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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

VIDEO: Curtain Spotlighting Technique + Giveaway

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How was your long weekend? Mine was uneventful other than the phenomenal wing recipe and a rare sighting of my giant stripey guard lizard (technically a Texas Spiny Lizard) in the backyard. He usually hangs out out front by my car, but he was just chilling on the back porch the other day - he's HUGE this year - but not as big as he can get - they can get up to a foot long. Tip if you want to help out your own guard lizard - take your veggie scraps and toss them near where he hangs out - which for me is a big oak tree. That will attract the bugs he likes. He's currently enjoying some celery bait I tossed out the other day. (Why don't they sell just one stalk of celery?)

Today is Hero Arts Kit Day! It's a beautiful, fall-themed kit with one of my favorite things in it - rub-ons! And the die in the kit matches those as well, which is super cool. 

I felt like coloring though, so I decided to do a spotlighting technique with a few twists - I'm calling it curtain spotlighting. I used the cling that comes in the kit and I did distressed inking on it with Granite. I used matte Duralar for the curtains, and OLO and Graphit Markers for the coloring (coupons for both below). After I put it all together with my favorite vellum adhesive, I added a few Hero Pearls dots. It just looks so elegant.


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Look at this stunning kit - those colored images are the rub-ons. So beautiful. I hope rub-ons make a roaring comeback.


This was my sneak peek card from Sunday - you can see how I made that one step-by-step in my last post. So dramatic and vibrant. I love the little fruit images in the kit.



One of the add-ons is a beautiful little single stamp. I added paint to my 3x5 gel press and then used the stamp to repetitively lift paint from the image. I let that dry and then pulled it with a layer of white paint. I added a little shading with a grey colored pencil and added Hero Pearls where the dots were on the image. I used the Noel die and black glitter paper to finish. It's my humble opinion that black isn't used enough on holiday cards - so elegant!


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Here are all the add-ons this month - I LOVE that artichoke one


So here is my video for the curtain technique - come back for the giveaway info!




We will give away a $50 gift card, drawn from the comments left across the hop. Enter by Sunday, September 11th at 11:59pm Pacific, and the winner will be announced HERE the following week.

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18 comments:

  1. I am so new at this that I can say I have never seen the spotlight technique. Thank you for sharing your beautiful card. :) Pet your crafting mascot kitty for me.

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  2. Can I just say that NOEL card is fabulous

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  3. The look of the rub on is wonderful artsy looking.
    Melissa
    "Sunshine HoneyBee"

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  4. Such gorgeous cards! Love the designs and colors.
    Thanks for sharing.

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  5. Your cards are beautiful! I love what you did with the vellum!

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  6. I really like the spotlight card. Thank you for sharing

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  7. Gorgeous cards! I LOVE your fruit one!

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  8. I love this curtain idea but really like the Noel gel pull card. I guess the colors and the music background really appeal to me.

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  9. Beautiful cards! This spotlight technique is new to me - thanks for sharing!

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  10. What striking cards you've created. Love your clever designs and techniques!! Thanks for sharing!

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  11. Awesome take on the spotlight technique. I like this look a lot!

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  12. Fabulous cards. I like the curtain spotlight technique.

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  13. What an interesting variety of cards!

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  14. Gosh! This is a fabulous blog hop for all of the inspiration and gorgeous ways to use this wonderful fall kit!! It is so versatile and I see using it with sympathy cards as well!!

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  15. Beautiful designs and colors! I love the cards you created!

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  16. Delightful cards Lydia! I appreciate the inspiration :)

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