Hello Stampin’ Friends ~
Hope you’re enjoying your weekend. It’s been nice here lately but rain is in the forecast for today, so it’s a good day to stamp. If you’re looking for a quick way to make cards with your designer paper and want to add a pop of fun, I love the “Spotlighting” technique! When using your designer papers, there’s no coloring or fuss at all. (Although I do love to color)!
Today I’m using the Bird Ballad Designer paper from the Bird Ballad Suite / Free As A Bird Bundle. I teamed that up with the Layering Square Framelits (the Stitched Nested Labels Dies come in the suite/bundle). I also used the Free As A Bird stamp set for my greeting …
To create the spotlighting “with no wasted designer paper” simply cut your designer paper at 4″ x 5-1/4″ … this will give you a nice boarder around your designer paper. Lay your designer paper onto your die cutter and cut out your desired image, you can see here that I am using the bird to “spotlight” on my card.
Then I simply die cut a coordinating piece of cardstock … I used Early Espresso for my base and mat behind my spotlighted area. When you place your die cut bird directly from your designer paper and then put it right back in it’s place with a mat behind it … it spotlights that image. Do you see how the images on the cut piece still line up with the images on the background? Cool right? And Simple.
I love using this technique on our patterned papers that have fun and interesting images. The spotlighting technique can also be used on your stamped images, and I can share that with you tomorrow!
Thank you for taking time out of your Sunday to visit with me. Hope you found this card helpful and that it inspires you to create some quick -n- easy cards.
Enjoy the rest of your day ~
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