Spotlight on Thank You

Earlier today I shared

The Final Encore From The Southern Girls

Sadly, the Southern Girls Challenge Blog has now closed.

The Design Team members, past and present have shared projects to say

farewell and thank you in The Final Encore.

These cards are my special Thank You to Lou and Trace, the blog co-owners.

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This post is to focus on my card using the "Flower Bouquet 2" digital stamp

from the Floral Bouquet digital stamp set by Star Jam Lines.

I opened the "Flower Bouquet 2" digital stamp in Silhouette Studio and added a digital "Thank You" (details below).  I added a round "window" to cut in the middle of the image, printed on X-Press It blending card, heat set then cut the circle out with my Silhouette Cameo.  To make a matting layer for the floral circle, I added a 1/16" offset to the circle window shape and cut with my Silhouette Cameo.  I coloured around the edges and the outer 1/8" of the circle with a Memento Tuxedo Black Dual Tip marker so that the black matches the black printing of the image and sentiment.  I coloured the circle of the floral image with Copic markers, went around the edges with a Memento Tuxedo Black Dual Tip marker and adhered to the matting panel.  I made a card base and adhered the card front panel in place with liquid adhesive.  To finish off the card, I put liquid adhesive on the back of the matted spotlight panel and carefully aligned it with the image on the card front.

   

   

You can read all about my other card, using the "Flower Bouquet 1" digital stamp

from the Floral Bouquet digital stamp set from Star Jam Lines

by clicking

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*** INGREDIENTS ***

Star Jam Lines - Floral Bouquet digital stamp set

I have used the Floral Bouquet 2 image

X-Press It A4 Blending Card

Font Bundles - Dream of Spring - font used for sentiment

this is a FREE font

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

Memento Tuxedo Black Dual Tip Marker

scoreboard and bone folder - to make the card base

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!

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges

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The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

Through The Craft Room Door - TTCRD Anything Goes 21st July

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