I just LOVE butterflies! So I keep getting pulled back to craft with the Butterfly Bouquet products. And that’s how this card design started… I just wanted to create something with the Brilliant Butterflies and coordinating dies. From there it evolved into a card using the spotlight technique. This technique is a simple one gives a really beautiful effect. The basic idea is to choose an image that you stamp in a neutral colour and then you “spotlight” part of the image. And how you do that is by stamping the same image in a colour that coordinates with your project, cut that image out and then add it right on top of the neutral image with a piece of coordinating cardstock. Amanda Fowler, a demonstrator from the UK, has a great video that shows off how to do it.
For my card design I knew what stamps and dies I wanted to use and so the next step was to pick my colour combination. With Spring here I went with one of my favourites, purple and green. In this case I chose Highland Heather and Mossy Meadow. I haven’t used this combination before and really like how they work together. For my butterflies though I used Highland Heather and Tuxedo Black Memento ink. I used Mossy Meadow for my card mat and as an embellishment with a bit of the Braided Linen Trim.
For my spotlight I used the Brilliant Wings dies, instead of die cutting a circle around one of the butterflies and then layering it with another piece of cardstock. Using the dies made this technique even easier. And I popped up the Highland Heather butterfly with some Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also added some Wink of Stella to this butterfly.
The phrase for this card comes from the Free as a Bird stamp set. Which I cut out using one of the smallest Stitched Rectangles dies and a couple of the medium sized Rhinestone Basic Jewels on either side. I also popped the phrase up with some Dimensionals.
I love how this card turned out. And I especially love how easy it was to make. I’m definitely going to have to use the spotlight technique more often! I hope you like this card too. And if you like butterflies as much as I do you should check out one of my recent projects using these products. In this post I shared a 4 Panel card that I made using the stamps, dies and (unfortunately sold out) Butterfly Bijou DSP.