The Final Encore from the Southern Girls

... they say that all good things must come to an end

and,

sadly,

today is . . .

The Final Encore

from the Southern Girls Challenge Blog

with past and present members sharing a project to say Thank You and Goodbye

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I have had a wonderful time being a member of Team Lou

and I will miss seeing all the projects shared by the Design Team

and all the fabulous challenge entries submitted to the linky too.

I'm putting the spotlight on Lou and Trace,

the Co-Owners of the Southern Girls Challenge Blog

 by making cards using the new-to-me "spotlight technique".

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Today I have used two of the stamps from the 
from the Floral Bouquet digital stamp set by Star Jam Lines.

I opened the "Flower Bouquet 1" and "Flower Bouquet 2" digital stamps in Silhouette Studio and added a digital "Thank You" (details below).  I added a "window" to cut in the middle of the images, printed on X-Press It blending card, heat set then sent each one through my Silhouette Cameo.  The landscape card panels with the circle window over the Flower Bouquet 1 image cut perfectly.  It was a completely different story with the Flower Bouquet portrait card panels.  For some reason I could not get the page to register, I tried everything, from torches to printing again, with no luck, so I gave my trusty stainless steel ruler and craft knife a workout and manually cut the rectangle window.  I added a 1/16" offset to the windows and cut them to mat the spotlight panels.  (I coloured around the edges and the outer 1/8" of the matting panels with a Memento Tuxedo Black Dual Tip marker so that the black matches the black printing of the image and sentiment.)  I coloured the floral image panels with Copic markers, went around the edges with a Memento Tuxedo Black Dual Tip marker and adhered to their matting panels.  I made some card bases and adhered the card front panels in place with liquid adhesive.  Next came the challenging bit ... OK, I confess, it was a challenge for me to colour the partial images for the spotlight too ... I put liquid adhesive on the back of the matted spotlight panels and carefully aligned them with the images on the cards and the cards were done.

Here is Flower Bouquet 1

   

   

and here is Flower Bouquet 2

   

   

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*** INGREDIENTS ***

Star Jam Lines - Floral Bouquet digital stamp set
I have used the Floral Bouquet 1 and Floral Bouquet 2 images
Font Bundles - Dream of Spring - font used for sentiment
this is a FREE font
X-Press It A4 Blending Card
Copic markers - foliage - YG61-63-67 + YG61-03-17-67

Copic markers - pink flowers - R81-83-85 + YR68
Copic markers - yellow flowers - Y11-13-15-18 + YR61-65-68
Copic markers - background - B0000-000-00

Silhouette Cameo
scoreboard and bone folder - to make the card bases
Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers

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Sending a big Thank You to Lou and Trace, my time with you and the Design Team at the  has been a wonderful, creative adventure!

I am going to enter my card in the following challenges

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A Gem Of A Challenge - Wk 15 – Anything Goes

The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge