Hello Friends, How are you this weekend? Temps are cooling in our part of the country and I am starting to think fall is a possibility. Today I am sharing three cards with a fun image from Art Impressions. Today’s stamp called, “Dance It Out” is part of Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember feature. The Art Impression stamps are always so whimsical and always make you smile.
Sometimes Art Impressions stamps can be a bit more involved when it comes to coloring so I have a remedy for that. “Spotlighting” Maybe most of you have heard of spotlight coloring. Spotlight coloring is when you just highlight a certain spot of your image with the coloring as you can see in my card below. For the card above I chose to spotlight ONLY a cut out portion of the stamp. Super fun and easy. A few die cuts made this quick card stand out. I used this “Thanks” die cut and this beautiful friend die cut.
Honestly I had so much fun coloring this stamp and I didn’t have time to color 3 entire images so the spotlighting worked great for me. This way I had time to add patterns to the clothes, add necklaces and some eyelash lines to the clothes. Lots of glossy accents on the shoes, jewelry and eyeglasses. A super big shout out to Art Impressions for sending me this stamp. I love it! Happy STAMPtember everyone and thank you for your visit. Hugs, Kathy
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So looove these cards Kathy!!! Spotlighting is such a great idea!!! I will try to incoporate this technique during the 30 Day Coloring Challenge!!
I love spotlighting too! Love your cards Kathy! Those ladies look like they’re jammin’!
Oh my goodness, Kathy! These cards are SO wonderful! I love the spotlight coloring you did!!! Always a fan of your cards! Hugs!!!
I love your creations with these new products… I want all of them after seeing what you made, Jo x
Oh WOW!! This is awesome!! I LOVE the spotlighting and the fun way you used the dies. FABULOUS creations!!
What fun. These girls know how to swing. As always, terrific coloring and clever designs.
Fun fun fun cards (smiling) spotlighting Tec fantastic.
WOW this is a great technique. I have seen this before but I would have never thought of using it here!! I just love AI stamps. THANKS for the idea!!
Such cute cards and the spotlighting is wonderful. The first stamp is perfect for using wobblers. A few weeks ago, I dug out a package of them that I have had in my stash for a while and made a couple of cards using them…what a hit with the recipients. This ladies stamp would be perfect. I hope to get back into my craft room and do something fun. TFS your ideas.
I agree Jan wobbles are perfect for this stamp but, I was to lazy to look for mine lol 🙂
your cards are fabulous. the one with the gal hanging out at top is fantastic!
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Such a fun stamp! Do you find yourself picking out your own girlfriends to insert into the characters for hair colours? Or is that just me?
EEk Bunny can you believe that thought didn’t run across my head at all lol 🙂
Hi Kathy , I can honestly say I’d never seen spotlighting before.Very interesting.I’d just pops forth doesn’t it? Definately trying this.Great cards
Love everyone of these cards! What a fun stamp!
Thanks for the “spotlight ing”tip, I’d never heard of it (or maybe I don’t remember, there are always so many techniques to keep up with) Anyway, love all of your cards, as always. hugs. Send some of that fall coolness to FL please.
AWESOME!! I love how you did the coloring!! TFS!
These are all so FUN, Kathy, great job using this new set!!
Fantastic spotlighting and awesome coloring on these images! TFS and inspiring! Hugs Kristina
These Ladies are a Hoot! As I approach 59 next year I get it… Dance it out!
Ah Hello! Thanks I phone for the TYPO!! 50 next year… Geesh
Awesome cards. Love that stamp set. ^_^
Haha. Those ladies are always funny on cards. Crack me up every time I see them on something.
I suppose we all may look like that some day. Haha
Terrific samples. Love them all, especially the way you used the stamp for the ‘Thanks friend’ card! Great inspiration!
Fabulous cards and fantastic stamp. cheers!
Love this stamp. Reminds me of my friends and I have a silly moment. Good to stay young at heart. I love how you used just one of the ladies….great way to highlight it. Great designs. TFS
Love these cards Kathy! The spotlight card is so creative! I love how you tucked her behind the panel!
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE your cards..so much fun!
stunning coloring!
Love your fun and gorgeous cards! Thanks for the info on spotlighting, a great way to get more out of your stamps. I have some AI stamps and LOVE them but sometimes I don’t use them because I don’t have time to color the entire image. Thanks so much for this idea!
Yes I agree Melissa do share when you pull one of the images out to color. 🙂
I love how you colored this stamp but I don’t know if this is one I want in my collection. I have to watch my money so I have to really want a stamp to buy it. However, I don’t have to watch my money to color, I can do that for free. Thanks for showing this to us!
I love your cards Kathy! I would never gave thought of the spotlighting, or to use just one figure on the top of the friend card. Great ideas and beautiful cards!
Fantastic!! Thanks for getting the brain flowing in more than one direction… Now if I just catch it, I will try one of these 🙂
These cards are so cute and I would never have thought of only coloring a section!!
Your cards are ADORABLE Kathy! TOO MUCH FUN! 😉 LOOOOVE the coloring & the spotlighting & basically, EVERYTHING you’ve done with them!!!! 😉 LOOOOOVE IT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉
Thanks Becky!! I have missed your ALL CAPS COMMENTS lol 🙂
Three fabulous cards, Kathy! I really love your ‘spotlighting’ on the last one…so fun!!!
Both Mom and I are super fans of the Art Impression stamps:) She and I sure do love these “spotlight” cards !!! 🙂
I love all 3 of your cards, especially the first one with the dotted background. I want that stamp now, too.
so Stinkin cute…love them all!
I absolutely ADORE these ladies! Have just a few (LOL) of these stamp sets 🙂
Can’t wait to play along with the 30 day color challenge!
FUN stamps, FABULOUS cards and AWESOME colouring Kathy!!!
LOVE the idea of SPOTLIGHTING – THANK YOU for sharing 🙂
I just got a shipment from Art Impressions yesterday. Wish this set was in there.
Oh bummer but, I am sure you will have lots of fun with your stamps 🙂
Great examples of how to use this very fun stamp…love the idea of spotlighting.
Kathy, all I can say is WOW, WOW, WOW.. You are so amazing !! You are always teaching us the COOLEST techniques, I love it !!! Only you could come up with three Fabulous ways to use these adorable ladies and make such different looking amazing cards, they are so cute. I can’t wait to try the last two cards you did, not only did they come out so adorbs they look like they were a lot of fun to make. Thanks for sharing, we really appreciate your talent and creativeness.
Wow thanks so much Tracey!! YOU have totally made my day!
SQUEAL SQUEAL SQUEAL!! You ROCKED this Stamp Kathy!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it before but OMG!! So MUCH CREATIVITY with how you were able to use it!! Not EVERYONE would be able to In vision just using Parts of the Image in the FUN Ways that you have!! THANKS SO MUCH for the INSPIRATION and for sharing your Talents!! Have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)
Great job with this stamp. I love the variations.
Spotlighting is such a great idea!I have to admit, I was a little intimidated by this image, because I didn’t want to get overwhelmed by the multiple figures, but I bought it anyway, because I am such a big fan of Barbara and Art Impressions. I’m so glad it’s on the way here… I can’t wait to play with it already!