Love One Another

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Good morning! It's the fresh start of a new week and a new Bring Back Beautiful Challenge by Flourishes. Our challenge this month is the beauty of the Spotlight Technique written and video produced by our own Beate Johns. I have never done the spotlight technique before and found this to be quite interesting. I did some blog and gallery and noticed that everybody used white on white for their spotlight with a mat. While I used a mat, I decided to stamp my image onto textured colored card stock for something a little different that makes a big impact.

We hope that you'll join us today for our challenge. You have until the end of June to link your spotlight challenge card to the Flourishes Blog. When uploading your card to online galleries, please use the keyword BBB11. At the end of each month, the design team chooses our favorite cards and awards with recipients with a True Beauty Blog Badge that will be announced for our next challenge on July 4. Have fun with this technique and we'd all love to see your beautiful cards. For more inspiration, please visit the blogs of the Bring Back Beauty Design Team. Here's my card that I'd like to share with you.

Thank you so much for visiting me today and God bless you. Today's Treasure: John 13:34-35.

Please excuse my photography. It's just been really lousy for some reason lately. I definitely need to make some camera adjustments.

Beate Johns

Julie Koerber

Heather Jensen

Kathy Jones

Laura Frederickson

Yvonne Hagane

 

 

 

Stamps: Flourishes Cherry Blossoms
Card Stock: Papertrey Ink Stamper’s Select White, Stampin' Up! Textured Basic Gray, Pink Pirouette, Smooth Basic Gray
Ink Pads: Memento Tuxedo Black
Markers/Colored Pencils: Copic (RV21, RV23, RV25, YG25)
Button(s): Stampin' Up! Neutrals Collection Designer Buttons (Basic Gray)
Ribbon/Thread: DMC Embroidery Thread (894), white lace ribbon from craft supply
Stickers: EK Success/Martha Stewart Pearl Pink Stickers
Punch(es): Stampin' Up! Scallop Trim
Spellbinders Paper Arts Nestabilities: Nested Lacey Pennants
Machine(s)/Tool(s): ProvoCraft Cuttlebug
Technique: Die-cutting, dry embossing, spotlight
Size: 5 x 4-1/2


1.       Cut smooth gray card stock so that it measures 5 x 4-1/2 with the crease at the side.
2.       Cut a piece of pink textured card stock to 4-3/4 x 4-1/4 and punch the left side with an edge punch.
3.       Stamp image onto pink card stock with black ink.
4.       Wrap a piece of white lace ribbon around the pink card stock at the left side.
5.       Cut a length of white lace ribbon and snip the ends into a “V” then adhere to the center of the white lace ribbon strip.
6.       Cut a length of white lace ribbon and fold each end to the back and adhere.
7.       Cut a length of white lace ribbon and wrap it around the loop you made in Step 6 and adhere it to the loop.
8.       Place sticky strip on the back of the white lace loop and adhere it to the white lace ribbon with the “V” snipped at the ends, and then place a faux pink    pearl in the center.
9.       Stamp your main image again onto white card stock and color in with markers.
10.   Die-cut out a portion of the colored image with a nested lacey pennant die-cut.
11.   Adhere die-cut to textured gray card stock and hand cut a triangle as a mat.
12.   Line up and adhere the triangle mat to the image stamped on the textured pink card stock using the spotlight technique.
13.   Stamp sentiment with black ink under the spotlight image panel.
14.   Thread pink embroidery thread through a gray button and tie into a bow, then adhere the button towards the end of the spotlight image.

 

 

8 thoughts on “Love One Another”

  4. What a cool way to spotlight! never in a million years would I have pulled out my pennant dies! This is just abeautifully colored, almost whimsical creation! 🙂

  5. This is so pretty Cindy.  I like the flag die you used.  I tried a mat on my spotlight and it didn't look so good.  I only have one size circle SB die and it was too much difference between the sizes.  I tried a hand cut cirlce and it was ugly!  🙂  I am too picky.  🙂
    Hugs~

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  8. cindy…. i re-sent your images.  i am sooooooooooooo sorry.  i did send them twice already.  i sure hope it's not my computer as it just came out of repairs.  thank you for your patience.

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