Beth's Paper Cuts: spotlight

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Flowers Fair Stamp set and the Spotlight Technique

Hi Stamping Friends. Today I am sharing a card with the new Flowers Fair Stamp Set. I love this stamp!! It is one very large stamp. I knew when I first saw it that the stamp would be great for many coloring techniques and I love to color. For my first coloring session with the stamp I chose Watercolor Pencils!! I love these. I love that I can blend the colors and choose to use them with or without water. I also love that I can color on Crumb Cake and many other colors of cardstock. This is because the pigment of the pencils sits on top of the paper, where as the markers or ink would blend into the paper, changing the colors and making them duller and darker.

I used these cards for a swap, so I had to make twenty of them. I then thought, wow that is a lot of coloring!! Then I remembered the Spotlight Technique. The spotlight technique is where you highlight only a section of a larger image or pattern, where stamped or in Designer Series Paper. You can use dies or punches to create these highlighted areas. For this card I choose a Heart shape die from the Endless Love dies from Stampin' Up!

I started by stamping on Basic White cardstock with Memento Ink. I then die cut the heart. I used Stampin' Up! Watercolor Pencils in Flirty Flamingo, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green and Coastal Cabana.

I made a card base with Bubble Bath and cut a smaller heart in Bubble Bath, also from the Endless Love dies. I used some 1/8 Bubble Bath Ribbon and small adhesive pearls for embellishments.

I used dimensionals to pop up the hearts to set them even more apart from the background.

In keeping with the heart theme, I used sentiments from the Friendly Foliage stamp set.

After creating the first card I remember how much I really like coloring on Crumb Cake Cardstock and decided to see what that would look like. I decided to Heat Emboss with Black Embossing Powder the image on this version. I used the same colored pencils, omitting the Coastal Cabana.

I added some Wink of Stella splatter as well.

The sentiments on this version come from the Framed All Around stamp set.

I used a masking technique to get just the small grouping of flowers for the inside of the card.

I have a video that shows two ways to mask off areas of the stamp.

This is such a pretty stamp set and I see a lot of coloring with it in my future.

Product List

Flowers Fair Photopolymer Stamp Set

[167217]

$23.00

Framed All Around Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[167221]

$20.00

Watercolor Pencils Assortment 1

[161700]

$18.00

Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2

[149014]

$14.00

Bubble Bath 1/8" (3.2 Mm) Faux Linen Ribbon

[167075]

$8.00

Endless Love Dies

[167061]

$33.00

Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[120953]

$14.00

Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[121045]

$14.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[166780]

$14.00

Bubble Bath 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[161718]

$14.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

$8.00

Versamark Pad

[102283]

$9.50

Basics Wow! Embossing Powder

[165679]

$21.00

Heat Tool (Us And Canada)

[129053]

$32.00

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Spotlight Technique

Today I am using some new dies to do an old technique. This technique is called the 'Spotlight' technique and how you achieve it is by cutting out select areas of an image and only coloring in those selected areas. I chose to use the Butterfly Brilliance and Daisy Garden stamps for my cards.

The new Picture This dies are perfect for this technique.

On the Butterfly Brilliance card, I used a base of Misty Moonlight and stamped on Crumb Cake. I then used the Picture This dies to cut out the circles. I colored the areas that were cut out with the dies with the Stampin' Up! watercolor pencils. I chose to stick with blues and added some highlights with the white pencil.

On this card, I chose to recess the colored areas and use dimensionals to pop up the surrounding areas.

For this next card I chose the rectangles from the Picture This dies. I used Bumblebee for the card base and again stamped on Crumb Cake. I colored the cut out areas with the watercolor pencils.

I love the Gingham Bumblebee Ribbon, so I just had to add it to the card. And of course I had to add a cute little Gold Bumblebee trinket to the card as well.

On this card I chose to pop up the colored areas and recess the surrounding areas.

I made a step by step video for this card here:

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