Spotlight Technique - card no.1!

Hello, Crafters.

Yesterday I wanted to have a play with the Sale-a-bration (SAB) Between the Lines Designer Series Paper (DSP). At first, I thought I'd do something similar to one of the make'n'takes we did at OnStage in Telford, which was partial colouring. 

As I was getting  myself organised, I suddenly thought this would be brilliant for Spotlighting. I know two ways this technique can be done and wasn't sure which way I wanted to go. Long story short - I did both!

I cut a piece of the DSP to the normal size I use for a top layer because I wasn't quite sure which direction I'd be going in. I took a sheet of 3" x 5" Post It Note and used my 1 1/4" Circle Punch to punch three random circles.

I placed it more or less in the centre of the piece of DSP I'd cut and I started painting with my Marker Pens. The colours I chose were Wisteria Wonder, Pear Pizzazz, So Saffron, Blushing Bride and Pool Party. 

First, I used So Saffron to do the insides of the flowers and then changed to Pear Pizzazz and did all the leaves. I used the three remaining pens to colour the flowers.

While I was painting, I frequently had to lift up a part of the Post It Note to check exactly what the lines were that I could see! 

Once they were all coloured, I masked off the area surrounding the Post It Note that had the circles in, so that there was no DSP visible. I took my Pink Piroutte Ink Pad and inked one of my new Sponge Brayers. I rolled it over the three circles, several times, and built up a good amount of colour. I carefully lifted one corner of the Post It Note to see how dark the Pink Pirouette was. I thought it looked great, so I removed all the Post It Notes and was really pleased with the overall result.

However, I was disappointed that I'd only used three smallish circles, so I repeated the process but this time I punched five circles of different sizes, which were: two 1 1/4" circles, two 1 3/8" circles and one 1 1/2" circle. The finished result was so much better.

To create this card I started with a card base of Whisper White Cardstock (CS), a layer of Pink Pirouette CS and a top layer of Whispering White CS - all adhered together with Tombow. Still with Tombow, I adhered the Inside the Lines DSP to a layer of Pink Pirouette CS, and adhered this in the centre of the card base. 

I stamped THANKS using Basic Black Archival Ink on to a small piece of Whisper White CS and sponged the edges using Pink Pirouette Ink. The stamp is from the All Things Thanks Stamp Set. I used the one which says THANKS FOR THAT THING YOU DID but I cut the Thanks off! 

Please note, if you do this to any of your stamp sets, you''ll make your guarantee with Stampin' Up! null and void! The reason I don't worry about this is that I don't expect to have any problems with my SU stamps! 

My final touch was to decorate the inside of the card which is a one of the offcut strips of the DSP and I have butted of a this strip of Pink Pirouette CS, top and bottom.

Tomorrow, I'll show you what I did with the card that has three Spotlight circles and also give you the products and measuremnts you need to make this card!

Until tomorrow, happy crafting!

JanB.