Birthday Spotlight

This week’s Kraftin’ Kimmie challenge was to use part of an image or to use the spotlighting technique. I thought this cake and gift toting Moonlight Whispers Julie image would be a fun one to try out with the spotlighting technique.

I did not just one, but two spotlighted sections on the image. I chose to focus on the cake and the stack of gifts. Those sections were punched out of the stamped image with a 1 ¼” circle punch, then colored with Copic markers. I layered the colored pieces on 1 3/8” pink circles and set them back in place on the original image.

I kept the layout for the rest of the card pretty simple, attaching a pastel plaid patterned paper strip to the bottom of a pink card base and edging it with a coordinating solid green strip. I cut a narrow strip of the reverse side of the patterned paper—a bolder colored dotted pattern and set that across the plaid piece, then added the image panel on top. Instead of stamping the sentiment directly on the open space on the image panel, I punched out a tiny tag and stamped it on that. A blue button, tied with matching baker’s twine, anchors it to the panel and brings a little more color to the image panel along the way.

Materials Used:
Moonlight Whispers Julie stamp set (Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps); white cardstock (Taylored Expressions); Memento Tuxedo Black ink (Tsukineko); markers, Gold Spica pen (Copic); Blushing Bride cardstock (Stampin’ Up!); Hawaiian Shores ink, Hawaiian Shores cardstock, Hawaiian Shores button (Papertrey Ink); Hip-Hooray “Girl” Happy Day designer paper (My Mind’s Eye); circle punches (EK Success); tag punch (Fiskars); baker’s twine (The Twinery)