Crazicards Crafty Blog

Continuing on with the theme of sprucing up your craft projects using small but effective features  today I am going to show you how to do the "Spotlight" technique.

What's is Spotlighting? I hear you say... Well by Spotlighting a small area on your project it creates the effect of magnifying that particular area of your project.

  What you will need:

Glass cutting mat
Cuttlebug or similar
Spellbinder circle cutting dies
Low tack tape and 1mm or 2mm foam pads
Stamps of your choice
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
Clear Wow Powder
Promarkers or other colouring medium
Luxury Felt Card , White card and Black Card
Embellishments of your choice

Step 1

Choose the stamp you want to use for your project and stamp and emboss your image onto White card.

From you Spellbinder circles set select 2 small circles to use on your project, you can use larger circles if you wish, the choice is yours.

You then need to choose which part of your project you want to "Spotlight". I did this by moving my smallest Spellbinder, cutting edge down, around the image until I found the area I wanted to "Spotlight". Once happy I placed 2 small pieces of low tack tape on the edges of the die to hold it in place ready for cutting.

Step 2

Take your Cuttlebug and cut out the small circle from your stamped image.

Then take a small piece of Black card and cut out the largest of the 2 circles. This creates the mat for your stamped cut out.

Step 3
You will then need to colour in your stamped image.

I found the best way to ensure that both the cut out and the main image match is to pop the cut out back into the main image before colouring in.

For my image I used Promarkers to colour in my fairy and I used Sakura pens to glitter the wings and the sash.

I then used a Sakura glaze pen to highlight the flowers and I also glazed the glittered wings.

Step 4

Once you are happy with your image you need to put it all together.

First of all mat and layer your main image onto the main White felt card blank using the Black card.

Stamp your sentiment onto the card front directly, if your not comfortable doing this you can also create a separate sentiment and mat it with the black card also.

To create your "Spotlight" adhere the 2 circles together and use foam pads to lift the circle from the main image slightly.

This gives the illusion that the "Spotlight" area is magnified slightly.

Add your embellishments and your all finished. The key is to keep it clean and simple and not to over embellish.

I hope you enjoy trying out this technique, have fun with it and experiment with different size circles for slightly different effects.

Until next time Happy Crafting xx

I decided to add this new Postcard swap for September just to see how it went.

The theme was chosen by one of the swap group members and was "Positive Affirmations".

I think most of the group found this theme a little more challenging but they rose to the occassion and I am please to say that despite the challenges the theme brought I received a total of 16 Superb Postcards.

I will be continuing on with the new swap format I believe it gives the artist more scope to create a fantastically unique piece of art each month on a larer scale.

The theme for October is "Autumn Glory" so if your interested in joining please visit my swap group on Facebook here we still have a few places left open but not many.

If your not already a member you will need to register and I in turn will forward the details of the swap to you once you accept my friends request. It's as simple as that...

 




A brilliant start to the new Postcard swap, keep up the good work ladies. I can't wait to see next  months swaps :O) xx

Here are a couple of birthday cards I made recently using the Paint Fusion technique.

This first card I made for my mum's 70th birthday.

I stamped the leaves in a frame then using Acrylic Paints and Sheen Douglass's Paint Fusion Technique.

I left that to dry whilst I stamped the wheelbarrow image with Stazon ink before painting it with my acrylic paints.

By the time I had finished that the leaves were well and truly dry so I cut round the outer leaves using scissors then I took my craft knife and glass mat and cut out the centre of the frame to create a window.

Once everything was dry I matted and layered a holographic Gold card square onto a felt card base approx 7" x 7".

Then using my Collall 3D glue I assembled the card placing the wheelbarrow in the centre followed by the leaf frame. I had a few extra leaves that I made earlier which I used to decoupage the leaves of the frame giving the whole image a 3D effect.

To finish off I painted some Alphabet Soup Grungebord letters to spell MUM and number 70 in Gold acrylic paint.


This 2nd card was made in exactly the same way except I used a wishing well stamp. And instead of using my craft knife to cut round all the leaves I used my spell binder circles die set to cut out the aperture

I coloured in the wishing well using distressed inks,  ProMarkers and AquaMarkers and then added a little flowersoft for texture.

For the Sentiment I stamped Happy Birthday using my Versamark ink pad and then embossed that with Wow Rich Gold Embossing Powder.

I really enjoyed making both of these cards. And I have no doubt that I will be mixing Paint Fusion with other traditional images in the future.

Until next time Happy Crafting x

I have entered the top card from this post into the Polkadoodles week 39 challenge, pop on over and take a peek at all the beautiful entries so far xx

September's Tag Swap was based around an "Oriental" theme and the response to this swap was once again brilliant.

I received a total of 28 tags and they are all absolutely fantastic. Well done ladies you have done a brilliant job this month and you should be really proud of yourselves.

The October tag swap has a theme of "Winter Wonderland".  If you are interested in joining in please visit my swap group on Facebook here.

If your not already a member you will need to register and  I in turn will forward the details of the swap to you once you accept my friends request. All levels of crafter are welcome.

 
 




 

 
 
 




 Well done ladies these tags are fantastic. Until next time Happy Crafting :O) xx