Stampin Up Apple Harvest spotlight technique card ideas

 

Preparations are afoot for my big Beary Christmas Stampin’ Up!® craft day in November, but I don’t want to reveal any of those projects just yet. 

 

So, delving into the archive, I found these projects which I haven’t got round to showing you. They use the fabulous Stampin’ Up!® stamp set, Apple Harvest, and an interesting technique called the spotlight technique.

 

 

This is a great technique if you don’t want to colour a whole image, and ideal if you have a particularly complicated image. It’s also great if you want to highlight one section of an image. 

 

There are several ways to do this technique and I show two of them here. 

 

 

First up is a classic – and very easy – spotlight technique using a Stampin’ Up!® circle punch. 

 

I began by stamping the large image from Apple Harvest in black on a white panel. I stamped it again on a separate piece of white cardstock and punched out a circle. I coloured the punched image only, then carefully laid it on top of the original, uncoloured, image, popping it up on Stampin’ Up!® Dimensionals for further emphasis. 

 

A circle punch is ideal for this as you can twist and turn the punched image to get it exactly where you want it, and the shape will remain the right way up – because there’s not “wrong” way up with a circle, right?

 

 

The second spotlight technique is a little more complicated – and in my cause, fraught with danger. 

 

After stamping the large Apple Harvest image on a white panel as before, I drew two faint pencil lines, about 2.5cm (1") apart. I then coloured the image only within these two lines... which, trust me, is harder than you would imagine. I cannot tell you the number of times I accidentally went over the lines and had to start again!

 

Once it was coloured, I rubbed out the pencil lines to leave this strip of coloured image.

For both cards, I played up the Granny Apple Green of the leaves by using this for the mat beneath my main image layer, and used some Granny Apple Green Designer Series Paper on my white card base. I believe this may be a retired design but you will find something similar in the Brights Designer Series Paper collection. 

 

The ribbon is Lemon Lime Twist, which goes brilliantly with Granny Apple Green, and comes from the Ribbon Duo Combo pack (161318) from Stampin’ Up!®. 

 

 

I hope you like my Apple Harvest cards showcasing the spotlight technique and are tempted to have a go yourself. If you do, please tag me on Facebook or Instagram – I am @allthingsstampy on both platforms

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