Spotlight Beautiful Day Card

I have been wanting to do a 'Spotlight' card for some time, I have been seeing them on Pinterest and images on the internet and Instagram, and decided that I might have a go at one. It is where you have part of the card in colour and the rest of the card just black and white.  I thought a layering stamp, such as the Altenew Beautiful day stamp might work well for one, because it has the layers but also an outline stamp.

I used my misti to do all the stamping, but you could use an acrylic block to do the front panel, but it is best to use a stamp positioning tool to use for doing the outline stamp part on both the front panel and the base card, so that you get them in the same place for both and that way they line up perfectly.  

I started by stamping the coloured layers on the front panel, being conscious of overlapping the flowers and the leaves, so that when I did the outline stamps there were parts on both the panel and the back base card.  

I then once I had finished those, I then stamped the outline of each part onto the front panel first, and then replaced the front panel with the back panel and stamped the same stamp before moving onto the next.  

I finished off by stamping a couple of the filler stamps onto two white areas I had on the base card stamping.  

Finally I stamped the two parts of the sentiment and then mounted the front panel onto some craft foam, and then mounted that onto the base card, making sure I had everything perfectly aligned.  

The last finishing touch was to put 3 sparkling droplets onto the card and that was it finished.

Here is a video showing how I did it.

I am really happy with how it turned out, give it a go, I am sure it would work with all kinds of stamps, and especially outline stamps that you could stamp on both, and then just colour the front panel in with whatever colour medium you like to do.  

The materials I used are:
Misti

Card base 5" x 7"

Front panel 4" x 6"

Altenew Beautiful day stamp

Altenew Birthday greetings stamps

Altenew Crisp inks cube sets, Red Cosmos, Green field and Four scoops

or Cotton Candy, Coral Berry & Grapevine for flowers

and Frayed leaf and Forest Glades for leaves

Versafine Onyx black ink

Pretty Pink Posh sparkling droplets 4mm & 6mm

Craft foam

Uhu tape runner

microfibre cloth

Thanks for dropping by my blog today, 

Happy card making