On Trend: Spotlighting

Hi everyone!!  Kari back with you, and today I wanted to feature a popular technique that I think is getting a lot of attention again - Spotlighting.  This technique is a fun one.  It can also be a little bit of a tedious one - especially for " OCD" peeps like me :)

For my card, I chose to use Quinn's Capital ABC's and the Party Balloons dies from Lawn Fawn.  I first die cut a piece of my favorite white card stock with the largest Stitched Square Stackables, and then I got all the letters I needed for my sentiment. Before stamping, I die cut my balloons from different colors of card stock. I placed them down onto my panel how I wanted and then it was time for stamping.  Since this alpha set I was using is larger, there are only one of each letter, so in order to help with that, I placed another letter in its place until I was ready for stamping, and before I stamped anything down, I removed the letter that didn't belong, like the 2nd "P" in Happy.  I just stamped it afterwards.  I chose to stamp it all in VersaFine Onyx Black Ink - one of my favorites. I stamped my sentiment first with the balloons in place, and then I removed them, and stamped it again to fill in the "gaps" that the card stock balloons left behind.  

Then, it was time to pull everything together.  I added some foam adhesive on the back of my balloons, and line up the best I could with the letters that were stamped on my main panel.  Since I added foam tape, it gives it a fun dimension 3D look.  Once I was done with my main panel, I prepped my card base by cutting it down to a 5x5 square card, and I stamped a thin lined stripe in some Pale Tomato ink for a tone on tone look.  I then added more foam adhesive to the back of my main panel, and adhered that into place on my card base.  For a final touch - you know what's coming....yes...wink of stella :)

I debated on adding it to everything...the letter and balloons, but I refrained! HA!  

I think it turned out pretty good, and it will make a fun birthday card to give :)  Thanks for taking the time to stop by today!!  See you all soon!

( Fun side note - today I am celebrating 8 years of married bliss to my wonderful hubby *grin* )

Kari

Happy 5th Birthday Lawn Fawn!!

Hi all!! Kari back with you from the FB Inspiration Team and I am excited about this post as it is a special one.  Today is a celebration of Lawn Fawn!  Lawn Fawn is the reason why we have this challenge blog, because we love the company and everything about it!  For me personally, I started stamping and creating cards right about the same time Lawn Fawn came about, so it is my tried and true stamp company!  They have come a long way, and have provided us as crafter's with some awesome products to use for our creativity!  They started out with just stamps - and now they have pretty much anything you need for your projects - from stamps, to paper, to dies, to twine, to embellishments, and they just introduced their own line of ink!

So - I wanted to make a special birthday card to celebrate their 5 years!!

I used some new products and some older which is only fitting I think.  I started out by creating the embossed background and embossed it in gold embossing powder.  I then die cut from the Party Balloons die set, the heart from New Leaf card stock, and I also die cut the number "5" from Quinn's 123 die set from Audrey Blue card stock.  I also stamped the coordinating stamp onto the die cut and embossed it as well in gold.  I also die cut one of the strings from the Party Balloons die set True Black card stock.  I set those pieces aside.  I stamped the microphone from "Stay Tuned" in Lawn Fawn Black Licorice ink.  I fussy cut the microphone out ( which I normally don't like to do ) and I wanted to wrap the balloon string around the bottom.  I did a little more stamping on my main panel using some more of the new Lawn Fawn Inks in Cranberry, Fake Tan, Sunflower, Freshly Cut Grass, and Mermaid and I stamped the music notes also from Stay Tuned.  For my sentiment, I used the Happy Birthday from the stamp set #Awesome, and the "To" and the "You" from Thank You Tags. For a final touch I added some wink of stella to the microphone for some shimmer.  I had to be careful with it though, b/c I noticed that I had smudged the black ink a bit, which surprised me a little since this is a fast drying ink...it must be the card stock I was using.  

I put all my elements together, and placed them onto a 5 inch square card.

Happy Birthday Lawn Fawn!!!!!  Here's to many more years of happiness with awesome creativity!

See you all soon!

Kari