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Flashback Friday – Spotlight Card

Posted on March 10, 2023March 4, 2023 by Leen

Happy Friday everyone! Today’s  Flashback Friday Spotlight Card is going back to June of 2008. I had a lot of fun creating examples of this technique. Let’s dive right on in and check it out.

Making a Spotlight Card

This is not my original idea, but I wanted to post an example of this really cool looking technique that I tried this weekend.

Step 1:

Stamp two images with waterproof ink or emboss with embossing powder.

Photo of CC Rubber Stamps image stamped twice with waterproof ink. The beginning of the Spotlight Cards technique.

Step 2:

Color one image in with markers, colored pencils or watercolor pencils. If using watercolor pencils, blend with water or a blending pen.

Photo of CC Rubber Stamps image colored in with watercolor pencils and a Tombow Blender Pen.

Step 3:

Cut out any shape from any area of the colored card you wish and mat with a piece of cardstock cut to the same shape.

Photo of colored image with small images removed to create the Spotlight  Cards effect.

Step 4:

Align smaller images onto your original image using your favorite adhesive or with foam tape to give it even more dimension.

Finished image of the Spotlight Card technique.

Spotlight Card Examples

Here are two more examples for you; For the heart I added some foam tape underneath the gold heat embossed spotlight to add some height to it.

Another example of the Flashback Friday Spotlight cards technique with a heart stamp and gold embossing powder for the spotlight.

For the angel card the spotlight is attached without any foam tape.

Image of Christmas card made with the Celestial Angel stamp by Stamps Happen Inc. with the spotlight card  technique.

You can also do the reverse of this technique by coloring in the bottom image and keeping the top image plain like this example here. I used Twinkling H2Os to color the image of the light post to give it the added sparkle.

Image of the PSX Christmas Lamp Post stamp with a reverse spotlight technique. Image colored with Twinkling H2O's.

In 2008 I was still incredibly new to the blogging world. Back then I did not list out where my stamps came from. So let’s fix that now:

The Granny – CC Rubber Stamps

Heart – has no information on the block

Celestial Angel – Stamps Happen Inc.

Lamp Post – PSX Rubber Stamps

There we go! Thank you for joining me for a Flashback Friday Spotlight Card. Have you ever used the spotlight technique? Let me know down in the comments. Have a wonderful weekend and I will see you again next week for another Flashback Friday.


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