle in the paper in the place that would work the best for colouring.

Colour this with the Stampin’ Blends.

Layer this piece on to a circle in co-ordinating card. Put this aside while you assemble the card.

Assemble the card by adhering the piece of Designer Series Paper to a co-ordinating card mat 10.1cm x 14.4cm (4 1/8″ x 5 3/8″) and then adhere this to a Whisper White Card mat.

Now adhere the Circle piece on to the assembled card raising it up off the card with Dimensionals.

Add a sentiment. I heat embossed the sentiment from the Little Ladybug stamp set with White Embossing Powder and diecut that with the small Stitched Nested Labels die. Before adhering it to the card loop some Silver Thread around.

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Jenny

I have been sharing projects all week with the Botanical Butterflies Designer Series Paper that is available as a free choice for Sale-A-Bration. Of course you could use the ideas for any paper because we need to #usethatpaper I love this paper though which is why I am featuring it.

For this card I used one of the black and white prints in the pack and created a card with the Spotlight technique. The idea with this technique is you take a small section of the paper/image and “highlight” an area.

To do this I cut a circle from the piece of paper and coloured just that section with the Stampin’ Blends. Then layered it on a diecut scallop circle and raised it up off the card. It’s great as you don’t have to colour the whole piece of paper in. Great for the “colouring challenged” 😉 I find too it’s not as overwhelming with a small area.

I hope you have liked all the projects I have shared this week. What has been your favourite?

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Thanks for visiting me,

Jenny