Hi everyone! This week for stamp camp, we are talking about the technique, 'Spotlighting.' There are a few different ways to do this and I am going to show you the 2 that I use most often.

The 1st card is a holiday card using the great holly flourish background stamp from Hero Arts.

First, I stamped the background stamp on my 4"x4" card with blue ink. Then, I cleaned my stamp and choose the spot on the stamp that I wanted to bring focus too...or 'Spotlight' on the card. I colored that portion of my stamp with my markers (see Lesson #3 of Stamp Camp for using Markers on your stamps), huffed on the stamp to re-moisten the ink and stamped it on white cardstock.

Using a circle punch, I punched out the stamped marker image and backed it with a scalloped brown circle. I then placed it on my card where that part of the image overlaid that background stamp below.

Simple and yet a fun way to spotlight portions of your stamps on your projects.

For the 2nd card, I used 'Reverse Spotflighting'. I stamped the large owl on a kraft notecard in brown ink. I also stamped it in brown ink on a green, orange and pink piece of paper. I then punched three circles out of the kraft owl (the one that will be on the top of your card). I then trimmed pieces from the three other colors and placed them underneath the circles on the kraft card to add emphasis to those areas...to spotlight them.

This is a really fun technique and I hope that you have fun playing around with all the different options this week! Be sure to visit the Education Board for a thread for Week 6 to chat about this weeks class.

Click here to download the class PDF with instructions and photos.

And, be sure to select the Stamp Camp Challenge box when you upload your project to the gallery to be entered into the drawing for some fun prizes!

Thanks everyone!

Robyn Werlich